Angela - congrats on buying yourself a pedometer!

i wear it all day to track my movements. its fun to see how many calories i have burned throughout the day.

have fun with it!

@ Echo,

Thought you would appreciate this:

http://www.nbc.com/the-biggest-loser...s-liz/1180917/

Btw, you have a beautiful face chica, I think what Cape Breton Chick said was right on the money.
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QOTD - What pushes/motivates you to lose weight?
1. Morbid obesity runs in my family..my mom was well over 300 lbs., sis was until wls, brother who is close to 500 lbs., and my grandmother was over 300 lbs. Both my grandmother and mother died in their early 60's. Very worried my brother won't live much longer. Lord willing I would like to be around for quite a while more.

2. I want to look good and feel sexy for myself but also for my dh. I feel like I didn't keep up my end of the bargain. I have been overweight since I had my girls. He never says a thing about it but I still know that he would rather my body look like it used to when we were younger than how it does now.

3. Clothes shopping. I hate clothes shopping. I have a big pooch and nothing looks right. Can't wait to be able to fit and look good it tight fitting shirts. (might need a tummy tuck for this but I still want to be near goal if that is what I chose to do)

Had a great day yesterday. Didn't get much housecleaning done but oh well that's what the weekend is for. Meeting an old coworker for lunch today. Having a chix salad sans the garlic bread and bringing my own salad dressing. Already took out chix for dinner too so can't order out tonite. And it is a really big pack of chix so I will make something chix tomorrow night too. No eating out this weekend.

Angela-wtg on purchasing the pedometer. I spent tons on a sensewear (bodybugg type thingy) and don't really use it. It was cool at first but got bored with it. Am thinking of charging it up and trying again during vacation.

I have 10 days until vacation and 4.4 lbs to lose to meet goal. Wish me perseverance.

Have a great Friday!!!

Originally Posted by Cape Breton Chick:

QOTD - What pushes/motivates you to lose weight? [I](old pictures, clothing, children, health concerns.. etc)

I'm getting old and I want to finally look good in clothing. :D

But, seriously, I don't want to take a cereal bowlful of drugs every morning as I get older. My mom lived to be 92 and was diabetes, hypertension, heart disease FREE. She had no life-style diseases that often plague elderly people. So I try to exercise and eat healthy and lose weight. Looking good in clothing is a real perk.

So today I'm not walking. My legs feel like rubber and my arms ache (not that I walk on my arms). I'm going to hit the bike and DIL has the car today so we're going to do a bit of shopping, but nothing major. Next week she plans on hitting the city and do a big Christmas shopping spree. I, on the other hand, have just about all my shopping done locally and have the gifts wrapped. (insert smug smile here :smug:)

I weigh in tomorrow but don't know if I'll show much of a loss as I had a big 2.5 loss last week. But where's there's life, there's hope. Hahahaha.

Glad you all like the cookie philosophy statement. :D Don't forget to substitute any beloved food for the cookie in that phrase.

Must go pay a few bills. Catch you all later tomorrow with the damages from the scale.

Good morning lovely ladies!! TGIF!!!!

Angela - congrats on the pedometer! I've been wanting a tracker type thing for a while and found that Costco has BodyBugg for $179.99 ($40 off), so hopefully I can get one next paycheck.

Retired - Sometimes we all just need a day (or few weeks in my case) off to recoup. Enjoy the shopping! And I'm almost done with gifts, and halfway done with wrapping :)

Mercy - How's the exercise treating you! Glad to see you here still!

Mary - Good plan on the chicken! I found that planning meals for a few days at a time really helped me keep on track. * perseverance* to you!

QOTD - What pushes/motivates you to lose weight?

1. The camera/ mirror. Having to look at myself and see someone I didn't like/ like being began this whole journey for me.

2. Wanting to be healthy so I can have a baby.

3. Fitting in to my old clothes, which for the most part, I do now. DH has promised he'll buy me anything I want when I make goal.

4. My 10 year HS reunion next fall. I want to show up looking great, and not be "that girl" who got fat.

So, I've been off the wagon for a few weeks. I think I needed a mental break where I didn't have to think about anything. I've maintained, so that's good. I am back on track for the weekend though. I'm hoping the break will do wonders for me, like a shock to the system. I had hit a bit of a plateau for November, and I think that led to me giving up a little.

But I have a renewed sense of wanting to lose the weight. So here I am, in for the long haul.

Originally Posted by Mercy03:
@ Echo,

Thought you would appreciate this:

http://www.nbc.com/the-biggest-loser...s-liz/1180917/

Btw, you have a beautiful face chica, I think what Cape Breton Chick said was right on the money.
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Awww Mercy! you totally just made my day, thank you so much, you put a big smile on my face! hehehe :D

thanks for the link just watching it !
bahahahahhahahahahahahahahhahahaha LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:D thanks for that!

LOL @ no this is a slasher movie and her reaction to the spider web was PRICELESS LOL!!!

haha thanks for the laugh.

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hope everyone has a great friday! my best friend is coming over tonight for dinner and then we're gonna have a gossip girl marathon!! i've already worked out what i'm going to eat so i dont have to be OCD infront of her measuring things out and calculating my calories haha. and have already worked out how many of the "treat foods" i can have for dessert also. preperation is key! :)

she's also spending the night, so it will be fun watching gossip girl all night hehe.
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Originally Posted by Cape Breton Chick:
G'mornin' Ladies! It's Friday.. lol Just had to add that.. this week has been a long one at work, so I am so looking forward to these two days off!

QOTD - What pushes/motivates you to lose weight? (old pictures, clothing, children, health concerns.. etc)

Have a great Day!!! :D

Hey Angela. thats a great question.

what motivates me to lose weight, is to look good and feel comfortable in my old clothes, that i havent been able to wear for years and years. at the moment i cant afford to buy new clothes. so back in august i decided, if i cant afford to buy clothes, why dont i lose the weight so i can wear my old clothes and look good in whatever i wear, and losing weight is free!!

so yeh my motivation is to be able to wear clothes that i like. :)

Loved your answers Angela, Mary, Isabella and Nella! those are great motivators.

good luck on your goal Mary !! and i totally hear ya on the clothes shopping frustrations!

isabella, good call on taking a rest day. jillian talks about how if your legs feel like lead than its a sign of over training and you should take a rest day.

thats great Nella that you've maintained and now you're in it till the end!
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well i better get moving, i am going to do the jillian michaels, boost metabolism dvd. want to get my workout done and showered and ready and tidy up before my friend arrives.

Hi guys not that anyone is keeping tabs, but I got back later from vacation then planned hence my missing the cut off (Couldn't get to the computer until Tuesday Morning). Probably a good thing since I was slightly up it didn't count for you guys! I'm still going to weigh in though, and I'm still here reading if not just a bit quiet.

Hope everyone had a good holiday. Anyone put up a tree yet?

Idealmuse - How was your vacation?!? Glad you are back!

I put our tree up last weekend, the cats are throughly enjoying it, especially the kitten. They've knocked off half the ornaments already, so I've had to do all plastic ones this year, lol.

Echo - I hope you have a fantabulous Girl's Night tonight!!!

Diva - How's the moving going? *hugs*

Good afternoon girls. Sorry I've been MIA just been busy getting packed, and getting the utilities cut on and everything, it's hard getting stuff done with just one car. but I am all caught up now..I think. The move is tomorrow so I'll be offline until Monday unless there's a problem w/Charter and that is VERY possible considering they are idiots.

ANYHOO. ECHO, FOR THE RECORD GF, I THINK YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL AND HAVE NOTHING AT ALL TO WORRY ABOUT. :hug:

Only 20 more days??? ohmy.gif I've bought ZILCH...Wait...I bought a house, does that count???

Got everything on yesterday after I froze my BUTT off waiting for heat. We move tomorrow and Hopefully Charter will have me back online Monday but I won't hold my breath. They are idiots. When I went and paid the bill the day before Thanksgiving, I went ahead and scheduled the disconnect & reconnect for Dec 7th...so why in the **** they thought it would be okay to cut it all (cable, Phone, internet) off on Monday is beyond me....So when I call and I am on hold after going through their robot, I whispered idiots under my breath, well, some CS chick had already picked up and said she heard that and that I am directing my anger in the wrong place, and I said Um...nope I don't think so...I think It's aimed at the exact IDIOTS who got the Disconnect date wrong and after paying them over $200 a month for I don't know how long, I'd appreciate if they could get it right the FIRST time, have friendlier, more helpful customer service and get my services turned back on because I am not moving for another week. Thank you very much. She ended up transferring me to another rep because I was too hostile for her dumb ***. I reported her too BTW. Stupid twit......Yeah...I'm a Diva...Anyhooo....this has been so dang stressful. I've had several days with blood sugar above 300. When it happened today I called Jess at work crying....OMG! I NEVER do that...much less cry in front of or to people. WTH?!

Anyways, sorry to be on my soapbox but I needed to vent. LOL! :dizzy:

So, we are moving tomorrow THANK GOD! They are calling for snow but I don't care, screw it. I am just so ready to have this done. We are also getting our tree this wekend too...I think....

Y'all have a great weekend and I'll be checking as soon as I can and I am posting this weeks WI now just in case I am not back on by Monday. :hug:

Hahaha don't you HATE dumbass people in the workplace! I see all my friends and family out of work, and they are amazing hard working people, and then I go to a store or call customer service and deal with the rudest, idiotic, most ungrateful for a job peeps ever!

Good luck on the move!

Hi Angela. I'm on the Avalon Peninsula right now and it's been fairly mild but terribly windy. But I'm from central NL and they've had snow this week. We're promised snow here on Sunday. So this side of the "pond" is starting to look and feel like winter. Don't know if the snow will last for Christmas, though.

Diva, hope your moving gets less frustrating. I don't really know what it's like to move. We've been living in the same house for over 31 years and when I was a kid we lived in the house my father was born in and my sister still lives there. I don't think I'd know where to start if I was moving. Good luck to you.

Idealmuse, sorry you missed the weigh in deadline but you made it almost to the end. I haven't got up my tree yet. I usually do it about a week or week and a half before Christmas and keep it up til after New Year's. As I'm not at home right now and won't be until the 13th of December I'll have to start getting it up as soon as I get home.

Echo, have a great "sleep-over" with your friend. Not much sleep happens. :D

:wave: A big wave to everyone. Hope you have a great weekend.

@ Echo

LOL @ no this is a slasher movie and her reaction to the spider web was PRICELESS LOL!!!

haha thanks for the laugh.

The above was FUNNY, but the "it's not birds, they're insects" line had me peeing in my pants lol.

Thank gawd, she does have a soft side:D