BLUE Team Week 11 CHAT
 

Glad to hear i can still find ya Mercy! :hug: miss ya too babes!

yeh :cb: TOM has finally finished. lost the 1lb i had gained due to TOM this week , so i'm back at the weight i was at week 9. i just put in my weigh in, for this week, which is no change.

this challenge has been such awesome motivation for me!!

what are we gonna do when it finishes :( i'm really gonna miss it and you guys :( is there going to be another one? hehe im hooked lol

love you guys!!! :grouphug:

Thanks Mary! means alot to know i'm not the only one!! :hug: thank you so much for your kind and supportive message.

and im glad to hear your back in the game. sorry about your back pain though :hug:

That's me too Mary! i'm great with the exercise, and then i wipe out all the hard work by binging!
awesome, glad to have you with me on the clean eating! we've got similar goals ie date-wise, so we can be partners in crime :broc: :cb: hehe and it coincides with the final weigh in for the challenge!!

Isabella, losing 14lbs on this challenge, is awesome!! :celebrate:

hope everyone has a kick *** week this week!

anyone have any ideas what the challenge for this week could be?

I have been wondering about this as well. I love having the challenges, I don't know if I would have gotten this far as quickly without them (and I may not have made it at all. I am willing to continue leading the Red Team, but Blue Team seems to have lost dixied for now, so maybe you guys should get together and discuss who you want (or is willing ;) ) to lead your team in the next challenge. Then we can work out the details for the Spring challenge. I'm also going to try and find out about becoming a moderator for this board, as it would make things a bit smoother if the team leaders were moderators.

Hi everyone,

Haven't been feeling well lately, just a bout of the tummy flu I think. I was surprised I gained.. but TOM just hit and I've been feeling kind of bloated ugh. We're off to spend the week with DH's family -- hope everyone that celebrates Thanksgiving has a great one!

Yeah I do agree that there needs to be some changes as far as Team Leaders go & Moderation of these challenges. I know peeps have real lives but it's disappointing when your Team leader abandons the team. I think a promise is a promise but whatever. I know I've lost all motivation for this. I think I'll still post my WI's through until the end but as far as committing to any more BL Challenges...I dunno...

The good news is despite poor eating habits as of late and virtually NO exercise other than packing, painting, carrying heavy vinyl, lifting, carrying and lots of raking, I am still managing to lose slowly. I was actually shocked this morning. I was expecting to see myself back into the 190's and I lost 4 ounces. It ain't much, but so long as that bad boy is moving downward. I'll take it!;)

Good afternoon Blue Team. Seems as if it was a couple of weeks ago when this challenge started but here we are with just a few weeks left and then it's Christmas. That's the next big eating challenge for me and most Canadians but I know what's coming up this Thursday for my American friends. THANKSGIVING! Now, I'd like to take a minute to remind you all that it is a time to give thanks for what you have, including good food and not a time to eat everything in the house. :D How tempting to have all that luscious food in front of you. But you can restrain yourselves and eat "real" food instead of the fat-laden repast spread out. (You can have a taste though, but no binging.)

I've been noticing that most of the grocery store flyers have more and more "non food" items for sale as the holiday season is coming upon us. What I mean about non food is that instead of seeing lots of fruits, vegetables and meats on the front pages of the flyers, I'm now seeing party trays, chocolates, cookies, cakes and other tempting morsels that are not only fat and sugar laden but expensive as well. Food is supposed to nourish us but these dainties don't nourish anything but the fat we're trying to get rid of. How is it that we can't have a great time together at a party (be it just family and close friends) without the junk. Couldn't we have wonderful trays of fruit with a sensible yogurt dip instead of the dozens of varieties of cookies and pastries that usually crowd our tables? How about a big pot of vegetable soup and crusty rolls with great cheeses and slices of real meats or vegetables instead of the fat-laden entrees that we seem to think we have to serve. I'm no Scrooge and I do like the cookies, cakes and pies but I'm sick of eating myself under the table. As I get a bit older and possibly wiser, I'm doing less cooking and baking for the holidays and I'm certainly doing much less grocery shopping for junk. This year I'm making a few cookies and a few cakes but I'm also going to be making stuffed dates and pickled eggs and beets. Dates are so sweet by themselves but with a big fat pecan stuck in the middle with a dab of almond butter I think I'll survive the "non foods" quite well. I'm not serving potato chips and dip, either. People will eat well at my house if I have a party but they'll be eating real food that I've made myself and know what's in them.

(Steps down from soap box, straightens hair and clothing and melts into the crowd.)

I had a great walk today. It's sunny and cold but just great for walking. Hope everyone has a great day.

hey girls!! This week is increadibly busy for me. I'm working extra hours and preparing stuff for Turkey day in the evenings. So I apologize in advance for my absence this week, btu it is what it is.

Diva - WAHOO on the scale moving down still!!

Echo - Yay for TOM being gone!

Somni - Sorry about TOM. It sucks I know.

Retired - I agree. The cookies and cakes are unncessary. A nice fruit and nut tray are just as yummy. I love to bake, but now I don't eat all of it that is in sight. Glad you had a nice walk!

Not much on the weight loss front here. I had been down to 166.2, but weigh in this AM was 168.0. Not sure waht happened over the weekend, ate out some, so I'm guessing salt is the culprit. But when you're out of town, it' shard to not eat out, lol. Anyway, hoping the next few weigh ins are kinder to me. Goal of being at 160 by the end of the month seems very unlikely now, lol. I think I'm going to have to break down and join a gym next week. I don't want to, but the exercise has not been happening much around here.

I really hope someone is able to take over the reins for the Team Leader for us on the Blue Team.

Hope everyone has a wonderful week and for those that celebrate, a Wonderful Thanksgiving, filled with family and great memories. I do plan to enjoy myself, I will remember it's just one day, and a taste of a few select goodies are already planned for. {I only need 4lbs to make my goal!! that I set for myself on this challenge}

Got on the scale and was back down to 175 today. Thanks Echo for the idea of clean eating to get back on track. Two days down. I went to the mall last night and really wanted to share a Cinnabon with my sis but we both decided together we don't need that crap anymore! lol!!! Thankfully we made each other strong. :D Busy day at work today. Have club from 4-5 then a parent involvement night that runs from 6-7:30. Thankfully I live two minutes from work. So I can throw Chix in oven at lunch time come home at 5 eat and go back. We are serving healthy snacks at the parent involvement so I will be ok there send me strength for my club though. We are having a little thanksgiving celebration and I think I will go pick up a small fruit tray so I can nibble on that while the kids eat the junk.

Congrats on how well you have done in this challenge. You are an inspiration.

Thanks for the reminder. It is so easy to get caught up in the eating to enjoy the holiday mentality we have all grown up with. I was just thinking to myself last night how to get rid of the pies once Thursday is over. Thankfully I have company coming in from out of town so they will eat some but with hardly no one living home anymore I need to learn to pare down how much I make. As leftovers will mostly be consumed by me. I figured I would send some home with sis and my ds. Leave some for guests on Friday and what is left goes out to trash on Saturday.

You have done amazing in this challenge. Even if you don't meet your number goal you can certainly be proud of your accomplishment.:carrot::carrot:

Have a great Tuesday! BL tonite Can't wait:D

Hey Blue Team,

I too was wondering if we will have another challenge after this one. I know I don't post as much as some of you but I do read all the posts and celebrate with all of our accomplishments. I would really like to have another one as I think I have been doing not to bad (except the last 2 weeks) and have been inspiried by all of you....so Thank you to all.

I finally lost that dreaded 1lb and now hope that I am back on my way down. I was hoping to make it to 210 by the end of the month but not looking good so far. I had not been able to exercise with having that stupid cough for 4.5 weeks, but I think it's on the way out and now exercise should be on the way in.

I forgot to post my congratulations to week 9's biggest losers so I am sorry and a big Congrats to all of you.

Congratulations to week 10's winners Happening, LeslieB, and Nixmom...WTG

Congratulations also to the red team that is quite the loss you team posted.

Well must go get ready for work now, everyone have a great day.

Wow I won?

That's crazy. I feel a bit disconnected from this challenge right now, and I don't know if that's 100% me or have a lot of people fallen off of the challenge? Probably me.

Congratulations!! Keep up the good work.

Hey team!

Congrats Happening on being the biggest loser.

Happening- In the beginning everyone is excited to be on the team and get started, then life happens and slowly the number of team members dwindle. Usually the team leader is involved, sets up challenges, basically keeps the team together. We really haven't had that this season. So you are not alone feeling disconnected. I think we should pick a team captain for the remainder of the time and, regroup. We have a lot of strong team members still around that we can still have fun and lose weight while doing it!

Bigmid- Sometimes they continue the chats between the official challenges, usually they combine the two teams to create one chat. Congrats on losing the dreaded lb.

Mary-congrats on eating clean! Sounds like you have a real plan set in place.
Only a few more days til black friday...wooohoooo!

Nella-I know what you mean about a busy week. It never seems like there's enough time in the day! I hope you finally get sit down and relax sometime this week.

Retire-Once again you're right on! Thanksgiving not only needs to be celebrated in feast but by the memories spent with your family! Ok you're "real food" has my mouth watering! I love pickled eggs and your dates sound yummy!:drool:

Diva-You sound so busy, you guys must be meeting yourselves coming and going. Only a few days left before the big move! I bet you guys are excited and anxious for it all to be over with so you can just sit and enjoy it. Has Matt decided what he's going to do school wise?

Somni-Hope you are feeling better!

Hi to everyone else!

Not much going on in my neck of the woods. I'm working 12 hours days this week counting down til Black Friday.


Does anyone have a favorite thing to do on Thanksgiving or a favorite memory? Mine would be sitting around the table with the family plotting our moves for the biggest shopping day of the year!

Does anyone have any suggestions on a new team leader for the remainder of the season?

Hope everyone has a great week.

Got up early and put my brisket in the oven for party tonite. Pie making/sis b-day party. I have a plan on what I will eat 'cause I am not screwing this up. I will have one brisket sandwich and a big salad and a sliver of cold stone creamery cake ( my dd works there and we got 50% off the price) So they have become the favorite cakes for b-day's. Then nothing else for me. I saw 174.6 this morning on the scale and it has really motivated me seeing the number go a little lower each day. Can't wait to get back to working out. I need to go see my dr. cause now the pain has moved to my hip. Never should have went to chiro but was trying to take the easy shortcut way but it didn't work. Suppose I will have to do physical therapy now.

I agree we need a team leader. In Dix's defense, at the end of the last challenge she shared that there is a lot going on in her life (ie: major changes) That would send most of us for a loop. She has been a strong encouraging leader for the other two challenges I was a part of. My prayers are with her thru her difficult time.

We usually do just combined a chat thread for both teams until the next challenge starts to coincide with the next BL season (sometime in Jan). Or we could just continue this one until then we have added weeks in the past. Either way is fine with me. Monte was right though the leader needs to have moderator privileges or it won't work.

I got a cute email today with this poem in it.

Happy Thanksgiving to all of my teammates in the US:

MAY YOUR STUFFING BE TASTY,
MAY YOUR TURKEY BE PLUMP.
MAY YOUR POTATOES 'N GRAVY HAVE NARY A LUMP.
MAY YOUR YAMS BE DELICIOUS.
MAY YOUR PIES TAKE THE PRIZE,
MAY YOUR THANKSGIVING DINNER STAY OFF OF YOUR THIGHS!!

Have a great POP Wednesday!!

I know some of you were looking for heart rate monitors. I saw this one on Amazon. It is one sale now till black friday.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00..._rd_i=10805321

It wouldn't let me paste the image but go to this link. It is selling for 39.99 with a regular price of 149.00

Thanks Mary!!!!!

I'll be adding that to my ever growing cart on Amazon, lol

Hello Everyone. What a trying time the last days have been trying to post. I keep hitting the refresh button and sometimes I get in but it's touch and go.

Happy Thanksgiving to all my American Friends. Have a great day, give thanks and enjoy family and friends.

Hi everyone. It's me again. It's so quiet on the threads today with all the problems and Thanksgiving. But I was wondering what you did (now that it's over or almost) to control over-eating at the big meal? Or if you did over-eat what did you learn to help next time? I know special times we all tend to eat more and we want to eat what everyone else is eating so how did you do?

I just got off the scales and have lost 2.5 pounds this week. I didn't lose anything last week so I'm so happy this morning. This is my free day so I hope I don't blow it by really over eating. This is the day I have my dessert for the week so I don't want to eat so much to push the scales back up.

I guess you'll all come back after the weekend. It's been dead boring on this thread since Wednesday night.

Have a good weekend, everyone.

I totally agree Monte!! i dont think i would have lost 9.3 lbs so far - without knowing every week i was going to be held accountable! i hope we can have another biggest loser challenge after this? hehehe

ooh a spring challenge, awesome, when does that start? I think Mary said Jan? cool :)

Yeh indeed! :broc: :broc: lol

You're welcome! and thats totally awesome resisting cinnabon!!!

My update on my binge eating problem. i have realised that i'm a food addict. but i've had 7 days of binge free (1300-1700 calories), and 2 day which were not mindless binge eating, but high calorie days (2134, 2420)

i saw the biggest loser special STOP READING if you dont want spoilers!

"where are they now" and so could relate to Erik i think it was, that said he is a food addict. i really liked his story about how he thought it would have to be blood sweat and tears to lose the weight again and bob was like, no it doesnt have to be, its balance.


and it made me realise, how every single day DOES make a difference, whether its going up or down the scale. everyday we have to make a decision to do that workout, to eat within our calories, to eat healthy.

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congrats to the Red team for winning last weeks weigh in!

and to our fellow team mates happeningf for being the biggest loser of the week! and LeslieB, Nixmom and Bigmid !
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Aww thats so sweet! i totally agree!

congrats! :broc:

i totally agree!! maybe we can have a team leader to take over temporarily whilst Dixie is away.

Do we have any takers??

Thats awesome on the scale going down, love when that happens!

I hope she's okay. yeh that's totally understanable. we've been doing okay. we're a strong blue team! i like to think Dixie would be proud of us for continuing on ...powering on through and supporting each other in her absence :cheer3: :cheer3: we're like the underdogs in this challenge and i always root for the underdogs hehehe.

oooh adding extra weeks sounds good to me! :) :broc: :broc: i'd like to continue with the challenge through xmas break.

that poem was cute ;)
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aww sorry Isabella! for not posting, you were right, the server went down, and it got really frustrating.

congrats on losing 2.5lbs ! thats totally awesome!!!

my update this week:

stayed within 1300- 1700 calories this week, with only 1 high calorie day of 2420 calories.

i've only done 1 day of proper workout exercise, and the rest of the days, been doing major house cleaning stuff, had window glazers on monday, then was cindrella scrubbing floors the other day for 2 and half hours, whichleft me very sore for a couple of days! and another day ran errands which involved alot of walking. and then past 2 days had complete rest. so my body has recovered and rested and am ready to hit the workoouts HARD today!

yesterday i had planned to workout but felt lazy - but watching the biggest loser Erik's story made me realise, that if i'm not ontop of things, i can easily see the scale creep up again. so everyday i really do have to make a conscious decision to plan and do my workout and eat within my calories. its easy for me to say, oh i cant be bothered to workout today, oh it will be fine, but no it wont. i have to workout 5 days a week, for 1 hour minimum.

i'm using my digital scale to monitor my weight daily which corresponds to my ticker. my digital scale weighs me slightly less than the official manual scale that i use for the biggest loser challenge, but i like the digital scale as its been helping me to stay on course. i wont change scales because i started with the manual scale for the challenge. but i think when we start a brand new challenge, i will switch to my digital scale. its less forgiving though! as you do clearly see gains, as opposed to on the manual scale where you cant physically see little gains or losses.

I'm going to do my last chance workout today! have a great day blue team. good luck with the weigh in tommorow!

this is my LAST CHANCE WORKOUT plan: will change to blue on completion.

workout 1: bike ride - 40 minutes - burn 400 calories.

workout 2: p90x kenpo X - 45 minutes - burn 430 calories.

workout 3: wind sprints - 22 minutes (maintain heart rate 80-90%) - burn 220 calories.

Total calorie burn AIM = 1050calories - equivalent to 1/3 of a 1lb. (0.3lbs) (30% of 1lb)

Total calories burned so far through workout = 0 calories. ~ 0lbs (0% of 1lb)

hehehe i just ordered the latest 2 biggest loser dvds from america , i cant wait to get them! will take a month though. should get them around 24th december. ooh im so excited!

last chance workout with jillian michaels . and 30 day jump start with bob harper

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Morning bluesies!

Sorry I have not been posting, although I have been reading up on the thread when I can.

CONGRATS to all the losers the last few weeks! What an accomplishment to get through these holiday nightmares unscathed! I, on the other hand, am taking my 2nd freebie this week. Wedding, birthdays, left overs, and general stress have totally sabotaged my downward movement. But I am back on track as of today. Start 2nd round of bootcamp tomorrow so gotta regroup!

I, too, am totally pumped to have TBL show and challenge start again in January. You can count me in. I am determined to finish this challenge, since the last 3 I was in I fell out of! We are almost there!

Would love to catch up. Gotta go take advantage of my last day off before back to work tomorrow though. So have a great Sunday, and I'll check back soon! Be good to yourselves!

AWESOME!!!! thanks so much Angela!! we should definately have a biggest loser challenge to coincide with the show on jan 5th then!! :) yipeeeee :carrot::carrot::carrot:


OMG thats so freaking AWESOME!!!!!!!!!! THANKS so much Angela for being our new team leader!!! YEH!!!!! omg i'm so gonna sign up!! Yeh! as i know i will need all the help post holiday. i'm soooooooooooooo excited! i'm gonna use my digital scale for the new challenge in jan :) which is less forgiving, but will help me motivated to stay on course.

yah you guys should definately have MOD privileges.

i would love to stay on the blue team :cheer3: awesome will definately put in the request. thanks again Angela, you're a total star!

i thought it would be fun to revisit the pop challenge from week 2.

i've already set it up ready for week 12!

http://www.3fatchicks.com/forum/bigg...week-12-a.html

join in! :)

OMG! Where did my post go????

LMAO! I typed up this long thing...O'well, the gist of it is, I am so excited you've stepped up to be our leader! AND I am excited to be starting in Jan after the Holidays!!! WhooooooHooooo!!!!!!:carrot:

oh i hate when that happens! its happened to me a few times, so now before i hit submit, i copy the whole text, that way its saved in clipboard ready to paste if it gets lost.

i'm so excited aswell that we have a BL challenge after the holidays!! yipeeeeeeeeeeeeee
:dance: :dance:

oh just realised im gonna be out all day tommorow, so gonna go ahead and record my weight for the weigh in based on this mornings weight. which means i lost 1.1lbs this week according to my manual scale (71.5kg - 157.6lbs)

Hi Blue Team!!!

I am sooooo excited that a new challange will be startng Jan 5th and I truly hope that I can stay on the Blue Team. I enjoy it here.

Retiredone - 2.5lbs WTG!!!

Echo - 7 day binge free...that's awesome

Maryshady - WTG on the scale going down

MonteCrisco - Thank you so much for all the work you have put into helping our team. It is greatly appriceiated.

Cape Breton Chick - Thank you so much for stepping in as new leader of the Blue Team. I can hardly wait for the new challange to start. This one has helped so much and I am happy with the progress so far.

I would love it if we added a couple weeks to this one til the new challange starts as it would help keep me honest over the holidays:)

Well I just posted another 1.4lbs down which I am happy about as this is the right direction, but November has been a very slow progress. I had been doing so well but the one gain I had seemed to stay with me forever. Oh well December is a whole new month.

Good luck to everyone on the weigh in tomorrow. GO BLUE TEAM GO!!!!!

Well company's finally gone. Things can return to normal around here. Unfortunately when they left they left some of their weight here on me! lol!! The scale was up this morning to 178.6 so I took a freebie. I am sure most of it is water weight as I had some high sodium stuff and made turkey soup yesterday. Today I am back to eating clean 100%.

Hope everyone had a good holiday. I am going to start working out again tonite. Very lightly I might add. Hip is still bothering me but I am getting antsy so I need to start with something. Exercise is good for my psyche as well as my body kwim?

Have a great monday!

Angela, thanks for taking over the leadership of the blue team for our next challenge. I'm nearly at goal and I need some strong, positive leadership. :)

Been good all weekend with food and got in my 6k walk each day as well as today. I'm so tired, though. I feel as if I've been flattened by roller. Too much Christmas shopping on the hoof without a car to drag home the parcels. And today the wind was so strong I was almost airborne several times as well as I felt as if I was walking against a wall. One of the hardest walks I've ever had.

I'm gone to wrap a few more of those Christmas gifts I've dragged home on foot. Have a good day.

aww thanks so much Bigmid!! and i totally agree, this challenge has been such great motivation for me too! you've been doing really well, losing consistently! well done you! well done on your weight loss this week!!