Team Donald – Biggest Loser “No Excuses” 2012 Challenge

Now let's get to the good stuff. Who were our superstars of week 9?

The WISH Biggest Loser Spring Challenge Team Donald Week 9 Superstars!!
#10 - 0.66% - ::Snow White::
#9 - 0.73% - areas2102
#8 - 0.90% - DisNorth
#7 - 0.98% - Leitadala
#6 - 1.00% - belledreamer
#5 - 1.27% - #1hoosierfan
#4 - 1.20% - 4holidays
#3 - 1.41% - D73
#2 - 1.77% - ougrad86

and now
The WISH Biggest Loser Team Donald Spring Challenge Week 9 Biggest Loser is:
#1 - 1.84% - Rememberthemagic98 !
Whoo hoo!! Congratulations everyone!!
Weigh to go, Coach Karen, you're the biggest loser!! Awesome!!:cool1:

Busy at work, working through lunch to make up for doc appts, trying to learn a new accounting system and my vacation is the week they implement it! But I made these plans long before, and sorry, I am out the door that week.

The shots to my knees have started :scared:. I got the first on Tuesday in my left knees, it hurt but not as bad as I remembered, and I limped for awhile but it finally felt better. But on my right knees, that was intense. I could barely walk, had to left it ease up before I left the office. The parking lot was full, had to park way far away and limp to the office. It hurt that whole day:sad1:. My office gave me a parking pass so I could park closer when I come in late like that. It still hurt Friday, so I guess my right knee is more tender than my left. She said it was due to the swelling of the joint when she puts in the fluid. Ow, ow, ow...According to DH, he said I complained of the pain last time I got these shots, I do not remember it...maybe it is like childbirth :rolleyes: - I remember the reward, being able to take the stairs two at a time when the treatment is finished. Four more weeks...got to keep on telling myself it is worth it. But until it really starts taking effect, I can't exercise because my knees hurt. Will have to do some upper body work for my arms and maybe crunches for my abs while waiting for my knees to start feeling better. The treatement will be done on a Thursday, and that Saturday we leave for Florida. They should be fine by then though. Now to just find a better route to work, everything is jammed up when I leave the doc office at 8:30.

Carol

I have tried to send this twice, too many smilies, then it froze. Hopefully the third time is the charm
Glad the shots have started, and fingers crossed all goes well, and you are taking those steps 2 at a time pain free before you know it. The shots do not sound like much fun, but it sounds like you've seen the benefit so it's worth it. And I think as women there is so much in our heads to remember, that's partly why we don't remember some of the negative or painful stuff.

Monday Question of the Day

Theme: The Ugly Stepsister

We've talked about what you are most proud of doing. So what task have you been putting off doing, hoping it will go away?
Cleaning out the basement. I had big plans to do it in the fall, and started so we could make a play area down there, but ran out of time before Christmas, so ended up moving everything around and toward the edges, so we have our play area, but now we still have a double layer of junk around the edges. This spring we want to have another yard sale, and clean it out for good.

Second reminder.... YIKES! How much must I have been eating to GET that overweight in the first place? I know I used to fool myself that I had a small meal, small treat, etc etc, but you don't get to nearly 220 pounds eating "small meals"!:laughing:
I think this sometimes when I have one of those weeks where I'm out of control, and somehow manage a maintain. If I could just stay on track, this weight would come off so easily.


You are brave! No chocolate?? I don't eat it much, but I love it when I do!

It was hard to see the brownie cake and choc chip cookies my friend made the other night, but I'm glad I did it. In the past I've downed a few bags of dove chocolate eggs before Easter, and this is the second year I've given up chocolate, and it definitely helps keep me away from the easter candy section. Marshmallow peeps are one of ds's favorite, but I won't go crazy on them like I would on chocolate.

I managed to have a fully OP weekend, except for exercise. I'm afraid that DD's post-trip lethargy was contagious and other than some household basics, I was very lazy this weekend. But I will hit the TM hard this morning, regardless of the laundry waiting to be folded!!

You're always on the go, you should enjoy a quiet, lazy weekend once in a while. I bet you didn't miss all those drives to swimming last week.

Had a bit of a surprise on FB yesterday. Got a message that I was tagged in a photo and (well, actually DH saw it first) and found myself tagged in a photo from my high school cheerleading years. I am NOT friends with any of these girls, but discovered that since I am friends with my old HS boyfriend, he is the one that tagged me.

I am INTENTIONALLY on FB with only my married name, as I didn't NOT enjoy HS and do not have any HS friends. I have NOT FB friended anyone from HS (other than this boyfriend who found me). I don't really care to have anything to do with these folks. But perhaps I am OVERTHINKING this a bit. My first instinct was to untag myself and kindly ask this man to NOT tag me without letting me know! But who cares. It is an old photo, I look fine, I"m not compromised in any way, and these girls don't seem to care that I was tagged. And it gave me "permission" to FB stalk these girls! And one of them is a (using the term VERY loosely) "model"...... if the meaning of the word model means to have provocative photos taken of yourself (and occasionally another woman) wearing VERY LITTLE clothing in some questionable positions "modeling." All I can say is.....:scared1:

It is interesting to see how old high school classmates are doing, but I did feel a little old when the first one became a grandmother.:scared1: I like facebook for sharing pictures, and keeping up with people, but I don't really share too much personal stuff, well except for the pictures, I guess. I share a lot more here than anywhere elst. Intersting though when I signed up for a dating website once I used mikamah as my name, and my sil googled it, it brought you here, and that freaked me out a little, so I changed my name on the dating site, and just use the mikamah here. I'm not internet savvy, but try not to put too much on facebook.

Okay.... DH is up and moving and I hear the TM calling me ever so faintly! :laughing: TTYL.....................P
Hope you had a fun run on the treadmill!!
Thanks for all the suggestions. I am actually going to print everything out so I can start getting organized. DSs are 8 and 5 so i thought if I did a little each year, I wouldn't get overwhelmed. I am going to look for a class and look here on the dis, also. I'm sure digital would be easier, but I need more info about it. If I do everything on the computer, how do you print it out to make the book? Or, is it all digital (you do not make an actual book but leave it on the computer to enjoy)? It's all so overwhelming lol!

Not much else going on here. I can't wait for our threads to merge since I don't have the time to keep up with Team Mickey and I'd like to see how people are doing over there. I can't believe it's March already. We have 59 actual days of school after today (but who's counting :))!!

Have a good healthy day!

Jill
Good to start planning the scrapbooks now when they are young. I'm looking forward to merging too!!

I just made an ADR for LeCellier and had to leave a CC number. If you cancel at least 24 hours in advance - you will not be charged a fee. But if you don't cancel you will be charged $20. I cannot begin to tell you how happy I am with this policy.

I didn't realize peope weren't following the rules of FP too. Was I the only one that returned during the hour designated?? If we couldn't make it - we would give the tickets away to some people near the attraction.

Saturday, after I visited with my DF - we drove to Northborough MA and went to Wegman's - what a great, great store. I heard they are trying to get into Burlington - I sure hope so. What a great selection of premade items.

Janis
That's good they will require a 24 hour cancellation for adrs. hopefully they will be easier to get. I've used fastpass a little late, but never trusted that you'd be able to use them beyond the 1 hour window.
I've heard great things about Wegmans, and I thought the burlington was a definite.
This week's winning team with 21.02% is Team Donald!!

Team Mickey weighed-in losing 17.64% for the week!

Additional stats for the week!!!!

Rememberthemagic98 won for Team Donald with 1.84% this week and was the overall Biggest Loser!!

Congrats to dumbo_buddy who was Mickey's Team winner with 1.64%!

Team Donald lost 25.8 pounds this week
Team Mickey lost 23.9 pounds this week

Team Donald leads the Total Weight Loss with 457.0 pounds and Team Mickey's total weight loss to date is 363.7!!!
Both teams together have lost 820.7 pounds!!!! Amazing!

Keep reading, keep posting and most of all keep losing and continue learning!!!!

Have an OP week :goodvibes
Whoo hoo!! Go team Donald!!

THank you so much, Sue for all your hard work as weighkeeper.

Cleaning the bathroom... I absolutely HATE doing it... And my bathroom's not very big, so it really doesn't take long to do. I just don't like doing it.

But I did it today!! :thumbsup2

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So I had my 'great' moment at the gym today. :sad2:

I slipped...on the treadmill.

And got flung against the wall... :rolleyes:

I'm still not quite sure how it happened. I thought I'd had stepped on something slick, but there was nothing on the treadmill so I guess I just stepped wrong. Plus I wasn't wearing the clip for the emergency stop, so I just couldn't regain my footing, fell forward on my knees and ended up hitting the wall...

Didn't hurt myself too bad though. Tried to walk it off but after about 10 minutes, I had had enough. So I'm heading to go ice my knee some more in a minute. Got a lovely bruise showing up on my knee. Nice... :rolleyes:

But on the bright side, I made the top 10! :yay:
Glad you werent' hurt too badly. Rest up and ice that knee.

Congrats Team Donald!!!

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Tuesday Question of the Day

Theme:The Dream

Finish this sentence. When I reach my weight goal.....
of 181, being overweight, no longer obese, I will buy a new pair of cowboy boots.

Good Morning Donalds

Yesterday was the first day back to school after a week off and as usual the first day just seems to fly by with complete busy work to catch up. So I never made it on to the DIS.

Congratulations to all the top losers for this past week. It is great to see thes each Tuesday morning as I start my day. Way to go coach Rememberthemagic98 for leading your week of coaching by example and taking the top spot!!!:cheer2:

belledreamer....I can sympathise with the treadmill incident. I have been there and done that too. Lesson learned and thankfully has not happened again. I hope the same to you as well as a speedy recovery for your knee.

Well students are about to arrive so I better go. Will do my best to get back later.

Have a great day!

Christopher
Hope your week goes smoothly.:goodvibes

Good Tuesday morning everyone.

Congrats to all the biggest losers this week but especially Rememberthemagic98 for being our biggest loser.

Costumes and light cues took a long time last night. But I did get a Buffalo Bill coat done last night. Tonight we have to work on ballgowns and a couple of other coats that need fringe. I left at 10:30 and they were still setting lights for act 2. I hope tonight is better.

Testing starts today. I get to hand out caculators and collect them at the end of the session and then I have nothing else to do. I will grade papers and do some computer work.

I will see you guys again tomorrow.

Have a happy and healthy day.
Sounds like the costumes are coming along well. I am amazed at all you do, Dona. Hope you have a good rest of the week.

Good morning and hello to everyone I've missed.

We are off today, it's a teacher workshop day, so I took the day off too, and ds is having an eeg, so we only could sleep 4 hours last night, but so far neither of us is too cranky. :rotfl2: We'll be in bed early tonight or maybe this afternoon we can take a nap. I got more sleep than him because I kept dozing off during the movies we watched last nigth. I'm heading out for a long walk with the dog now, and after his appt we may go to the batting cages with friends.
Otherwise, I'll catch up on some laundry, and that's about it. I still have my scrapbooking stuff out, but haven't done any lately, so maybe I'll do that.

Have a great day everyone!!
 
Third time I am trying to post this...gosh darn internet!!!

Copied from my WISH Journal:

I had a 55 point day yesterday (Saturday). You read that right – 55 points. :eek:


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That being said, I did NOT weigh myself this morning.

I know that the scale would not have been accurate - my fingers were swollen when I woke us, so I know the sodium is still in my system. I'll be sure to get in more water than usual today, so hopefully when I step on the scale tomorrow I won't be like this: :scared1:.

- Laura

Laura...I luv ya!! This is a great reminder for me that I CAN EAT WHAT I WANT...occasionally....

I'm sure you are back on the wagon :)

The scary part is that I could eat all of this and then wonder why I don't lose any weight....I'm a silly one :laughing: WW has really helped me with portion control and helped with my choices. I'm so determined this time to make it stick!!! Or maybe that's NOT make it stick to my body :)

Whoo hoo!! You go girl!! Amazing loss, and great run!! I'm so happy for you, and you're so close to 10 pounds, I'm sure you'll see it next week!!!:thumbsup2

Thanks Kathy! I'm just soooo excited to keep the momentum going!

I ended up getting called in yesterday for 2 cases. I guess that's karma for trying to blackmail him. :rotfl: It was all in fun though. When he called me in he said, "do you want to come and party with me?", and one of the cases was not very easy, so after I said, "This isn't really my type of party." Oh well, it interfered with my dis time, but the money is good.
Never fails huh! It sounds like it was at least fun?
I am proud of myself for doing the couch to 5k, actually finishing it, and doing the training for and doing the princess half. It goes with the question of when do you feel most beautiful. I honestly don't think of myself as beautiful, but after the princess half, after a shower and rest, we went to epcot and I really felt beautiful with my medal, and some of the pictures from that afternoon/evening are my favorites. Even though I was still over 200 pounds, I didn't feel fat but I felt fit and happy and knew that if I set my mind to do something, I can do it.
You are my inspiration!!! Couch to 5K to Princess!! If I can find a doctor who agrees to work with me and my bum ankle them maybe I can get there too!!

When you go to crops do you bring laptops and do the digital scrapping online there, or is it a combination of both. Creative memories have beautiful stuff. I may check out their online setup.
I have to say that going digital was my best friend when it comes to crops!! All the other ladies make multiple trips with bags upon bags. I come in with my computer and a snack ;) It's made me want to go to crops because it is soooo easy! I'll try to post a digi page here so all can see what I've been up to!
Hope you're all enjoying your weekend!!
Hope you had a great weekend Kathy!

Probably the fact that my speed and endurance are increasing when it comes to the treadmill. When I started this year, I could only go at a 2.5 pace for 20 minutes. Now I can go for almost an hour at 3.4-3.6 pace. Princess 1/2, here I come!!

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So not the greatest choices made today... :guilty:

Yesterday was better. I was able to get an hour in at the gym and did 30 minutes of weights along with 35 minutes of cardio. Considered trying to do some lunges, but since yesterday was the first day I could get up without unbearable pain, I decided to do the leg press instead which hurt enough. (Pressed 40lbs though!) Running was out of the question too, but I was able to keep a 3.2-3.4 pace which I was pleased with. :woohoo:

But today for some reason, I just wasn't hungry. Had a Fiber One bar for breakfast and ended up eating just some pineapple chunks for lunch. Did end up splurging at dinner since I had only eaten 200 calories at that point. Hot dogs and chili with a small piece of Boston Cream Cake (which wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it would be.) And even now after all of that, I'm still almost 200 calories under the 1,200 minimum. Which I'm planning on just drinking a glass of milk to top it off.

It's just frustrating that I'm still teeter-tottering on these same 3 lbs... So I'm hoping that since I'm adding in weight training, maybe things will start moving again.

I mean, sure my clothes are getting looser, (the jeans I'm wearing are bagging all around me) the 'back bulge' is practically gone, I swear I've dropped 4 inches on my waist and just today, someone told me that it looked like my stomach was a lot slimmer; all that I'm happy about. I just wish the scale was showing it...

Sorry to be sounding so ungrateful for what I have accomplished and really my problems are miniscule compared to what other people are dealing with. I'm just frustrated, that's all...

Thanks for listening. :hug:



Quick question about calories and exercise: If you've eaten 1,300 calories for the day but go to the gym and burn 400, does that mean that you still have to eat 300 calories to get you to 1,200?

I still can't help but feel that I'm not eating enough...
Hmmm...I usually don't eat my exercise WW points unless I am hungry....so I am not the best one to comment.

Congrats on the amazing exercise and body transformation!! I was never one to be concerned about the scale BUT I do love when my clothes are loose and I need to get another size. My goal is to wear my current clothes until they fall off my body!

Monday Question of the Day

Theme: The Ugly Stepsister

We've talked about what you are most proud of doing. So what task have you been putting off doing, hoping it will go away?

I hate to vacuum the stairs....not quite sure why. I had every intention of doing it this weekend....Jill said she did vacuum...now I am inspired!!

Yeah, let us all know how that happened! :lmao: But seriously, good job on the great loss!
Thanks!!!
I would say my college degree. Even though I was an honor student, I dropped out of high school due to extenuating circumstances. But a few years later, after having DS, I went back and then on to college. It took me 5 1/2 yrs to get my Bachelor's but I did it! Plus I am proud of the scholarship I earned to pay for the last two years of my college degree :)
AWESOME!!! I am such an advocate for higher education at ANY age!! It takes courage and drive to go back after being away! WAY TO GO!!

Good Monday morning everyone.

I have been in the costume vortex for the last two day. I spent the last two days at the local high school working on costumes. Our to do list has gone from 7 pages to 2 pages for tonight. I think it is going to work. They are running with costumes for the first time tonight.

Long day planned for today. Classes then a math meet and then back to work on costumes.

I don't have a lot of time this morning .

Just wanted to say I am okay just not able to get on here as much I would like.

Have a happy and healthy day.
lol!! When you said vortex I just had this image of swirling clothes in outerspace and you (in a party dress) trying to grab all the clothes!! I hope you are almost done with the costumes!

Second reminder.... YIKES! How much must I have been eating to GET that overweight in the first place? I know I used to fool myself that I had a small meal, small treat, etc etc, but you don't get to nearly 220 pounds eating "small meals"!:laughing:

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Morning friends! Quiet on here this weekend!

I managed to have a fully OP weekend, except for exercise. I'm afraid that DD's post-trip lethargy was contagious and other than some household basics, I was very lazy this weekend. But I will hit the TM hard this morning, regardless of the laundry waiting to be folded!!

Had a bit of a surprise on FB yesterday. Got a message that I was tagged in a photo and (well, actually DH saw it first) and found myself tagged in a photo from my high school cheerleading years. I am NOT friends with any of these girls, but discovered that since I am friends with my old HS boyfriend, he is the one that tagged me.

I am INTENTIONALLY on FB with only my married name, as I didn't NOT enjoy HS and do not have any HS friends. I have NOT FB friended anyone from HS (other than this boyfriend who found me). I don't really care to have anything to do with these folks. But perhaps I am OVERTHINKING this a bit. My first instinct was to untag myself and kindly ask this man to NOT tag me without letting me know! But who cares. It is an old photo, I look fine, I"m not compromised in any way, and these girls don't seem to care that I was tagged. And it gave me "permission" to FB stalk these girls! And one of them is a (using the term VERY loosely) "model"...... if the meaning of the word model means to have provocative photos taken of yourself (and occasionally another woman) wearing VERY LITTLE clothing in some questionable positions "modeling." All I can say is.....:scared1:

Okay.... DH is up and moving and I hear the TM calling me ever so faintly! :laughing: TTYL.....................P

I absolutely understand the FB tagging....I do take down the unflattering pictures of me because, hey, it's my face out there!! Especially when I was job searching...people can Google you and the pics can come up! As long as you are happy with the picture, no harm in leaving it up there...years from now your grandchildren may get a kick out of it!

So funny that we were posting at the same time about vacuuming the stairs :lmao: I did accomplish it, though. And, it wasn't too bad!

You are a goddess!! I didn't do it....maybe this weekend??


Thanks for the help. I will look into Creative Memories. Digital seems easier, but I know nothing about it, so I will have to research.
Wish I lived closer!! I would totally help you with it! I absolutely rely on my Creative memories consultant for my digital switch. Maybe have a consultant walk you through it? Good Luck!


Thanks for all the suggestions. I am actually going to print everything out so I can start getting organized. DSs are 8 and 5 so i thought if I did a little each year, I wouldn't get overwhelmed. I am going to look for a class and look here on the dis, also. I'm sure digital would be easier, but I need more info about it. If I do everything on the computer, how do you print it out to make the book? Or, is it all digital (you do not make an actual book but leave it on the computer to enjoy)? It's all so overwhelming lol!


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My schedule's all wacky this week since DH has a conference Wed-Fri. So, I am going to spinning tonight (I usually go on Wed). I am looking forward to it. My kids start swimming lessons tomorrow, so I am hoping to still get to the gym right after work. We'll see how rushed I am, though.

Not much else going on here. I can't wait for our threads to merge since I don't have the time to keep up with Team Mickey and I'd like to see how people are doing over there. I can't believe it's March already. We have 59 actual days of school after today (but who's counting :))!!

Have a good healthy day!

Jill
I'm with you!! I sometimes pop over to Mickey but I can just about keep up here!!
59 days.....wow...love it!!!
 
Here we celebrate our progress and recognize our superstars.


The WISH Biggest Loser Spring Challenge Team Donald Week 9 Superstars!!
#10 - 0.66% - ::Snow White::
#9 - 0.73% - areas2102
#8 - 0.90% - DisNorth
#7 - 0.98% - Leitadala
#6 - 1.00% - belledreamer
#5 - 1.27% - #1hoosierfan
#4 - 1.20% - 4holidays
#3 - 1.41% - D73
#2 - 1.77% - ougrad86

and now
The WISH Biggest Loser Team Donald Spring Challenge Week 9 Biggest Loser is:
#1 - 1.84% - Rememberthemagic98



Have a healthy day!
Congratulations Rememberthemagic98!!!

AHHHHHH!!! OMG!!! I honestly never thought I would see the top 10 this challenge and poof...
HUGE thank you to all of those who have been sooo supportive and for indulging me by answering my coaching questions!! Maybe that is the ticket....everyone needs to coach!!!


This week's winning team with 21.02% is Team Donald!!

Team Mickey weighed-in losing 17.64% for the week!

Additional stats for the week!!!!

Rememberthemagic98 won for Team Donald with 1.84% this week and was the overall Biggest Loser!!

Congrats to dumbo_buddy who was Mickey's Team winner with 1.64%!

Team Donald lost 25.8 pounds this week
Team Mickey lost 23.9 pounds this week

Team Donald leads the Total Weight Loss with 457.0 pounds and Team Mickey's total weight loss to date is 363.7!!!
Both teams together have lost 820.7 pounds!!!! Amazing!

Keep reading, keep posting and most of all keep losing and continue learning!!!!

Have an OP week :goodvibes
Shocked again!!! Both teams!! WAY to GO Donalds!!! We have lost the most weight and still going!!! Keep up the amazing work!!

So I had my 'great' moment at the gym today. :sad2:

I slipped...on the treadmill.

And got flung against the wall... :rolleyes:

I'm still not quite sure how it happened. I thought I'd had stepped on something slick, but there was nothing on the treadmill so I guess I just stepped wrong. Plus I wasn't wearing the clip for the emergency stop, so I just couldn't regain my footing, fell forward on my knees and ended up hitting the wall...

Didn't hurt myself too bad though. Tried to walk it off but after about 10 minutes, I had had enough. So I'm heading to go ice my knee some more in a minute. Got a lovely bruise showing up on my knee. Nice... :rolleyes:

But on the bright side, I made the top 10! :yay:
YAY!!! On the Top 10
BOO :( on the knee
Ok, I admit it, I fell off the TM too...killed my shin and my pride since I was smack dab in the middle of the gym...ouch! Keep that ice going!

Congrats Team Donald!!!

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Tuesday Question of the Day

Theme:The Dream

Finish this sentence. When I reach my weight goal.....
....I will dance in the streets!! No, really I will :)

Good Morning Donalds

Yesterday was the first day back to school after a week off and as usual the first day just seems to fly by with complete busy work to catch up. So I never made it on to the DIS.

Congratulations to all the top losers for this past week. It is great to see thes each Tuesday morning as I start my day. Way to go coach Rememberthemagic98 for leading your week of coaching by example and taking the top spot!!!:cheer2:

belledreamer....I can sympathise with the treadmill incident. I have been there and done that too. Lesson learned and thankfully has not happened again. I hope the same to you as well as a speedy recovery for your knee.

Well students are about to arrive so I better go. Will do my best to get back later.

Have a great day!

Christopher
Thanks Christopher! Welcome back to school! This is my last week and then 2 weeks off....working from home is much better than driving here everyday!

Good Tuesday morning everyone.

Congrats to all the biggest losers this week but especially Rememberthemagic98 for being our biggest loser.

Costumes and light cues took a long time last night. But I did get a Buffalo Bill coat done last night. Tonight we have to work on ballgowns and a couple of other coats that need fringe. I left at 10:30 and they were still setting lights for act 2. I hope tonight is better.

Testing starts today. I get to hand out caculators and collect them at the end of the session and then I have nothing else to do. I will grade papers and do some computer work.

I will see you guys again tomorrow.

Have a happy and healthy day.
Good luck with testing Dona! Wow! That was a late night last night. When do you open?

Whoo hoo!! Congratulations everyone!!
Weigh to go, Coach Karen, you're the biggest loser!! Awesome!!
Thanks Kathy!! Thingsa re going int he right direction!! I am soooo close to ONEderland....something I have no seen since college!


of 181, being overweight, no longer obese, I will buy a new pair of cowboy boots.
What color cowboy boots??? What a great treat!



Good morning and hello to everyone I've missed.

We are off today, it's a teacher workshop day, so I took the day off too, and ds is having an eeg, so we only could sleep 4 hours last night, but so far neither of us is too cranky. :rotfl2: We'll be in bed early tonight or maybe this afternoon we can take a nap. I got more sleep than him because I kept dozing off during the movies we watched last nigth. I'm heading out for a long walk with the dog now, and after his appt we may go to the batting cages with friends.
Otherwise, I'll catch up on some laundry, and that's about it. I still have my scrapbooking stuff out, but haven't done any lately, so maybe I'll do that.

Have a great day everyone!!
Good luck Kathy with the eeg!! I hope you get some scrapping done today! That's my plan for spring break....to catch up on my traditional scrapping! I will get there one day!

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I can't thank you all enough for all the support and love...that's the only way I made it to the top spot this week! I feel like the Little Engine sometimes...I Think I Can, I Think I Can!

Eating was a little off yesterday with some limited choices at lunch but I had a decent spin class last night. I'm feeling PMS coming on so I may take another spin class tonight to wipe away the icky. Lunch looks a bit yucky again today so I may just stick with soup and a salad.

Sunny day here and gearing up for 66 degrees on Thursday!!!
Have a wonderful day Donalds!!
 
This week's winning team with 21.02% is Team Donald!!

Team Mickey weighed-in losing 17.64% for the week!

Additional stats for the week!!!!

Rememberthemagic98 won for Team Donald with 1.84% this week and was the overall Biggest Loser!!

Congrats to dumbo_buddy who was Mickey's Team winner with 1.64%!

Team Donald lost 25.8 pounds this week
Team Mickey lost 23.9 pounds this week

Team Donald leads the Total Weight Loss with 457.0 pounds and Team Mickey's total weight loss to date is 363.7!!!
Both teams together have lost 820.7 pounds!!!! Amazing!

Keep reading, keep posting and most of all keep losing and continue learning!!!!

Have an OP week :goodvibes

Way to go Team Donald!!


Congrats Team Donald!!!

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Tuesday Question of the Day

Theme:The Dream

Finish this sentence. When I reach my weight goal.....


I'm not sure what I will do, but I know I will be celebrating!!


Testing starts today. I get to hand out caculators and collect them at the end of the session and then I have nothing else to do. I will grade papers and do some computer work.

I will see you guys again tomorrow.

Have a happy and healthy day.

I always get a lot of reading done during testing. It is so boring, but for some reason I feel drained after lol.


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Just a quick pop on while I have a minute. My Vera purse and coin purse came yesterday and are sitting in a brown box on my desk staring at me. DH thinks it's hilarious that I set up this goal. I swear I will see that darn purse this week!!


Jill
 

QOTD.When I reach my goal weight...

I don't think I really have one, soI don't know how to answer it. I don't think I ever thought I would get this far. So far from last fall it's 30 lbs. That's not huge for the amount of time, but for me it is slow and steady. I worried about regainning after the cruise and trips, the holidays and such but i am still slowly going down. That is a victory for me. I don't ever want to get back to wehere I started..


My stomache is acting up again, so back to bread,bananas and rice as well as a steady diet of prevacid and pepcid. Ugh! I syill did 25 min on TM but it feels worse afterwards so I'll be skiping it today.

We decide to tke a last minut quick trip to WDW, for just 2 nights, for my DS's 16th birthday. He wants to do the ride alond at Richard Petty in one of the exotic cars and they are runing on Thurs, which is his bday so we said, let's go. He and his dad did the stock cars on his 14th and he loved it! This also means I can get a quick peak at the F&G at Epcot! The only other must do is the Fork and screen at the amc at DTD. We have gone several times and really enjoy it. The food has been good, the seats are so big and comfy-well worth the few extra $ even if just watching the movie for the comfort. Ok- I guess there is one other thing-gotta have a dole whip! Maybe run over after the driving? I will suffer the somache pain for that if need be.
 
I just made an ADR for LeCellier and had to leave a CC number. If you cancel at least 24 hours in advance - you will not be charged a fee. But if you don't cancel you will be charged $20. I cannot begin to tell you how happy I am with this policy.
Me too at least it should make it easier to get an ADR there:thumbsup2
I didn't realize peope weren't following the rules of FP too. Was I the only one that returned during the hour designated?? If we couldn't make it - we would give the tickets away to some people near the attraction.
I always followed the rules as well-probably because I'm made that way:rotfl:
QOTD - I have been putting off doing my taxes. Can't wait to see how much I owe.

Yesterday, I told DH we had no obligations, no family functions, no sporting events. So he proceeds to think he can sit on the coach and watch TV. No, no, no, no. There is still laundry to be done, meals to be cooked, bills to be paid. He says - so why did you tell me we had nothing to do today??? :rotfl:
:rotfl2::rotfl2::rotfl2:
Saturday, after I visited with my DF - we drove to Northborough MA and went to Wegman's - what a great, great store. I heard they are trying to get into Burlington - I sure hope so. What a great selection of premade items.

Janis

Cleaning the bathroom... I absolutely HATE doing it... And my bathroom's not very big, so it really doesn't take long to do. I just don't like doing it.

But I did it today!! :thumbsup2

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So I had my 'great' moment at the gym today. :sad2:

I slipped...on the treadmill.

And got flung against the wall... :rolleyes:

I'm still not quite sure how it happened. I thought I'd had stepped on something slick, but there was nothing on the treadmill so I guess I just stepped wrong. Plus I wasn't wearing the clip for the emergency stop, so I just couldn't regain my footing, fell forward on my knees and ended up hitting the wall...

Didn't hurt myself too bad though. Tried to walk it off but after about 10 minutes, I had had enough. So I'm heading to go ice my knee some more in a minute. Got a lovely bruise showing up on my knee. Nice... :rolleyes:

But on the bright side, I made the top 10! :yay:
:banana:congrats on making that top 10:banana:
Congrats Team Donald!!!

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Tuesday Question of the Day

Theme:The Dream

Finish this sentence. When I reach my weight goal.....
I am going into town with my £40 and buying those summer t-shirts-in a rainbow of colours:cool1:
QOTD.When I reach my goal weight...

I don't think I really have one, soI don't know how to answer it. I don't think I ever thought I would get this far. So far from last fall it's 30 lbs. That's not huge for the amount of time, but for me it is slow and steady. I worried about regainning after the cruise and trips, the holidays and such but i am still slowly going down. That is a victory for me. I don't ever want to get back to wehere I started..


My stomache is acting up again, so back to bread,bananas and rice as well as a steady diet of prevacid and pepcid. Ugh! I syill did 25 min on TM but it feels worse afterwards so I'll be skiping it today.

We decide to tke a last minut quick trip to WDW, for just 2 nights, for my DS's 16th birthday. He wants to do the ride alond at Richard Petty in one of the exotic cars and they are runing on Thurs, which is his bday so we said, let's go. He and his dad did the stock cars on his 14th and he loved it! This also means I can get a quick peak at the F&G at Epcot! The only other must do is the Fork and screen at the amc at DTD. We have gone several times and really enjoy it. The food has been good, the seats are so big and comfy-well worth the few extra $ even if just watching the movie for the comfort. Ok- I guess there is one other thing-gotta have a dole whip! Maybe run over after the driving? I will suffer the somache pain for that if need be.

Sounds like you have alot of fun things planned:)
 
Monday Question of the Day

Theme: The Ugly Stepsister

We've talked about what you are most proud of doing. So what task have you been putting off doing, hoping it will go away?

Clean out my garage! And closets... and office at work (we are doing a building move next month)... and DD's room... I guess I have A LOT of major cleaning I have been ignoring :rolleyes1

IHad a bit of a surprise on FB yesterday. Got a message that I was tagged in a photo and (well, actually DH saw it first) and found myself tagged in a photo from my high school cheerleading years. I am NOT friends with any of these girls, but discovered that since I am friends with my old HS boyfriend, he is the one that tagged me.

I am INTENTIONALLY on FB with only my married name, as I didn't NOT enjoy HS and do not have any HS friends. I have NOT FB friended anyone from HS (other than this boyfriend who found me). I don't really care to have anything to do with these folks. But perhaps I am OVERTHINKING this a bit. My first instinct was to untag myself and kindly ask this man to NOT tag me without letting me know! But who cares. It is an old photo, I look fine, I"m not compromised in any way, and these girls don't seem to care that I was tagged. And it gave me "permission" to FB stalk these girls! And one of them is a (using the term VERY loosely) "model"...... if the meaning of the word model means to have provocative photos taken of yourself (and occasionally another woman) wearing VERY LITTLE clothing in some questionable positions "modeling." All I can say is.....:scared1:

Yep, I am really selective about who FB friend too. Totally do not need everyone prying into my business. Plus, with my job, I really don't want clients knowing anything about me!

Here we celebrate our progress and recognize our superstars.
Biggest Loser Fall Challenge Week 9!
This week’s group loss = 25.8 pounds!
Average percentage of weight lost 0.37 %
Total group weight loss so far 457.0 pounds!


AWESOME!

The WISH Biggest Loser Spring Challenge Team Donald Week 9 Superstars!!
#10 - 0.66% - ::Snow White::
#9 - 0.73% - araes2102
#8 - 0.90% - DisNorth
#7 - 0.98% - Leitadala
#6 - 1.00% - belledreamer
#5 - 1.27% - #1hoosierfan
#4 - 1.20% - 4holidays
#3 - 1.41% - D73
#2 - 1.77% - ougrad86

and now
The WISH Biggest Loser Team Donald Spring Challenge Week 9 Biggest Loser is:
#1 - 1.84% - Rememberthemagic98

Oh, wow! I made the list! That is really motivating since I was away for 3 weeks!

This week's winning team with 21.02% is Team Donald!!

Team Mickey weighed-in losing 17.64% for the week!

Additional stats for the week!!!!

Rememberthemagic98 won for Team Donald with 1.84% this week and was the overall Biggest Loser!!

Congrats to dumbo_buddy who was Mickey's Team winner with 1.64%!

Team Donald lost 25.8 pounds this week
Team Mickey lost 23.9 pounds this week

Team Donald leads the Total Weight Loss with 457.0 pounds and Team Mickey's total weight loss to date is 363.7!!!
Both teams together have lost 820.7 pounds!!!! Amazing!

Keep reading, keep posting and most of all keep losing and continue learning!!!!

Have an OP week :goodvibes

We won!!! Is this the first time we have beat out Team Mickey? Well, we are all winners (losers) really. Way to go DIS BLC members (820 lbs is amazing)! :yay:

So I had my 'great' moment at the gym today. :sad2:

I slipped...on the treadmill.

And got flung against the wall... :rolleyes:

I'm still not quite sure how it happened. I thought I'd had stepped on something slick, but there was nothing on the treadmill so I guess I just stepped wrong. Plus I wasn't wearing the clip for the emergency stop, so I just couldn't regain my footing, fell forward on my knees and ended up hitting the wall...

Didn't hurt myself too bad though. Tried to walk it off but after about 10 minutes, I had had enough. So I'm heading to go ice my knee some more in a minute. Got a lovely bruise showing up on my knee. Nice... :rolleyes:

But on the bright side, I made the top 10! :yay:

OMG that must have sucked... a lot! But you got up and kept going :thumbsup2 And big congrats on making the top 10!

Tuesday Question of the Day

Theme:The Dream

Finish this sentence. When I reach my weight goal.....

I will have learned to love myself along the way!
 
Hope everyone is doing well!

I have been putting off...cleaning my room. Every 2 months or so I like to sipe down the walls, move everything, reorganize, but I haven't been feeling like it lately. My closet is a mess!

When I reach my goal weight I will....finally feel like an athlete!

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Just stopping in for a quick moment. Went to a conert with a friend last night and caught a nasty cold. Spent most of today sleeping and watching movies. Feeling a little bit better now, but haven't ate the best things though I'm not really hungry. My entire body is sore so it looks like I'll be taking a break from my exercise for a couple days.

I hate being sick!
 
Way to Go Team Donald!! We are all doing great!!

I was happy to have a loss for the 2nd week in a row and trying to keep up the routine.

I have a question for all of you. Lately when I'm sleeping my hands and/or feet go numb, depending on how I'm laying. I tend to sleep with my arm tucked under my pillow under my head so it's usually my hands but if my legs are tucked weird they go numb. I'm afraid I'm gonna break a finger by moving and not feeling it. Has this happened to anyone and is it something I should be worried about?
 
I have spent the last two days in bed with the flu. It was both horrible and exactly what I needed. It's really sad when you are glad you are sick because it means you can rest for a few days. At first I felt bad that I called out of work for three days but then I realized I had a doctor's note and I was through feeling bad about taking care of myself.

I missed a day of school but it shouldn't be too bad and I was responsible and emailed my professors. I went to school today, even though i'm not back to 100% but I don't like missing school and I knew I wasn't going to work.

One bad thing is I'm missing out on homework. I have a big assignment due monday, I have to read two books and review them, and i'm only halfway through the first book. Normally not a big deal but my friends bridal shower is this weekend on saturday, and then sunday we are driving up to the cape for her cake tasting. So that's pretty much my whole weekend. So I need to get these books read by friday or I am screwed. Normally this wouldn't be a problem but i'm finding the books i choose boring, and I was hoping to have them done by now but was too 'passed out' to read the last two days. Oh well. It will get done because it has to get done. No excuses. I'm also pretty sure I have a midterm next week and I know i have a spanish test next thursday, which means i have a lot of homework to get done (all our homework is due the day of the test).

So i'm falling a little behind but I will find a way to get it all done.

Today I got the three dresses I ordered last week and i was dissapointed I only liked one of them. I think one of the other two i would like but it was way too big on me and just looked funny. It was a large and it was so surprising to me that it was too big! This is the dress I bought that I am def keeping
http://www.modcloth.com/shop/dresses/hepcat-dress-in-black-licorice
It's a little tight but it doesnt look too tight and it def doesnt make me look big at all. Plus i love the 50's housewife style dresses. (maybe sexist but i would gladly be a 50's housewife. i watch too much madmen). I'm wearing it to the shower so I just need shoes and a sweater to go over it

I've realized work has incredibly been stressing me out lately and I think one of the reasons is that an aspect of my job that I used to love has become incredibly stressful. I used to be the head dog trainer at my work, when i went part time i went down to training just three days a week and i've decided i want to go down even less days then that. I love training I really do, but i don't like all the extra stress and politics that goes along with it, and right now I don't need that much responsibility at work. Now there's the issue of that's less money and if they will even let me do that but i'm going to sit down with my store manager and explain to him i've been with this company for 3 years and this is really what i want. I'm not saying i don't want to work, but i want to be able to come in and just cashier for 4 hours or whatever. My heart is not in the training like it used to be. I've read the average life span as a pet smart trainer is 3-5 years and i totally see why. I have to think of the right way to approach this with him and im not going to my assistant manager with this because i feel like she will screw me over. I will approach the store manager first. Everyone knows my inentions when it comes to my job, its a means to an end, so i hope it won't be a big deal. I just don't need the extra stress

And i don't know if it's because i've been sick with other stuff but i haven't had a major stomach ache for a few days now. I'm hoping it stays that way after this sickness goes away. But we'll see. I suddenly decided i needed a flu shot before i got to tennesse because i always get sick on the plane, but i have to get better before i get one.

So that's what I've been up to, I'm also starting to look at internships in public history for this summer so cross your fingers that i actually find one/get one/and its paid!
 
Way to Go Team Donald!! We are all doing great!!

I was happy to have a loss for the 2nd week in a row and trying to keep up the routine.

I have a question for all of you. Lately when I'm sleeping my hands and/or feet go numb, depending on how I'm laying. I tend to sleep with my arm tucked under my pillow under my head so it's usually my hands but if my legs are tucked weird they go numb. I'm afraid I'm gonna break a finger by moving and not feeling it. Has this happened to anyone and is it something I should be worried about?

That happens to me when I'm sleeping and when I'm awake. I have poor circulation. My hands and feet are almost always cold. I've seen a vascular surgeon and found out that none of the valves in my superficial veins work at all (in my legs) and 3 of the valves in my deep veins in my groan don't function either. I can have the superficial veins stripped which will help with the discomfort, not sure if I will or not. I get to wear support hose these days.
 
Way to Go Team Donald!! We are all doing great!!

I was happy to have a loss for the 2nd week in a row and trying to keep up the routine.

I have a question for all of you. Lately when I'm sleeping my hands and/or feet go numb, depending on how I'm laying. I tend to sleep with my arm tucked under my pillow under my head so it's usually my hands but if my legs are tucked weird they go numb. I'm afraid I'm gonna break a finger by moving and not feeling it. Has this happened to anyone and is it something I should be worried about?

This has been happening to me for about the last year... I keep saying I'm going to talk to a DR about it, but I've yet to do it. :rolleyes1 I have noticed that it seems to be getting better now that I'm losing weight and seems to be better the more water I drink. I've fallen off the water wagon the past couple of weeks, so its been happening again. :sad2: Now that I've put 2 and 2 together, I'm going to chase after the water wagon and jump back on! :rotfl2:
 
QOTD:

When I reach my goal weight, I will feel good about myself and be proud of my accomplishment!


Time is totally getting away from me lately! The movers come to pack us up on Friday and load everything on Saturday! :scared1: I don't either DH or I really thought about what we're going to do for a week without any furniture or anything, but I guess we'll figure it out. ;)
 
That happens to me when I'm sleeping and when I'm awake. I have poor circulation. My hands and feet are almost always cold. I've seen a vascular surgeon and found out that none of the valves in my superficial veins work at all (in my legs) and 3 of the valves in my deep veins in my groan don't function either. I can have the superficial veins stripped which will help with the discomfort, not sure if I will or not. I get to wear support hose these days.

Sorry to hear that! My hands and feet are ok during the day, unless I sit cross-legged too long and they are not really cold.

This has been happening to me for about the last year... I keep saying I'm going to talk to a DR about it, but I've yet to do it. :rolleyes1 I have noticed that it seems to be getting better now that I'm losing weight and seems to be better the more water I drink. I've fallen off the water wagon the past couple of weeks, so its been happening again. :sad2: Now that I've put 2 and 2 together, I'm going to chase after the water wagon and jump back on! :rotfl2:

Thanks for tip about the water! I have been hoping once I loose a significant amount of weight it would go away.
 
Wednesday Question of the Day

Theme: Hump Day

What do you have to look forward to this weekend to get you over the hump?
 
Wednesday Question of the Day

Theme: Hump Day

What do you have to look forward to this weekend to get you over the hump?

I plan to go see the new Disney film John Carter in 3D this weekend. It is not often that Disney films are released here in Switzerland at the smae time as in the USA so this is exciting.

I am still waiting for Muppets to be released here. I may be able to buy it on iMovie before it is released here though. There was one time however that we got the advantage. Last year when Winnie the Pooh was released in the UK in April we got it here as well......though I had to see it in French. My friends in the USA had to hait until it was released in the summer.

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Happy Hump Day Donalds.

I am having a stagnant week. Still exercising and eating in my calorie range but seeing no movement on the scale....I guess my body is in a consolidation phase.

Hopefully I will see even the littlest loss reflected on Friday morning at weigh in.

Busy day.....gotta jet!

Make it the best day you can!

Christopher
 
Good Wednesday morning everyone.

I just a have a few minutes to chat.

Wednesday Question of the Day

Theme: Hump Day

What do you have to look forward to this weekend to get you over the hump?

I can't wait to get some extra sleep this weekend. Being out to 10:30 is taking its toll on me. It doesn't help that we are testing and then have all our classes. It feels like two days in one. And we get to do it three times this week.


Sorry no time to chat this morning. I don't think I will have time to really chat until Saturday morning.

Have a happy and healthy day.
 
Wednesday Question of the Day

Theme: Hump Day

What do you have to look forward to this weekend to get you over the hump?

I'm not sure I'm looking forward to anything this weekend. :lmao: The movers will be here all day Friday to pack everything up and then they will be loading it all on the truck on Saturday. So this weekend is going to be pretty hectic and stressful making sure everything gets done correctly and making sure they don't pack the garbage or dog food... :rolleyes1 Yes, they packed both last time we PCS'd.
 















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