TEAM MICKEY--Biggest Loser 11 Spring Team Challenge!

[Disneywedding2010]

Good Morning everyone!

Its a freezing 6 degrees here in Dallas. Can we say BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR. I normally would still be in my nice warm bed but I have a personal training session at 11am. I told Alan (my fiance) "I'm not driving in this crap. You can drive" . He said, "That's fine I don't want you getting in an accident and screwing up your car." Then I'm coming home and working on homework for the week.

What's everyone's goals for the week?

Well other then trying to get all my homework done I'm going to just try to relax. I've been so busy lately it feels like my head is spinning.

 

[tmfranlk]

1/10/11 Monday QOTD
Tell us one or more NSV (non scale victory) you have had since Jan 1st.

1/11/11 Tuesday QOTD
Here is a simple question. We are all from such different parts of the country/world. Tell me what is the current price of gas where you live?

NSV: I haven't eaten hardly any of the candy that was in my Christmas stocking! Okay, except for the Ande's Mints, but those are small and it lasted over a week - a record!

When I was out last night it was $2.85, but tomorrow's Wed so it may very well be $2.99 then. Our current gas-price-jump day is Wed. For a good year or so it was Thursday and then it suddenly shifted to Wednesday. Right now we're on a up 15-20 cents then down 2 cents every 2-3 days for two weeks before it jumps again. Does anyone else's gas rise and jump in a set pattern? It never really did here until about 5 years ago and now it's almost predictable (except for the random changes every couple of months to really catch us off guard). I've never noticed it doing the same elsewhere and wondered what others experienced.


Things are inching along here. I'm doing pretty well at my 3-meals a day goal so that's good. Of course last night, we were almost ready to put dinner in the oven when I realized we were out of cheese. Don't know what happened to it because i'm sure I had bought enough for everything this past week, but okay. I had a meeting last night as well (or was supposed to, got there and apparently they had cancelled because of the snow, I just didn't know it ) so didn't have time to replace it and get dinner ready. Instead I opted for the shower I hadn't gotten yet that day and had a bowl of cereal when I got him. Not as healthy a dinner, but better than it could have been.

Today we've got a snow day which will make my really crazy day a lot slower. I'm down one kid and don't have to prepare for a Brownie meeting anymore. Plus, it means the cousins may come over and thus entertain DD1 and the other kiddo I do have today. A meeting tonight, as long as it doesn't get cancelled, but I'm actually ready this time save a trip to kinkos so I should be set for a successful day.


Taryn - Glad DH's day yesterday was a good one! I pray the successes continue one day at a time. Yay for his team having his back!

Sugarglider - Glad that your family is out of harm's way. What a tragedy for your whole country.

Keep up the hard work everyone!!! Some great success stories all around scale and non-scale.

 

[Disneywedding2010]

Meals for the day that I have planned out

Breakfast - 3 scrambled eggs (was delish) with 8 ounces of 2 perecent milk

Lunch - Salisbury steak lean cuisine with baby carrots and few slices of sharp cheddar cheese (my mom is convinced I was a mouse in a past life because I still at 27 years old love cheese)

Dinner - (since its a balmy 6 degrees here today) chili and cornbread

 

[tmfranlk]

Meals for the day that I have planned out

Breakfast - 3 scrambled eggs (was delish) with 8 ounces of 2 perecent milk

Lunch - Salisbury steak lean cuisine with baby carrots and few slices of sharp cheddar cheese (my mom is convinced I was a mouse in a past life because I still at 27 years old love cheese)

Dinner - (since its a balmy 6 degrees here today) chili and cornbread

I love cheese. That, pasta and chocolate are my must have in any diet. That's why portion control and moderation work best for me. There's no giving them up.

 

[Holly324]

Okay, Disneywedding2010, you have inspired me to try to give up soda!! I love the carbonation in soda, and I only drink diet. But after hearing so much about how even diet soda can mess with your diet, I thought I would give it a shot. I am so impressed that you have made it as far as you have, so I thought maybe I could try. My plan is to still have my cup of coffee in the morning for my daily dose of caffeine, and occasionally have a sparkling water here or there to get the carbonation occasionally. Lots of lemonade and fruit punch - the 5 calorie variety! Can't wait to try! Thanks for the inspiration!

 

[HappyMatt]

1-11-11 Tuesday QOTD

Here is a simple question. We are all from such different parts of the country/world. Tell me what is the current price of gas where you live?

I am in Northern Va and gas was $3.19 a gallon this morning.

 

[PrinceCharmingsMom]

Hello Team mates!

My name is Angela and I live in Sunny Florida about 45 minutes from the mouse. I have been on a weight loss journey for a couple years now. I had Gastric Bypass Roux en Y in 2006 and then followed that by getting pregnant 8 weeks after surgery. I never met my goal, but lost 125 pounds and gained a miracle.

I have 45-50 pounds to get to my goal weight so I can have my skin removal surgery and after we went to Magic Kingdom on Sunday I was so inpspired by the marathon runners I decided to get on track and get it off so I can run the Princess half next year.

I am really excited to have found a group of people to share this with. Hope to make some great friends too!

BTW...gas is $3.03 here this morning

 

[tigger813]

Mickey Statistics: Week 1
Here we celebrate our progress and recognize our superstars.

Reminders:
-after 3 weeks of no reporting, you are dropped from the challenged – can re-start at any time, though
-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: 2
(congrats Rose & Mike and Redwalker!!!!)

LOSERS:
Current Participants-------------67!
not reporting in for 1 week------ 7
not reporting in for 2 weeks------ 0
not reporting in for 3 weeks------ 0
Excused------------------------- 0
weigh ins----------------------- 60
gains---------------------------- 2
maintains------------------------ 2
losses-------------------------- 56


Biggest Loser 11 Spring Challenge Week 1 Team Mickey!
This week’s group loss is 150.6lbs.
Average percentage of weight lost 1.21 %
Total group weight loss so far 150.6 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 13 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 1 Mickey Superstars!!
#13- 2.15% - Belle1109
#12- 2.21% disney_mommy
#11- 2.33% - pjstevens
#10- 2.4% - newmouse2008
#9- 2.69% - KitchenSinkGuy
#8- 2.9% - HappyMatt
#7- 3.01% - Stinasmom
#6- 3.13% - Mrs. D
#5- 3.19% - Jaelynnandmom
#4- 3.23% - GoodMorningDewDrop -
#3- 3.24% KristiMc
#2- 3.75% - aamomma -
and now
The WISH Biggest Loser 11 Spring Challenge
Week 1 Team Mickey Biggest Loser is:
#1- 3.88% Flipflopmom

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 Flipflopmom !!!
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]

NOW FOR THOSE OF US WHO SET A GOAL FOR THE CHALLENGE!

NOTE: this list includes participants who have reported in within the last 3weeks, once someone misses 3 weigh-ins they are dropped from this report.
How this works: you set your goal for what to lose in the challenge. Then I calculate your weight loss in the challenge divided by your goal to get a % to goal.
Anybody can change their goal at anytime (or add a goal) – all you have to do is send me a PM.
We have done 1 out of 20 weeks, so the challenge is 5% complete.

tigger813 6.56%
sgcruiser 5%
maslex 8%
girlrea 5.71%
Rayanifoxmur 9.8 %
my3princes .88%
aamomma 24%
tggrrstarr -.57%
tmfranlk 7.14%
jenjolt 12.8 %
janmadre 5.91%
liesel 0%
DisneyYooper 0%
TheMysteryMachine 0%
KSH 5%
PrincessNancy 13%
Flipflopmom 45%
mommyof2pirates 16%
holly324 15%
swissfamilyrobinson 8%
sugarglider 15.38%
AlexandEvan’sMom 1.11%
GoodMorningDewDrop 9.92%
yanni2 2.27%
jamesnnick 8.33%
pigletz 6.67%
Yogamomma 7%
keenercam 4.8%
Stinasmom 30.77%
Kitchensinkguy 30.69%
MrsD 38.98%
DavidandDenise 1.5%

 

[tigger813]

Team Mickey is done for week 1! Let me know if you see any issues!

I'll do Team Donald this afternoon and finalize everything else. I have taken out or changed a few things to make it easier for this newbie to handle this!

Time to try and take a little nap! Headache again and I don't know why! I've eaten enough protein! Hoping to get in my 2nd EA workout later and I plan on doing the elliptical during the first hour of BL tonight!

TTFN

 

[Good Morning Dewdrop]

Wow congrats Flipflopmom! Is it Taryn? I get consfused sometimes and generally end up just thinking of people by their screen names. In any case GREAT job being our BL for this week!! Keep up the great work!

Way to go everyone!!

 

[pjlla]

Yeah Taryn!! WTG! I was just popping over to say hi to my Team Mickey friends and saw that you're the BL this week!!!

Well... as I said, just popping over to say HI to my Team Mickey friends! I miss you all like crazy! It just isn't the same without all of us together. But the threads have been moving like crazy, so I think it is best we are split up for now. Hopefully I'll have time soon to totally catch up over here!..............P

 

[KristiMc]

Way to go Taryn!! Good job Team Mickey!!

 

[Mrs D]

Wow! Grats Taryn! And all others on the top 10 list! Seeing my name up there is VERY motivational! I never knew I was so competitive (but only with myself).

Great work team Mickey!

 

[keenercam]

Great job, Team Mickey! So happy for everyone who saw the product of their efforts.

For anyone who didn't see the progress they wanted, I want to share something I read on the WW boards recently that really stuck with me -- "We all get the scale results we deserve -- sometimes, it just takes longer."

Congratulations to all our biggest losers, and if I may, a special shout-out to my friend Patty (pjstevens) who did fantastic during her first week of WW On-Line and who is also now officially a Disneyworld Marathon finisher!!!!!

As for me, I did so much better during my 4 days in Disney than I have ever done before. Since I am doing the Facebook 100 day challenge, I also made sure I got in at least 30 minutes of exercise everyday. This included going to our off-site hotel's fitness room Thursday night at 10:30 to get in 5 min on the upright bike but then switched to the treadmill and did the other 25 minutes (the upright bike hurts my knee because I can't get the seat low enough - I am very short).

Zipping around the 1/2 marathon and full marathon courses to support our WISH teammates and scream-team helped me rack up a HUGE number of steps and miles on my pedometer.

One night when I wanted a cheeseburger, I went to the Marketplace at the Contemporary and got a Lean Cuisine panini to cook in our microwave instead. Oh, and I was thrilled with all the delicious fresh fruit salad, apples, bananas & oranges to be found everywhere we bought food at the resorts and parks. My two big splurges were creme brulee at the Yachtsman Sunday night after a fabulous dinner and a vanilla cupcake with buttercream icing yesterday. I deliberately declined all other treats so that I could save myself for those two things I really wanted.

Okay, I have read but not had time to respond and I am majorly playing catch-up at work today. Just wanted to say "hello", "congratulations" and "keep up the great work" to everyone here.

 

[HappyMatt]

I think that it is funny that I was #8 on Team Mickey and my wife, TimonTracy, was #8 on Team Donald. The competition continues . . .

 

[tigger813]

I think that it is funny that I was #8 on Team Mickey and my wife, TimonTracy, was #8 on Team Donald. The competition continues . . .

Didn't even realize it when I put that in! Pretty cool! Who gets bragging rights this week? You both did awesome!!!!! So close in the percentages! Keep it up!!!!!


TTFN

 

[smile4stamps]

WoW! I FINALLY got caught up on this thread!

I don't remember all the QOTD's but I am going to answer a few I do remember.

My dream day at Disney.
I would wake up at the Grand Floridian or Wilderness Lodge beside my hubby. (I can't decide which is my dream as I love the looks of the WL but staying at the Grand just sounds awesome!)
Head to the Magic Kingdom where we would be allowed into the bark before anyone else. We would take a leisurely walk down main street with lots of pictures in front of the Castle. We would then take a slow walk through the park enjoying as much as we could.

I'm not sure where we would have breakfast but I don't think it would be in the MK.

After breakfast we would head to HS where they would let us ride toy Story Mania over and over again without having to get off. We would only get off when we got tired of pulling the triggers! After that it's probably lunch time depending on when we actually ate breakfast so we would head to Downtown Disney and have the Goat's Town salad at Raglan Road. After lunch we would go to the SPA at GF for a wonderful relaxing massage for me while hubby would go hang out with the GF Pastry Chef. After a relaxing massage we would get cleaned up and have a portrait setting at the GF to remember the day. the day would be capped off with Dinner at the Chef's table of V&A's.

Favorite Disney Park
This is a tough one for me. I love all of them! My favorite happy place park is Magic Kingdom. I think more because it is at Walt Disney World as I also truely love Disneyland Park after going there for the first time in October. All of my favorite rides are at California Adventure though. I love that Soarin, Toy Story Mania and California Screamin are all in the same park. I can't wait for the construction to be over there as I think it will be an awesome park when it's done!

Price of Gas
Regular Gas here is about $3.45 a gallon. It bites!

Best non-scale achievements
Since Starting the challenge I have drank all my water, journaled my exercise and food and exercised daily!

first trip to Disney

I was 12 when my parents first took us to WDW. 33 on my first trip to Disneyland!
We camped at Fort Wilderness, went to the parkes early, back at the camper to nap and back to the parks at night. My parents really did a great job planning. I don't remember a lot about the trip but I know I fell in love and wish I could go more often!

Exercises I am doing
I am using the Wii. Wii Fit Plus and Biggest Loser Challenge. The BL challenge is a WORKOUT at least for me! I also just bought Just Dance 2 so will be trying that out today or tomorrow.

One Week to live
With only one week to live I would do a European Disney Cruise. This way I could see parts of Europe with my hubby like we have always wanted to do while still experiencing the special Disney Magic. I would probably have my parents and my younger borther and niece and nephew along as well.

My weekend
It's already been here and gone. I went to Monteray to my SIL could meet my MIL dog. My hubby and MIL are there for the week. On the way I got pulled over for speeding (Oops!) luckily I got a fix it ticket for not having my registration in the car and not a ticket for the speeding!

I think I missed a few questions...

Now that I am caught up with the thread I am hoping to be able to keep up!

 

[BELLE1109]

congrats to all the losers and everyone for participating!!

I actually teared up when I saw I was on the list
thank you for the support Mickey team mates

Way to go Taryn!!!

 

[BELLE1109]

QOTD- gas near me is $3.03 right now (north of Boston)