TEAM MICKEY--Biggest Loser 11 Spring Team Challenge!

[Disneywedding2010]

Well its official I'm registered for the 5K during marathon weekend in january! Now to up my training more.

 

[dumbo_buddy]

Well its official I'm registered for the 5K during marathon weekend in january! Now to up my training more.

woot!! i'll be there that weekend! signed up for my first marathon!

 

[Disneywedding2010]

I have blood clots in my lungs and have issues with my leg even though my blood clots are gone so no marathon for me. I'm excited to do this even if I don't finish the whole thing I can say "Hey, at least I tried."

 

[tigger813]

Mickey Statistics: Week 10
Here we celebrate our progress and recognize our superstars.

Reminder:
-if anybody knows they will miss weighing in, just PM and let me know and you’ll be marked excused

First some stats

MAINTAINERS:
(staying within 2 lbs of their maintain weight is successfully maintaining!)
# of Maintainers Reporting In & Successfully Maintaining: 3
Congrats Rose & Mike and StinasMom and Redwalker

LOSERS:
weigh ins----------------------- 33
gains---------------------------- 9
maintains------------------------ 3
losses-------------------------- 21


Biggest Loser 11 Spring Challenge Week 10 Team Mickey!
This week’s group loss is 20.2 lbs.
Average percentage of weight lost .37 %
Total group weight loss so far 517.7 pounds!

AWESOME!

Before the weekly superstar list comes the disclaimer. I am human and I make mistakes. If you have any questions please contact me. For your reference this is the magic percentage of weight lost formula - weight loss for the week divided by weight for last week times 100, that gives us the percentage. Now let me test that with my numbers for week 1, click, click, click goes the calculator. Yes, that agrees with the percentage on the magic spreadsheet. (btw if its been more than 1 week between weigh-ins, then the % loss is divided by the number of weeks, to keep everybody on the same basis)

Now let's get to the good stuff. Who were our superstars of the week? This time I’ve done a TOP 10 LIST ! That criteria may change from week to week. Hey I'm in charge here and I get paid nothin' to do this so you better take what you can get! (and if there’s something you want to know, just ask me!)

The WISH Biggest Loser 11 Spring Challenge Week 10 Mickey Superstars!!

#10- .70% aamomma
#9- ..86% Rose&Mike
#8- .87% dsnyfan608
#7- .89% Stinasmom
#6- 1.11% tggrrstarr
#5- 1.20% KristiMc
#4- 1.28% mommyof2pirates
#3- 1.52% saysay
#2- 1.53% PrincessNancy
and now
The WISH Biggest Loser 11 Spring Challenge
Week 10 Team Mickey Biggest Loser is:
#1- 1.79% dumbo_buddy

Quote from Dare2Dream: How is your week going? Are you OP (on program)? Are you exercising? Drinking that water? You know what to do to make the magic happen. Get on the wagon. We are all here to help you on the journey. We can do this one day at a time. One bite at a time.

Have a healthy day!
Congratulations dumbo_buddy !!!
What a great week you had. Keep up the good work. We have a very special clippie reserved for our weekly Biggest Loser. Wear it with pride this week! :

This is our weekly reigning Biggest Loser clippie. We have the large version



or use this
http://photopost.wdwinfo.com/data/500/31040weeklyBLsmall1.jpg
followed by

or we have a medium version



or use this
http://photopost.wdwinfo.com/data/500/31040weeklyBLmed.jpg
followed by

and we have a small version



or use
http://photopost.wdwinfo.com/data/500/31040weeklyBLsm.jpg
followed by

Thanks to ohMom-Molli for these clippies. They were used for a previous BL but we can recycle. Don't they look great!

 

[tigger813]

Tigger813 45.90
sgcruiser 8.00
maslex 14.67
girlrea 20.00
RayaniFoxmur 32.60
ScubaD 64.53
my3princes -15.04
aamomma 76.00
tggrrstarr 23.43
tmfranlk 17.86
jenjolt 27.20
janmadre 5.91
liesel 56.00
HappyMatt 81.16
DisneyYooper 3.33
TheMysteryMachine -13.33
KSH 5.00
KristiMc 37.11
Alex&Evan'sMom 4.44
GoodMorningDewDrop 19.08
yanni2 0.38
jamesnnick 16.67
Cupcaker 71.74
dis-happy 65.22
WDWAngela 4.80
pigletz 26.67
Yogamomma 7.00
keenercam 13.60
Stinasmom 122.22
Kitchensinkguy 10.89
Merryweather27 38.00
WeLoveLilo05 43.89
lovedvc 36.00
MrsD 83.05
DavidandDenise 19.00
MaryJo 15.00
PrincessNancy 88.00
Flipflopmom 52.14
DaisyJaneDisney 17.39
mommof2pirates -5.00
mizzoutiger76 -26.67
holly324 22.50
swissfamilyrobinson 30.00
sugarglider 46.15
smile4stamps 50.0
rothesaydismom -6.0
sarahrip 8.6
poochie 48.0
surferstitch16 43.3
dopey4disney 12.5
njtinkmom 1.7
tiki23 19.6
Kanga+2Roos 44.3
dumbo_buddy 55.0
saysay 12.5
dsnyfan608 2.5

Flossbolna 36.7

 

[saysay]

Congrats Nancy! Way to go team Mickey!

 

[keenercam]

Hi, everyone! I am so far behind, but I've just read the last 19 pages, so I at least feel like I know what everyone has been up to.

Congrats to all of our losers this week. I forgot to PM my weight last week, but will definitely remember this week. I have gradually gained each of the past several weeks and am hoping that I have it all under control now. The scale seemed down quite a bit this morning, so maybe I'll actually seen downward progress this week.

I am seriously back on track. Somehow, I'd lost my motivation and even though I was still doing my 30 minutes of exercise every day, I wasn't enjoying it and my eating was definitely out of control. I am on track and had a really good day yesterday and some awesome workouts from fitness on demand (exercise tv) last night -- Billy Blanks Jr. (2 different workouts) and a standing abs workout. I am leaving work soon for the gym too.

Our cruise is coming up fast! I booked our tours for Naples and Rome today. Woohoo!

Have a great, on-plan night everyone!

 

[Rose&Mike]

Congratulations to all of our Losers and Maintainers and to everyone who is just still here! Congratulations Nancy!

Nancy--there will be no giving up! You can do this. I weigh every day. It's a good thing and a bad thing. I record every weight, because I like to see patterns. I am up from the weekend too and I'm guessing part of that is holding onto water after being dehydrated Saturday night from a little too much fun. Hang in there. You don't have to be perfect all of the time. You just have to keep moving forward.

Sugaring...It is that time of year. The sap from Maple trees "runs" in the late winter early fall when the daytime temperatures are above freezing and the nights are still dipping below 32 degrees. It lasts only a few weeks, maybe 5 at most and ends once the trees bud.

When the weather forcast looks like the time is coming we head into the woods and tap the trees. Maple trees get one to two taps depending on the size of the tree. We drill a hole into the tree about 1 1/2 inches deep and hammer a plastic tap into the hole. All of our taps are connected to pipelines or tubes that connect to main lines and carry the sap down to a collection tank. We also have a vacuum pump that helps suck the sap down the lines getting more productivity. Once the sap reaches the collection tank we gather it in big plastic tanks in the back of pickup trucks and transport it to the sugarhouse. We have about 1100 taps and can get up to a gallon per tap in a good run. Once the trucks get the sap back to the sugar house it is unloaded into a big stainless steel tank. This is where people either go old school and start boiling the water out. This process takes forever. It takes roughly 40 gallons of sap to make one gallon syrup. We use some newer technology to reduce the boil time. We have a reverse osmosis machine which essentially spins the water out of the sap leaving a condensed sap. Sap coming out of a tree is about 2% sugar. After running it through the RO we can have a 20% sugar content. That condensed sap then runs into the "arch" and the rest of the water is boiled off leaving 100% pure maple syrup. The syrup is drawn off and we run it through a filter press which removes any impurities that may be left in the syrup. It leaves a nice clear product. From there it gets bottled and is ready for sale. My DB and DSIL also make several maple products that they sell like maple candy, maple cream and maple granola.

Very cool! Do you all sell your syrup or just do it for yourselves?

Well its official I'm registered for the 5K during marathon weekend in january! Now to up my training more.

Congratulations!

I went to the Y and did 40 minutes on the elliptical! My knee is doing pretty good. I am cautiously optimistic. I have been so hungry this week. I'm hoping my hormones are getting back into a pattern. I never know when t.o.m. is coming, so I never know if there is a reason for being so hungry/craving carbs until after the fact.

Have a great evening everyone!

 

[tggrrstarr]

So when I picked up my DH yesterday after I spent all day pricing out our cruise/WDW trip, he tells me it's too much money and we can't do any days at WDW. ?!?!? The funny thing is, I was only like $300 over our estimate from the night before. He said he had time to think about it and changed his mind. Needless to say we got into a little mini argument! I told him I had 4 months to change his mind, lol. We were still arguing when we got home and as we walked in the door & I grabbed the mail, right on top was a WDW pin code! I told him see- it's meant to be! (I didn't win yet, but it wasn't a real fight). We did agree to still go & do the princess 5k, so I will be at WDW, but won't get to do anything but the race.

I've been doing my own variation of c25k on the treadmill, I've been at 1 1/2 minutes for a while, running for a total of 6-10 total minutes. I wanted to try upping it to 2 minutes each interval today for a total of 10 minutes. I did ok with the 2 minutes, but I noticed a bad stitch in my side after the 2nd one. I did one more, but I didn't want to do any damage, so I just walked the rest of the time.
I was excited to get to 2 minutes, but I think I just have to get used to it. It's hard to imagine running the full 5k at this point, let alone a half marathon. How do you guys do it?! I know I will get better, but I can't even imagine ever running 13 miles!

 

[tigger813]

Well, TEAM Donald won again by .3 of a pound!

We can catch up this week!!!!

Only one more week until we merge!!!

Not doing the elliptical again tonight as my foot has been really bothering me today. I do plan on doing something in the morning.

Brian and I are watching BL right now and working on our December trip report! We're so far behind!

TTFN

 

[dsnyfan608]

Tuesday's QOTD: I really like swimming laps. I find I tend to push myself as there is less of a fear of injury. I joined the gym for the pool.

 

[KSH]

Karen--have a great race! And while I wouldn't go crazy this week, I would not get too stressed about what the scale says. Eat healthy and I'm guessing you are doing a taper. Have a fabulous race! I can't wait to hear about it!

Thanks Rose! I am getting excited about it. I am tapering so definitely won't overdo it food-wise this week, just one splurge meal planned - Maggiano's Friday night! Then on Saturday I'll have more carbs than usual but portions will be smaller. Sunday I'll be having celebratory champagne, my favorite after 13.1!

So had your weight loss stalled? I think I might have the same problem, I was thinking about going to the doctor when I saw your post.

Yes, it is so frustrating! If I have a perfect week I lose 1 pound. Anything less than perfect and I gain! Right now I am down 1 since January. The most I've been down is 3. I really want to figure it out, in the past if I was working out this hard and eating well I would lose 1 - 2 pounds pretty steadily. I think I am going to try some different approaches with the WW plan - eating all the weekly points, eating none of the weekly points, etc. until I find what works. Up until recently when I stopped counting I was consistently using about half the weekly points and no activity points, and I earn a lot of activity points every week.

QOTD - I love the outdoor fitness boot camp I do in the park! Love the variety, the muscles I've built, the friends I've made there, the instructors pushing me, and being outdoors. And occasionally seeing the real Navy boot campers in action running past us is fun and motivating too! You can also count me as a member of the group that runs but will probably never love running. It just does not come naturally to me and remains a struggle. That said, I love races and feel great when I am finished running

Karen

 

[keenercam]

I did 30 minutes on the elliptical at the y and am on target for points. 2 perfectly on-plan days in a row. Trying to string a bunch of these together.

 

[my3princes]

Congratulations to all of our Losers and Maintainers and to everyone who is just still here! Congratulations Nancy!

Nancy--there will be no giving up! You can do this. I weigh every day. It's a good thing and a bad thing. I record every weight, because I like to see patterns. I am up from the weekend too and I'm guessing part of that is holding onto water after being dehydrated Saturday night from a little too much fun. Hang in there. You don't have to be perfect all of the time. You just have to keep moving forward.


Very cool! Do you all sell your syrup or just do it for yourselves?


Congratulations!

I went to the Y and did 40 minutes on the elliptical! My knee is doing pretty good. I am cautiously optimistic. I have been so hungry this week. I'm hoping my hormones are getting back into a pattern. I never know when t.o.m. is coming, so I never know if there is a reason for being so hungry/craving carbs until after the fact.

Have a great evening everyone!

You can check out my brother's website at www.raymondsugarhouse.com

 

[ReAnSt]

ReAnSt yah for a new bathing suit! Where did you order it from? I need to start searching for one soon.

I ordered from www.swimsuitsforall.com they carry up to a size 34. Make sure to do a search for coupon codes, they always seem to have one available on the site, but there are others that are out there as well that might be a better deal.

 

[cclovesdis]

Good Morning!

I apologize for being MIA yesterday. I couldn't seem to get the wireless connection to work yesterday. I was baby-sitting and my laptop was being finicky.

QOTD for Wed. 3/16: What would your dream vacation look like?

CC--you go girl! This is the first time I think, that I read that you want to do a 1/2. Good for you. There is a rock n roll in providence this fall I think. That's really exciting. I think having something to train for is very motivating when you just don't want to exercise. There's something about committing to something that gives you the kick in the pants you sometimes need to get out there.

QOTD--running, but if I can't run, anything that makes me nice and sweaty. I also really enjoy lifting weights but I only do that once or twice a week.

Thanks! I did Day 1, Week 3 of C25K on Monday night. I'm planning a trip to the gym to do day 2 tonight. I definitely need something to keep me motivated!

Love your response to the QOTD! I've been getting in a great workout using the recumbent bike. I don't know if it's because of how much I weigh, but I work up quite a sweat using it.

I have decided that I am on vacation and I am not going to worry about the food. I know I will gain a few - but I have been good and have lost 50 since August so I know it will come back off.

I am almost all packed - except for last minute stuff. We are doing the Eastern Caribbean.

Have a great trip! WTG on 50 lbs!

Happy Monday. I am liking this new time change for the extra daylight, but now Im sleepy because of it. I am looking foward to hiking now that I can do it after work. I think this will get me back into my exercise ways.

I think its safe to say that my life is getting back to normal. I am looking foward to catching up with you all!

Jeanette

Great to hear from you!

Hiking sounds like quite the workout!

I don't like to exercise per se. I'd rather be active. Housework, home improvements, sugaring, waitress. Things that keep me moving without having to classify it as exercise. As soon as it becomes exercise it is no longer fun and I won't do it

Have you ever counted your steps? I'm guessing you get in way more than 10,000 everyday!

QOTD for Tuesday, 3/15: We've talked a lot about the exercise we do, but what is your favorite exercise?

I love my run/walking. I just started last summer with c25k and did the galloway training plan for the princess. I just loved being outside. I miss it so much. Haven't really been able to do it since I got my PF. The eliptical just isn't the same and I don't have access to a pool right now. Oh well, I know it will get better, just takes time.

Sorry to hear that you are having a hard time with your PF. Hope you can get back to running soon.

 

[cclovesdis]

QOTD for Tuesday, 3/15: We've talked a lot about the exercise we do, but what is your favorite exercise?[/COLOR]

Lets see QOTD Sunday - favorite salad - Fresh spinach,romain lettce, chopped granny smith applies, craisins, mandarin oranges, feta cheese chopped walnuts with a bit of balsamic dressing.

QOTD - Monday - time between planning of trips. Unfortunately since we only go about once every 2 years, we do not plan until we decide we can afford another trip. Then it is all about the plan.

QOTD - Favorite exercise - This would be Billy Blanks Tae Bo - I mean since I started this twice a day last July I have lost 45 pounds.

That salad sounds delicious! WTG on your weight loss too! 45 lbs is great!

QOTD for Tuesday, 3/15: We've talked a lot about the exercise we do, but what is your favorite exercise?

My favorite exercise is swimming (when its warm enough). When its cold I like to get on my treadmill or do my Jillian Michaels DVD or if I get REAL ambitious I use the indoor pool at the 24 hour fitness near my house.

Plenty of favorites that are all great cardio!

QOTD for Tuesday, 3/15: We've talked a lot about the exercise we do, but what is your favorite exercise?

Hiking in the summer/early fall. Indoors it is running.

My weight loss has been awful lately but things are starting to return to normal around here so hopefully I can commit more time to myself.

Another hiker!

Hope things calm down for you soon.

QOTD: My favorite changes from time to time. Right now I'm hooked on Leslie Sansone's WATP workouts. I also LOVE my elliptical. When I have time I also do a lot of Wii! I started the EA Sports Active 2 and then just couldn't fit it in. I plan on getting back to that soon.

I think I'm about back to 85% this morning. I'm still really tired but I got up and did the 3 mile Pilates WATP DVD this morning. First workout since Friday. I plan on doing 2 miles during BL tonight.

Love WATP too! Glad you are feeling better!

UUUUGGGGHHHH....this is the part of the weight loss battle for me where i usually give up. like i told you on sunday i went a little nuts with the booze and food. still not as bad as it could have been but definitely not on plan. yesterday i was up a pound. i spent all day yesterday drinking water and sticking to my whole foods. stayed totally on plan. and this morning? I'M UP 1/2 POUND! which puts me 1.5 pounds up from my friday weigh in.

i'm depressed. my beach vacation is coming up and i just can't get these pounds off. i'm scrambling to find someone to watch my son so i can run this afternoon. DH is gone until saturday and i just want to give up and eat.

ok, buck up nance. it's not the end of the world.

QOTD: i would LOVE to say that my favorite exercise is running. but it's not. i still kind of hate it. lol. however, when i'm having a good run or i'm in a race, then i love it! besides that, i could walk and walk forever and love to be outside. there's an aerobics class at a local club that i'm trying to get back to. kickboxing and step. it starts at 7pm which is a bit of a difficult time b/c that's when DH goes home and about DS's bedtime.

You are doing great! Those 1.5 pounds will come off quickly!

Don't give up Believe me I know how challenging it can be, I haven't lost any weight since January....you're doing really good, maybe it just water retention from too much salt? It could be any number of things, so just keep up the healthy eating and exercise when you can and you'll drop that 1.5 pounds before you know it!

I agree about the running Wish I could say I loved it, but really I still hate it So I feel your pain.

Nicole

Very well said! I try to vary everything, including how much water I drink (from how much I need to even more to lots more) to keep my body guessing.

Sugaring...It is that time of year. The sap from Maple trees "runs" in the late winter early fall when the daytime temperatures are above freezing and the nights are still dipping below 32 degrees. It lasts only a few weeks, maybe 5 at most and ends once the trees bud.

When the weather forcast looks like the time is coming we head into the woods and tap the trees. Maple trees get one to two taps depending on the size of the tree. We drill a hole into the tree about 1 1/2 inches deep and hammer a plastic tap into the hole. All of our taps are connected to pipelines or tubes that connect to main lines and carry the sap down to a collection tank. We also have a vacuum pump that helps suck the sap down the lines getting more productivity. Once the sap reaches the collection tank we gather it in big plastic tanks in the back of pickup trucks and transport it to the sugarhouse. We have about 1100 taps and can get up to a gallon per tap in a good run. Once the trucks get the sap back to the sugar house it is unloaded into a big stainless steel tank. This is where people either go old school and start boiling the water out. This process takes forever. It takes roughly 40 gallons of sap to make one gallon syrup. We use some newer technology to reduce the boil time. We have a reverse osmosis machine which essentially spins the water out of the sap leaving a condensed sap. Sap coming out of a tree is about 2% sugar. After running it through the RO we can have a 20% sugar content. That condensed sap then runs into the "arch" and the rest of the water is boiled off leaving 100% pure maple syrup. The syrup is drawn off and we run it through a filter press which removes any impurities that may be left in the syrup. It leaves a nice clear product. From there it gets bottled and is ready for sale. My DB and DSIL also make several maple products that they sell like maple candy, maple cream and maple granola.

Thanks for sharing!

don't give up, you are probably just retaining from the party foods and beverages. Focus on some diuretic type food and drinks maybe that will help force it out.

I hate the scale...not because of my weight, but it can turn my plan around due to depression. I really don't think its good to weigh yourself before a weighin day as for me it can be a downward spiral effect. When I was going to WW years ago - see I am always chasing these 20lbs..... there were a couple ladies in my class who were "over weight". they would come in and weigh and only want to know "you are down" or "you are up" or remained the same. I didn't get this at the time, but I do know, those numbers can mess with your mind. Don't let them. Try to weigh ONLY 1 time a week to avoid that spiral. IF you have a bad day, in your mind remember you have a few days to try to reverse it and if the scale is not the happy place on weigh in day, you just have to look at what you did to make it go up and get back on plan.

I do dread bathing suits but all I can do is keep working on it one bite at a time and one exercise at a time. If you can't find a sitter, do some dancing with your son or something cardio inside.

Yeah, I know I am no expert, I have struggled with 10-20lbs pretty much all my adult life. I get on plan and it goes away, i get lazy or sloppy consistantly and back it comes. Just don't give up. No one is perfect.... all you can do is get back on it.

I really hope the scale goes down just a little for me this week - I need to stay on track and so far this week its been ok. I did have a setback myself this weekend on DH birthday....the Japanese Steakhouse dinner saturday I ate EVERYTHING...which seriously, I can put away some food. It was hibachi so not horrible, but they do use the butter. I made DH a cake sunday with trader joes box mix and OMG it was so good...had a 2nd piece. I knew it was going to work with him and well, it was tasty. Hoping that doesn't backfire my weigh in...but hey, live and learn you know?

I know what you mean about the scale. I've tried to weigh once a week and I've tried everyday. I haven't found the perfect plan yet.

And, please don't worry about the weekend. Birthdays and other celebrations are a fact of life. I know you'll figure out how to fit them in!

I know I am new here wondering if anyone here is on dailymile. I would love to have a few friends to keep me accountable in my activity - I only have a couple friends. Just PM me if interested.

What is dailymile? I've never heard of it?

 

[cclovesdis]

Well its official I'm registered for the 5K during marathon weekend in january! Now to up my training more.

Great!

I have blood clots in my lungs and have issues with my leg even though my blood clots are gone so no marathon for me. I'm excited to do this even if I don't finish the whole thing I can say "Hey, at least I tried."

Love it!

The WISH Biggest Loser 11 Spring Challenge Week 10 Mickey Superstars!!

#10- .70% aamomma
#9- ..86% Rose&Mike
#8- .87% dsnyfan608
#7- .89% Stinasmom
#6- 1.11% tggrrstarr
#5- 1.20% KristiMc
#4- 1.28% mommyof2pirates
#3- 1.52% saysay
#2- 1.53% PrincessNancy
and now
The WISH Biggest Loser 11 Spring Challenge
Week 10 Team Mickey Biggest Loser is:
#1- 1.79% dumbo_buddy

Congreats to all our Top 10 especially dumbo_buddy!

Hi, everyone! I am so far behind, but I've just read the last 19 pages, so I at least feel like I know what everyone has been up to.

Congrats to all of our losers this week. I forgot to PM my weight last week, but will definitely remember this week. I have gradually gained each of the past several weeks and am hoping that I have it all under control now. The scale seemed down quite a bit this morning, so maybe I'll actually seen downward progress this week.

I am seriously back on track. Somehow, I'd lost my motivation and even though I was still doing my 30 minutes of exercise every day, I wasn't enjoying it and my eating was definitely out of control. I am on track and had a really good day yesterday and some awesome workouts from fitness on demand (exercise tv) last night -- Billy Blanks Jr. (2 different workouts) and a standing abs workout. I am leaving work soon for the gym too.

Our cruise is coming up fast! I booked our tours for Naples and Rome today. Woohoo!

Have a great, on-plan night everyone!

Hi Cam! Glad to hear you are back on plan and doing so well!

I went to the Y and did 40 minutes on the elliptical! My knee is doing pretty good. I am cautiously optimistic. I have been so hungry this week. I'm hoping my hormones are getting back into a pattern. I never know when t.o.m. is coming, so I never know if there is a reason for being so hungry/craving carbs until after the fact.

Hope the knee is on the mend!

I've been doing my own variation of c25k on the treadmill, I've been at 1 1/2 minutes for a while, running for a total of 6-10 total minutes. I wanted to try upping it to 2 minutes each interval today for a total of 10 minutes. I did ok with the 2 minutes, but I noticed a bad stitch in my side after the 2nd one. I did one more, but I didn't want to do any damage, so I just walked the rest of the time.
I was excited to get to 2 minutes, but I think I just have to get used to it. It's hard to imagine running the full 5k at this point, let alone a half marathon. How do you guys do it?! I know I will get better, but I can't even imagine ever running 13 miles!

I'm not an expert, but my best advice is to take your time!

Tuesday's QOTD: I really like swimming laps. I find I tend to push myself as there is less of a fear of injury. I joined the gym for the pool.

Same here!

Thanks Rose! I am getting excited about it. I am tapering so definitely won't overdo it food-wise this week, just one splurge meal planned - Maggiano's Friday night! Then on Saturday I'll have more carbs than usual but portions will be smaller. Sunday I'll be having celebratory champagne, my favorite after 13.1!

Yes, it is so frustrating! If I have a perfect week I lose 1 pound. Anything less than perfect and I gain! Right now I am down 1 since January. The most I've been down is 3. I really want to figure it out, in the past if I was working out this hard and eating well I would lose 1 - 2 pounds pretty steadily. I think I am going to try some different approaches with the WW plan - eating all the weekly points, eating none of the weekly points, etc. until I find what works. Up until recently when I stopped counting I was consistently using about half the weekly points and no activity points, and I earn a lot of activity points every week.

QOTD - I love the outdoor fitness boot camp I do in the park! Love the variety, the muscles I've built, the friends I've made there, the instructors pushing me, and being outdoors. And occasionally seeing the real Navy boot campers in action running past us is fun and motivating too! You can also count me as a member of the group that runs but will probably never love running. It just does not come naturally to me and remains a struggle. That said, I love races and feel great when I am finished running

Karen

for your 1/2!

I really do so much better when I mix things up and keep my body guessing.

Love your favorite exercise! Sounds like a great workout!

I ordered from www.swimsuitsforall.com they carry up to a size 34. Make sure to do a search for coupon codes, they always seem to have one available on the site, but there are others that are out there as well that might be a better deal.

Thanks for sharing! I will definitely check this website out!



Off to get ready for work! Have a great day everyone!

 

[tigger813]

Good morning!

Slept in this morning but I have the house to myself this morning after the kids go to school so that's when I'll do my WATP. I think I'll do all 5 miles this morning.

My pulled pork I made in the crock pot last night turned out awesome! Brian and I each had a little bowl last night. I had drunk a lot of water yesterday so I was ok. We'll be having it for supper tonight with some glazed carrots. I'll be having a shake for breakfast and lunch today to save up calories for it. Izzie has dancing this afternoon so that's the only time I have to go out today or at least I hope. I'll also be drinking lots of water and tea today.

We stayed awake way too late last night and I may need a nap later this morning too. We have a neighbor coming over after school at noon today so I'll put a movie on for them since the weather isn't going to be that great today.

Well, I need to get off my tush and get moving now. Need to fix a snack for Ash.

TTFN

 

[my3princes]

Good Morning!
QOTD for Wed. 3/16: What would your dream vacation look like?

We are planning our dream vacation.

We're planning a 3 week Hawaiian/DL vacation for the summer of 2012. We may need to downgrade it to a two week vacation depending on how much vacation time I might have once I find a job.

We plan to stay at Aulani outside of Honolulu for part of our vacation. We've booked a 7 night NCL cruise which will give us the opportunity to see 4 islands. We want to scuba dive, snorkel, see the volcanos, take surfing lessons, explore tidal pools and just enjoy the Hawaiian scenery. We are planning to stop at DL, probably on the way back. We've never been so that should be exciting too.