Biggest Loser--SUMMER 2011 Challenge for Losers & Maintainers!

[Disneywedding2010]

Mikamah - Yes, I did take the day and relax. We went to Chilis for lunch, I talked to two of my widow friends, and we went and saw Cars 2. Overall it was a good day.

Today's to do list: I need to make sure the upstairs and situated for my friend. I also need to call DVC and cancel a trip and schedule another one in its place.

I'm already going to be down there permanently in January so we're canceling that trip. I'm going to use the points and get two nights on property in October when we come down. We need somewhere to stay those nights before the trucks show up with our household goods. I thought what better way then to use DVC so I don't have to pay out of pocket for a room. Alan wants to stay at BLT . Our home away from home.

 

[mikamah]

Just wanted to pop in and say hello before I get ds from camp. It's so nice to read about all the good things in everyone's lives. I've really enjoyed being coach this week.

Congratulations to all our top Losers!! Especially, Connie!!! You're hard work and determination is paying off.

It about 304 degrees here too. I went grocery shopping after work and then got all our camping gear up from the basement and packed the non food stuff into the car, and I was drenched in sweat. We're going to go swim at my brothers and babysit my niece and nephew.

I am proud to say I ran/walked 3 miles this morning and went slow with the heat, and it felt really good, but then on my way to work, I stopped and got a sausage mcmuffin and hashbrown at mcd's, so probably didn't even burn that off running. I did better at the grocery store, other than smore's stuff, I bought mostly fruit, and some cheese and crackers for camping.

Stay cool everyone. I'll be back later with replies.

 

[Rose&Mike]

Busy at work. Reading here still to catch up. The most important thing is that I went back to WW today and started completely fresh. I needed to do that for the sake of my psychological well-being on this journey. With the help of a new 3-month journal sent to me by a dear friend, I am determined to journal every bite starting with breakfast this morning. I am hoping to overcome the challenge of eating out too much and "needing" popcorn when we go to the movies. If I can make those 2 major behavioral changes the rest of the summer should be a bit easier to manage.

You can do it Cam! Look at it this way--anytime I meet someone who doesn't know that I went g-f the first thing they usually say is, I could never do that. I couldn't give up bread. I just nod and smile. Here's the thing, you can do anything you want to (everyone on here can). You just have to decide it's important enough. You have to decide being healthy and taking care of yourself is worth the effort.

Kristina, if you can not find insurance and you have a mortgage, the mortgage company will secure insurance for you. It will be expensive and is a last resort sort of thing, but they will not let you have a loan w/o insurance. We went through this same thing when we first moved to Germany and left our house vacant and up for sale. Luckily for us, it ended up going under contract about 2 weeks after we moved out. It had already been on the market over 60 days.

So I have a question about this. When you moved to Germany was your current insurance just going to drop you? Mike called our insurance company to see what would happen if our house didn't sell right away and they said they would not cover vandalism or frozen pipes, but otherwise they would keep our coverage in place. We just have to notify them that the house will be vacant.

Rose-thanks for the advice. I was feeling a bit bummed because summer is half over. Now I'm feeling better because routine is half way here!

That's a great way of looking at it!

you know i love to share aunt ann's wisdom. i found her newest facebook status update to be really funny!!

"70 minutes on the elliptical and a little more with weights. I feel great but maybe it would be easier to eat less."

seriously!

Good one! Thanks Nancy!

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I decided to actually take a lunch break today to catch up on the board. Glad I did. I missed you all. Things have not been good with eating but I think from being so busy this week it has helped because as of today I was down 2.5lbs from friday. That was a bright spot for today.

I really want to get back into running again since I have a 5.5 mile relay leg that i am running on 9/11. It has been so hot that I just keep using it as an excuse but I will say its a good excuse. I am going to make a calendar with dh starting next week. Since Ryan has football every night I am going to propose to him that we take turns staying with him. That way I can still have 2 nights a week to run. Then I have to make a plan for dinner and that I am still trying to be creative with working around our schedules.

Well I need to get back to work. Talk to you all very soon.

oh and great job this week Kathy. You are a wonderful coach.

Woohoo for being down! You are sounding more like yourself today, Lindsay! And I think sharing football nights is a great idea.

Good afternoon

I know I was going to post the results last night when I got home from the board of ed meeting but I was not in the mood at 1:15 this morning. Yes you heard me right. They kept us waiting until 10:45 when they went from closed session to open session. They didn't vote until 12:45 after they had listened to everyone. They voted out my principal. We have an interim and they have posted the job. The principal who got voted out will go back to the classroom. He is a good chemistry teacher.

We primed and scraped a little more this morning. We are supposed to do some more this afternoon in the shade but even that is going to be too hot. We shall see. I am going out to see South Pacific tonight at a local theater. tomorrow night I am going to see Hairspray at another local theater.

Off to get somethings done.

Have a happy and healthy evening.

I'm sorry it went so poorly Dona. thanks for doing the weight keeping.

Just wanted to pop in and say hello before I get ds from camp. It's so nice to read about all the good things in everyone's lives. I've really enjoyed being coach this week.

Congratulations to all our top Losers!! Especially, Connie!!! You're hard work and determination is paying off.

It about 304 degrees here too. I went grocery shopping after work and then got all our camping gear up from the basement and packed the non food stuff into the car, and I was drenched in sweat. We're going to go swim at my brothers and babysit my niece and nephew.

I am proud to say I ran/walked 3 miles this morning and went slow with the heat, and it felt really good, but then on my way to work, I stopped and got a sausage mcmuffin and hashbrown at mcd's, so probably didn't even burn that off running. I did better at the grocery store, other than smore's stuff, I bought mostly fruit, and some cheese and crackers for camping.

Stay cool everyone. I'll be back later with replies.

Great job running Kathy! And I had to laugh at the 304 degrees! It actually stayed above 100 on my car thermometer on the way home from work until I got to our neighborhood. It was only 99 here. Thanks for coaching this week Kathy!

 

[SettinSail]

Congrats to all our biggest losers this week, esp Connie Great job!

It is soooo hot here! Went to lunch with friends, then DS and I ran some errands, did our workouts at the Y and ate supper at Subway. We both signed up for our 6 free personal trainer sessions at the Y. I had to tell the guy at the front desk my weight So I took off 5 pounds I don't have my first session until August 10th so maybe I could lose 5 lbs before then Of course, we are at the beach the week before that, so I slim chance

Hi shawn. Glad to hear dad is doing better. Im not sure if anyone else commented on this so if you already heard this....well I guess you will hear it again.

They have you weigh each day and get alarmed with rapid weight gain because of fluid build up from heart failure. If your heart is not functioning properly your body fills with fluid. A little different than just retaining water. Thats also why they have him on a low sodium "heart healthy" diet.

Thanks Lindsay! Kathy did mention this earlier so thank you both! Of course he is already rapidly losing weight on this diet~MEN But, of course I am glad he is doing something about it. Good luck with your traning & your race on 9/11. When DS was in football, only the first 2 weeks were every day and after that it was 3x a week. Is his whole season practice every day??

So I have a question about this. When you moved to Germany was your current insurance just going to drop you? Mike called our insurance company to see what would happen if our house didn't sell right away and they said they would not cover vandalism or frozen pipes, but otherwise they would keep our coverage in place. We just have to notify them that the house will be vacant.

Here's what my experience was: A few weeks before we moved, I called my Ins Company and told them we were moving out and the house would be sitting vacant until sold with friends and neighbors checking on it. It seemed like at first they were going to handle the situation just as you mention above. However, when they asked me WHERE we were moving and heard out of country, they needed to change me to a very basic fire policy and they would only keep this policy for a limited time, I can't remember if it was 3 or 6 months. And, they would no longer cover my car at all. It was garaged at my parents house and driven by them occasionaly. So, I asked the ins company I worked for for 24 years and they agreed to give me a better policy for as long as needed and cover the car the same. I still could not get a Homeowner's policy though since not owner occupied. Before then, I did not have my insurance with my employer as the other company always had much better rates. Disclaimer: I am NOT an insurance expert and insurance rules vary from state to state. I am going to wonder outloud if you guys are with USAA since your husband was in the military? Sorry to be nosy but they are an excellent company and I would give my eyeteeth to have insurance with them but they only write military and ex-military. It was such a stressful time to leave our house sitting vacant but it went under contract and was occupied about 2 weeks later! The new owners rented from us for about 6 weeks until their house sold. All that worry for just 2 weeks of vacancy!

I did not make good choices at Subway tonight. They kept trying to get me to switch to footlong since it was only $5 and a 6 inch was $4. I knew better but I caved. I was paid back by a meatball falling out onto my best shorts They are in the washer now and I hope it all comes out. You know those meatballs don't just land in one spot, they keep on rolling

Dona, sorry again about your principal.

Nancy, I hear ya on the cobblestones. Of course, they are all over Europe and beautiful but such a pain!

Kathy, WTG on running in the heat Forget about the McD's. Your next meal is always a chance to do better

Santori, I echo what Kathy said, stretch, stretch, stretch after running, it makes a HUGE difference!

Gretchen, hope you are feeling better soon Maybe I should try moving my scale around the house

Pam, a pig pickin' is just an expression for a barbque around here. In my state, barbque always means pork. Or it used to before we had so many transplants move here It refers to when you cook a whole hog and then people come by and pick off what meat they want.

Hello to everyone else and stay cool

Shawn

 

[tigger813]

Congrats Connie! I hope to be joining the loser group again soon!

Just talked to Mom for a few minutes. She made it through surgery well and was eating some really good onion rings from the hospital. They are having her on oxygen overnight as a precaution since she had anesthesia. Her cell phone was dying so we couldn't talk long. She sounded good considering.

I've been pretty good today. I had TJs mushroom ravioli for supper and I'm still drinking my water as much as I'd really love an adult drink tonight! I have had one cookie as well. I plan on getting up and doing some type of workout in the morning and then I'll be having lunch with a friend while Brian is home with the girls. Thinking about bringing up the Wii so we can play some of those games including Epic Mickey. I haven't actually really played it at all. I also want to try out my new dance workout.

Have a great night!

TTFN

 

[cclovesdis]

Welcome to Healthy Habits!
My name is CC (like see-see) and I will be your Healthy Habits (HH) coach for the Summer 2011 BL Challenge. I big thank you to donac and jenanderson for showing me the ropes.

Here's How HH Works: Each week, there will be 2 "things" to do each day. You earn 1 point for each day you do each "thing." So, if you do each "thing" for all 7 days, you earn 14 points. There will also be 2 mini-challenges each week. You earn 1 point for each mini-challenge you complete for a total of 16 possible points each week. At the end of the week, please PM me your total points. Here is an example:

4/7 eating 2 fruits
3/7 drinking 6 8 oz. glasses of water
1/2 mini-challenges completed

I will post the top scores as well as a list of the participants each week on/about Tuesday. You have until Tuesday at 5 PM EST to send me your points. Everyone who participates (regardless of his/her total points) will be entered into the drawing for a prize. It will be something related to the week's HH. You will need to PM me your address so I can send you the prize. If you do not WISH to be entered into the prize drawing, please let me know.

Healthy Habits Week 8

In "honor" of the extreme heat in my area, For All 7 Days:
1. Drink at least 64 oz. of water per day.
2. Limit your caffeine to 2 servings per day.

Mini-Challenge 1: Exercise for at least 30 min. at a time at least twice.
Mini-Challenge 2: Do an activity involving water at least once.

Feel free to ask any questions! Have a great week!

 

[mommyof2Pirates]

When DS was in football, only the first 2 weeks were every day and after that it was 3x a week. Is his whole season practice every day??

Well next week is a camp and its 5 days. Then it goes to 4 days Mon-Thur. When school starts its 3 days Tues-Thur. Games are every sat at 4 from 9/3-10/22.

Should be interesting to say the least.

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Oh my gosh I am so thankful i work in A/C it is horrible outside. When we drove home at 730p from the football field house the car temp said 108.

Ryan got his uniform and he looks so cute...ah hem I mean manly. He is excited to start playing. We have to get him cleats this wkend and a mouthpiece. He starts camp on monday. Thank goodness the heat is suppose to get a little better only in the high 80's next week.

Well have a great night!

 

[JacksLilWench]

Not all of us are doing as well in the weight loss as we would like, but I know we all have some wonderful blessings in our lives. Let's share some of the things we are most grateful for today, and remember how blessed we really are.

I am grateful for my parents. They have always taught me to go for my goals and my dreams and to never let anything stand in my way...even if it's them! I know I'm really lucky to have that force in my life no matter what I'm trying to accomplish.

 

[mikamah]

Well, maybe not everything but I think that you are talking about Carrie, who is a very nice WISHer!

I knew you'd remember. Carrie was lovely, and so encouraging at the dis meet.

:Not that I want to discourage a Disney trip or anything but you can get a replacement for your Mickey earrings on disneyshopping.com. I just saw that the other day when I was looking around there.

Yah, I'm sure I could get them online, but it wouldn't be the same. lol. I have them in diamond, blue and pink, and get a new pair each trip since they are so expensive, about 8 dollars, they turn green before the next trip. I'd really like to invest in a nice pair, but haven't found a real silver or gold pair that I've loved.

:You're doing a great job coaching this week! It's a tough time of year for this healthy living thing and this is a tough group right now. But we are all going to turn it around and finish our summer stronger and healthier that we started it!

You are right. We can turn this around!! Thanks, Lisa.

:I am going on vacation in 5 short days.

Whoo hoo!!! I love vacations!!!

She and her DH did an Ironman last weekend. I am outrageously proud of her!

Busy at work. Reading here still to catch up. The most important thing is that I went back to WW today and started completely fresh. I needed to do that for the sake of my psychological well-being on this journey. With the help of a new 3-month journal sent to me by a dear friend, I am determined to journal every bite starting with breakfast this morning. I am hoping to overcome the challenge of eating out too much and "needing" popcorn when we go to the movies. If I can make those 2 major behavioral changes the rest of the summer should be a bit easier to manage.

Wow, an Iron man. Congratulations to Carrie. That is awesome. You can do it, Cam!! And I am sure you will inspire many of us along the way to join you.

These teenager years are turning out to be such a PITA
for Michael moving up to a high swimming level. He is quite the little athlete:

Not looking forward to the teenage years. Michael really is athletic, and just loves sports. Baseball has been a favorite so far, but he's also starting football this year, and their conditioning clinics start next week. My life is slowly becoming consumed by sports, but that's ok. I love watching him play and he loves playing.

Okay... so I'm here two days in a row, but I'm running out of time. DS is heading north for a cousins' overnight visit on an island in Lake Winnipesaukee. Dnephew is picking him up in Concord in a few hours, so I need to get him packed up and get myself showered, etc. He's pretty excited to be going and hanging out with the older kids (he is nearly the youngest grandchild on that side) and WITHOUT his sister, which makes it a double bonus in his eyes! (DD decided that she couldn't miss two swim practices, so has to opt out of cousins night...

I'm sure dd and ds will enjoy their time apart, if they are like my niece and nephew who are 14 and 16. Cousin time is so special too. I've watched my niece and nephew and son growing through the years, and how much the little ones look up to and admire the older ones, and really it still is true. My oldest is 20, and he and my 16 yo niece have become really close the past couple years.

Just got back from the doctor-they were able to see me 25 minutes after I called. While I don't have a full blown sinus infection yet, the inside of my head is "red and puffy" so I now have an antibiotic to make sure it doesn't get worse.
Oh, and the Doctor's scale said I'm 8 pounds less than I was when I started this challenge (at least, basing the starting weight off my own scale). Don't know if that's true, but it would sure be nice if it was.

ETA: Weighed myself upstairs. It said I was 2.8 pounds heavier than the doctor's office did. Moved it downstairs and put new batteries in. Lost 1.6 pounds instantaneously. Moved it to the dining room, now it's only .6 pounds heavier!

Hope the meds get you feeling better soon. 8 pounds lost this challenge is pretty impressive!

Funny you should ask this question today because yesterday in the car DS2 was telling me that DS1 wants to be super rich. My standard response was "what he forgets is that he is rich already, and I'm not talking money." DS2 says, "I know. He's got a loving family." So precious.

That is so sweet. You have a very bright ds.

I do the daily c25k and then go into some light weight lifting. I don't actually stretch, I just start doing other exercises. Now it just feels like I have a big knot in my muscle. I might have to look into that 'stick' the pp mentioned.

Definitely take it slow for a couple days. I hope it's just a tight muscle.

just got in from going downtown to take thomas to a "go-see" for a vaseline ad. it was a waste of time. but definitely an experience seeing some of these other parents. there are alot of crazies out there! the go see was down in the west village - you know, all trendy and artsy fartsy and SO not me. i had to pee SO bad and some of the streets down there are cobblestone. pregnancy + pee pain+ cobblestone +can't find parking = no fun.

Sorry the go-see didn't work out too well, and sorry for the cobblestones. Not fun. Heck, i'm not even pregnant, and that wouldn't have been fun.

:"70 minutes on the elliptical and a little more with weights. I feel great but maybe it would be easier to eat less."

seriously!

Love it.

I decided to actually take a lunch break today to catch up on the board. Glad I did. I missed you all. Things have not been good with eating but I think from being so busy this week it has helped because as of today I was down 2.5lbs from friday. That was a bright spot for today.

I really want to get back into running again since I have a 5.5 mile relay leg that i am running on 9/11. It has been so hot that I just keep using it as an excuse but I will say its a good excuse. I am going to make a calendar with dh starting next week. Since Ryan has football every night I am going to propose to him that we take turns staying with him. That way I can still have 2 nights a week to run. Then I have to make a plan for dinner and that I am still trying to be creative with working around our schedules.

Glad that scale is moving Lindsay, and glad you took some time to catch up here. Michael's football clinic starts next week, and I'm thinking I'll wear my running clothes, and run/walk the track while he's practicing, if it's close by. And maybe once I get to know the coach, and figure out if it's ok, maybe even leave him there and run. I like running in the mornings, but if he's going to have football practice 3 nights a week, I think I might make better use of that time. I'll have to see what he thinks about it too. We don't get uniforms til august. I bet Ryan looks adorable.

I know I was going to post the results last night when I got home from the board of ed meeting but I was not in the mood at 1:15 this morning. Yes you heard me right. They kept us waiting until 10:45 when they went from closed session to open session. They didn't vote until 12:45 after they had listened to everyone. They voted out my principal. We have an interim and they have posted the job. The principal who got voted out will go back to the classroom. He is a good chemistry teacher.

What a long and painful night that must have been. That's good he's still got a job there teaching.

Mikamah - Yes, I did take the day and relax. We went to Chilis for lunch, I talked to two of my widow friends, and we went and saw Cars 2. Overall it was a good day.

I'm already going to be down there permanently in January so we're canceling that trip. I'm going to use the points and get two nights on property in October when we come down. We need somewhere to stay those nights before the trucks show up with our household goods. I thought what better way then to use DVC so I don't have to pay out of pocket for a room. Alan wants to stay at BLT. Our home away from home.

I'm glad you had a nice relaxing day. I think your plan to stay at BLT when you first move down is fabulous. You will start your new life there in the happiest place on earth.

You can do it Cam! Look at it this way--anytime I meet someone who doesn't know that I went g-f the first thing they usually say is, I could never do that. I couldn't give up bread. I just nod and smile. Here's the thing, you can do anything you want to (everyone on here can). You just have to decide it's important enough. You have to decide being healthy and taking care of yourself is worth the effort!

Amen to this. Thank you Rose.

I did not make good choices at Subway tonight. They kept trying to get me to switch to footlong since it was only $5 and a 6 inch was $4. I knew better but I caved. I was paid back by a meatball falling out onto my best shorts They are in the washer now and I hope it all comes out. You know those meatballs don't just land in one spot, they keep on rolling:

I'm sorry I'm laughing about that meatball treating you like that. All I can think of the the song On top of spaghetti, all covered with cheese, I lost my poor meatball when somebody sneezed. Hope the shorts come out clean and you don't have any more altercations with meatballs.

Just talked to Mom for a few minutes. She made it through surgery well and was eating some really good onion rings from the hospital. They are having her on oxygen overnight as a precaution since she had anesthesia. Her cell phone was dying so we couldn't talk long. She sounded good considering.
:

Glad to hear your mom is doing well after her surgery.

Welcome to Healthy Habits!
My name is CC (like see-see) and I will be your Healthy Habits (HH) coach for the Summer 2011 BL Challenge. I big thank you to donac and jenanderson for showing me the ropes.

Here's How HH Works: Each week, there will be 2 "things" to do each day. You earn 1 point for each day you do each "thing." So, if you do each "thing" for all 7 days, you earn 14 points. There will also be 2 mini-challenges each week. You earn 1 point for each mini-challenge you complete for a total of 16 possible points each week. At the end of the week, please PM me your total points. Here is an example:

4/7 eating 2 fruits
3/7 drinking 6 8 oz. glasses of water
1/2 mini-challenges completed

I will post the top scores as well as a list of the participants each week on/about Tuesday. You have until Tuesday at 5 PM EST to send me your points. Everyone who participates (regardless of his/her total points) will be entered into the drawing for a prize. It will be something related to the week's HH. You will need to PM me your address so I can send you the prize. If you do not WISH to be entered into the prize drawing, please let me know.

Healthy Habits Week 8

In "honor" of the extreme heat in my area, For All 7 Days:
1. Drink at least 64 oz. of water per day.
2. Limit your caffeine to 2 servings per day.

Mini-Challenge 1: Exercise for at least 30 min. at a time at least twice.
Mini-Challenge 2: Do an activity involving water at least once.

Feel free to ask any questions! Have a great week!

Thank you CC for doing the HH.

Good evening. I've really enjoyed coaching this week and getting to know everyone better. It's so nice to see such a busy summer challenge, and even though some of us are struggling, we aren't giving up. We're still here, and giving it our all, and I know that we are better off than if we had given up.

Thank you to Rose, our challenge hostess, Connie, our WIN keeper, Dona, our weight keeper, CC- healthy habits coach, and Lisa our QOTD keeper. These challenges are such a big success thanks you you all.

Thank you Cam for coaching starting tomorrow. You are starting off on the right foot, with your new journal, and positive attitude. I'm heading out camping tomorrow right after work, but I'll be back sunday night, to catch up.

Have a fabulous weekend everyone, and don't forget.....
NEVER GIVE UP!!!

 

[dvccruiser76]

Thanks Sue. Hope you have inside plans for the next couple of days.

Hi Kathy, I'm actually going to take DS to Bradley Palmers pool today. They open at 10 so I will plan on being there right when they open and will only stay for an hour to an hour and a half depending on how bad it is out there. I'm hoping that being in the pool offsets the heat. Then we'll grab salads for lunch and come home to eat with DH who's working from home today. We're meeting friends for dinner at 7, which is Dylan's bed time so we'll take a later nap together so he's not too tired.

What time to you head back to Mass?

This summer is definitely busier than last summer on the thread, but I am seeing some similarities. I thought last summer would be an easy time to lose weight for most people--lots of great food choices and opportunities to be active. But I think being off schedule is harder on all of us than we would think. And while there are lots of good food choices, there also seem to be lots of opportunities for a little extra junk too....like having that extra g-f beer at the ballgame.

My point in all this--don't get frustrated if things are not going the way you think they should this summer. Hopefully you are setting up good habits for the fall. When the temps cool off a little bit you will find that you can go harder and faster on your workouts from all that training in the warm temps. And things seem to get a lot easier for a lot of folks when they are on a schedule. I know with my DS home for the summer I have felt "off". It's not a bad thing, I just needed to learn that I can maintain even when things aren't going perfectly. I also needed to learn to change it up a bit--not doing the same workouts I thought I would this summer and we are definitely not on much of a schedule. But that's life sometimes, so it was a good lesson to learn.

Well said, I was expecting the summer to be easier, but it hasn't proven to be. Maybe we have more plans or eat away from home more than we do when it's not summer.

Not all of us are doing as well in the weight loss as we would like, but I know we all have some wonderful blessings in our lives. Let's share some of the things we are most grateful for today, and remember how blessed we really are.

I hate to copy, by DH, DS and my family and friends. Not to mention a job, which allows me to take 3 day weekends to spend time with DS and is more flexible than I could have ever hoped for. And last but not least, my DIS friends who support each other and me during the challenge to keep us motivated and OP

I am so blessed to have a wonderful DS and DH who love me and keep me entertained with their antics. And our extended family although they are not as close as we would like. I'm blessed with my sweet dog and cat who keep me company no matter how early I get up. I live in a beautiful place, and last but not least, I am going on vacation in 5 short days.

Yahoo, where to and for how long? Enjoy it all

The WISH Biggest Loser Summer Challenge Week 3
#11-tggrrstarr .72%
#9- satorifound .76%
#9- aamomma .76%
#7- buzz5986 .78%
#7- mvliimmex .78%
#6- pjstevens .83%
#5- DisFam95 .89%
#4- PrincessNancy 1.18%
#3- disneyKim68 1.21%
#2- cclovesdis 1.87%

and now
The WISH Biggest Loser Summer Challenge
Week 5 Biggest Loser is:
#1- Connie96 1.98%

Congrats to everyone and especially Connie

Just talked to Mom for a few minutes. She made it through surgery well and was eating some really good onion rings from the hospital. They are having her on oxygen overnight as a precaution since she had anesthesia. Her cell phone was dying so we couldn't talk long. She sounded good considering.

Hi Tracey, Glad to hear that your mom is doing well after surgery.

How did you like HP? I'm almost done reading and we're going to see it at the IMAX Sunday I believe.

 

[dvccruiser76]

Oh and wouldn't you know, I went to CVS last night to get a battery for my scale and apparently 3V comes in different sizes and I guessed the wrong one

I'll have to try and get back later today and exchange it.

 

[keenercam]

Good morning, everyone! I am having internet issues at home so I'll be back later to check in with everyone individually. However, I do want to post the question of the day.

QOTD for Friday, July 22: Think about your day yesterday. Tell us one thing that you did "right" and one action that was less beneficial to your effort to get and/or stay fit.

 

[Rose&Mike]

The WISH Biggest Loser Summer Challenge Week 3
#11-tggrrstarr .72%
#9- satorifound .76%
#9- aamomma .76%
#7- buzz5986 .78%
#7- mvliimmex .78%
#6- pjstevens .83%
#5- DisFam95 .89%
#4- PrincessNancy 1.18%
#3- disneyKim68 1.21%
#2- cclovesdis 1.87%

and now
The WISH Biggest Loser Summer Challenge
Week 5 Biggest Loser is:
#1- Connie96 1.98%

Congrats to everyone, especially Connie!

Here's what my experience was: A few weeks before we moved, I called my Ins Company and told them we were moving out and the house would be sitting vacant until sold with friends and neighbors checking on it. It seemed like at first they were going to handle the situation just as you mention above. However, when they asked me WHERE we were moving and heard out of country, they needed to change me to a very basic fire policy and they would only keep this policy for a limited time, I can't remember if it was 3 or 6 months. And, they would no longer cover my car at all. It was garaged at my parents house and driven by them occasionaly. So, I asked the ins company I worked for for 24 years and they agreed to give me a better policy for as long as needed and cover the car the same. I still could not get a Homeowner's policy though since not owner occupied. Before then, I did not have my insurance with my employer as the other company always had much better rates. Disclaimer: I am NOT an insurance expert and insurance rules vary from state to state. I am going to wonder outloud if you guys are with USAA since your husband was in the military? Sorry to be nosy but they are an excellent company and I would give my eyeteeth to have insurance with them but they only write military and ex-military. It was such a stressful time to leave our house sitting vacant but it went under contract and was occupied about 2 weeks later! The new owners rented from us for about 6 weeks until their house sold. All that worry for just 2 weeks of vacancy!

I did not make good choices at Subway tonight. They kept trying to get me to switch to footlong since it was only $5 and a 6 inch was $4. I knew better but I caved. I was paid back by a meatball falling out onto my best shorts They are in the washer now and I hope it all comes out. You know those meatballs don't just land in one spot, they keep on rolling

Shawn

That silly meatball! That's exciting about the trainer!

Thanks for the insurance info. We have usaa for our car, but use afie (armed forces insurance exchange) for our homeowners. Mike called them back and talked to them again and found out that as long as we leave the house furnished we are ok--it is then unoccupied but not vacant. They have different rules depending on which one it is. She explained that they have found that empty houses are magnets for vandals, etc, but just having them furnished makes a big difference. So that's a relief. If it was vacant we would have to get new insurance to cover fire in case of vandalism. We will have to follow through again and make sure we get the same answer, but I'm feeling better about things. And you are right, we are really fortunate to be able to use USAA and AFIE. Armed Forces is going to write Tom a renters insurance policy and he also is able to do all his banking through USAA. It's been really great since they are really used to folks being away from home and their banking services reflect that. So even though Tom is only at college and not in the military he is fortunate to have that benefit. I smile when I see the USAA commercial where people are talking about where they earned their membership. Tom could say he earned his during the First Gulf War--I spent 6 months of the pregnancy alone while Mike was deployed. So he earned his before he was born.

Congrats Connie! I hope to be joining the loser group again soon!

Just talked to Mom for a few minutes. She made it through surgery well and was eating some really good onion rings from the hospital. They are having her on oxygen overnight as a precaution since she had anesthesia. Her cell phone was dying so we couldn't talk long. She sounded good considering.

I've been pretty good today. I had TJs mushroom ravioli for supper and I'm still drinking my water as much as I'd really love an adult drink tonight! I have had one cookie as well. I plan on getting up and doing some type of workout in the morning and then I'll be having lunch with a friend while Brian is home with the girls. Thinking about bringing up the Wii so we can play some of those games including Epic Mickey. I haven't actually really played it at all. I also want to try out my new dance workout.

Have a great night!

TTFN

Glad your Mom is doing ok Tracey!

Welcome to Healthy Habits!
My name is CC (like see-see) and I will be your Healthy Habits (HH) coach for the Summer 2011 BL Challenge. I big thank you to donac and jenanderson for showing me the ropes.

Here's How HH Works: Each week, there will be 2 "things" to do each day. You earn 1 point for each day you do each "thing." So, if you do each "thing" for all 7 days, you earn 14 points. There will also be 2 mini-challenges each week. You earn 1 point for each mini-challenge you complete for a total of 16 possible points each week. At the end of the week, please PM me your total points. Here is an example:

4/7 eating 2 fruits
3/7 drinking 6 8 oz. glasses of water
1/2 mini-challenges completed

I will post the top scores as well as a list of the participants each week on/about Tuesday. You have until Tuesday at 5 PM EST to send me your points. Everyone who participates (regardless of his/her total points) will be entered into the drawing for a prize. It will be something related to the week's HH. You will need to PM me your address so I can send you the prize. If you do not WISH to be entered into the prize drawing, please let me know.

Healthy Habits Week 8

In "honor" of the extreme heat in my area, For All 7 Days:
1. Drink at least 64 oz. of water per day.
2. Limit your caffeine to 2 servings per day.

Mini-Challenge 1: Exercise for at least 30 min. at a time at least twice.
Mini-Challenge 2: Do an activity involving water at least once.

Feel free to ask any questions! Have a great week!

Great choices for a hot week, CC!

 

[Rose&Mike]

Thank you so much to Kathy for coaching last week and thank you to Cam for coaching this week! For all the new folks who don't know Cam, you will love her! She is just about one of the kindest people I have ever "met."

I might not pull out a maintain this week. My ankle has been bothering me a bit, so I have cut way back on my exercise, and my food choices have not been stellar. We'll see. I'm a little sad and stressed about it, but I refuse to let it derail me. I can still fit in all my clothes. It will probably only end up being a half a pound, and I will not "catastrophize" this. For goodness sakes, I lost 50 pounds, I can get back to my maintain. The thing is, in my head this is a "failure." And that's what I need to let go of. It's not a failure, it's a little blip. I guess I keep seeing the wagon rolling away with a cloud of dust with me just watching it go. A little dramatic I know, but I have regained SO MANY times that it's just a little scary still.

Ok that's where I'm at.

Have a great day everyone!

 

[bellebookworm9]

QOTD for Friday, July 22: Think about your day yesterday. Tell us one thing that you did "right" and one action that was less beneficial to your effort to get and/or stay fit.

I went to the grocery store and got healthy foods, and I drank a bit more water than I have been. But I didn't eat so well anyway-today is a new day/week to start over.

I am down 1.8 this morning, so lost all of last week's gain, and then down another pound from that! I called into work again because despite the antibiotic and 3 ibuprofen, it took another 3-4 hours for the symptoms to reduce even a little bit, and I'm still not feeling 100%. If I'm feeling better this evening, I might Zumba. Mom said she might put the AC in the dining room window tomorrow, which would be nice because then I could run even when it's hot outside!

 

[dumbo_buddy]

Good morning, everyone! I am having internet issues at home so I'll be back later to check in with everyone individually. However, I do want to post the question of the day.

QOTD for Friday, July 22: Think about your day yesterday. Tell us one thing that you did "right" and one action that was less beneficial to your effort to get and/or stay fit.

let's see - i did pretty good with the eating during the day...so that's my "right" one. and the wrong one? um, let's see....maybe the FIVE 100 cal packs that i ate in front of the tv last night? i'd say that was pretty bad.

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have a great day everyone! we're just hanging around the house all day. was trying to think of something to do but even just the thought of getting in the car sounds horrible. i'll have to think of something to do because it's only 8:51 and i think we're both a little bored here!

 

[SettinSail]

QOTD for Friday, July 22: Think about your day yesterday. Tell us one thing that you did "right" and one action that was less beneficial to your effort to get and/or stay fit.

Yesterday, right after we worked out at the Y, DS wanted to get a cola icee on the way home. We stopped at the store but I got a pomegranate Sobe lifewater with zero calories instead and it was so delicious! Much better than an icee. DS got an Amp light which I tried to talk him out of. Less beneficial was ordering a footlong sub instead of a 6 inch

I might not pull out a maintain this week.

I don't think this has ever happened in the 3 challenges I've been a part of so far! You have a good attitude though and 1)It might not happen, 2) It will only be 1/2 pound and 3) You will get right back on track!
You are so inspiring to all of us Rose

And, as for the house situation, it is possible that your house will sell before you have to move and you won't even have that worry And, we had friends in Germany who were covered by USAA for their home and autos over there! I thought that was awesome they could even cover you in another country!

Kathy, I always dropped DS (and a few other boys) off at football practice each night Then another Mom would pick them up. DS used to be so motivated back then. He would even run laps at the end with the boys who were struggling to make the weight cut.

Well, there is no way I am sending in my weight today. I am going to try harder over the next 3 days and see if I can get into the groove again. I will give myself until Monday morning. My shorts did come clean last night, thank goodness.

Thanks to Kathy for coaching last week and Cam for this week. Thanks to everyone who keeps the challenge going

Shawn

 

[tigger813]

Morning all,

I got up and did 5 miles of WATP this morning. Had a shake for breakfast and enjoying my first bottle of water.

QOTD: I did 4 miles of WATP was my good thing and the bad thing was the TJs onion rings at 9pm last night!

In two hours if no one has called for a massage I'm going to run up to Costco and BB&B. I need to get another good lunch bag for the girls for camp and then I want to buy a pizza stone to use for the first of our many homemade pizza nights. We had one but I can't find it in the garage. We may have gotten rid of it. I have several BB&B coupons so I will just use those. I brought the breadmaker up and I will start the dough when I get back from lunch with a friend of mine.

Today will be hard in terms of eating. I will just have to drink the extra water. I have looked over the menu where I'm eating lunch and will either have a salad or a roast beef sandwich. I'm planning on having mushrooms and eggplant on my pizza.

Time to clean up the kitchen so it will be in good shape when I make the pizzas later!

TTFN

 

[keenercam]

Kathy – Thank you so much for coaching last week. I really enjoyed reading your encouraging posts. You set a VERY HIGH standard for me to follow. I hope you have a wonderful time camping. Be very careful in the heat.

Congrats to all of our losers last week and especially to Connie. Woohoo!! You guys totally rocked this challenge! Look at those percentages!

Sue –Please be careful in the heat. Even in the pool the sun will be brutal. Sorry about the scale battery. That would be my luck, for sure.

CC – Thank you so much for running Healthy Habits. I know that often, when I have nothing else under control, trying to stick to those is great motivation. You are very generous to keep it going. I have to confess that caffeine (coffee) is a big problem for me. You know how motivated I am by HH's though, so YOU are going to help me make a change I have not had the willpower to make. Thank you for making this one of the HHs this week.

Shawn – I had to laugh at your meatball story, but eek!!! I’m sorry that happened to you. Did the sauce come out of the shorts on the first washing?

Tracey – It’s wonderful that your mom’s surgery went well and that she sounded upbeat. How long will they keep her in the hospital? Is that a tiny bit of a break for your sister?

Rose – You are such a darling. Thank you for your kind words. I am so sad to hear you sounding down. Please do not beat yourself up about a small gain. Your body is just used to the calorie burn from the workouts and will re-adjust as soon as you are able to get back to that level. In the meantime can you find some other ways to burn off some energy and some calories? Do you like doing arm work in front fo the tv? What’s going on with your ankle? Could it be that your running shoes have enough miles on them that the padding is insufficient? I hope you can figure out the issue so that you aren’t in pain.

Gretchen – Congrats on the loss though I’m sorry you aren’t feeling well. I am glad that you are looking forward to running. And kudos to you on the healthy foods!! One major step we can all take toward our goals is to be prepared and to keep our environment effort-friendly. If you surround yourself with healthy choices, you are so much more likely to make those choices rather than going out to eat or grabbing something quick that is not as good a choice.

Nancy – Great job on the healthy choices all day yesterday. Are the 100 calorie packs gone now? Isn’t it discouraging when we take something good just a little too far? There are all sorts of things you could have eaten that would easily have been 500 calories – a huge bowl of ice cream, something fried and greasy. You probably made the best choice for that calorie count, all things considered.

Shawn – Great choice on the drink! I always hate the idea of drinking empty calories. At least the sandwich was food for your body. Oh, I just saw that the shorts came clean. What a relief! Whenever something like that happens to me (for example, dripping some “bad food” on a nice blouse), I think it’s like the cosmic universe telling me I shouldn’t have eaten that. LOL! I hope that the next three days bring you to a weight you are willing to “report”.

Tracy – Home-made pizza sounds like such a fun project!! We used to do “calzone night” when the kids were young. I’d make the dough from scratch and then put out different fillings and let them “design” their own. Maybe you can have the girls “decorate” half the pizza with whatever toppings they prefer. Hmmmm… now I want pizza. May have to do some light English muffin pizzas this weekend. Thanks for the idea!

QOTD for me for yesterday: The major thing I did right was to stay completely on-plan for my first day back on weight watchers after attending a meeting yesterday morning (and I have the completed journal page to prove it ) The one non-beneficial choice was not working out at all. Today I’ve already worked out and I am determined to stay on plan all day. So, I’d like to think that by acknowledging what I did “wrong” yesterday it helped me to focus on that for today so that I wouldn’t have that regret at the end of the day.

 

[BernardandMissBianca]

QOTD for Friday, July 22: Think about your day yesterday. Tell us one thing that you did "right" and one action that was less beneficial to your effort to get and/or stay fit.

Bad bad bad was eating hot wings at a local bar at 10pm, I was starving and probably didn't make the best choice.

Good good good was drinking 2 tall glasses of water with said wings instead of the coke that I really wanted. I'll call that one damage control


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UGH another scorcher here today.

Dear Mother Nature,
I solemnly swear I will never ever complain about winter again!!! Please just take this heat away!!!!!

Love,
Me.


I will not be working out today, the basement is hotter then the house which is unusual. I really need to do laundry but it's A) too hot to run the dryer and B) we have not had rain in like 10 days, so I'm really not sure how much water we have in the well. I'm not risking it!

We are staying in the dark, shades drawn, AC's on full blast and doing nothing.

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!!! EVERYONE STAY SAFE TODAY!!!!