Thanks Bigmid & Nella. I guess my blow up did the trick because things were actually very pleasant last night. I just hope they remain that way. :) We are finally getting things organized and it's starting to feel like home so we'll see. Maybe I should blow up more often huh? LOL! I do have a tendency to hold stuff in until the explosion happens. It's an Aries thang, hehe!

Anyways, I have grocery shopping and stuff to do today before our little windy winter storm blows in...I miss Spring...I miss the longer, lighter days. I swear I can barely make it past 9 p.m. and I used to be a 11 p.m. to midnight type of gal. *sigh*

Y'all have a great day!

Thanks Mary ! so sweet of you :) i appreciate the support on the binge free days! That book sounds very interesting :) and i'm glad that it touched you. thanks for telling us about it! how many days left till your holiday ? i bet you're excited!

and thats great that you combine exercise and biggest loser!! :cheer:

Sorry you're having a hard time Diva :hug: hope things get settled once you're settled in your new home

Thanks Bigmid on the warm wishes! :)

well done Blue Team! we rocked it!! :cheer3: :cheer3:

Nella, sorry to hear that you have such a hard time being a step mom :hug: that must be hard. even if they dont realise it yet, they are so lucky to have you as a step mom. one day they will realise it!

aww thanks so much Team Leader!!! that's such a lovely inspiring thing to say! really appreciate it Angela!!!!

Thanks Nixmom! you're rocking it with the bootcamp, way to go :drill:

Diva, glad that things are getting better :hug: i miss spring too! winter can be so depressing with the short daylight hours.

Electric was out htis morning. What amess trying to get ready for work. Just wanted to stop in and say "Hi". Did great yesterday. I will catch up later PRay for electricity

Hey chickies!

Not much to report here. Waiting for TOM to go away, and chugging my water.

Angela - I just figured out that you are up in Nova Scotia! My brother's longtime girlfriend just started teaching at a university up there. The pictures I've seen are beautiful!

Diva - you get em girl!

Echo - Thanks for the kind words. Kids have a hard time seeing what's in front of their faces sometimes.

Nixmom - Keep rockin it at boot camp girl!!

I'm sorry for all those getting beaten by the snow. I guess it's a lot more fun when you can stay home and enjoy it. Around here, half an inch shuts the whole town down. LOL.

Hope everyone has a nice OP day!!!

ETA- I'm such a dummy and didn't check the results thread! Wow a tie with me and Retiredone!! Wahoo! Congrats to all the other losers last week!

Hello everyone. This week is going so fast for me. DIL's mother is here until the weekend and my schedule is gone haywire. With the snowy roads I'm not walking for safety reasons and then I'm not getting on the bike until after 9 or 10 pm. Way too late but it must be done. And of course we've been Christmas shopping and that's enough to put anyone's schedule off. I've read the posts but it's getting late and I still haven't gotten on the bike yet.

On a very bright note I'll be going home this weekend. I've been away from home for 6 weeks come Sunday and I'm just longing to see my own bed and my own kitchen and my own everything, hahaha. DS and DIL are very good to me though and I'll miss them and especially Baby. He now holds his arms up to me when he wants to be lifted. Maybe I'll sneak him in my suitcase and take him home. He'll be 9 months old on Friday and got his first tooth today!!

Anyhoo, let's all do our very best this last half of the week and get the best out of everything we do.

Catch you all later. Have a good evening.

Isabella - You are so close to goal!!! I'm glad you are still enjoying your time with your family, but I'm a homebody. I like my own stuff, so I understand being ready to go.

Morning ladies!

Sounds like everyone is having some fun winter weather this week! We had a lot of wind and rain yesterday, but it was 75 degrees!

So no news to report. Still holding on to some TOM bloat. I had a hungry day yesterday where I just wanted to eat all day long. It wasn't a boredom thing, my stomach actually hurt I was so hungry. But today is better, and I hope to be OP all day. I need to get some water down though...so off to chug!

I'll check in later! Have a great day!

Hi Angela. We got some of that storm this morning but not like you guys had. School closed for the afternoon because of the ice pellets but it wasn't too bad after all was said and done. Oh my, this is only the first half of December and we've got so much snow already. I've stopped walking outside this week and I'm on the exercise bike for at least an hour each day instead.

I had potato chips today. I calorie count so they aren't a forbidden food but they are a trigger food for me. But I ate a few handfuls and no more. I have such a hard time not eating the full bag but DIL had them opened and I dipped in and had a few and there were chips left to put away, hahaha. I never went over my calories for the day and had a great supper. The Christmas treats are starting to burst out of the cupboard here at DS's place. Today there were the chips, chocolates and cookies that made an appearance. It's to be expected this time of year and I guess we'll all have a little something during the holiday season. But I'll try and resist as much as possible especially as I don't want to regain. It just takes too long to get the weight back off again.

Anyway, let's have a great weigh in this week.

Sorry I'm out, ladies! I have barely been on 3FC lately - partly due to lack of time, and partly not feeling like I'm finding what I need here anymore, after many years on the site.

I wish all of you the best of luck in everything you do, and healthy, happy lives!

Awww We will miss you Marianne. :( Come visit us sometime! Take care and I hope you have a nice holiday. :hug:

Well, ladies I decided to make sticky notes for my desk that has WATER CALS EXERCISE on the tops of them. :strong: :swim:

And I wont have time or be here every day to write on them, I'm trying not to obsess about them being done perfectly, but when I am here all day I can easily get in 5 mins of exercise and can take note of how many water bottles I drink and count cals all day because I memorized most things I eat anyway, after years of counting them. Grrr. So wish me luck that this helps me move forward more. I find that when I hold myself accountable I do better. :dance:

Oh and I am not going to change my pic on here til I get to 177, 100 lbs off and one lb less than I've even been as an adult. I was 178 for 2 weeks or so in 1996. Do any of you have goals like that too? (I also have a white top I want to wear this spring or summer, should make it!)

Will be back later!
Selina :hug:

you're welcome Nella :hug:

aww Isabella i can imagine you looking foward to your bed and your own way of doing things. but yeh i can imagine you missing the baby, bless

hey Angela, my last chance workout (biggest loser) dvd arrived in the post this morning! earlier than i expected, and the other 30day jump start aswell!

i did the last chance workout. wow killer workout!

on the last chance workout, its really cute they do these week by week schedules. but since i've been working out for awhile now, i skipped to the last week and did all 3 workouts. its a great workout, and i just love it when she says last chance workout! hehehehe. full workout was about 1 hour and i burned 450 calories :) i am beat! took a shower and now going to have organic apricot yogurt :)

Angela, wow you live in such a beautiful place!!!! you are so lucky :)

Nella i hear ya on the TOM bloat. i think i'm expecting TOM as i've been crazy hungry lately and feel abit bloated.

omg snap Nella! i totally wanted to eat all day long yday, and i did! had a major binge. totally paid for it this morning by gaining a pound since yesterday gah!! but its probably a combo of food weight and water retention, cause the calories i overate, would have just been a 0.2lb gain. so going to workout hard for the next few days to make up for it!

today i was on plan though :) ate my BMR calories and worked out.

isabella, i love potato chips!! good on ya for staying within calories!

and i agree with NElla, you are so close to your goal! well done!!

Marianne - all the best !!! good luck!

Good luck Selina! sounds like a great plan :)

Angela, hope everything is okay wih referent to the storms. hope you get the dvds soon, so we can compare notes!

howdy gals, quick post, off to bed, but this is the first time I could log in all day. The 3FC log in system was messed up all day. :(

Well TOM is gone, and the scale was down to...well, not quite sure i think I need a new scale. It said 165.4, then it said 166.2, then it said 164.8, then it said 165.6. SO, I'll be buying a new scale tomorrow, lol. The battery in it is new, so that's not the problem. Anyway, I'm fairly sure I'm back at 165.something. So yay!

Angela - sorry about the bad weather!

Echo - Yay for the DVD's!!! The workout didn't feel too hard while I was doign it (some of the stuff I had to slow down on) but I sure did feel it for a few days after! I hope TOm goes away soon. Try to resist the binges!! I did better this month on the binging than last month.

Soon2B - You'll totally be able to rock that white top this spring!!! Keep up the good work!! And I started the sticky note thign today too to track my water. i can't ever remember how many bottles I've had, so now I have a check off sheet.

I couldn't get on at all yesterday. I had Monte post my weigh in just in case I couldn't get back here. Packing this morning and really looking forward to leaving tomorrow. I love how vacation brings the family back together. Didn't make my goal but I will take the 173's hopefully by the time I get back I will hit the 160's.

Angela-kwym about cold wintery weather. I feel the same way. Just curl up with some hot chocolate and a good book under a blanket, that's my motto. I checked out out your link...wow you live in a beautiful area. Very fortunate. Vacation spot all year long!

retired- I can just imagine how much you will miss that little guy but going home is so nice.

Marianne-We will miss you. Good luck with all your pursuits and keep up the hard work. You have come so far!

Nella-Yay for 165's.:carrot::carrot: Can't wait to get there.

Selina- Way to go on coming up with a plan but don't obsess about it or it takes all the fun out of it. I sometimes wish I was a little ocd lol! I tend to come up with a plan and no commitment to see it thru. By the way I think you look beautiful in the pic you have posted.

Echo-As soon as I get back I am ordering those dvd's. Yay to you for going right to the third step and doing all three. You are an athlete!!! :carrot:

Well I will certainly miss you all. Good luck on the final weigh in. See you ;) all next Monday!!!