Melissa - I really hope they don't preempt the show much tonight since they are having a 60 minute program exclusively for election results right after TBL.

Good morning ladies~ Well I made it through day one of my Joey being away from home, and I'm still alive:)LOL! I know he is having a great time. Last night Kev, the kids, and I all played a little Wii and then some guitar hero. I don't want to brag or anything, but I'm pretty good at guitar hero;) I didn't think I would like it as much as I did. I could totally be a rocker chick!LOL! Okay girls I need a kick in the arse....I said eating would be OP yesterday and it was anything but. I don't know what the heck my deal is. I did workout, but it was a very motivated workout. I didn't feel that high I usually do after a great workout. I feel better today, so I hope the fog is lifting and I can get my butt back on track. I know I can do this...I have to do this!! I'm going to make some homemade chicken soup today...this weather calls for soup. It's so gloomy here. The weather is very weird though. I was shoveling yesterday morning, and last night it was raining and thundering...in Feb. that is kinda unheard of. The weather is pretty warm today, but we're supposed to get some snow tonight. Today I'm just staying home and I plan on doing a Tae Bo video, those always work me good! I hope your all having a great week:)

Laura- 4 miles in 32:01 girl that is awesome! I walk about 2 miles in that time!LOL! I love spinach artichoke dip. I make a light one that is just as good as the full fat/calories one. You've been making great food choices...keep it up. I always have great intentions of exercising at the hotel, but I never seem to get to it!LOL! Your doing great:)

Counting- I love Tae Bo....I always feel fantastic afterwards! He is really motivational also, I think.

Cat- Great job on Bob's bootcamp...I would think looking at him while working out would be nice:)

Nicoyaangel- I hope you have some luck with finding a place soon

Jen- My oldest is 11, and potty trained my youngest about a year ago. Not one of my favorite things to do:) What a wonderful dinner conversation you all had, I think that's great that the kids are so interested in the upcoming election!

Emily- Your rocking your way through c25K...keep it going girl:)

Rennie- Great job on getting that walk in! You put me in the best mood yesterday after reading your posts:) Your a funny lady:) I would think hanging out with you would be a riot!

Mel- Are we supposed to just post in the red team exercise challenge now or can we still post in both? I love the new rule. I know everybody can't get here as often as others, but there really is not point to be on a team if your never going to chat with us. I mean otherwise you might as while just write your weight down at home each week. I have a question...who the heck is Rocco????

Karen- Great job on getting an extra 15 min. in this morning:) I bet that felt good once your realized what you did!

Mom23BC- You gave me a great idea...I'm going to pull my step out during TBL tonight:) Thanks~

I hope you all have a great day!

Jen- I knew there was something else I wanted to say to you..how fantastic that your doctor noticed your weight loss. It is always a wonderful feeling when people acknowledge your hard work.

Nsv
 

Okay everyone.........I am so proud of myself!!!!!! Last night my sister was buying those hostess pies and I was going to get one till I looked at the calories and fat and it was 450 calories and 22 grams of fat:yikes: At first I was like it is okay I will just eat it then I actually put it down and remembered my team and that 1 minute of pleasure was not worth being fat :dust: I am happy now with my decision this morning and am getting better day by day to sticking with my WW points and thanks to all your guys support even though as good with posting as I am reading! You guys are the best :hug:

Congrats Utah

Looking at the calories/fat or something sometimes is a big help in deciding NOT to eat something. If I get crazy urges for you know a bag of cookies I total it all up in my head and think NO way that would take forever to burn off! It doesn't always work but sometimes.

450 calories and 22 grams of fat would be enough to drive me to find a 100 calorie pack or something. :)

Happy Super Tuesday!

I went to vote today but the line was too long. Hopefully I will make it later but to tell the truth I don't know who to vote for. More then one candidate would be acceptable to me so maybe I let the more committed voters decide for me. (I'm not suppose to think that way, am I?!)

Thankfully, I made it to the Y yesterday to run on the treadmill for 30 minutes. Today is the body strenghthening class after work. Food-wise I was proud of myself for ordering mixed vegetables instead of fried rice at Panda Express yesterday (no orange chicken either). It was actually really good although I kind of missed the rice. This lifestyle change stuff is tough!

Karen-I was very impressed with your morning workouts. Way to go!

Shy-loved your wish list. Your daughter sounds adorable. I only have one child at home now, a daughter also. My husband and I dote on her endlessly. She hates to go out to eat with us because she says we stare at her!

Wow! I'm so surprised to be name the Red Team Biggest Loser this week! I never thought it would be me since I've seen such bigger numbers from other people. Thanks for all the congratulations!

Today is going well. I got up early this morning and exercised (which is important since last week I didn't do much exercise).

Laura-- Great choice on dinner and way to go on exercising. I always have a hard time exercising when I'm traveling, so kudos to you. Congrats on doing your personal best in the race!

Emily-- Great on the exercising. It's inspiring to hear how you are enjoying running. Thanks for sharing your progress.

Rennie-- You did a great job on your marathon. What a great idea! I love that you are pushing yourself. So inspiring!

Melissa-- I hope your presentation goes well today. Thanks for taking the time to name me the Biggest Red Loser! I'm impressed that you tried to be politically active today. :D Hee hee! I'll be going out to vote later today.

Cathy-- You're doing awesome with the exercise today! Keep it up! :)

Mom23-- Let us know how the step-ups go tonight. I may try that tonight as well. I'll let you know if I succeed. :) We're doing election day stuff for homeschool today since my kids are so interested in it. They have divided all the stuffed animals up into states and they are choosing delegates before the big election tonight.

Nicoya-- I hope you find a place to live soon. I know hunting for a place can be frustrating. Good luck. :goodvibes

Tina-- Glad you had fun with your family last night. I need to play a little Wii too. I've been so busy lately I haven't touched it. Last time I played was around Christmas time. My brother brought his guitar hero and we had a lot of fun with it. Go rocker chicks! Don't worry about being off plan yesterday. Today is a new day and it's OP all the way. You can do it! :hug: (I love all the smilies in your post. It's good to see happy faces!)

Karen-- You are awesome girl! I probably would have crawled back in bed. That is totally a NSV! :cp: With my kids, our law had something to do with libraries. I only took it to court so my kids could see how a law could be ruled Constitutional or Unconstitutional. :judge: Now, you should have heard the campaign promises my kids were making during the election. They promised a new dishwasher that would load and unload itself. The only problem was that they couldn't explain how they would finance the research and development.

Barbara-- Way to go on putting down the hostess! :cp: I used to live on those pies in college. But then I didn't have a car and walked everywhere I went.

Terapet-- Great going on the exercise. I encourage you to go vote later today.

IdealMuse- :wave:

Hi and :hug: to those I've missed!

I hope everyone has a great OP day.

Good afternoon red ream,

Yesterday was such a busy day for me. I stayed at school a little later to catch up on some lesson plans, then when I got home I jumped on the computer for a few minutes, only to check my email, I went to the gym for about 75 min and did my day 1 week 2 c25k and 45 minutes of strength - abs, thighs, chest and triceps...then when I got home I was going to post here but DBF had the lost episode that we missed last thursday up and ready for us to watch together. How Sweet! It was sooo good. I'll be sure NOT to miss it this Thursday.

Tonight is my weekly, two hour cardio workout while watching TBL. Can't wait. Yesterday was my 38th consecutive day OP and i'm so excited. I haven't been on plan this many consecutive days ever. Today i'm 1/2 done with OP day 39.....and going strong.

I can't forget to vote after school today!

There are several things that ran through my head SBS when I was so tempted to go off plan:

1. I do not want to go from 37days OP and start all the way back at 1
2. I want to look hot this summer on the beach
3. I want to fit comfortably in my favorite Roller Coaster at Six Flags
4. I want to wear my hot fitted black dress for my Elvis gigs
5. What would I tell my Red Team about SBS if I ate all that? LOL

Utahgirl: Woohoo! Way to throw the will power into high gear. Great decision and definitely deserves a carrot dance. :carrot:

Jenn: Congrats on being the biggest loser!

My time is up at school....I'll try to get more personals in later. Sorry! My students are calling me to do reading/writing. LOL

Good afternoon ladies! Well I am not as frustrated today as I was yesterday. Having some issues with one of the mom's that I watch her kids. Not a good thing. It's snowing here, AGAIN! I am so ready for summer! I did do more yoga this morning, and my ball again. I am going to try to fit in another workout during nap time today. My scale is NOT looking good. Hoping it goes down before Saturday or I am not going to be helping the team at all. I sound like a complete downer today. Sorry!
Congrats on the NSV's ladies! That is so awesome. DH and I were going to get up early and workout this morning. But it didn't happen. I am bound and determined to make it happen tomorrow. Ok well it's time to make these kiddos some lunch!

Hi Red Team Members!!! I hope you are all doing well today. I am so excited to announce that I started the C25K workout plan today!!! I survived my first workout and I even jumped on the elliptical afterwards for 30 minutes. Yay!! I use a HR monitor to workout and the jogging portion of the workout definately gets my HR up there.

Hey Red team!! I'm gonna issue another challenge for tonights show! Pick one or both!

1) workout during the show

2) assume the plank position for an entire commercial break! Its hard!!! go ahead and try!

I know you can do it Red team!! and dont forget to post up that you tried!

On a side note I'm going to try to do chair pose for one commercial break and plank for one commercial break. Plus 30 minutes on the elliptical!

~melissa

<<<<<<<<< Is so jealous of the travel challenge you made Melissa. :devil:

I was thinking about bumper weights....

SkinnyVibes - Don't think I'm a wierdo for looking this up but apparently our BMIs are .3 away from each other right now. The reason I thought to look this up was because you had mentioned your bumper weight which you're at the edge of now and so am I.

Cassie and I are .1 apart right now in BMI. Cassie did you have a bumper weight?

I'm just curious because I'm wondering if this is a common point at which previously quite overweight bodies want to settle for awhile or if its just fluke. I haven't had a week that I was ON plan that I didn't lose weight at all until last week... and my bumper is about 220 so I'm sitting at that edge.

Maybe my head is just playing games with me. :)

Muse - that's an interesting observation. I'm curious too.

Barbara- Great job on resisting that pie...those things are loaded with fat...I think that's what makes them good:) Good for you though for not caving...I know that felt good!

Terapet- Choosing veggies over rice would be really hard for me, so great job on that. Also great run!

Jen- Congrats girl on being the biggest loser this week :)

Melissa73- I need to get back to some workouts like your doing....75 min. is awesome:) Also 38 days OP....WOOOO-HOOOO!!!! Keep going girl...I love all your reasons why not to stray!

Kari- I'm with you girl, summer can't come soon enough! I hope things get cleared up with the mom.

DK- Great job on finishing day 1 of c25k...I keep saying I'm going to try it.

Melissa- I am going to try the planks during TBL...I think your trying to kill us though!LOL! Those things are hard, but I'll hold out as long as I can...also I'm going to be doing my step!