Mercy - WAHOO!!! That's great!!! Keep up the good work!

BigSexy - Welcome back! Hope you had a nice time, and WAHOO that you still had a loss while away from home!

Skinny Jeans - The year is flying by! Keep up the good work, and like Retiredone said, don't under rate yourself.

Dixie - Sounds like you are almost back in full swing! Glad you are feeling better.

Diva - How ya feeling? Hope you kick whatever you have soon!

Nix - Great job with the boot camp this week!!!

Retiredone - Thanks for the recipe!


Well it seems like TOM is catching a lot of us. I can feel the puffiness, and am not looking forward to the next few days. I have had a significant loss for this week (-2.4 pounds from Mon to Wed) but have been sitting tight at 174.2 since Wed morning. But NOT complaining! I'm actually ecstatic! I have not been working out for the last week, things have been way to busy at home. And I had some TOM cravings and made brownies last night. I went over about 350 calories or so, but I still had a 750ish calorie deficit, so I'm not going to sweat it. I have some major house scrubbing to continue tonight. My parents are coming tomorrow to help DH and I with some projects we have around the house that we have been putting off for *sigh* 2 years. House renovating is such a PITA, especially while you live in the house.

Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!!!

retiredone! you're doing freakin awesome!! thanks for taking part in the dare challenges!! you and mercy and skinny jeans! are doing great

just a reminder, its not too late to check out the dare challenge peeps!

the latest dare is to prevent rounded shoulders!

http://www.3fatchicks.com/forum/bigg...eek-5-a-2.html

if you get the dare done, than you have the power to set the next dare :devil:

Thanks retiredone!! and lol at being sore from all the dare challenges. hehe
i know i had to hold onto my girls when i was doing the jumping challenge!

aww thanks Nella! come on right in to the dare challenge!
Thanks Skinny jeans! that's really helpful! :-) and congrats to you!

lol Mercy :) aww you're so welcome :)

its funny, now im so grateful that cause of my height i get to have a higher bmr - when i was younger, like a teenanger, i was so selfconscious about my height, and felt like some giant, cause all my friends and cousins were shorter than me, and would you believe it, i would always say, i wish i was shorter. i was so self conscious about my height, and never wore high heels and always wore trainers or flat shoes, had a hard time buying shoes cause i didnt want heels. i also had this friend who was tall himself saying he prefers short girls cause they are more cute and feminine. which made me feel self conscious. its stupid how other peoples personal taste can have an effect on your own mindset.

but then a couple of years later, this other guy friend of mine, said to me, are you crazy, being tall is great, girls love being tall. and i used to say, but if i was shorter than i could wear high heels lol. so stupid i know.

but now i love my height and am more confident and now think its great cause i get to have a higher bmr haha. so thinking more to walk tall, stand up straight.

i think the older you get - the more confident you become... teenange - early twenties is a hard time. i think the older you get the more self confident you become. has anyone else found that?

wow you are a machine Skinnyjeans!! well done on completeing all of the challenges!! you rock!! :bravo: :cheer3:

aww thanks so much Skinnyjeans thats such a lovely thing to say! totally made my day!!!!! :hug:

awesome Retiredone! love that

awesome Mercy!! well done ! :bravo:

Miss you too Diva!! take care of yourself! remember when you're run down, best thing to do is take plenty of rest

thats such a great idea Dixie to revamp your workout for the rest of the year! as long as you're fully recovered, dont want you pushing yourself when you're still feeling under the weather.

i think its great to share your thoughts through writing, helps to declutter your brain!

i know for me personally, when i go to bed, i might have random thoughts running through my head, so i have a small note pad next to my bed, and write things down that i want to do the next day. and then i can stop going over then and can get to sleep.

WOW thats so awesome LeslieB you taking scuba diving lesons!! and wow hawaii, you must be so excited!!
good for you for learning and trying something new! :bravo:


nice to have you back bigsexy! your challenge last week rocked!!! :broc:

well done on losing weight even on your trip! :bravo:
That's great dream710!

Thanks for the article muse!

Thanks for the chocolate pudding recipe retiredone! Thats really interesting about the high sodium institches. you're so right, it might say low fat, but not necessarily good for you in other means.

wow nixmon, good job on bootcamp and losing 3lbs!
wow i'm so impressed how much you run! i've recently started the c25k, i hope next year i get to run as much as you! at the moment can only run for 1 minute at a time :)

and you're so welcome!! we missed our team leader

THATS AWESOME Mercy! well done!!! :bravo: :celebrate:

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Good night Blue Team. Time for some shut-eye. My big weigh in is tomorrow morning....zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz....

:congrat: That is exciting!

Hey girls!

I'm pooped from a full week of focusing on me! My classes (bootcamp) went great and I sat through a nutrition class tonight. Get ready ladies... my biggest loser plan is about to unfold!

Mercy - KUDOS! What an accomplishment! Very proud of you...

Very proud of all of you, of all of us for having the fortitude to stick this challenge out even though our real lives are full of pitfalls and temptation. Stay true to your vision for yourself. WE CAN AND WE WILL DO THIS!

Thank you:hug::hug:

Thank you Alwe 74 !:hug:

Thanks Nixmom!:hug:

Thanks Nella!:hug:

Thanks Echo:hug:

Good afternoon my little Blue Team members. I'm feeling happy today with my weigh in. Lost 1.5 pounds this week. I think that's pretty good after losing 2 pounds last week and for an old lady past her estrogen producing years. :D

Nella, you're doing great with the weight loss.

Echo,oh to have 5 more inches added to my height. I'd be at goal weight now. Funny, the short are never happy about their height and the tall are always too tall...glad you've excepted yours. :)

Nixmom, you might be pooped but you sound pumped! So glad the boot camp is working for you.

I was going to take my skipping rope outside and do my own challenge but it's raining and snowing out today so maybe I'll do Echo and Bev's challenge today and leave the skipping for a dry day. But Bev, 50 jumping jacks followed by another 50 jumping jacks... Girl you're going to either kill me or knock another pound off my frame. Hahahaha, I'll take the pound knocked off.

Today, was my treat day. I had carrot cake with cream cheese frosting and a scoop of ice cream on the side. That's a meals worth of calories but it was good and only happens once a week now. I have my treat on the same day as I weigh. That sounds as if I'm rewarding myself with food but I'm not. It's just that it worked out that way. We always have a big meal on Saturdays and I like to weigh the end of the week so that's how that happened but it's a good way to do it as it gives me a full week to recover if I should go hog wild. Thankfully, I'm doing much better. I only had 1 piece of cake and a 1/3 cup of ice cream. Just a few months ago I'd have had 2 or 3 pieces of cake with as much ice cream I could pack into the bowl along side the cake. You know, if I have 1 dessert once a week, that gives me 52 desserts a year. And if I try a new or different dessert most weeks that gives me quite a variety during the year. No one would eat 52 desserts at one time because.... well because it would be next to impossible. What I'm trying to say is I'm not deprived having only the 1 dessert a week.

Have a good day.

Apologies to Harry Akst and Grant Clarke

you're welcome mercy:hug:

aww Thank you retire :) :hug:

yeh i was just thinking the same!!! but by golly i'm gonna do it! just about to hit the shower after my p90x shoulders and arms workout, so i thought i would do the dare to finish it off my exercise today.

hope i can finish it!

Echo, I see you beat me to the challenge, but I did both of yours and Bev's too. DH wouldn't do them with me, haha. He's so out of shape in the leg department but his arms are full of muscles.

nice one retire! you are a machine!!! :D
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Shall we start brainstorming for next weeks challenge this weekend!? so we can all start it on monday? Do we have any suggestions, any volunteers for leading next weeks challenge? :)

Hey chicks!

Had a great day shopping! Got myself a new purse (thanks step mommy!) and some shoes and I bought a belt - a size smaller than I am now with a cool a$$ buckle that is metal and spells out the work ROCK in rhinestones. I am gonna rock it soon with a tee-shirt and jeans! Its was a bargain (Guess belt normal $58 on sale for $15. I cant wait!

Retiredone - I have a man with bad legs - hit by a car driven 90 miles an hour by a 90 year old man who drove the building my man was working in! but he keeps some luscious upper body on him too! Gotta get him working out soon to maintain it! And I am pumped for the class I'm in. It just feels like its gonna produce some serious and much needed results!

Echo - Although I dont get in on the challenge threads (too many to keep up with) I do have an idea - straight from my trainer girl - when doing your walking or running... stop every 5 minutes and do 50 jumping jacks... increases the ole cardio and mixes it up a bit. Just a thought.

Had dinner at my pops tonight. A late b-day dinner (was supposed to be in July) and enjoyed pork loin, mashed potatoes and sliced tomatoes and avocado. Not too bad on the health front, and the company was fantastic!

So off to bed for me. Can finally straighten my arms out again and may actually get to sleep through the night. Hope you all have a great night!

Aww thats great that you treated yourself :D

oh no so sorry to hear that :( thats great though he keeps his upper body in shape.

Thanks Nixmom, sounds great! thats a good tip!

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sorry Blue team :(, i'm reporting a 1.1lb gain this week. gah! even though i saw a loss of 1lb sporadically this week, my weight kept going up and down all this week. i am hoping i will lose it next week.

Hehe How cute are you???!!! That totally made me smile this morning! :D

Good Morning Teamies! The Sun is out and I am feeling better. Still have some cramps due to TOM but besides that I am feeling like ME again!!! It's really COLD though! Good grief! We got 2 weeks of Fall and went straight to Winter! LOL! O'well. I am sure I'll be back to the GYM tomorrow. i sure hopw the sun-shine sticks around!