Just popping in this morning to say "Hi" to my teamies! So far I'm OP today. I'll post later with my answers to the questionnaire. Have a great day everyone!

:)I just thought of something!! Great suggestion that we all wear red to remind us of our team. You guys may want to check this out!!

If you to the American Heart Association website and click on Go Red for Women, you can sign up for the newsletter and get a Go Red Dress Pin for free!!

I just thought that would be great for us all to have to remind us that we are taking care of our hearts and of our team!!

Just thought someone may be interested....

Aaaah! - I like the idea of a red bracelet or something like that. I'd be doing laundry all of the time if I got a red shirt specifically for working out. I have to think about what kind of red bracelet. Hmmmm?

Oh I'm going to Micheals today to shop for Teacher appreciation stuff, I'm gonna check and see if we cant fashion an official Red team bracelet (info will have to be on my blog) but I'll let you know if I get any great ideas! Or if anyone comes up with a universal one we can all find somewhere let us know!

I love the idea of wearing something red to help motivate us to stay OP.

These are my foods I just HAVE To have in my house at all times:
Fruit (any kind, I'm a fruitaholic)
Mixed veggies
Brown rice
All natural salsa (I love mixing it in the brown rice)
Silk Light vanilla soy milk
Olive oil (it's a staple in the household I grew up in)
Beans and legumes (especially lentil soup)

Foods i have to have:
beans - all kinds i love them
tilapia
chicken breasts
frozen veggies
100 calorie pack cookies
green beans
water water water
olive oil
my personal goals for this challenge:
lose about 40 pounds
workout 5x a week
drink at least 8 glasses of water everyday
speak positively of myself and improve how i feel about me

Stacylynn - I live in South St. Louis Near Tower Grove Park! Good to have a teammate familiar with all of the great food st louis offers! im trying to find ways to get through my weekends as well! i love those jayhawks too girl! im originally from kansas city so ive always been a jayhawk fan! the red bracelet is a good idea.

i also am an avid sports fan i love to watch football, baseball, basketball.

Good afternoon ladies~ This team is hopping....I'll have to come back later to catch up on the posts. My computer was acting up all morning. Just wanted to check in to say hello, and have a great day. I plan on hitting the gym tonight:)

Wow.... so I take the kid to the park and come back three pages later..... lol.... You guys are CHATTY! ;)

Okay... other stuff....

My goals for this challenge:
Stay ON PROGRAM which for me means... get in ALL my Exercise and eat Healthy Reasonable Portions and do my Hypnosis CD at LEAST four times a week.
Lose 20lbs.

Foods I have to have in the house:
Almonds.
Chocolate Icecream (Skinny Cow)
Tomatoes and Cucumbers and Turkey (Sandwiches)
Whole Wheat Bread
Bottles of water. I HATE the tap water here... even when it's been filtered :(

My goals for this challenge are:

-Lose 25lbs
-Exercise 6 days a week following my training schedule
-Cut out more processed foods and learn to love more whole foods
-Ween off sugar a bit
-Compete in my first Sprint Triathlon

Pantry/Refrigerator must haves:

- Diet Dr. Pepper
- Cheerios / Fiber One
- Skim Milk
- Starbucks Whole Coffee Beans
- Lean Pockets and Lean Cuisine for Lazy days
- Red Grapefruit
- Light String Cheese
- Natural Peanut Butter
- Dannon Light&Fit Yogurt

While we were at the park yesterday we started talking about fashion. Wolfs mother said you always dress nice but now you really dress nice. Wolfs sister in law said oh do you have some pointers. I looked at her husband ( wolfs brother of course ) and said. " If you name isn't Jesus and or you aren't under the age of 5 NO SANDALS and for heavens sakes, don't wear socks with sandals. How can that woman stand to be seen in public with that man. Jesus sandals and socks are his fashion statement lol.

I can't keep up with you guys!! :D

Are most of you returning from the last challenge?

This challenge couldn't have started on a better day -- I was back to my old ways and needed a swift kick in the rear to get back on track -- you saved me!!

Hope everyone has a great day and we intimidate the heck out of the other teams with our first weigh in!!

lol It is MY year of the red!
 

I decided last December that 2008 would be the year of the red for me. Instead of getting my normal brown planner, I purchased a red one. I moved all my contacts into a red address book and purchased a red MP3 player for working out. I am now (by sheer coincidence) on the RED TEAM!

This is perfect!

Greetings RED TEAM MEMBERS!

1. What would you like us to call you? Toni

2. What eating plan are you using? Counting calories

3. What is your favorite way to exercise? (coughs slightly) favorite way? none What do I do? I jazzercise and signed myself up for a 5k walk in May. I am trying to get sponsors as a way of keeping responsibility to train for the 5k.

4. What is one area of weight loss that you struggle with? PORTION CONTROL

5. What is one area of weight loss that you excel at? (blinks at the question)

6. What is your short term goal? Summer is about 50 days away. I would like to reach my 10% by that time.

7. What will you reward yourself with when you reach that goal? I haven't thought about a reward.

8. Best weight loss tip? If you have any, please share them.

9. Bob or Jillian? Jillian. I like Bob but I think that BL makes him out to be nicer than he really is. With Jillian, what you see is what you get.

10. Tell us a little about yourself! See above re: Year of the RED. :)

I did a quick check and I think there are 17 of us returning that were on the RED team last time. We have several that were on other teams last time but are on the RED team this time. (I don't know how many because I didn't get to know some of them by name). With 61 or so people on our team this time, the majority of us are newbies (I believe).