love the first dress!!

fantastic job on the running!

Hello all!
This is my first time doing the challenge and it is just what I needed to get my butt in gear. Did not do as well as I had hoped the first week but the next 11 weeks I am going to kick *** I promise! I am not going to set a goal for this challenge because since I have startd on 3fc I have not met any goal I have set for myself. I am just going to do the best I can and that's all I can promise. I am going to exercise ATLEAST 3 times a week if not more and stick to my diet!

Hello black team great job every one on their losses .
Hello tjjsmom and welcome . and hello to every one else

Hello ladies!!!

Tomorrow night is our FIRST weigh-in deadline!!!!!! How excited are all of you?!?!?!?! I know that I am SUPER excited!!!


As a reminder. When you post your weigh-in each week, just edit your original weigh-in post that you made. That is simply just because it makes it easier for me to track everyone's weigh-ins and record them in "the books" on Microsoft Excel. The program does all the calculations, I just have to put in all the numbers. It doesn't take much to confuse me, so if you have more than one post in the weigh-in thread, it throws me off and smoke literally comes out of my ears from trying to figure it out.... okay, maybe not THAT bad....lol...Anyway, as you made your original weigh-in posts, I added your name and weight to "the books".... so on Monday night, it'll be a BREEZE for me to go through and update all the weigh-ins because that list goes in perfect order as the weigh-in thread. So, there isn't any need to make a new post or leave a reply to your post about your weekly weigh-ins. If you want to let everyone know how much you lost in a week - just do it in here.

I must now go tackle my Accounting homework *yay*!!!!!

Hope everyone is having a great day!!!!

LondonJulz is there one posts that will say how much each team has lost collectively this week? Or how does this part of it work? Thanks a bunch

Just checked the weigh ins...So far we are doing GREAT!!!!! Keep it up everyone!!!!!!

I was also wondering how we would all know how the weigh in went. I am guessing that there will be a thread telling us the 1st week results.

Julz: You are awesome for doing all the work for us. Smoke starts coming out of my ears just thinking about it. lol

How do the other teams have so many posts? We need to figure out their secret. Maybe we just don't have as much time to talk because we are all busy working out? Yeah, that must be it!

I have my fingers crossed that our 1st weigh in went great. Good luck to us!

on Tuesday morning after the weigh-in, Chellez will start a thread for the weigh-in for the week. All 3 teams will post their results there (I'll post for the Black team, Hun.E.B. for the Red team, Chellez for the blue team). We'll post our teams starting weight, week 1 weight, and total % lost for the entire team. Then we'll also announce the Biggest Loser from each team for that week. From all that we can tell who the Biggest Loser team is for the week, and who the Biggest Loser individual is for the week. It's a LOT of fun on Results day!!!

I think you MUST be right about that! We and our kickin-butt team!! WOOHOO!!! But, yes, I noticed they have almost doubled us in size as far as the posting goes... so c'mon ladies.... let's get going!!!! I figure this next week, I'm going to send out a PM to our entire team to get in here and get to checking in! That's one of the most discouraging things is for someone to sign up for the competition and not come be a part of the team! And NO, I'm not talking about those of you who only have time to check in once a week or so. I'm talking about those who NEVER check in! I'll see them on the weigh-in thread and I'll think..... wait a minute... who are you? (especially if they are the biggest loser of the week!). So, I'm gonna send out a message to all of us. If you get it and have been already checking in on here.... just ignore it! It'll just be easier to send it out to everyone. AND, I think we're gonna have an EXCELLENT first weigh-in!!!!

Hey... wait a minute.... HEY REDA....DITTO TO WHAT DIVA SAID!!! lol you know I love ya, Diva!


Well, I finished my Accounting homework.... just under the buzzer. It's due at 11:55 tonight and I just got it done (at 10:00 tonight!). Whew! But it's FUN so far! I like working with numbers!!

I am now munching on one of my new favorite snacks. It's made by heating up some EVOO on the stove, adding in some freshly minced garlic, coarsely chopped white onion, chopped zuccini, squash and musrooms the teeniest tiniest pinch of salt and lots of pepper. Let it cook and steam until the veggies are done how you like them.... then consume! It's SOOOO good!!!

Okay girlies. I will post a weigh-in reminder first thing in the morning. And... VERY important. Once you edit your weigh-in post tomorrow (for those of you who haven't yet weighed in yet).... make sure that you don't edit it again until AFTER the results are posted on Tuesday. This is because when the team leaders go to collect all the weights, we look at the "edit" times. If your edit time falls after the weigh-in deadline, your weight gets put down as a "freebie week" that's been taken. Some ladies last time around would go in and edit their weigh-in post (not to manipulate it or anything.... but just to edit colors or style, etc) and they'd accidentally do it between the time of the deadline and the time that the team leader checked the weigh-ins the next morning, and they'd get marked down as a "freebie" week because it looked as if they weighed in AFTER the deadline. So........ make sure all your colors and fonts and styles and smilies are how you want them when you edit your weigh-in every week. Otherwise, just sit tight until after the results have been posted.

I didn't post the question of the day for today. So, I'll post that tomorrow, because it's a little late for a question of the day for today.

Have a great night, ladies!!!!!

Hey awesome team!

Ran too late tonight and now I can't sleep....grrrr! Figured I'd get a post in here to up our count!

Happy Monday Black Team! Well I've been a lax in the exercise department the last few days. I'm up bright and early this morning to start the week off with a bang. I hope everyone had a great weekend. Mine was so so, busy running dd to gymnastics, bowling, Sunday was church/sunday school, and last night we had husbands xmas party.


Roni--LOVE the dresses, both are so beautiful. It bothers me a bit that the inlaws are planning YOUR wedding. I could see them making suggestions, but to actually plan the whole thing, its you and J's day, not theirs!


Well, if I'm gonna get my run in this morning I best get in gear. I'll be back tonight to do personals. Everyone have on op day!

Hope everyone has a great week. I have been slacking in the exercise department latlety, Classes have been kicking my butt. I want to get to the gym 4 times this week, I am going to go this AM becuase it is MLK day, no school! They have a Step class at 6:!5 AM on Wednesday and Friday- I havent decided if it would be completely crazy to make that or not.

Roni- I love, love love the dress. I actually just bought my dress on Sat. We werne't planning on buying one, but I fell in LOVE with it and so did my mom- we both started crying! lol. That would really drives me NUTS that my inlaws were planning my wedding, you are dealing with it much better than I would be. Have you tried to talk to them, or have your DF talk to them? It is your day, not theirs!!

good job on the weight loss every one we are an awesome team and we can do this .GO BLACK TEAM

Just checkin in real quick

Sorry guys, I didn't contribute anything to this weeks weight loss. it's been a rough week, but today I'm back OP.

I was going through the weight thread....you guys are awesome!!! I'm going to have to try hard and keep up with some of you.

take care.