Josephene: excellent way to believe in yourself :bravo::flow2:


momof4girls: congrat's on finding a job with best fit for you and potential:flow2::dancer::flow2:

Blue Team Rocks ! Hope we all make progress this week

rainy weather here so I decided to scrapbook. I am trying to consolidate all my pics from work to 1 front/back page a year. It's still going to be a full book, lol

Dora--Chelle is still our leader. She will continue to do our numbers. She was just letting us know that the challenges will no longer be year round. They will only take place when The Biggest Loser is on air. That starts after this challenge.

Congrats on the losses team!

Great job everyone! Keep it up!!!!

momof4--That is fantastic news about the job! Congrats!

Dora--Great job!!!

Jo--Fantastic!

We are getting ready to go to my sister's where healthy food choices will be few and far between. I am bringing a nice healthy salad and some other things, so that will help.

Hope everyone has a great on plan day!!!!!

Josephine Congrats! That is absolutely amazing!

I ended up eating a bit too much (but not of awful foods at least) yesterday and staying out too late (which is hurting a lot now, as I am at work.. grrr) but that is life I guess. I am feeling really snacky since I am so sleepy...

Even though I was down, I took the freebie....adds suspense for next week's weigh in!

I am trying to work up to 40 minutes of running from my current 30. I am still slow as cold molasses, but I am still doing it.

Saw skeletal neighbor on my run yesterday, "Wow. Look at you running!" "Well, I like to eat, and if I am going to remain a size ten, this is the price." "Well, I like to eat too, but I could never run." Yeah, well, I could see her hip bones through her shorts, so I think we may have a different set of issues. I also know her husband is at the very least verbally abusive and probably sexually abusive and without too much stretch of the imagination, possibly physically abusive. I would take my big fat tushy over that anyday of the week. Jilly is right--skinny people have problems too.

:carrot: Congratulations, that is just wonderful! :carrot:

Yow, that's so sad, isn't it?

At preschool, we called him the Sleeping With the Enemy guy. I am sure her soup cans are all facing the same direction in alpha order. I almost called CPS because of how they parent, but social worker friends of mine said it was not abuse, just crappy parenting. I try to have their daughter over frequently so she can see normal.

I have not run today. We had a thing at my sister's with working on her house that want WAY long. It is 8:20 and early enough to run, certainly. But I know I will run in the AM, so twice in 12 hours with no food. That does not seem smart. Maybe just a walk and a run in the morning? I don't know. I could use the sleep.

Dora - I thank God regularly that Chelle isn't going anywhere, just slowing down. There isn't a snowballs chance in ANYWHERE I could ever do what she has done. I was just offering my services to her if it would help.

Hope all the USA folks had a great Independance Day!

Hi everyone - hope you're having a great weekend, and managing to stick to moderation during this holiday weekend's events.

My weekend is going well, and I plan to be posting a loss of some kind on Monday! Go Blue!
Cindy

I know and it's hard to believe but is something we all should really remember. I took a poetry/psychology class once, the first poem they read us was written by a student in their last class. It was ridden with the pain she dealt with always being accused of being anorexic and how everyone always acted like her life must be so perfect because she was thin.

I had a great long workout 5k style. I hope to keep my little baby loss this week. I will probably post tomorrow.

We went to a fairy today and the kids had a blast
Paula was very good about getting things Leah could have so i was thrilled . She even made cakes that Leah could have and gave her a special party bag . :)

I got Cameron to wear a pair of fairy wings too .. lol Leah wanted to wear her fairy dress up dress .. lol its very bright but she was happy .. she had big wings and her fairy wand.. so she was as happy as can be. Since its winter i dressed her in stockings then pants a singlet and a long sleeve top then pulled the dress over the top .. here are the pics.

Cameron got his face painted as dracula. dont you love the eyebrows
and leah of course is a fairy butterfly .. lol

http://i25.tinypic.com/sp81e8.jpg

and her wings
http://i26.tinypic.com/4t111g.jpg

Hey team!

Josephine - Congrats on passing the 50 lb mark! You so totally rock!! :woohoo: When I first started posting on 3FC I was so completely overwhelmed by the idea of trying to lose 65 lbs but coming on here and reading the stories of people who had done that and then some convinced me I could do it too. You are such an inspiration!

Momof4 - Yay for the new job! It sounds great!

Dora - WTG with the good food choices! :carrot:

So I did my 16K run today and it was fantastic. I set out on the same route I tried to do last week but was unable to complete due to the heat and just plain going too fast. Today, though, it all came together and I finished my run at 2:01 only 1 minute past my goal. I started experimenting with my posture around the 3K mark when I found my leg was quite sore and my right shoulder kept hunching forward as it tends to do. I found that if I focused on pumping my arms my shoulders stayed squared, I pulled myself forward, and my leg pain disappeared. I seriously did not take one more painful step after having been in pain during every single run for the past 3 weeks. :carrot:

So tonight I'm pooped. I've got a bit of ouch in my calves but it's a tired achy muscle thing and not the dumb pain I'd been having. We're packing things up tonight for tomorrow since DS has rugby at 10 then we're heading out to the waterslide park for the day. Nice rest day for my legs, climbing 5 billion flights of stairs! ;)

Oh, and I'm really excited to do my official weigh-in tomorrow morning. I was already down 1 lb the other day after being at a total standstill for weeks and I'd be surprised if I weren't down another lb by tomorrow. I've been making good food choices and today's run alone burned 1575 calories according to my Garmin!

I am never going to catch up here :( I'm so sorry team!!!!

I'm on vacation for the next two weeks. Sorry to ask this but what should I do with my next two w/i's when I've already used two freebies? I have actually contemplated taking the scale with me so that I can w/i, and then I can tell Josephine (for example; I haven't asked her yet!!) what my result is, via my mobile phone? What do you guys think?