retiredone-your walk sounds wonderful, I love the crisp fall air, but too sad that it's followed by that howling face biting wind, and dreaded icy snow!! So enjoy Canada it's, always been a wonderful place to visit in the summer, but your winters are harsh!!

Nixmom-those sweat feasts are working for you, enjoy those new jeans

Nella-Yay for Test Jeans, I also have the same problem, a bit of a gap in back, but loose in front.

Narnia99-I do Love this program, you lift heavy but fewer reps, and she goes through it step by step, and just like her TurboJam, you have the choice to go a bit slower and use, no weights, instead you use a resistence band. I actually am dripping sweat, almost from the begining, it is very intense, and lasts about 40mins. Any other questions just ask.

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not much new around here today, so I guess I will say good night, hope you all have a great Thursday!!

Originally Posted by Echo:
Awwww thank you so much Isabella!! (what a beautiful name by the way! love it) That's so nice of you to say, I really appreciate it :) Thank you so much :hug:
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Dont worry - i also gained a pound from last week. lets just kick it this week so we have a greater loss this week!! we can be partners in crime hehe :cb: :broc: :carrot:
Besides Diva, you had so much on your plate and you were sick and TOM!! its to be expected. its not a real gain! you will be able to shed it in no time. besides when your sick best not to exercise and let your body rest so it can heal itself.
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Isabella:
I think the name Isabella is beautiful too and I was going to name my daughter if I ever had one, which I didn'y. Just mean ole'boys *sigh*
Echo:
I hope you are enjoying your book. I'm not a big Jillian fan but I may get that or check it out from the Library if y'all have rave reviews.

I've had a stressful THREE weeks now. First the Swine, then I get sick, then TOM, and this week my teenaged son has decided to be some mean person that I don't know. He had me crying my eyes out before 7 a.m. 3 days in a row. On Monday, I was all dressed and ready for the GYM got half way there when some sort of infraction of the passenger side wheel happened on my car so now I am without a ride until we can afford to fix this, which is NO freakin' telling when that'll happen. So it's been another BAD week. I HATE being a prisoner in my own home and not being able to get to the GYM! I have ZERO motivation to work out at home. NONE,NADA, zilch! So there's been no exercise, there's been NO eating right, but there also hasn't been much of that going on anyways because I've been depressed too, there HAS been alcohol consumption, which I hardly ever do and somehow I've managed to lose what I gained. :dunno: So I guess that's something. Anyhoo, when the boy got home least night, I had enuff of his crap and reminded him just who is the adult, and who is the kid and just how miserable I can make his life, and that's exactly what I've done until my child returns...the nice and funny one. I felt better after that. Teenagers are so hard! I'll be glad when this kid graduates, moves out and sees for himself just how hard life is and then maybe he'll see that we have done the best we can. As poor as we are, we've somehow managed to spoil him...Go figure....

I appreciate that the Dare thing was extended but I have not partook in it once again. I am going to deep clean this house today and I am prolly going to use both Dare weeks to exercise tomorrow and use Jesse's car to hit the GYM on Sat. I need to move this body!

Originally Posted by dixied:
Just checking in with a rant:

If you can search for clothes by color/designer/price/material, why the heck can't I search for workout pants by whether or not they have pockets! :mad:

Okay, back to our regularlly scheduled chat!

I'm sorry. :hug:

Originally Posted by retiredone:
I'd like to search for workout pants that didn't have to be hemmed! I could sew up the bottoms and have booties like baby's sleepers.

OMG! Me too!!! I don't know how to hem so I am SOL.

Originally Posted by happeningf:

My bf surprised me with a trip to Maui, and all we did was snorkel. It was EXTREMELY scary at first because I am not an "open water" person that was the scariest part, but I got used to it and as long as he was holding my hand I was fine. I don't know if I could ever dive! I tend to panic and pant easily when scared.

I do also get VERY sea sick and in that crazy boat ride to Molokini crater 3 miles off the island I was extremely queasy. I didn't even want to get off the boat but sitting in it rocking was worse. So we jumped off with our snorkels, and we were told that we cannot feed the fish/animals/birds on the crater nor touch anything because it's a protected reserve.

Well after a few stroked I straight up vomited straight down underwater, it was disgusting. And next thing you know... fish Swarmed all around me to eat it up! Then everyone else snorkeling around me saw the swarm and got really excited "look, something's happening over there! The fish are all around her, let's go over! Awesome!" and they all came around my area to touch/see the fish. Not my best moment, and no way did I tell anyone what I did to get those fish around me (but my bf thought it was hilarious)

OMG! I am sooooooo sorry that happened to you but I am LMAO!!!! That's the funniest thing I've read this week! :dizzy: (Still giggling).

Originally Posted by Narnia99:
Hi everyone, I've been struggling to stay on plan lately, but so far I have. I don't normally have a hard time with my TOM, but for some reason this one is wiping me out. Anyway, I am glad that I didn't give in to comfort eating as the extra two pounds that appeared for Monday's weigh-in are now gone.

:( I'm so sorry TOM gave you a hard time. I hope you're feeling better now. :hug:

Anyhoo, nuff of my babbling. I can't wait for this week to be over.

{{{{{{{{{HUGS}}}}}}}}}} :hug: to everyone! Miss feeling like I am actually a part of this team.

Diva - Sounds like you are having a rough go at things. :hug: Teenagers are evil sometimes. At least yours are boys, I have two teenage girls in my house 5 days a week (add on top of that that I am the stepmom - joy of joys sometimes). Girls are little balls of emotion just waiting to explode at any given second for no reason. The car thing sucks, and I know what you mean about motivation to workout at home. I was doing good for a while, but haven't worked out in a week and a half. Since it got cold here, I can't bring myself to go walking and the JM's aren't screaming at me to get moving, so I haven't. I'm determined to get back at it tonight though.

Things in our house are hectic to say the least. We've had sort of a bomb dropped on us regarding the kids and their "mother" deciding she all of a sudden wants to have more custody of them, after giving it up (funny how it coincides with her CS about to go down to next to nothing. I'm just sayin'...) so DH and I have to figure this one out and scrape our pennies together to find an attorney. Anyone know how to make money appear out of thin air? If you do, start spilling!

On the weight loss front, things are good. I was bad though and devoured some cake yesterday for SD's birthday. I also sampled the frosting jar a few times... Who knew frosting has 130 calories in 2 tbsp??? If I had read the jar before sampling, I would have only sampled once, and probably ate less cake. But the scale was down this morning to 173.0, so maybe I didn't do so much harm. But I was bad and slapped myself on the wrist this morning and vowed to not do it again.

So...3 pounds from my first mini-goal!! I am thrilled! :carrot::carrot::carrot: I weigh less now than I did at my wedding. I'm going to have to go shopping soon for jeans because the ones I pulled out 2 weeks ago, are a bit loose on me. I'll have to try seriously shrinking them in the dryer.

Hope everyone has a fantabulous day!!!!!!

Wooohoooo Nella! WTG! That's awesome! :cb::cp::dancer::flow1:
I wish my jeans fit loose! LOL! One day.....;)

Howdy gals. Good to see you back Diva. I had 2 boys but they weren't too much trouble except when the youngest one decided to leave home (without notice) at 18 and finish high school in another province. Thank God he was staying with good friends of the family. Both boys are married now and all is well.

For those of you that commented on my lovely walk and where I live: Yes, the walk is really nice. I live in a seaport town and can see water from my home as well as for most of my walk. Today there was only 1 loon, a flock of pigeons and 1 young seagull down by the bay. The wind was up a bit so the water wasn't very calm. The winter is toooooo longggggggggg, though, hahaha, unless you're a snowmobiler. Winter sports are big here in Eastern Canada with downhill and cross country skiing, hockey, snowmobiling, snowshoeing, tobogganing and sliding, and other stuff too. I was actually thinking about taking up cross country skiing this winter if I can find some gear that doesn't cost an arm and leg.

Nella, that's so great about the jeans. I'm waiting for mine to get lose again. They were just getting to the point where I was thinking I'd get down to the next size when I put on a few more pounds over the summer. :( But I can fit into them again so that's even good.

Mara, 500 calories burned a day in exercise is fabulous. You're going to see results.

I'm going to do some tiding up here today. DS's bedroom is in upheaval since he left home when he got married. The room has become a catch-all for everything and today is the day I'm going to tidy that room up. DH wants to paint it so he'll be pleased to see a dent in the mess. :D

Diva, welcome back!!!!!!!! Missed you here:hug::hug:

Nella, I just saw your weight loss stats,:bravo:

Thanks ladies!!! DH said this morning when I was walking out the door "you are looking mighty sexy...*wink wink*" Sets a nice tone for the day :)

Originally Posted by Nella:
Thanks ladies!!! DH said this morning when I was walking out the door "you are looking mighty sexy...*wink wink*" Sets a nice tone for the day :)

<Giggles> Yes it does my friend. :D

Hello everyone! I'm so sorry I'm kicked off our team. I had that throat surgery and am down almost 15 lbs. Was 215 this a.m. but was 229.5 before surgery...Too bad I kept trying to post my weight when it was past midnite so finally did that with 3 and used up Freebies which I have never done. So that sucks. And I apologize. I'm better now but still can't really taste which helps alot. Bought a bunch of snacky stuff and this is the longest it's all stayed in the house! LOL!! :sumo:

I hate that I've been away from here bc I love you guys!! Mary wrote to see how I was and I thought that was so thoughtful of her. :) I always think about you all though, just always stay busy. And the two toddler boys we want to adopt may be coming soon, hopefully by Thanksgiving but we still don't know a date yet. Keep your fingers crossed for us that they are at least here by Christmas!! :elf:

I'm looking at 15 passenger vans now! LOL. Because with my exchange student, me and dh and our soon 2 be 5 kids, 4 of which will be in carseats, I know my Expedition won't work. It seats 8. But I hafta fold down some to be able to have my double stroller and their karate bags etc in there... So I dunno. A friend of mine adopted 7 kids, several are special needs, and she loves her van. I wonder how well those go thru bank drivethrus tho?? My Expediiton kinda cuts it close, feels like that anyway.... :yikes:

Anyhoo, miss y'all, love y'all and will try hard to come visit!!! Been watching TBL faithfully. I love Abby. And others too.. :) But she is so sweet and I just feel for her. Bless her heart.

Well, big hugsss, Selina :hug:

Well we made the very difficult decision to temporarily stop working with our trainer. It was running us $200/week ($50 each, twice a week) and we just can't afford it right now.

I do have wedding pictures to share! If you'd like to see them, go here.

Originally Posted by Nella:
Thanks ladies!!! DH said this morning when I was walking out the door "you are looking mighty sexy...*wink wink*" Sets a nice tone for the day :)

Haha, what an awesome way to start the day! :carrot:

Originally Posted by Soon2BFitChick:
Hello everyone! I'm so sorry I'm kicked off our team. I had that throat surgery and am down almost 15 lbs. Was 215 this a.m. but was 229.5 before surgery...Too bad I kept trying to post my weight when it was past midnite so finally did that with 3 and used up Freebies which I have never done. So that sucks. And I apologize. I'm better now but still can't really taste which helps alot. Bought a bunch of snacky stuff and this is the longest it's all stayed in the house! LOL!! :sumo:

Selina, please keep visiting when you can! You know I love your dedication and inspirational thoughts! Hope you are recovering from your surgery smoothly, and that you get the twins into the family soon! :hug:

practice-Very Beautiful Bride, and your pictures are so lovely, looks like you both are so very Happy!! Thank You for sharing.

Not much time, to visit, it's late and I'm beat!!

Yay it's finally Friday, hope everyone has a Great One.

Thanks for all the well wishes. Still hanging in here. Pain seems to be going away. Going to wait until Monday to start working out again. My niece is doing a kickboxing class and I am thinking of maybe joining with her. Weight is steady. Eating is ok not great.

We have a Fall Festival at work tonite. So I need to stay away from all the goodies while I am working.:devil:

Marianne-Loved the pics. You looked beautiful and so much in love ;). Thanks for posting them.

Selena-So glad you are finally feeling better. Good to hear from you.

Nella-It is so nice when someone notices all the hard work but especially when it dh!!


Have a great Friday!!!:carrot::carrot:

Beautiful pics Practice! They look like pics from a Brides magazine, lol!:D Awesome.

Sheesh, back up to 140 again:devil:, my body does not like 139:?:

Practice - I love the pictures. LOVE THEM. What a gorgeous venue, and beautiful couple! I wanna do all that!

Ok bluesers... anyword from Dix on the weekly results? Any word from Dix at all... she better be okay.

I completed my second week of bootcamp. Hip flexors are hurting today and my eyes are heavy. Fiance returned home from 12days away and wanted to watch all the TIVO's shows he'd missed. I think I finally crashed out at midnight. Gonna be a long dragging day.

Hope you all are well. I am in ONEDERLAND for the 3rd day in a row and losing about .4 daily, here's the kicker -EVEN WITH TOM HERE! Diet and exercise does work! Do not ever give up!

Check back in later.

Just a quick run by before the weekend hits.

Practice, your wedding looked beautiful and you were gorgeous.
Mercy, you'll be down again. Your body is just in shock at the new numbers. :lol:

I've got some baking to do today so take care everyone and have a good day.

Selina - You can still hang out with us!! I'm glad to hear you are on the mend. I will cross my fingers for the adoption. That is such a wonderful thing. DH and I want to adopt in a few years when his older 2 are off at college.

Retiredone - Have fun baking! I did a lot this week myself for SD's birthday and a cake walk fund raiser. I was bad though and did a fair amount of quality control sampling.

Nixmom - WAHOO!!!!!! That is so awesome!! Onederland here you are!!! Congrats on all the hard work paying off!

Practice - Your wedding was beautiful!

Mercy - Don't sweat it too much, you'll get over this hump.

Diva - How are things going? If you can't get to the gym, concentrate on your food.

Hope everyone has a fabulous day!!! I don't know what my availability to check in this weekend will be, but have a great OP weekend too just in case!

Hi Everyone. Sorry I haven't posted in a while. I've been sick for the last week. I even missed the weigh in on Monday. I'll do better this week!!!

Practice-beautiful pictures...you look so happy!!!

Is anyone having trouble logging on to fitday? I am and I'm having withdrawal pains.

Did great at the Fall Fest last night. Ordered a turkey sub and ate 1/2 with a small bag of pretzels and diet soda or water all night. Scale was back down this morning from TOM all week.

Nixmom-WooHoo on getting to onderland. I need to come join you in bootcamp.:carrot::carrot:

Mercy-My body is the same way. It loves 180 and it is constantly fighting me to stay in the 170's. Be patient it will come off again. Mine always does. :hug:

Alwe-Sorry to hear you were sick. Glad you are feeling better and can be back with us. :)

Everyone else have a great cheat free weekend.:D

Thank you for all the compliments on the wedding photos, ladies!

I have a new motivation - one of my best friends just asked me to be a bridesmaid in her wedding in August 2010. While I'd love to be at goal long before then, it certainly lights a new fire under me to get crackin'!

Morning girls. Just weighed in! Down 3 lbs this week! :carrot:

Retired - I was having fiday issues as well. Although I am not suppossed to be calorie counting, old habits die hard. And when I cant access my log... it becomes all I can THINK about!

Practice - you get to wear another fabulous dress! Right on! Get crackin' girl. This is perfect motivation to get you moving again!

Mary - bootcamp has definitely lit the fire. But I am finding that the diet is EXTREMELY important. I would also recommend a doing a Colon Cleanse (I know how icky, scary, bleck!) But I got a $10 Acai Berry Easy Cleanse at Walmart and it works GENTLY! I am a new believer in them. (this from a girl who was lucky to visit the toity for that 1 every 3 days). You can do it!

Alwe - hope you have a better week. We have 3 sick kids right now and are walking on eggshells to not get it ourselves. Heres to a healthy week for ya!

Nella- OP weekend it is! I'm in!

Well girls... I'm all dressed to the shoes to get going on my house. Gotta get some breakfast in me and get on with the day. Dont forget to weigh in ladies!

Sorry I've been MIA!!

alot to catch up on, so sorry for lack of personals! but have read all your messages and caught up!

I do want to say though, beautiful wedding pictures practiceliving! you looked stunning as bride. loved your dress!! you lookedso good! and congratulations on getting married !

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Diva nice to have you back!

Mercy =- thanks for keeping the dares going!! you so totally rock! love ya!

and retire Isabella !! you are awesome on the dares thanks!
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Today my cousin came over with her 2 daughters 4 and 7. they are so cute bless. played with them. I remember what Jillian says, its good to be active with the kids, its good for them and for you! I usually play "make believe with them" and this time, we played aliens on mars lol. the 7 year old had a poster of mars, so i stuck that up. and then i had these little teddy bears as aliens. and then we made the rest up. i usually let the kids decide the story and just help a little now and then, they really love it. in the beginning we were getting the tree house ready, by painting and chopping wood, which would then later on turn into a space ship haha.

later on the 4 year old saw my dumbells, the 3lb and 6lbs and wanted to hold them and exercise with them lol.

so i gave her something else, but it was really light and she wasnt having it. haha. so i let her hold the 3lb one, but i held it so she wouldnt feel any of the weight of it. and she was lifting it up and down with her two hands and me holding it.

then later on, we did some cardio work haha. we did jumping jacks and running on the spot. and crouching down and jumping up... and she really got into it and then she wanted to be the one to tell me what to do. so she was telling me to run and jump haha and told me when to stop lol. Little Jillian in the making!

then later on i timed both of them doing sprints, they loved it! kids have so much energy. i must have burned like 200 calories just playing with them haha and running around with them.

and then the 7year old was telling me that she has a wii. so planning on going over to play with her sometime next week. i think that will burn some calories! hehe we''re gonna have a tennis match lol.

i love how jillian always talks about being active with kids, its so true. you dont need to go a gym. kids can really tire you out! haha.

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this week has been terrible on the weight , food and exercise wise. so i'm taking a freebie on monday, as i've gained weight again! gah! i'm blaiming TOM! but now that i've recovered from cramps and heavy TOM, i'm gonna hit the workouts HARD this week! and be careful with my calories. i turn into a hungry monster during TOM. and i do know that your metabolism does slightly increase before and during TOM.
today i did week 2 of C25K and then rode my exercise bike and burned 500 calories, did interval training. then played with the kids. so in total burned 1000 calories. i was planning on doing yoga aswell tonight, but i'm feeling tired now. so will not push myself too much.

have a great sunday night everyone! i promise to bring my A game this week!!

Sorry girls I had a gain this week. Definitely back on plan and starting to workout again today.

One pound weight loss but I was hoping for more but didn't do the 30 day shred until yesterday. Oh my gosh.....I couldn't make it to the end and today I can barely lift my arms. Maybe I will try again this evening but this morning.....I can barely lift my arms to drink my coffee. Hope everyone else has a good weigh in.

Morning team! Had a good weigh in this morning down 2lbs :carrot: I made a few changes in my diet and started jogging everyday and its helped! :carrot: Had pretty good weekend, spent 3 hours working in the yard, didn't get everything accomplished that I wanted to but it looks better than it did. Took Saturday off from jogging, but picked back up yesterday and was very happy with myself. I managed to jog 2.25 miles without stopping. Its been a long time since I've been able to do that, next goal....3.2 miles non stop!

Iwana-hopefully your muscles loosen up as the day goes on!

Echo-great to have you back! Kids are so much fun aren't they!

Nixmom-woohoo on the 3lbs. Bootcamp sounds really tough, but its working, soo keep up the hard work.

practice-what beautiful wedding pics, you looked great! Sorry that you have to give up your trainer, but you can take what you've learned from the trainer and use it at home.

Mary-glad to hear the pain is getting better. How is your son's friend doing?

Nella-its nice to get compliments like that! Makes all that hard work worth it!

Diva-nice to have you back as well. Sounds like you are going thru some rough times...Hang in there girl.

Retire-where you lives sounds so beautiful, no wonder you love to go on your walks. How'd the baking go? Think this next weekend I'm going to make chocolate chip cookies...do think I could substitute applesauce for the butter?


Anyways I best get DD off to school. Everyone have a great day!

Thanks Dream710! :hug:

way to go on the 2lb loss thats fantastic!! :celebrate: :broc:

wow im so impressed by your jogging! i can only jog for 1 minute and half at a time! and thats me still dying !! i'm doing C25K week 2 at the moment.

i really admire people who can run and jog.
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quick question Blue Team.

Who is setting this weeks challenge and what is it going to be ? :)

Marianne - Your pictures are beautiful!

Hi Friends! No, I didnt drop off the face of the earth. I've been taking a sabbatical from 3FC and dieting to get my head on straight. Things in life seemed to be going down hill.....kids fighting more, mouthing off and being disrespectul, Hubby and I spatting too much, house a mess, finances a mess. I realized that I had been concentrating too much on the physical aspect of my life and totally neglecting the spiritual side. My faith has been the center of my life since I was 10, but I had let it slip away. We finally decided to buckle down and find a church home. We did find an awesome church that the whole family loves. We've been attending for 6 weeks now. Slowly, I'm starting to get my life back together. I'm finding that concentrating on my spiritual life seems to bring everything else back in line, including my food addiction. Now, I'm ready to tackle this again.

Anyways, I do apologize for not being here for everyone. But, I'm here now and will stay around through the end.

My weigh-in this morning was good - dropped all the weight I gained on the honeymoon! Now I can get back to getting rid of weight I haven't already lost. :P We didn't get a chance to grocery shop this weekend, so we're going after work tonight. It's hard to stay OP if there's no food in the cupboards!

We did a huge cleaning of our apartment this weekend. Does anyone else find it easier to drop pounds when the spaces around them are clean and tidy? I guess removing the physical clutter helps remove some of the mental clutter?

Rhonda - what a great realization! I'm glad that your new church and commitment to your faith is strengthening you, and helping your whole family. Very happy to see you back here!

Hi guys!
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Sorry to say I only maintained this week, but at least no gain.
I'm going to get crackin' this week!
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Have a great week everyone!
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~Suzie

:cheer3: :goodluck: everyone! :cheer3:

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Hi y'all!!! Congrats Rhonda on finding a church home. We want to find one here too. We are still members in our old hometown churches! Not good. But when we go here, we go to Lakewood, or we did before it moved. Haven't been to the new one. Glad to hear you are back too! I have tonsil surgery and was missing in action too. :)

Hi Marianne and everyone who said hiya to me and good luck with my new babies and all that. Thank you for caring. :hug:

I'm so tired. So much going on but worth every minute. :)

Will stop in soon again, big hugs to each of you, so glad to see so many are still in the challenge! Don't you all love this place? :dance:

Hugs, Selina :hug: