TEAM MICKEY--Biggest Loser 11 Spring Team Challenge!

[HappyMatt]

2/11/11 Friday QOTD
Do you have a tradition when you go to Disney? Something you collect or do every time you go?

Columbia Harbor House. We love it and go every time. It is nice, uncrowded and has good food. We also collect vinylmations, so we always come back from a trip with a ton of those.

 

[tggrrstarr]

Ok I am back on track with weight loss. But again another holiday is bent on detouring my efforts.

Valentines Day -

Last night my little 5 yr old GD and I made 8 dozen sugar cookies. I make these with butter and conf sugar to make them light and airy. Then I make my homemade creamy frosting tinted bright pink again with butter. Then you add decorated sprinkles. Def not diet material. I plan on bring them to the dance studio this morning for the kids. I do this for the major holidays along with special valentine candy and suckers. Which means I will more than likely snack on a cookie or two throughout the day.

But I must say they look great. I love how the little ones can't wait to come in during holiday week as they look forward to my cookies. They are always so sweet how their eyes light up when they see the tray waiting for them.

Those cookies sound so good! It's so sweet that you make them for the kids.
There is a cookie store near my work that I stop in sometimes to get a diet pop. The other day it was so hard to not indulge in a chocolate chip cookie. But I just kept thinking it was 300 some calories I could use elsewhere.

We ate at RR last night too. I choose the natural chicken burger and fries. Came home and looked up the calories. Not exactly what I had estimated. Lets just leave it at that and hoping my 8 mile run this weekend will get rid of any of the weight that might have come on from that meal.

Your dh is so nice and sweet. That must have been a great surprise.

I feel so not connected to our team lately. I have just so much going on with work and then trying to also give quality time to my dh and kids too. Then adding in my half marathon training....I just wish I had more time in the day.

Only 12 more days until I leave for disney, 2 more days until online check in, 8 more days of work, and only 1 more really long run!!!!!

Can anyone guess that I am more than excited and anticipating this trip beyond belief. For those that may have not heard the story before.....
My goal at the start of my weight loss journey was to loose weight and run the disney princess half marathon. I have the trip planned with my mom and aunt. It will be a girls weekend. My kids and dh will stay home. We just didnt have the money for everyone to come and my parents were so so gracious to give me this trip as a gift. They are the best people in this world! So I have been training for this trip/race since may. I cant believe it is almost here and that I am going to actually do this.

Here is a pic of my before and after. I still have about 25lbs to loose but I feel so healthy right now.

The second picture is the outfit I am wearing after my race. The shirt says "and she lived happily ever after"

That's the same thing I got, needless to say I saved all my calories for it! I also added a slice of pineapple to make it taste like the sandwich I really wanted. It was a good compromise.
Thanks, I don't know how I lucked out with such a great guy. He is very thoughtful.
You must be so excited, it's nice that you get to take this trip. You look fantastic! I love that shirt. I saw a similar one on the Disney website before Christmas that I wanted but it was gone before I could buy it.

2/12/11 Saturday QOTD
I get bored with salad easily. I love to mix up my ingredients. What is your favorite combination of foods in your salad?

My current favorite combo (easier in summer) is grilled chicken, green beans (cooked and chilled), strawberries, blueberries, spinach, baby tomatoes and a light ranch dressing. I also add a pinch of ground flax seed, it mixes in with the dressing and is barely noticeable. I am pretty much game for any type of fruit though, and dried cranberries are always good.

 

[HappyMatt]

2/12/11 Saturday QOTD
What is your favorite combination of foods in your salad?

My old favorite (read unhealthy) was anything that included blue cheese and bacon. I don't have that stuff anymore (except when having a Cobb salad at the Brown Derby).

All this week for lunch I had a salad with chicken, hard boiled eggs, tomatoes, cucumbers, sliced almonds and light olive oil dressing. It sounds boring, but was pretty good.

 

[mommyof2Pirates]

2/11/11 Friday QOTD
Do you have a tradition when you go to Disney? Something you collect or do every time you go?

I always get a christmas ball with the year we were there. We usually eat at cosmic rays too although this is not necessarily a tradition we made but it just seems to happen.


2/12/11 Saturday QOTD
What is your favorite combination of foods in your salad?

I love romaine lettuce, shredded mozzerella, tomatoes, cucumbers, egg, and grilled chicken.

 

[Bungle]

2/12/11 Saturday QOTD
I get bored with salad easily. I love to mix up my ingredients. What is your favorite combination of foods in your salad?

Basil. Have to have a few bunches of it in my salad.

 

[my3princes]

Hello! For those of you who don't know me yet, my name is Kelli and I will be your coach this week! I wanted to start out with something fun this week.

2/11/11 Friday QOTD
Do you have a tradition when you go to Disney? Something you collect or do every time you go?

Good luck with weigh ins today! I am doing mine in a little bit.

Friday QOTD: We collect and trade pins. We also collect autographs have a really cool scrapbook with all of the autographs. Now we only need to collect new or unique ones and add them to the book. We also started collecting the vinylmations last trip. The boys quickly got wrapped up in that. Dh said the biggest thing we collect on WDW vacations is credit card bills


Favorite things in my salad: Fruit. I'm not at all a veggie girl, give me fruit anyday.

 

[my3princes]

Yesterday I took Hunter for an eye appt. I scheduled it last minute as I wanted to get us all in before we no longer have optomology insurance. It ended up costing us $48 for the visit and complete pair of eye glasses with scratch coating Now I need to get the rest of us in though none of us currently wear glasses.

Last night we went to the calling hours for my 47 year old cousin that passed from pancreatic cancer. So sad to his his wife and girls not to mention my aunt and uncle and his siblings. Such a cruel world.

Today all the boys had league bowling this morning. I bought 2 kids home and took Nick to his high school bowling tournament. They are placed on a team based on their preliminary scores during the first 2 games. He made the first team. The 2 teams from our school ended up opposing each other the first baker round which meant that one team would be heading home. It was down to the last ball of the 3rd game, but Nick's team pulled off the win. They had a bye into the finals. The final game was another nail biter down to the third game. They won!! It was the first time that they took first place in a tournament. This is the first year for the high school bowling program.

 

[ReAnSt]

It has been a bit crazy around here. I have worked longer hours almost everyday this week and I worked today as we are in the middle of our biggest fundraiser each year and due to the weather things have not been going as smoothly as they should. I was supposed to go to an event tomorrow but I am not going as I need the time to get some things accomplished.

I think I won Healthy Habits last week but am not sure who I am supposed to send a message to with my address. If someone can send me a PM with that information in it that would be great.

I am down .4 of a pound. I hope to do better this coming week but it is another busy week. I am taking Monday off from work going to NYC. Tues and Thurs I have night meetings and Saturday I have 3 events to go to. I might have something Wedsnesday night but have to check to see if it is happening or not.

Just keep swimming and making healthy choices.

 

[mommyof2Pirates]

Friday QOTD: We collect and trade pins. We also collect autographs have a really cool scrapbook with all of the autographs. Now we only need to collect new or unique ones and add them to the book. We also started collecting the vinylmations last trip. The boys quickly got wrapped up in that. Dh said the biggest thing we collect on WDW vacations is credit card bills


Favorite things in my salad: Fruit. I'm not at all a veggie girl, give me fruit anyday.

I had to laugh at dh's comment. isnt that the truth though.

Today all the boys had league bowling this morning. I bought 2 kids home and took Nick to his high school bowling tournament. They are placed on a team based on their preliminary scores during the first 2 games. He made the first team. The 2 teams from our school ended up opposing each other the first baker round which meant that one team would be heading home. It was down to the last ball of the 3rd game, but Nick's team pulled off the win. They had a bye into the finals. The final game was another nail biter down to the third game. They won!! It was the first time that they took first place in a tournament. This is the first year for the high school bowling program.

That program sounds great. Way to go to Nick's team for pulling off the victory!

Just keep swimming and making healthy choices.

Thats all you can do. Have fun in NYC!!!

 

[mommyof2Pirates]

Hey guys. Felt guilt about not stopping in, so I'm doing a drive by post. I haven't read a thing in days...... hope everyone is okay. Had a Pampered Chef training out of town this weekend, and came home to Sophie with the flu. I've been home w/ her for the last 2 days, and she has coughed her head off and stayed in my lap since Sat. night. I haven't been able to get anything done, and I have a HUGE test to do this week for class that I am NOT prepared for. Scared silly about it. Also need to work Pampered Chef more, so I am trying to squeeze every second out of this morning I can.

Hope you are all cruising along fabulously this week! Send me a pm if there's something I need to know. Be back when I can!
Taryn

I miss you Taryn!!!! I hope your doing ok. Cant wait to hear from you once things settle down.

Last night we went to the calling hours for my 47 year old cousin that passed from pancreatic cancer. So sad to his his wife and girls not to mention my aunt and uncle and his siblings. Such a cruel world.

It is a cruel world. That is very sad. Your family is in my prayers.

 

[Sugarglider]

QOTD Fri: Disney Trad - gee - umm I haven't really noticed anything - cause whenever I go I do all my fav rides and try eating at different places.I do like going to Basin and buying a mickey soap.

QOTD: Sat - my simple simple salad is *** lettuce (your romaine?? - sorry the system automatically blanked out the Australian name??) anything green - avocado, beans, cucumber, pepitas, topped with tinned tuna and pomegranate seeds. Dressed with Balsamic & Udo's Oil
My Favourite salad is Nicoise - tuna, roasted potatoes, lettuce, tomato, green beans, boiled egg, roasted pine nuts. I LOVE adding warm roasted small chunks of potato and sweet potato to salads.

 

[Disneywedding2010]

2/12/11 QOTDI get bored with salad easily. I love to mix up my ingredients. What is your favorite combination of foods in your salad?

Iceburg lettuce, shredded cheese, hard boiled egg, shredded ham or turkey, and ranch dressing.

 

[Disneywedding2010]

Morning Team Mickey!

It's 1am in Texas and I'm getting ready to head to bed.

We are leaving in the afternoon to go stay at the Gaylord Texan near our home. We'll be there for two nights. We don't normally get each other anything for Valentine's Day. We just decide to go stay in a nice hotel for a night or two.

Tuesday morning when we check out we'll be headed to San Antonio for two days. We are going to get to meet up with Alan's son. I know with each day that it gets closer they are both getting very excited. We also are going to visit my friend and her two kiddos. Katherine and I have decided that a trip to the outlet mall is much needed.

Thursday morning we are going to head home and relax. Friday morning I have a training session with my trainer.

 

[cclovesdis]

CC - Thank you for hosting the HH challenge. I love that this week's 3rd HH is journaling since, as I mentioned in my PM to you, that is one habit I have lost and just haven't gotten back into the groove on. I hope you are doing better and that you can get some rest this weekend. I was sorry to hear that your vertigo was out of control this week.

Thanks! I love hosting HH. I'm not sure what made me choose journaling this week, somehow I just knew it was a good idea.

I pretty much slept through yesterday. I was actually replying to you on Friday night and fell asleep mid-reply. I felt pretty good on Friday, but today, I'm feeling great. I definitely needed the rest.

Enjoy your cruise! Planning for it sounds like so much fun. I would love to take a cruise someday, but there isn't anyone to go with and for some reason, I feel like I need to go with someone.

Right now daycare payments are over 1000 dollars a month so imagine what I can do when they no longer need childcare.

Here is a pic of my before and after. I still have about 25lbs to loose but I feel so healthy right now.

The second picture is the outfit I am wearing after my race. The shirt says "and she lived happily ever after"

on the childcare. I guess when you don't have kids, you have no idea about these types of things.

You look amazing! Love the shirt!

2/12/11 Saturday QOTD
I get bored with salad easily. I love to mix up my ingredients. What is your favorite combination of foods in your salad?

I love adding fat free feta cheese to my salad. Other than that, I'll eat pretty much whatever veggies are in it. I do love green peppers (or orange or yellow or red).

I think I won Healthy Habits last week but am not sure who I am supposed to send a message to with my address. If someone can send me a PM with that information in it that would be great.

on your busy days.

It's me that you need to PM. I'm hoping to mail out everyone's prizes tomorrow. I'm determined to get out of work on time to make it to the nearest post office. It's still 20 min. away and closes earlier than most, so I'm can't promise anything.

We are leaving in the afternoon to go stay at the Gaylord Texan near our home. We'll be there for two nights. We don't normally get each other anything for Valentine's Day. We just decide to go stay in a nice hotel for a night or two.

Enjoy your trip and your relaxing weekend!

 

[cclovesdis]

I tried to post yesterday after I posted the HH results, but was having difficulties. Hmm.

I went to the gym on Friday after work and am hoping to go again today. I'm planning to go everyday after work this week. My goal is 100 miles this week. I ended up re-starting my mileage counting on Friday. With the weather, I wasn't making it to the gym. I'm just over 180 days until WDW, so I'm okay there.

I am down about a pound for the week, which is exciting after weeks of gaining. I didn't binge on Friday either! I haven't had soda since at least Friday too. I need to stay away from diet soda. I do so much better when I don't have any.

I'm off to do a few miles on the fake elliptical we have in the basement. I'd love to do 2 miles on it and then go to the gym after lunch. I am baking about 10 dozen cookies this afternoon, so I definitely need to plan ahead.

Have a great, OP day everyone!

CC

 

[keenercam]

My DH had tulips delivered to my work this morning. They arrived before I did, I had the late shift at 2. He dropped me off then circled around to park to go in to see my reaction. Only problem was I was a half hour early and had gone to Starbucks. So my manager went over to get me while my DH hid in the closet. After I saw the flowers my mgr made me get something out of the closet and there was my DH! Scared the crap out of me! But it was a wonderful surprise.

The tulips were such a sweet idea by your DH! Hiding in the closet? Hmmm… I don’t know. I like being surprised but not startled, if that makes sense. So, did you bring them home? Or leave them at work? Enjoy!

Well, I discovered the other day that I kind of need an accident which breaks one or two mugs before my next trip... preferrably a non-Disney mug though!

Howard would be on to me very quickly if I did that. LOL! I have mugs at home and at work and travel mugs and glasses, too. They make me smile!

Last night my little 5 yr old GD and I made 8 dozen sugar cookies. I make these with butter and conf sugar to make them light and airy. Then I make my homemade creamy frosting tinted bright pink again with butter. Then you add decorated sprinkles. Def not diet material. I plan on bring them to the dance studio this morning for the kids. I do this for the major holidays along with special valentine candy and suckers. Which means I will more than likely snack on a cookie or two throughout the day.

What fun! And they sound so pretty and delicious! I have had an itch to bake but plan to take it all to my office. It’s funny how almost everyone there who is watching their weight makes many, many trips to the kitchen when I bring stuff in after weekends when we entertain. I’m just happy it gets eaten. And if it doesn’t, I invite our staff to take the goodies home to the their kids at the end of the day. I just don’t have the willpower to keep it around.

Can anyone guess that I am more than excited and anticipating this trip beyond belief. For those that may have not heard the story before.....
My goal at the start of my weight loss journey was to loose weight and run the disney princess half marathon. I have the trip planned with my mom and aunt. It will be a girls weekend. My kids and dh will stay home. We just didnt have the money for everyone to come and my parents were so so gracious to give me this trip as a gift. They are the best people in this world! So I have been training for this trip/race since may. I cant believe it is almost here and that I am going to actually do this.

Lindsay – I am so excited for you and can’t wait to hear all about the race. You look absolutely fabulous! You should be so proud of yourself!

CC—Yes, I am journaling every bite thanks to your HH challenge. I figure if you go to the trouble of running it and keeping track of everything, I will do my best to participate, and since I am kind of competitive and compulsive about stuff, if I am going to participate I try to get all the points. So, thank you! And I am so glad you got some rest and are feeling better.

Deb – I am so sorry about your family’s loss. Wow! I can’t believe how cheaply you were able to get glasses. We don’t have insurance to cover that stuff and it gets soooo expensive!

I am down .4 of a pound. I hope to do better this coming week but it is another busy week. I am taking Monday off from work going to NYC. Tues and Thurs I have night meetings and Saturday I have 3 events to go to. I might have something Wedsnesday night but have to check to see if it is happening or not.

Just keep swimming and making healthy choices.

What a busy week you have ahead of you! Enjoy NYC!

We are leaving in the afternoon to go stay at the Gaylord Texan near our home. We'll be there for two nights. We don't normally get each other anything for Valentine's Day. We just decide to go stay in a nice hotel for a night or two.

Tuesday morning when we check out we'll be headed to San Antonio for two days. We are going to get to meet up with Alan's son. I know with each day that it gets closer they are both getting very excited. We also are going to visit my friend and her two kiddos. Katherine and I have decided that a trip to the outlet mall is much needed.

Have a fabulous trip. I hope Alan’s reunion/meeting with his son is everything you are all dreaming it will be. Sending you good wishes!

As for me, I was only down .8 this week, but I’ll take whatever I can get. I have made 2 huge changes in my habits and I am hoping they will pay off – I have been doing the 100 day exercise challenge on Facebook since January 1, but have been trying to mix up the workouts and to make some of them longer.

The other drastic change this week is that I am journaling every bite. We had a retirement dinner last night and it was a buffet but I made very good choices and didn’t have cookies or cake. Since I have to journal every bite, I have been thinking a lot before I eat anything. LOL! And if I can’t figure out the points, I just choose something different.
Have a great day my Mickey teammates!

 

[jenjolt]

Hey guys!! I have to admit I have been hiding, because it has been a bad week!! I stayed okay on the scale but it still was a horrible eating week!! I feel like I'm losing the momentum I had before my trip!! But I'm hoping by admitting that and saying it outloud that it will kick in that I still haven't done too much damage and I can make changes!!! I don't want to go back, I must go forward but right now it's so much easier to choose the easy way instead of the hard way!!!

I just want to get back on track and feel good again!! I'm just putting this out there in cyberspace and hoping that now that I've said it, I can move pass it and start back again!! I'm just glad I have somewhere to say this!! So thanks for just being here!!

 

[my3princes]

Obviously things are upside down in our house this week. Chris and I have decided not to weigh in. Really don't need more bad news. I need to go to the store and restock all the good stuff. I think we're going to revert to the old WW plan as the new one hasn't seemed to work well for either of us. While fruit is free it doesn't seem to reduce my weight when I use it as a filler and I certainly was eating more quantities even if it was fruit. Hopefully changing things up again will give us a kick in the butt and get us heading in the right direction

 

[tggrrstarr]

2/13/11 Sunday QOTD
What foods have you lost a taste for since you have started your journey?

I gave in to hunger last night and got some nuggets from Wendy's since my husband was getting his dinner there. I ate two of them and couldn't eat any more, all I could taste was salt! I have heard people say you lose your taste for fast food, and I never thought I would, but I really have!

 

[Disneywedding2010]

2/13/11 Sunday QOTD
What foods have you lost a taste for since you have started your journey?

Soda, hands down! I had gone 28 days without one. Well, I decided to split one with Alan and it made me sick. So, no more soda for me. Its been 44 days since I've had a full soda.

Other then that I can't eat a lot of sweets all at once like I used to be able to. It just gives me that "Oh I don't feel so great" feeling.