TEAM MICKEY--Biggest Loser 11 Spring Team Challenge!

[Merryweather27]

About to head to bed but wanted to get Wednesday's QOTD up first. Team Donald has done this one, but not us (surprisingly enough), so I thought we should get it in before the merge.



3/9/11 QOTD: What hobbies do you enjoy?

I love to read; that is my main "free-time" indulgence. I also play old co-op video games with DH. To a lesser extent I also crochet and hand sew, but usually that just means starting projects and never finishing them.

Will get more replies in tomorrow AM. Good night Mickeys!

 

[tigger813]

QOTD: I don't have a lot of times for hobbies. I workout, we play family games, I love to take photographs. I read when I have a good book in front of me. I love to watch movies. I never considered these hobbies but I guess they actually are.

Keeping Ash home. She is just really exhausted! She's going to work on her poetry project when she gets up again. She went right back to bed after she said she didn't want to go to school. I'm going to do my workout after I put Izzie on the bus in an hour. I slept until 6 and then fell back asleep until 6:17. YIKES! Not sure what we'll have for supper tonight. I'll figure that out later.

Time to get Izzie's snack together. Today's a half day for the kids so only free time is this morning so I hope I can get stuff accomplished while Izzie is at school.

 

[Rose&Mike]

Nancy--I read your race report on your blog! Glad I'm not the only one who lets the occasional potty word slip in while running! It is definitely a love/hate thing for me.

Hi Everyone! I joined the team yesterday and am excited see other people's success though this support group. I would like to lose 60 lbs and am not afraid of hard work! I am open to any tips, tricks or encouragement.

Welcome!

Thanks for the 'Welcome'!

I PM'd you my start weight, and I am part of Team Mickey. Please let me know if there is any other information you need.

Please make sure that each time you pm Tracey (tigger813) your weight you include your team name. It makes life so much easier for her!

Marcy--hope you are feeling better soon! In my warped way of thinking--you should have a couple of pounds of cushion for your trip thanks to the stomach flu! Feel better!

3/9/11 QOTD: What hobbies do you enjoy?

Running, traveling to races, Running (it's very time consuming!), minor league baseball in the summer, cooking, gardening. The problem is that most of the things I really like to do are warm weather outside things. We really need to move!

Hope everyone is doing well! I am going to take a PiYo class at the Y today since I am supposed to be taking it easy on my knee. I also have a dentist appointment and a lunch meeting.

Have a great day everyone!

 

[my3princes]

About to head to bed but wanted to get Wednesday's QOTD up first. Team Donald has done this one, but not us (surprisingly enough), so I thought we should get it in before the merge.



3/9/11 QOTD: What hobbies do you enjoy?

I love to read; that is my main "free-time" indulgence. I also play old co-op video games with DH. To a lesser extent I also crochet and hand sew, but usually that just means starting projects and never finishing them.

Will get more replies in tomorrow AM. Good night Mickeys!

Hobbies. Right now My hobby of running the lacrosse program is really my full time job. This is crunch month on the organzing front. We are also making summer camping plans My home renovations and craft projects are on the back burner for now as I'm just not feeling the motivation. Hoping to get back on track soon. I've got a bathroom in dire need of a facelift with the supplies for removing the wallpaper sitting in a bag on the floor.

 

[mizzoutiger76]

Hi all!

Not much going on over here. Since I ran on Sunday (normally an off day) I decided to have my off day on Monday. Yesterday I was supposed to have Zumba and do core strength workouts, but Zumba got cancelled and I took Rose's attitude that we don't have to work out everyday and skipped it. I really had to talk myself out of exercising for about an hour before I finally let myself be okay with it. So an extra day off, which was totally worth it! Today I feel great and I'll do my speedwork as usual today at lunch.

Just started on my water for today, having lean cuisine for lunch, and beef tacos for dinner.

Have a great day everyone!

Nicole

 

[Rose&Mike]

Hi all!

Not much going on over here. Since I ran on Sunday (normally an off day) I decided to have my off day on Monday. Yesterday I was supposed to have Zumba and do core strength workouts, but Zumba got cancelled and I took Rose's attitude that we don't have to work out everyday and skipped it. I really had to talk myself out of exercising for about an hour before I finally let myself be okay with it. So an extra day off, which was totally worth it! Today I feel great and I'll do my speedwork as usual today at lunch.

Just started on my water for today, having lean cuisine for lunch, and beef tacos for dinner.

Have a great day everyone!

Nicole

Nicole--that was a very hard, and somewhat painful lesson for me to learn. I still sometimes feel like I'm cheating when I take days off, but recently my body has been forcing me to. You definitely don't need to work out everyday--especially if you are doing doubles. I have found I just need to have a plan so one day off doesn't become one week off, etc. It's similar to that all or nothing thing with dieting when you think about it. In the past I would throw in the towel because I messed up one day. Well missing one workout does not make me a failure! It just means I took a day off. Can you tell I needed to give myself a little pep talk!

 

[mizzoutiger76]

Nicole--that was a very hard, and somewhat painful lesson for me to learn.

LOL! I think really hard about it every time you mention it, it really has stuck with me. I was going to skip my workout when Zumba was cancelled last week, but the obsessive part of me won and I went to work out anyway.

So when Zumba was cancelled again this week, it seriously took me an hour to convenience myself that with the circumstances (picking up son at daycare, etc) was a very valid reason to skip it for the day and that it wasn't going to hurt any of my progress b/c I have every intention of working out today.

LOL, I consider this a major accomplishment on my part. This whole mental part of diet and exercise is a pain. Thanks Rose! You're an inspiration to us all!

 

[Merryweather27]

Hope I'm not letting anyone down but I'm taking the night off from the elliptical. I've down 8 miles of WATP today and the way my foot was feeling earlier it's probably a good idea to relax tonight.

Brian is finally off being on call so hopefully we will both sleep well. We're both on the Dis right now! We're OBSESSED!

Smart call; no sense risking injury just to sneak in a couple more miles if your body is telling you it's not happy. Nice that your DH is on the Dis too - mine just kinda rolls his eyes at my obsession, haha!

So I started watching the BL, 16 minutes in and my DH is snoring away, I'll be nice and wait for him to watch it with me. He's been sick and didn't get any sleep last night so I made him take a huge dose of Nyquil. I need to catch up on Big Love anyway, guess here's my chance.

I've said it before, but I think I might just have a spectacular week this week! I am down 2 lbs so far, I hope I can keep it up! I have my 2nd free session with my personal trainer tomorrow, hope it goes well!

Hope your DH is feeling better soon. Way to go on your progress so far this week!

Hi Everyone! I joined the team yesterday and am excited see other people's success though this support group. I would like to lose 60 lbs and am not afraid of hard work! I am open to any tips, tricks or encouragement.

Welcome! I can't tell you how much being part of this team has helped my efforts! There are a lot of tips/motivation boosters/etc in the earlier pages of the thread that you might want to take a look at. There are several food/exercise related QOTDs especially that people's answers to might help; there's an archive of what questions were posted on what day on page 1 of the thread.

Also, you're just getting started, but for those days to come when your enthusiasm starts to flag (which is where a lot of us are now), I just found a quote yesterday on the signature of another poster elsewhere on the WISH boards. It's from Lance Armstrong in a cameo role for a goofy Ben Stiller movie called Dodgeball, but even so, it still made me stop and think.

"Quit? You know once I was thinking about quitting when I was diagnosed with brain, lung, and testicular cancer all at the same time, but with the love and support of my friends and family, I got back on the bike and won the Tour de France five times in a row. But I'm sure you have a good reason to quit."

I'm also excited to get Voyage of the Dawn Trader when it comes out. Brian is hoping to get Harry Potter through his website to review when it comes out. We're also looking forward to seeing Tron again! The kids loved it!

Thanks for the reminders! We missed both Voyage and Tron at the theaters - just added them to my Netflix queue for when they are released!

Having another challenge to my maintenance diet... stomach flu.
Was down another couple pounds this morning...
UGH! DH and DS had it yesterday and are better today. I can't seem to move off the couch. Every muscle hurts!

Yuck! At least with the guys feeling better you know it won't last long and everyone should be healthy for the trip!

Evening Team Mickey!
I hope **fingers crossed** these next 5 weeks don't screw up the progress I'm trying to make. I start my last class of my Bachelors degree. College is so freaking stressful and I'm hoping I don't go crazy and start scarfing down sugary stuff to keep me awake and able to do school work. However, 4 weeks after this class I will be Disney bound for my graduation celebration!
I didn't work out yesterday or today but have a training session in the morning. I'm looking over school stuff and plan to head to bed shortly so I can get up early and start the day on the right foot. These last 4 days have been kind of sluggish for me.

I'll keep my fingers crossed for you too! Hang in there!

I know what you mean about needing to stay awake. It finally occurred to me the other night that maybe the reason I've been falling asleep on the couch more evenings than not in the last couple months is because I cut my caffeine intake to almost zero. The theory got a little evidence when I had a really off-plan day yesterday that included a lot of soda and had no problem staying conscious until bedtime. I may have to switch some of my water back to iced tea.

I am going to take a PiYo class at the Y today since I am supposed to be taking it easy on my knee.

What is PiYo? I am guessing from the name that it combines Pilates and yoga?

Have a great Wednesday, everyone!

Nicole

 

[dumbo_buddy]

afternoon everyone! i want to thank you guys for the kind support re: my doc's appointment. i'm going to spend some time thinking about what he said and whether or not we are really a match. he helped me in my weight loss effort (when i was 30+ lbs heavier) and also helped me during my fertility issues so i don't want to just stop seeing him b/c he said something i didn't want to hear.

i'm still fighting this cold and my poor little guy is chock full of green boogies now too. poor kid.

today's the first day of lent and me eating only non-processed foods. already i messed up by having two mints during mommy & me class. didn't even think of it. i think it's ok though b/c my breath was kickin' and it's better to have a little mint than kill someone with my stink breath! lol!

hope everyone has a great day. be back on later!

 

[tigger813]

Afternoon Mickeys!

Heading down in about 20 minutes for another workout.

I LOVE TJs food! I just ate a whole bag of their Mushroom Ravioli with mushroom truffle sauce. 570 calories but that was my big meal for the day. I'll have my shake for supper tonight. Ash and I hope to go to church for the Ash Wednesday service tonight at 7:30. Izzie has dancing at 4 today.

I also really need to clean the kitchen later. I also need lots more water.

Gotta go help Ash with something before I head downstairs.

TTFN

 

[mommyof2Pirates]

today's the first day of lent and me eating only non-processed foods. already i messed up by having two mints during mommy & me class. didn't even think of it. i think it's ok though b/c my breath was kickin' and it's better to have a little mint than kill someone with my stink breath! lol!

I would say that slip is totally justified.

Rose- I hope your class is good and that your knee continues to improve.

Hello to all our other teammates too.

I am still on plan....I think it is now 54.5 hours that I have been OP not like I am counting or anything. Its funny how I thought I really changed my eating habits and for the most part I would say they are better but now that I am completely focused and journaling and counting I realize how much I was adding to my daily intake by having a bite of this here and there or a few chocolates here and there. Its amazing how much you need to focus on healthy eating vs. just eating. Gosh its tiresome but well worth it.

I feel so much better already and I am down 2.8lbs since monday. I am really excited about that and am hoping the number gets even bigger by friday.

3/9/11 QOTD: What hobbies do you enjoy?
I now love to run, play sports with my boys, going to our minor league basball games, watching the phillies and eagles play on tv, and I love scrapbooking (although my time and money for this is very limited).

 

[saysay]

Hi all, I worked out yesterday for the first time since the Princess 1/2 on the eliptical. My stupid heel on the Plantar Faciitis foot is a little sore...stupid thing. I am officially starting to track my eating today and will get some kind of exercise in.

Dumbo_buddy, so sorry to hear your doctor is being stupid about your weight. I know you really want to do the Marathon, hoping it works out for you.

My Hobbies: I love to travel - not alot of time to do that these days, like the running though slow, want to start reading again - since I had DD age 4 at night I just fall asleep, enjoy music - play piano, though not very well, but its so relaxing play just for me, love Musicals and theater.

Hopefully this week, I can stick with things. I know from the past its just one day and one moment at time.

 

[Disneywedding2010]

QOTD -- Hobbies

I love to travel and spend time with my friends. I've been to Disney World more times then I care to admit, . I've taken 3 different cruises (two were Disney) and at some point I'd like to go to Europe.


I just wanted to say that I've not been in the greatest mind set to exercise this week. My late husband and I's 6 year wedding anniversary is on Friday so that may have a lot to do with my "I don't give a flying flip" attitude this week. However, I make a point to check the disboards as soon as I wake up for the day and you guys keep me motivated and wanting to stay on the right track. I have some errands I have to run later but at some point I'm getting on that darn treadmill. I also have to start working on classwork for this last class.

 

[tigger813]

Getting some questions on how to figure out percentage that you lost each week and % to goal. LuvBaloo had everything in the spreadsheet she shared with me for the challenge but I will explain it. Believe me I could never calculate everybody's % each week! Thanks, LuvBaloo!!!! Where are you?????

I'll use me as an example:

For % to goal: I want to lose 12.2 pounds this challenge and have currently lost 5.8 pounds. 5.8/12.2 X 100 gives me 47.54%

For each week: I lost 2.4 pounds last week. I take the 2.4 and divide it by my previous week's weight which was 148.8 then I multiply that by 100 to get 1.61%.

Got in 9 miles today! Had a strawberry/blueberry protein shake for supper and still drinking my water. If I have anything else tonight it will a mousse pudding.

Ash is showering so we can go to Ash Wednesday service that's at 7:30. She seems to be feeling better now. I was glad to give her a day off though and we get a good chunk of her poem project done. It's not due for another 2 weeks so we can do a little at a time this weekend.

Meeting with 3 teachers about Herbalife tomorrow so I have some stuff to prepare for that and I need to pick up some paper cups so I can give them some mango aloe to try. I have a perfect sized bucket to carry things with me.

One client tomorrow and then hoping to leave work and come home. I will do 5 miles in the morning and then try 3-4 later in the day or tomorrow night. I can just taste ULTIMATE GOAL so I'm going to work hard to get there! I know it's attainable!

Still have new folks joining us which will make the merge even better and bigger!

TTFN

 

[dumbo_buddy]

QOTD -- Hobbies

I love to travel and spend time with my friends. I've been to Disney World more times then I care to admit, . I've taken 3 different cruises (two were Disney) and at some point I'd like to go to Europe.


I just wanted to say that I've not been in the greatest mind set to exercise this week. My late husband and I's 6 year wedding anniversary is on Friday so that may have a lot to do with my "I don't give a flying flip" attitude this week. However, I make a point to check the disboards as soon as I wake up for the day and you guys keep me motivated and wanting to stay on the right track. I have some errands I have to run later but at some point I'm getting on that darn treadmill. I also have to start working on classwork for this last class.

i'm really sorry you're feeling down about your husband. i can't imagine how difficult that must be, especially since it would have only been your 6 year anniversary. hugs to you.

 

[mommyof2Pirates]

QOTD -- Hobbies

I love to travel and spend time with my friends. I've been to Disney World more times then I care to admit, . I've taken 3 different cruises (two were Disney) and at some point I'd like to go to Europe.


I just wanted to say that I've not been in the greatest mind set to exercise this week. My late husband and I's 6 year wedding anniversary is on Friday so that may have a lot to do with my "I don't give a flying flip" attitude this week. However, I make a point to check the disboards as soon as I wake up for the day and you guys keep me motivated and wanting to stay on the right track. I have some errands I have to run later but at some point I'm getting on that darn treadmill. I also have to start working on classwork for this last class.

I admire your courage to get up everyday and keep on going. You are doing amazing and Im sure will have good weeks and bad weeks. We are here through it all for you. Hang in there.

 

[Merryweather27]

today's the first day of lent and me eating only non-processed foods. already i messed up by having two mints during mommy & me class. didn't even think of it. i think it's ok though b/c my breath was kickin' and it's better to have a little mint than kill someone with my stink breath! lol!

I don't even know what a non-processed halitosis fighter would be, unless you're growing your own peppermint like my grandmother used to do.

I LOVE TJs food! I just ate a whole bag of their Mushroom Ravioli with mushroom truffle sauce. 570 calories but that was my big meal for the day. I'll have my shake for supper tonight. Ash and I hope to go to church for the Ash Wednesday service tonight at 7:30. Izzie has dancing at 4 today.

Mushroom ravioli, huh? My DH would probably love that...might have to see if the TJ's around here has it!

I am still on plan....I think it is now 54.5 hours that I have been OP not like I am counting or anything. Its funny how I thought I really changed my eating habits and for the most part I would say they are better but now that I am completely focused and journaling and counting I realize how much I was adding to my daily intake by having a bite of this here and there or a few chocolates here and there. Its amazing how much you need to focus on healthy eating vs. just eating. Gosh its tiresome but well worth it.

I feel so much better already and I am down 2.8lbs since monday. I am really excited about that and am hoping the number gets even bigger by friday.

It's always shocking to me when I actually start tracking, just how much the little things add up!

Hi all, I worked out yesterday for the first time since the Princess 1/2 on the eliptical. My stupid heel on the Plantar Faciitis foot is a little sore...stupid thing. I am officially starting to track my eating today and will get some kind of exercise in.

Hopefully this week, I can stick with things. I know from the past its just one day and one moment at time.

You can do it!

I just wanted to say that I've not been in the greatest mind set to exercise this week. My late husband and I's 6 year wedding anniversary is on Friday so that may have a lot to do with my "I don't give a flying flip" attitude this week. However, I make a point to check the disboards as soon as I wake up for the day and you guys keep me motivated and wanting to stay on the right track. I have some errands I have to run later but at some point I'm getting on that darn treadmill. I also have to start working on classwork for this last class.

Hang in there; we are with you!

Got in 9 miles today!

Wow, you are really powering toward your goal!

 

[Merryweather27]

Thursday's QOTD - wow, last one! It has been fun being your coach this week!

QOTD 3/10/11 - What is your favorite non-Disney activity in the Orlando area?

We haven't done much outside of WDW - my favorite so far is definitely the Medieval Times dinner show on I-Drive. We don't have anything like that around here and it was a lot of fun. The only other things we've done off-property are Sea World (eh) and a disastrous attempt to go to Universal on the day the Harry Potter section opened.

 

[my3princes]

Thursday's QOTD - wow, last one! It has been fun being your coach this week!

QOTD 3/10/11 - What is your favorite non-Disney activity in the Orlando area?

We haven't done much outside of WDW - my favorite so far is definitely the Medieval Times dinner show on I-Drive. We don't have anything like that around here and it was a lot of fun. The only other things we've done off-property are Sea World (eh) and a disastrous attempt to go to Universal on the day the Harry Potter section opened.

You mean Orlando has things other than disney?




















We've enjoyed Universal Studios, can't beat the roller coasters. We've also enjoyed Sea World

 

[dsnyfan608]

Hi All! Thanks for the warm welcomes! I have been keeping track of my calories and I'm averaging between 1000 - 1200 per day. Been going to the gym and since this is still new, I am enjoying my workouts. The bad part is working until 5, going to the gym for about an hour and then I am not eating dinner until 7:30

Yesterday's QOTD: Hobbies. I enjoy reading, counted cross stitch and traveling.

Today's QOTD: Favorite Activity in Orlando - Seeing friends I have up there and walking around Celebration