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: