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We'll be leaving for Monterey after lunch. How does a cup of veggie juice and a slice of pecan pie sound for lunch? Balanced, right?
Howdy, DISappearing Peeps!
Mind if I join in?
hope you had a magical time. i can't wait to hear all about it. are you doing a TR?
Hello PeePs! Remember me? Yes, its your friend Sparkie the backslidden PeeP. I have regained and also had a positive gain since I spoke with you last. Too much time focusing on everyone but me. So what to do?
Start over of course.
I'm going back to weight watchers. I have joined a team at work and all of well most of the girls I work with (we told the girl who weighs a mere 120 that she was too skinny to join) We are participating in "Scale Back Alabama" It is a contest that starts Jan 10 and last for 10 weeks. All members on the team are supposed to lose 10 pounds in 10 weeks. There are support groups, nutrition lessons and our hospital offers a discounted membership to Gold's Gym. If individually you lose your 10 pounds you are entered into a drawing for $250. If each team member loses 10 then all of you are entered into a drawing for $1,000 EACH. (Hello Mickey Money!!)
My overall goal is to lose 45 pounds. But that seems too overwhelming right now. So I think I will just take it 5 at a time. I also have a little more incentive. I went to the doctor in Nov. and my blood pressure is elevated. Sometimes a little and sometimes a lot.
So enough about me-
How has everyone else been?
And could my English friend explain the measure of weight called a "stone"? I've been watching you are what you eat and it is based out of the UK and all the weight measurements are in stones.
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BUT I have a failing memory. I dusted of my Atkins book and am refreshing my motivation. See, I'm NOT eating like full fat bacon and sausage etc. I'm opting as lean as possible. So I'm really not sure what diet I'm on. KIMKINS is intriging me because it works but theres this huge HUGE juicy contraversy about the lady who developed it , there is NO one named Kim at all. Her name is something Diaz. Her after picture from different sources was a different skinny model....You KNOW I love stuff like that! She claims she loves her privacy and wanted to show what was "possible" with Kimkins...it screams scam even though the diet does work (gals at church are losing like CRAZY on it). 
Hello PeePs! Remember me? Yes, its your friend Sparkie the backslidden PeeP. I have regained and also had a positive gain since I spoke with you last. Too much time focusing on everyone but me. So what to do?
Start over of course.
I'm going back to weight watchers. I have joined a team at work and all of well most of the girls I work with (we told the girl who weighs a mere 120 that she was too skinny to join) We are participating in "Scale Back Alabama" It is a contest that starts Jan 10 and last for 10 weeks. All members on the team are supposed to lose 10 pounds in 10 weeks. There are support groups, nutrition lessons and our hospital offers a discounted membership to Gold's Gym. If individually you lose your 10 pounds you are entered into a drawing for $250. If each team member loses 10 then all of you are entered into a drawing for $1,000 EACH. (Hello Mickey Money!!)
My overall goal is to lose 45 pounds. But that seems too overwhelming right now. So I think I will just take it 5 at a time. I also have a little more incentive. I went to the doctor in Nov. and my blood pressure is elevated. Sometimes a little and sometimes a lot.
So enough about me-
How has everyone else been?
And could my English friend explain the measure of weight called a "stone"? I've been watching you are what you eat and it is based out of the UK and all the weight measurements are in stones.
Plus, I don't have that much to lose, so I think it would be harder for me. Good luck, and I hope you win. Plus, back my AL buddy! 
) and get a used one! 
I feel bad that they did something that messed it up. Something about if you put your hand on the top of the XBOX 360, you can scratch the disk. How crazy is that? They should be a little more durable than that. IMO 
Morning peeps. Gosh, I wasn't expecting so much activity here with the dis down last night but you guys got on with it.
For all of you going to read the Twilight series, make sure that you don't have plans when you start the book. Don't think you are gonna sit down and read for 15 minutes before you have to run and drop the kids off, etc. You will hate yourself if you do it. All 3 books, I read from start to finish in one sitting. Yes, I'm a huge reader and can read fast but still, I didn't even take a potty break but carried the book with me if ya know what I mean.
Bonnie, no pic in a bikini? Wendy also forgot to tell you that she springs for an expense paid trip to WDW after you drop your first 20 lbs. That's what Fran told me when I joined the peeps. Fran was temp thread leader when Wendy was on vacation so in her official capacity, I know it's legally binding.
Fran, can't wait to hear about the trip. I leave 2 weeks from today for my week at the World. I'm taking my BF and her husband for their first time. Today, I get a message from BF that now they want to spend a day at Kennedy Space Center to see the shuttle on the launch pad. As total rookies, they have no idea that a WDW trip is planned 5 years in advance and that a stopwatch is carried to keep you on schedule. Now with 2 weeks to go, I have to REPLAN a day, arrange a car rental, figure out how to get to Kennedy, research that place and see if we need advance tickets, etc. I'm stressed to the max and already thinking about hitting DH's hidden stash of chocolate.
I've lost 2 lbs again since Christmas. I'm so glad that week is over. Bring on the Valentine challenge!!!
I read yesterday that they have postponed the shuttle launch. Not sure when it is supposed to launch now, so it may not be on the launch pad. I'd check to be sure.
Also, when are you getting in on the 13th? I know I asked this before, but I forgot the answer.
Dh & I took the kids sledding. It was so much fun! I haven't done that since high school. running back uyp the hill with the sled, was quite a work out! My body is sore now but at least it was fun, and my kids couldn't beleive I was joining in!
Nice to see you here too!
pigget - I was going to add something, I now forgot!! oops i just got that book for christmas...i am going to go read some now
Had to let you know this made me laugh. Not the haha we really flubbed this up but the 'oh my goodness, what were we thinking trying to lose during the holidays? Are we all nuts??!?!' laugh. I'm on board for V-day though!!
I am off to take a quick peek at Winkers thread and then I've got to make my grocery list. DH just bought our plane tix for our trip to Denver. We've been watching them for months and finally found them for $130, round trip, non stop this am!!
Having a bottle of water/fake crystal light next to the computer really works. I drank a whole liter already today!
I really want to hear all about it. I hope you took lots of pics of POR.
I excercised today!!
) and we did 1.95 miles in 30 min. Not quite fast enough for Disney standards, but not bad IMO. Especially since I haven't run since October. Anyway, all is good now. Hope you have a great time!
Bonnie: You can just scroll back through the thread. The bikini picks are all there, somewhere.
WELCOME!!!!!!!! good to have you. you'll love it here....lots of great tips, encouragement and laughs. let us know how atkins is working for you. i've tried it before and it works really well at first. if you start slipping there are lots of other great methods out there.
oh, and i have to ask......what's with the Q-tip picture?
you set a goal for yourself to achieve by valentine's day and aaron (WIDisneyfan) keeps a tally of our weight so we can see how we're doing. my goal is 4 pounds. doesn't seem like much but i'm 4 pounds away from my goal weight and this weight loss has S-L-O-W-E-D down since about august. i started in march at 162 pounds and now i'm at 134 pounds (goal weight is 130). i'm proud of myself but these last 4-5 pounds have been REALLY ANNOYING!!!!!
Bonnie, no pic in a bikini? Wendy also forgot to tell you that she springs for an expense paid trip to WDW after you drop your first 20 lbs. That's what Fran told me when I joined the peeps. Fran was temp thread leader when Wendy was on vacation so in her official capacity, I know it's legally binding.
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I THOUGHT it was a little suspicious, asking me to post bikini pics! Good thing I didn't actually DO it!! 
no, seriously. i just took some advice from this very thread and took my goal weight times 12 and that's the amount of calories i ate every day. (130 x 12 = 1560) i tried to keep it around 1500 a day. i went out and bought a calorie king book that fit in my purse, as well as a little notebook to write everything down in, and kept up with what i ate and how many calories i was taking in. ANd i drank nothing but water every day, only allowing myself 1 cup of coffee in the morning, but that's it.....water otherwise. and of course i exercised too. but the exercising part wasn't a big deal to me....i enjoy it. it was eating right (and drinking right) that was killing me. notice that this is all in the past tense. i've fallen off the wagon a little bit through the holidays, but who doesn't? anyway, i only gained like 2 pounds so not much damage done. But here are a couple pics of me so you can see a before shot. I avoid cameras when possible, so the photobucket pickin's are SLIM (pun intended)!! These are both taken in August.
I really want to lose my double chin and slim my face down quite a bit:
Full body shot....zoiks!! But just imagine...100 pounds lighter and I will be fabulous!
(also in pic, fellow DISers Squidrific (L) and Disney4Drew (R).
beyond his mental wherewithall!! He joind a gym, and then kept gaining weight - not going...
Hey there, Peeps! I survived my second day of Atkins. So far so good! I need to purchase a scale...I don't have one!
I had a great time at the day spa today...a facial and neck and shoulder massage. Good times! But like a dork, I forgot to give them my $50 gift card (a gift from one of my preschool students)! Now I'll have to return again so I can use it...shoot!
Hmmmm....something does not seem right....can't quite put my finger on it....
I have started Twilight book one! DD has one and three and today we went to Borders and bought book 2, which she has read but did not own. Until now. So verily, I say unto you...try Borders! They had them all!
Q-Tip = Quit Taking It Personally....my new motto!
And thanks for the welcome!!
Four pounds from your goal weight???? WOW!! That's fantastic!! Which weight loss plan are you doing? I know you can lose those 4 pounds by Valentine's Day!!
I KNEW it!! I'VE BEEN BAMBOOZLED!!
But here are a couple pics of me so you can see a before shot. I avoid cameras when possible, so the photobucket pickin's are SLIM (pun intended)!! These are both taken in August.
I really want to lose my double chin and slim my face down quite a bit:
Full body shot....zoiks!! But just imagine...100 pounds lighter and I will be fabulous!
(also in pic, fellow DISers Squidrific (L) and Disney4Drew (R).
Hi! I'm new here!
2008 is the year I finally have to face my poor eating habits.
I have a good exercise program, but snacking and desserts is my downfall,and I want to eat more meatless meals, so ideas are welcomed!!
20 pounds by June 2008 is my goal
i've never had cornish game hens. what are they comparable to, if anything? that's really sad.
i also didn't think to take the "before" picture until ray was starting to rip up the floor. you can see his knee sticking out of the toilet room and the floor being ripped apart.
