Blue Bombshells - Week 3 Thread
 

Late again, Mondays are so hard for me to get it together. Maybe I should start our new thread on Sundays?

I would like to challenge everyone to get at LEAST 64 ounces of water down today.

Sounds good. I was just checking out the weigh-in thread, it looks like a lot of us are suffering from PMS, that water should help reduce the bloating/water retention.

I was without electric for over 9 hours yesterday. Luckily I thought to drag out the blow-up pool and fill it with water, so at least I stayed cool. FL in June without a/c is miserable! I'm up 4 pounds this morning, but luckily I weighed in prior to the PMS hitting. I'm not worried about the extra weight, there's no way I could really gain that much weight in such a short time with what I've eaten and as much as I've exercised. :p

Just enough time for a couple of personals before I have to get back to work -

Silly - You looked great. I love the color of your dress.

dgramie - Hope your feeling less stressed and everything is going better.

Brie - Get well soon. Don't try to do too much too soon, or you'll make yourself worse.

Hugs to everyone! :hug:

zinke- I accept! I am going to dump my coffee and get my water right now!

Dixied... i am headed to weigh in... hope I'm not too late... cant ever remember :dizzy: Will take a freebie if necessary. I freaking gained .2 anyway. :mad:

Gonna catch up on thread later (last weeks). Off to work.

Hey everyone!

This is a new week, so lets move week 2 behind us and start fresh! I myself would have liked to do better than last week but I've made my mind up to forget about would've should've could've and concentrate on this week. :)
If I don't, I'm hitting that point right now, that in the past, I just say forget it. So I'm trying to stay motivated, like I just started again.

Water -YES! I will do the water challenge today! :carrot:

Have a great day everyone! :sunny:

~Suzie

:cheer3: :goodluck: You CAN Do It! :cheer3:

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I had written down my weight but I forgot to post it earlier on here oops. I was really surprised I did okay this week. But I don't know maybe I'll get walloped next week on the scale instead. I've been having problems with constipation -- ugh sorry for tmi -- it's starting to get better but it just feels like I'm still kinda bloated and still a little off from fully regular. I also started working with weight machines and free weights last Friday, and again yesterday.

I'm working on adding more fiber to my diet, keeping up the water intake, and staying on plan as much as possible this week! My goals for the week are to keep up the weight circuits I set up last week, ideally 3 times a week, and to break up that Tues-Thurs black hole of no exercise.

Water challenge accepted. I only have 14 to go. I've been downing water all day to help get rid of TOM weight! Grrr, I hate TOM!!!!!!

Hey folks.
I want to apologise for not posting last week, my computer was away being fixed (fortunately still under warranty!) and I'm not ready to discuss what I'm doing with my workmates. It's back now though, so I shall take some time to catch up with the thread and make a proper post soon. :spin:

You're on!

Looks like I managed to keep myself in line for the weekend which is usually my downfall and I feel so much better for it. Not having to work all week just to undo the damage means I will the scale will actually start moving down!

Have a great one everyone!

Works for me if it works for you!!!

I have about 14 more to go....I aim for about 100 so this will be easy!!!:D:D

Woo :cheer3: that's terrific. :)

I am a silly, silly girl. I warned the family that I would not be buying any more store bought cookies. I am determined to keep the HFCS out of here. I decided a great rainy day project would be to make cookies with the kids. I picked out a recipe for monster cookies and told the kids what were in them. They agreed they sounded good. Now no one will eat them. :( I told the kids and DH before we made them that they had oatmeal in them and no one said anything. I've eaten far to many of them already today. We have a play day on Wednesday so I will take them to that. They will be in the freezer until then.

Good evening everyone. I'm going to try and drink more water for the rest of the day. Don't know if I'll get in a full 64 ounces because it's 8 pm now and if I drink that much more water I'll be up all night running to pee. :D It shames me to say I've had hardly any water at all today. I have at least 4 12 ounce glasses each day but today is slow.

Starting the new thread on Sundays is fine with me. I always look for the beginning of the week on a Sunday.

I lost .5 pounds at weigh in on Saturday morning. I was happy for that with all the baking and cooking I was doing for DS's fiancee's wedding shower. We had the shower on Sunday afternoon. We had loads of fun and too much food but that's how it goes. I was going to post a few pictures but I can't get them posted for some reason or other.

I have a house that looks like it was vandalized. What a mess to clean up. I have wedding things all over the place and the kitchen is awful. The sink backed up today and DH took the stopper off the trap and fished out at least 8 drinking straws. Ugh. No wonder the water wouldn't go down. I have banned all straws from the sink. Five more weeks for the wedding and then I'll have my life back to normal (whatever that is supposed to be).

I have to tell you SillyGirl that you looked so sweet and beautiful in your prom picture. You should change your name to SweetGirl instead of Silly. :) And your dress didn't look too tight as you were worried about. Glad you had a great night.

Catch you all tomorrow.

Hi everyone -

Week went okay for me I should have lost more according to my body bugg, but I also lost more then I was supposed to last week, so the body is probably adjusting. Anyway, I'm real happy with 2lbs no complaints here.

Anyway today started day one of my training plan for my triathlon group. I went swimming which I haven't done since last summer. Ooo my arms are so weak now, but at least swimming felt familiar. Very slow though!

Tomorrow is my first Group workout, so I'm excited about that. Will suck being the fat slow one, but oh well... I'll get over it.

If anyone is into biking let me know I have a coupon code for 25 percent off clearance items at Primal Wear. I got myself 2 new bike jerseys since my ones from last summer are too small.

Hope everyones weigh in went well!

Hey people, sorry I haven't been around much, my computer is being fixed and I can only get on when I can steal BF's. Had a rough spot in the middle of the week which I was making up for and ended out coming in even. I plan for this week to be better. Meals and exercising is planned out so all I have to do is stop stressing out about in-laws. MIL is coming to visit but keeps pushing up and then back the time, I have no idea what is going on!

Anyway, as for the water challenge, made it, but inadvertently since I try for that as a minimum anyway. Great idea though zinke!

Thanks Jacque9999 it will be a new experience training with people, but I'm hoping it will be fun especially since we're all training for the same race.

I'm not too worried about it. I've come a long way and I'm proud of it. Slow and all. I AM really shy though, so we'll see how it goes.

i got out and about today looking for jobs on our famous country club plaza. i think i overdid it a bit cause i am having coughing fits tonight and more wheezing. i am going to bed as soon as i take my medicine. i can say that i at least lost a pound this week! cant wait to be back fullforce...

Morning all. I have been doing crappy, but I am going to do better.
Yesterday was my birthday. I am 43. Honestly, I look better at 43 than I did at 23, but I plan to look awesome at 44. I was over 200 by 24, so I am not kidding when I say I am better now than then...

DH and I are talking a no kid vacay next spring as both kids will be in college. (Not sure how we will afford it, but we will have to) possibly the Keys or Bahamas and I plan to wear a bikini and wear it well! So now I have focus again..

Just stopping by to say "hi!" been really busy. TOM came late sunday so I am up 1.4 lbs today. ugh! it feels like 50! Sorry I missed the water challenge yesterday I have been having a hard time getting all of my water in lately so I am going to take up that challenge for today. Didn't get a workout in yesterday so I am doubling up today.

Only 9 days left of work till summer break. I am so done I can't wait!

Have a great Tuesday!

What water challenge? I missed so much lately!!
Hubby is having a stress test tommorow morning at 9. I am praying everything shows up ok.If not I guess we will deal with it. I am very scared! I am trying to feed him healthy foods but its a challenge. He is a big time snacker.
please keep us in your prayers tommorow.

I challenged everyone yesterday to make sure they drank at LEAST 64 ounces of water. I think I drank 96. That's a little low for me but I didn't run yesterday due to the rain.

I just got back from my run this morning though. I am sloooowly getting faster. My runs lengths are still pretty short but I am walking way less. I know soon I will be running nonstop.

I need to log my breakfast still and then go warm up my soup for lunch. I think I might make a salad to go with it. Dinner will be sketti squash and sauce and maybe a piece of garlic toast. Dessert if there are calories left will be a cookie.

What is everyone doing today to stay on plan?

Hi all!! :)

Can't stay but was out of town this weekend and luckily have web on my phone so posted my weight that way. Now TOM is here and I'm a huge balloon of bloat. Uggh!!! Hate it too, just like you all!! :mad: LOL.

Well, going to run errands, I miss chatting! And don't like never having time for personals but one day....

Take care and keep up the good work!!!

Selina :hug:

Hi team,

Wow, we really did have a rough week, didn't we? :( Congrats on TBL for the week, SillyGirl! :carrot:

Hopefully, we'll rock Week 3 as we de-bloat! :p TOM wipes me out. I took a 5-hour "nap" Sunday afternoon. :o I'm finally starting to get some energy back. :jig:

Afternoon all. That water challenge had me up a couple of times last night. :D I never started until 8 pm so what could I expect.

Dgramie, I hope everything will be good for your DH. Mine had to have a stress test and he was fine. Maybe your husband will be the same.

I'm having a hard time eating clean today. Yesterday I ate light but then I broke down and had a huge piece of cheesecake. I mean gigantic. Today I've eaten well for the most part but had a couple or three handfuls of potato chips. I am now dragging around a bag of baby carrots to munch on. If the munchies keep up I'll be orange by the end of the week. Less than 5 weeks to DS's wedding and I want so badly to be down to 135 pounds by then. I'm not getting in any exercise so far this week. So much to do and so little time and I still have to clean up this house. I'm in a state of clutter and am paralyzed to do anything about it. I'm just sitting here looking at it and wishing it would go away. I've got to push myself to clean. Last night I fell asleep sitting on the couch with a stack of paper plates in my lap. I was laying a doily on each plate to lay the wedding cake on and when I woke up I had a plate in one hand and and the doily in the other. Anyway, I'm trying hard to stay away from junk. I eat when I'm hungry. I eat when I'm tired. I eat when I'm stressed. I eat when I'm sad. I eat when I'm happy. I eat when I'm bored. I eat when I'm celebrating. I just like to eat all the time and baby carrots just don't cut it. Now to clean. That's a workout, isn't it?

Have a great day everyone.

PS: Congratulations SillyGirl on being the Biggest Loser for our team this week. WTG!!!

Its funny that you mentioned clutter, i just cleared about 50 lbs of clothes out of my closet and off to goodwill and I have been decluttering since yesterday.It feels so good!! It is why I didn't work out yesterday I was too busy cleaning...
I am still working on it but I was able to do 50 minutes on the ellipitical 8 miles total.
Woo hoo
Have a beautiful Day!
Carrie

retire- Hang in there, the wedding will be here and over in no time. Dont wear yourself out so much you cant enjoy it!!! Seems like we were just getting ready for my dds, and here they have been married for 3 months now.LOL

Im really trying to not let nerves cause me to eat wrong.I am nervous about the stress test tommorow. Im just praying its ok and they rule it was just a panic attack which he is prone to having.
Going to try and get some more housework finished up for the night.
Lets lose some weight this week!! I gained last week and no clue why...LOL
hugs to all

I got my laptop back, all fixed, yay! Okay, well food has been good and even though I didn't do technical exercise, I was sweating up a storm and working out my muscles with cleaning and organizing the house. We've lived here almost a year and still we are swarmed with boxes and never had time for a thorough cleaning, but a made a big dent in it today.

bjeweled- take care of yourself, you will get better faster if you don't push it.

mothermivis- happy birthday late! Finally having two kids in college, you guys definitely deserve a vacation!

retiredone- it will be over soon! Maybe try switching up the snack bags you have so you don't get bored with the carrots and decide to go for something not so good?

meenamom - yay for decluttering!

dgramie- I wish you the best tomorrow, hang in there!

Bad day yesterday. I did get tired of the carrots and ate another gigantic piece of cheese cake. At least it's all gone now. Then I got into the cream and ate many cookies dipped in heavy thick cream...sigh...I have an almost uncontrollable urge to eat everything in sight. When this wedding is over and the guests have gone home I'm not baking another thing til Thanksgiving.

I did get the kitchen cleaned up yesterday, or at least as much as I could with lack of cupboard space. It was good to see large open spaces on the counter top. Even the living room and dining room are starting to look a bit tidier. As I muttered to myself yesterday, I'll get it all cleaned up so I can have space to mess it all up again, ha, ha.

Well, have a great day. Hang in there Dgramie. Wishing for good news for your DH.

Dgramie my thoughts are with you today...
I hope to have a good day today..
I hope you all have a good day today also!!!

Just checking in. I FINALLY got the 'drop' I've been expecting for the last 10 days so HOPEFULLY this will be a really good week for me weight-wise. My body, probably like everyone elses', has certain weights where it REALLY likes to hang out. Once I can get it past that number, I seem to drop 5-7 pounds reasonably fast then get stuck in the next spot for a couple of weeks. My body REALLY likes 191 (the range I've been in for 3 weeks!) but this morning I saw 190.0 so I should be in the 180's for sure at the next weigh in. FINALLY going in the right direction.

I'm kicking butt on exercise this week too. Yesterday was my personal best- 60 minutes in the gym on the Tredclimber working VERY hard and another 38 minutes of strength training at home doing the Chalene Extreme workout. 98 minutes in one day!

The hubs had a gain last week and I'm actually kind of glad. He loses so much easier than me that he thinks he doesn't have to do much to get good results. It was a good 'wake up call' for him that he can't just mindlessly make this happen- he's going to have to WORK for it! LOL! He still wants me to figure everything out for him and I'm happy to do it but I hope he'll soon find the initiative to learn it for himself as that's what will be required for the long-term. I just have to remind myself that success breds success. Once he starts making more headway, he'll be more self-motivated. Right now he's
"Doctor motivated".

Oh- and we both had our fasting cholesterol test this morning. I've been eating healthier for 9 months now so I'll be interested to see if my numbers come back better than last time. Several years ago I was borderline at 199.

Been thinking and praying for you & dh. How did the test go?

Do you eat the squash just like pasta? I have never tried that, how is it?

Glad to hear the cheesecake is done!!

:carrot::carrot: Wow! 50 mins on the elliptical is unthinkable for me. Good for you!

Glad you laptop is all fixed. It really bites when you are not connected.

:cp: Yay for you. I know you were dying to see that scale move! Way to work thru that plateau

I had a really bad day today. Wanting to eat everything in sight but didn't but I still made poor choices when I did allow myself to eat. Thankfully tom is almost done. I feel so tired this month and just have not done anything productive exercise wise or chore wise all week.

Off to take a two mile walk.

Have a good night.

Thanks MaryShady you Made my day :) I have had a rough one today no excercise but I ate under 1200. So depressed and deep in thought all day..I can't wait to dance with joy again...

I am hoping dgramie is ok also...

That is the only way I've ever eaten. I love it with sauce and a little nutritional yeast. I can eat a GIANT plate full if I want for under 300 calories.

I've done my runs the last few days around mid morning. I like the fact that my times are a little better and there don't seem to be as many bugs. I do not like the fact that I am bone tired all day and eat like a horse. When I was running in the evening I was able to keep my calories lower during the day and then I only had a few hours to fight the urge to eat. What to do? What to do?

Ugh, I am off track BADLY today. This is the first time in a while that I have been seriously OFF plan. :S

I better get back on plan in the morning or I will need a serious butt kicking!

Today was great, first day I have actually gotten out of bed before 11am since classes ended almost 3 weeks ago. It went from being nice to almost depressing. But this morning I got up and exercised almost right away, then did some more in the afternoon. As much as I wanted a nap most of the day I fought it so I could get a good night's sleep tonight and continue to wake up early. I need to wake up at a decent time to actually feel motivated. Here's hoping I'm on the way to a new routine.

Hope you all are having a good week, seems pretty quiet lately..

Binders- Congrats! Yay on the loss. And as for the hubby, sometimes they need a reality check, it should be a good motivator for him.

Mary- :hug: coming your way

Zinke- I keep meaning to try this squash as pasta, but I always just end up chopping and roasting the squash on a whim.

Practiceliving- tomorrow is a new day. Try to put everything behind you and start fresh.

Morning Blue!!!

Well I finished Week 1 of C25K. I will be starting Week 2 tomorrow as long as there is no thunderstorms. I am really really scarred. I hope I will be able to complete it. Food has actually been pretty good. I haven't been eating as big of portions lately and I'm hoping that will help with my weighin on Monday. I guess we will see. Have a great day everyone!!!

Okay here's my plan-to-get-back-on-plan :)

Breakfast - Have a morning meeting, so I will pack a piece of fruit and grab a non-fat latte on the way in. (2-4pts total, depending on the fruit)

Lunch - mixed green salad, with chicken, rice and edamame leftover from last night (9pts)

Snack - fibre one bar (2pts)

Dinner - Homemade turkey burger, with steamed carrots and broccoli (under 10pts)

After dinner... either the gym or up to the high school to shoot hoops.

I'm good. Emily's bday is Sat. So swamped getting things ready, family starts getting here tomorrow so dunno when can post. Show up several lbs, hate it but I know it must be TOM since last Friday I was 227. I KNOW I didn't eat enough to gain, some days I may have eaten enough to maintain and not lose, but for sure not to gain. Uggh!!!! :tantrum:

:::breathing deeply::::

It will be fine. :)

Have a good OP day!!!
Selina :hug:

Hey there Blue Team!

I hope everyone is having a great night! Just thought I'd pop in and say Hi!

I've been pretty much OP most of the week here...until the evenings, and then I fall off the wagon a grab a snack. I try to make it a good one, but...the evenings are my weak spot so far.

Have a great night!

OH! And I got on the scale this morning :goodscale and I'm on the brink of being out of the 200's!......200.2 !
I'm keeping my fingers crossed I get the bump over the line soon!

~Suzie

:cheer3: :goodluck: everyone! :cheer3:

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