CONGRATULATIONS to all our LOSERS! I am proud of all of us for trying and feel happy for all of you who lost so much weight!
WAY TO GO Joslyn for being our Biggest Loser this week! 
PS: Sue I love that it came out on Monday night.Thanks so much for the time you take to be our weight keeper.
Thanks for all your work Sue! It is great to have the results and the statistics for week 1. I love that you put this quote from Octoberbride03 at the end of this one. We should all read it and know that we all inspire one another just by being here!
It took me forever to figure out how to get the post to quote to the other team's page as well. At least it's all set up for week 2 
Congrats to Buckeye Fan!!!!! Team Mickey!!!
Stats for the week!!!!
Buckeye Fan won for Team Mickey with 3.63% this week and was the overall Biggest Loser!!
Congrats to frndshpcptn who was Donald's Team winner with 3.46%!
Donald lost 103.3 pounds this week
Mickey lost 102.2 pounds this week
Team Donald leads the Total Weight Loss with 103.3 pounds, can you believe how close the results were this week?????
Both teams together have lost 205.5 pounds!!!! Amazing!
Keep reading, keep posting and most of all keep losing and continue learning!!!!
Have an OP week
Again, way to go last week! So proud of you for being our biggest loser! Hi Everyone I dont have any special quotes but I have really enjoyed reading all of yoursI think I will write them all down in my notebook and then they will be there when I need inspiring
Thanks! I think she'll be ok. Hopefully ok for school tomorrow. I am glad you like my quote. I actually have it in my signature line for my work email. I never applied to weight loss before today.Funny how something so poignant can be in one area of your life and it takes you years to realize it applies to other areas of your life! Sometimes I am slow learner, lol.
... I never used to think that the quotes can be so helpful with everything until I started putting them up in my classroom and my students started commenting on them.I have a few...
Success is a journey, not a destination. Focus on the process.
I can do this...I know I can. It's just going to take time & patience.
When you get to a plateau, think of it as a landing on the stairway to your goal. And maintenance is a lifelong plateau, so a bit of "rehearsal" for maintenance isn't the worst thing in the world.
Jen - I really liked this QOTD! There have been so many great quotes today that I have decided to write one at the top of each day in my food journal! Thanks to everyone for sharing!
Good Morning Team Donald members
I have enjoyed reading all the great quotes.
A couple of my favorites are below.
'YOUR LIFE DOES NOT GET BETTER BY CHANCE, IT GETS BETTER BY CHANGE'
Jim Rohn
'IT IS NEVER TOO LATE TO BE WHAT YOU MIGHT HAVE BEEN'
George Eliot
Thanks to everyone for being here................I really needed you all at this time in my life
Quasar
'I've got the whole universe. Planets to save, civilizations to rescue, creatures to defeat and an awful lot of running to do.' - Jenny from 'The Doctor's Daughter'
Call it the Doctor Who fan in me coming out...
Off to do Just Dance 3!
Hope you had fun dancing tonight!Boy, there are a lot of posts to read through! Go Team Donald!!!
I should go back and try to redo it but tonight I am shot so I will just do my post and then head to bed.
It was a very hard night in my house. We took our kitty (really 12 year old cat) to the vet. Hagrid is giant kitty who is so loving and wonderful...but he has not been himself for a couple of weeks. He has been pacing around, hissing at our other cats at times and then went to the bathroom in our living room the other night. We finally knew he needed to see the vet. After a long series of tests, the vet told us that the numbers who his kidneys are having problems. He is at the vet tonight and will get IV fluids all day tomorrow. Tomorrow night he will come home until Wednesday morning. Wednesday morning he will go back for more IV fluids. Wednesday afternoon they will test again and if there are no changes, we will have to put him down. We are all sad but my DS is totally devastated. Hagrid sleeps with him every night and follows him everywhere. It was a very sad night with many tears. Even if Hagrid responds to the IV treatment, the vet could not tell us how long he will make it after that.
My DS cried for almost 2 hours and finally got to bed. I am now going to bed but will be back tomorrow.
Jen
Alright - I had just done replies to everyone here and for some reason it all disappeared on me!
It was a very hard night in my house. We took our kitty (really 12 year old cat) to the vet. Hagrid is giant kitty who is so loving and wonderful...but he has not been himself for a couple of weeks. He has been pacing around, hissing at our other cats at times and then went to the bathroom in our living room the other night. We finally knew he needed to see the vet. After a long series of tests, the vet told us that the numbers who his kidneys are having problems. He is at the vet tonight and will get IV fluids all day tomorrow. Tomorrow night he will come home until Wednesday morning. Wednesday morning he will go back for more IV fluids. Wednesday afternoon they will test again and if there are no changes, we will have to put him down. We are all sad but my DS is totally devastated. Hagrid sleeps with him every night and follows him everywhere. It was a very sad night with many tears. Even if Hagrid responds to the IV treatment, the vet could not tell us how long he will make it after that.
My DS cried for almost 2 hours and finally got to bed. I am now going to bed but will be back tomorrow.
On a positive note - I am proud of all of us for the great first week of being here for one another!
Night everyone!
Jen
Alright - I had just done replies to everyone here and for some reason it all disappeared on me!
It was a very hard night in my house. We took our kitty (really 12 year old cat) to the vet. Hagrid is giant kitty who is so loving and wonderful...but he has not been himself for a couple of weeks. He has been pacing around, hissing at our other cats at times and then went to the bathroom in our living room the other night. We finally knew he needed to see the vet. After a long series of tests, the vet told us that the numbers who his kidneys are having problems. He is at the vet tonight and will get IV fluids all day tomorrow. Tomorrow night he will come home until Wednesday morning. Wednesday morning he will go back for more IV fluids. Wednesday afternoon they will test again and if there are no changes, we will have to put him down. We are all sad but my DS is totally devastated. Hagrid sleeps with him every night and follows him everywhere. It was a very sad night with many tears. Even if Hagrid responds to the IV treatment, the vet could not tell us how long he will make it after that.
My DS cried for almost 2 hours and finally got to bed. I am now going to bed but will be back tomorrow.
On a positive note - I am proud of all of us for the great first week of being here for one another!
Night everyone!
Jen
Hoping for a good outcome with Hagrid.
This week's winning team with 50.22% is Team Donald!!
Team Mickey was not far behind with 50.20% for the week!
Additional stats for the week!!!!
Buckeye Fan won for Team Mickey with 3.63% this week and was the overall Biggest Loser!!
Congrats to frndshpcptn who was Donald's Team winner with 3.46%!
Team Donald lost 103.3 pounds this week
Team Mickey lost 102.2 pounds this week
Team Donald leads the Total Weight Loss with 103.3 pounds, can you believe how close the results were this week?????
Both teams together have lost 205.5 pounds!!!! Amazing!
Keep reading, keep posting and most of all keep losing and continue learning!!!!
Have an OP week
Technically I don't need to be up until 5:15, so I'm playing on Mom's computer until then (mine's packed). We're heading out to the airport at 6 and stopping at Tim Horton's-I'll probably get a yogurt parfait and bagel.
Alright - I had just done replies to everyone here and for some reason it all disappeared on me!
It was a very hard night in my house. We took our kitty (really 12 year old cat) to the vet. Hagrid is giant kitty who is so loving and wonderful...but he has not been himself for a couple of weeks. He has been pacing around, hissing at our other cats at times and then went to the bathroom in our living room the other night. We finally knew he needed to see the vet. After a long series of tests, the vet told us that the numbers who his kidneys are having problems. He is at the vet tonight and will get IV fluids all day tomorrow. Tomorrow night he will come home until Wednesday morning. Wednesday morning he will go back for more IV fluids. Wednesday afternoon they will test again and if there are no changes, we will have to put him down. We are all sad but my DS is totally devastated. Hagrid sleeps with him every night and follows him everywhere. It was a very sad night with many tears. Even if Hagrid responds to the IV treatment, the vet could not tell us how long he will make it after that.
My DS cried for almost 2 hours and finally got to bed. I am now going to bed but will be back tomorrow.
On a positive note - I am proud of all of us for the great first week of being here for one another!
Night everyone!
Jen
I went to bed at 10:30 and fell asleep almost instantly, only to wake up around midnight because I was freezing. I haven't been able to fall back asleep.
I just want to say THANK YOU to everyone who has supported me from the fall challenge through now, with the application process, the waiting, the excitement over getting accepted, and the waiting for two months to actually go down.
I hope I will be able to meet some of you if you come down to visit, and I'll let you know where I will be working as soon as I find out. In the meantime, I will be posting a lot of blog updates and dining reviews (for today at least) and both those links are in my sig. If you want to see even more pictures, you can friend me on Facebook. https://www.facebook.com/gretchenf1
I am so sorry about your precious kitty. It is so sad to lose our pets, and I can only imagine how much harder it is to help your sweet kids through the loss. I hope he does better with the fluids and you and your family have a little more time with him.Alright - I had just done replies to everyone here and for some reason it all disappeared on me!
It was a very hard night in my house. We took our kitty (really 12 year old cat) to the vet. Hagrid is giant kitty who is so loving and wonderful...but he has not been himself for a couple of weeks. He has been pacing around, hissing at our other cats at times and then went to the bathroom in our living room the other night. We finally knew he needed to see the vet. After a long series of tests, the vet told us that the numbers who his kidneys are having problems. He is at the vet tonight and will get IV fluids all day tomorrow. Tomorrow night he will come home until Wednesday morning. Wednesday morning he will go back for more IV fluids. Wednesday afternoon they will test again and if there are no changes, we will have to put him down. We are all sad but my DS is totally devastated. Hagrid sleeps with him every night and follows him everywhere. It was a very sad night with many tears. Even if Hagrid responds to the IV treatment, the vet could not tell us how long he will make it after that.
My DS cried for almost 2 hours and finally got to bed. I am now going to bed but will be back tomorrow.
On a positive note - I am proud of all of us for the great first week of being here for one another!
Night everyone!
Jen
Trina, like all you do with your healthy lifestyle, you can do this. I would call the doctor and tell him you are worried about being nauseous because it happend before, and he should be able to get you something for nausea. If he won't and you do get nauseous, call back during the prep. The prep by far is the hardest part, and most patients tolerate the miralax so much better than the old prep. The main complaint i hear is it is so much fluid to drink, but it really is tasteless. Hopefully you'll tolerate the volume since you've been drinking all your water right?
And don't be afraid to take the prep over a longer periiod of time, for instance if they tell you to take 8 oz every 15 min, but it feels like too much, take a break and go back to it, take smaller amts the important part is getting it down and keeping it down, and really if it takes longer, it is still going to work. If I can be of help in any other way, please shoot me a pm. I wish I could be your nurse and we'd talk about disney and you wouldn't even know I was putting that IV in. Good luck!!
So sorry to hear about your friend. I know they will appreciate seeing the pictures of him during a happy event. You are very thoughtful. I always like to post our QOTD so that I catch as many people as possible when they get on in the morning so here we go!
Hope you have a magical day!!I realize this week with the puppy and morning walks, I have occassionally been missing breakfast, or just having a banana on the way out the door, and realize I need to make it more of a priority. This morning I had 2 pieces of canadian bacon and 2 eggs fried in pam. I'll have a banana as well. I definitely crave less snacks during the day if I have eaten a breakfast high in protein. I like eggs most ways, but often will hard boil a bunch for the week. If I make scrambled eggs I'll use one whole egg and 2-3 egg whites.
Congratulations everyone!! Especially frndshpcptn!! Those are some phenomenal losses!! Very inspiring!!
Love this one.
I was going to post this one too if I didn't find it reading back. I absolutely love this one, and doing the princess last year is truly a testament to this.
I'm a very slow learner. Tonight we'll I'm getting a rotissery chicken and will roast vegies-cauliflower and brussel sprouts.
