[smurf2110]

purple: good for you, awesome! I did the same thing the other day and was in such a good mood for the rest of the day, knowing that my healthy habits won out my old bad ones!!

HOLY SMOLY Anne you already have $245 plus YAY for you, but watch out I am only 105 behind you

Just finished 40 min. of pilates and have drunk 1/4 my daily requirement and it is SNACK time.

[Nixmom]

Hey there all you black team screaming thread posters! I really want to try to keep up with all your good info. I've been reading lots but unable to post much. Leaving to go to the river this weekend so probably wont be around. Just wanted to say stay on task! Remember its not just your own butt your kicking.... its the virtual Red and Blue tushies too!

I've done decent with food. Getting all my water down. Exercise has been lagging but I put in some time last night and this morning. It may be all get until monday

Be good! I'll do my best as well.... everyone have a great Today, tomorrow and Weekend!

Kris

[bethbeth]

Good morning lovely ladies!

Here's a recap of my goals for April:
1. Exercise 1200 minutes. I did 1210!
2. Lose 5 pounds. Only lost 4!

Here are my goals for May:
1. Exercise 1250 minutes.
2. Lose 5 pounds.
3. Finish c25K and run my first 5K!
4. Hit 15% of starting weight lost!

It's going to be a great month!

[LondonJulz]

Originally Posted by smurf2110

I haven't taken a single class for photography and business is great! I started out with a point and shoot camera and upgraded to an SLR when I had the funds. It has always been my dream job too-I love it. I am a self taught photographer (well self taught in that I did not go to school) I spent a lot of time online and at ilovephotography.com.

Self-taught photog here too. Well, I took some correspondance courses thru New York Institute of Photography - but you can't "teach" someone to have an "eye" for photography. I am going to school for Business to learn how to run our photog business. We're doing great with it. I LOVE photography and wouldn't want to do anything else!

Originally Posted by irishfairy

also I seen people on here were talking about being photgraphers that is my dream job!!!! I am waiting ot have the money to go to school for it I have no idea how to get into it otherwise.

We had no clue how to get into it either - but we jumped headfirst and are doing wonderfully!

Good morning ladies! I just went and socked some "money" into my Exercise challenge piggy bank, and put some miles on for our challenge trip. Woohoo!!!
Hope you all are doing great! First weigh-in is just around the corner! I'm so excited!

[SoulBliss]

Hello! No time for personals! Go Black Team! Have a beautiful, ON PLAN day!!!

[BlzMaxGnrCCJkMly]

Morning BLACK TEAM members!
WOW looks like I need to go check out all the new challeges and badges and all that! Have a great day!

[happy2bme]

*** Drive by wave ***

Hope everyone is having an on plan day and racking up the exercise points. I'm making sure that I get as many extra steps as possible in during the day. I park farther out in the lot, go out at lunch time and walk around the building and move my car, go the the farthest ladies room and print my stuff at one of the printers that is further down the hall. I'm lucky that I work in a giant office that used to be a warehouse so it's quite roomy in here.

Purple - I heard a long time ago that on days you are feeling less motivated to just tell yourself you'll do 10 minutes. And get up there and do it. After 10 minutes re-assess. Tell yourself 10 minutes more. Chances are really good you'll finish the whole routine because most of the procrastination is done in the first 10 minutes. Good for you for finishing it out!

Blzmax - love your walking the dog smiley - very cute!

Have a good day - get those parts movin'

[chickichickibangbang]

HALICHICK!!!! OMG! I am not even on your team, but girl you kick ***!!! You posted Wii boxing on the exercise challenge!!! WII BOXING!!! LOL! awesome!!! That is my favorite sports game on the dang'ed thing.

I look forward to more Wii sport reports, your friendly rival on the red team.

[Utahgirl1982]

Originally Posted by taragettingthin

I am from there. I also taught English for about 2 years. Where in Korea did you teach? =)

That is awesome.............I taught in Jeonju City.........it was an experience that is for sure

[Manick]

Yikes it is THURSDAY and just look at all the exercise y'all have done!

I am RUNNING TO go get on the treadmill now!

[RealCdn]

Originally Posted by smurf2110

HOLY SMOLY Anne you already have $245 plus YAY for you, but watch out I am only 105 behind you

Ah, but I added another 90 mins today.
(you will be able to catch me on the weekends though....)

Originally Posted by happy2bme

Hope everyone is having an on plan day and racking up the exercise points. I'm making sure that I get as many extra steps as possible in during the day. I park farther out in the lot, go out at lunch time and walk around the building and move my car, go the the farthest ladies room and print my stuff at one of the printers that is further down the hall. I'm lucky that I work in a giant office that used to be a warehouse so it's quite roomy in here.

I think some people underestimate how much just being a little more active can help. My mother eats in the neighbourhood of 2000 cals a day, and that doesn't include the 3 or 4 bags of candy she buys every Friday at the shop she frequents. She's just at the top range of a healthy BMI (but at 80, not looking to change that). She doesn't do any truly heavy work (that's my job), but she's what I would call a busy type, even though she usually naps in the afternoon for a little while. In theory (using age, current bodyweight, general activity levels) she should be maintaining at about 1500 cals. In practice her daily has got to be closer to 2500. And she's been heavier years ago (although probably only 50 lbs heavier) so it's not like she doesn't gain weight. That daily moving about, fiddling with stuff, going back and forth 6 times to do a simple task, obviously makes the difference.

On that note I have some dusting/cleaning up to do. In theory that's why I finished up my exercises in the morning. In practice I'm avoiding it, although if I don't do it today then that's what I'll be doing Saturday!

Hope everyone is having a good, on plan day. Oh, and I'll be hitting that NC beach tomorrow morning by the way. Although I won't post until I'm done in the afternoon with my lifting.

[Purplefirefly]

Originally Posted by ggmugsy

Purplefly and RealCdn are kicking my tushie in the exercise challenge and I'm NOT used to losing!!!

I left off yesterday with $260, and I"m not saying yet what I have done today but you better get moving if you want to catch me.

[JuliaDH]

Hey Team! Every one is doing awesome! I am proud to be on TEAM BLACK! You are all bringing alittel competitor out in me! I will keep updating my Sigg on my balance. And miles to the beach!

[Keillynsmom]

Just checking in -- I'm going to have to figure out how I'm going to be able to keep up with this list! Outpacing me on words and workouts!

I've managed to get to the gym in the morning for four days straight -- a record for several months. I've worked out but usually skip mornings and try to make it up during the day which just messes up my family schedule.

Thanks for the lasagna recipe and the eggplant recipes -- my husband's a vegetarian and they will be really nice to try out. Not sure if they'll like eggplant lasagna but my mom used to make it every once in a while and we loved it.

Go Black Team!

[bethbeth]

Go Black Go!

I had some eggplant today!