Hello Girlies. I have eaten richly today. Nuff said. I weighed in this morning and I'm the same as last week which is good but not what I wanted to see. Yes, Echo, the last 10 pounds are hard.

Babygrant, your cake is beautiful. I've done a bit of cake decorating in my day but I'm just self taught. I did DS's wedding cake last summer. I'm a bowl licker, too. I have to really control myself when doing a cake or I'll have all the icing tasted and none left for the cake.

Dora, we have tapes of our boys when they were little. They are so precious. I'm sure you will be given healing for your broken heart while listening to your children chatter and laugh.

Cat and Angela this post losing thing is like a disease. Same thing happened to me yesterday.

Mageorge 3 pounds is awsome. That's what I need to lose and it's going to take me forever.

Selina, I'm keeping my fingers crossed for that pound to come right off right away.

Ars,is your neck any better this evening? Nothing worse than a sore stiff neck.

Weebleswobble, I love clementines, too but somehow I never have trouble getting in my calories. I'm always thinking how I can eat more and keep down the calories.

Bigmid, I'm married so I don't do Valentine's Day, either. :lol: :lol: :lol: I just have a special dessert.

We have snow everywhere. It's piling up and it's hard to walk in the sticky white stuff. I hope the plows clean everything up by tomorrow morning or my morning walk will be quite a workout-- one step forward, 2 steps slipping backwards. Anyhoo, have a good evening Blue Team members.

Thanks Isabella :)

oh yes i forgot to mention. wow that cake was AMAZING babygrant, I was sooooooo impressed!!! it is beautiful

i just had a long bath which was nice. and i am soo resisting to eat anything, so having a fibre drink instead.

just keep reminding myself the weigh in is tommorow morning!!!

thanks girls. i would so been gaining instead of working to losing, if i wasnt part of this team and challenge and had the support of all you lovely ladies!!

Hi all! :wave:

I'm OP! I'm gonna post my lowest for the week! 2.5 lbs down. 197.0. Yay!!! :carrot: :broc: :cb:

If I don't post it now, I may forget tomorrow. It's Superbowl!!! :dance: Bought blackberries, apples, oranges, grapes, cucumbers, carrots, etc. for a tray tomorrow for Superbowl. We started that tradition along with the nuggets from McDs. It was 1999 and our exchange student girls had gained some weight after getting here in America the August before... so we did this so we wouldn't eat a bunch of junk. So now it's a tradition. :) Fun!!! I'm rooting for the Saints. Dh likes Colts. I don't really care. Saints sound sweeter. :angel:

I get to change my chick to 80 lbs!!! Yay!!! :yay:

I hope you all have a great weekend!!! Hugssss, Selina :hug:

Catching up on personals!

@mageorge - Way to go at your weigh in!

@Cathy - Reading about your knee pop made me cringe! I can't do jumping jacks either, otherwise my left knee screams and then nags me for weeks after. When Jillian makes that comment I just yell at the television!

@weebleswobble - Clementines are the best, aren't they?! I love how they peel so easily!

@bigmid - I wish I could donate blood, it is supposed to be so healthy for your body. I'm always a point or two low on my iron levels when I try. :(

@Echo - I'm totally sympathizing with the "I could eat all day long" affliction right now. Checked the calendar, and yep, I guess I know why I've been craving fried chicken and pizza!

@Dora - Feel better soon! Drink lots of hot tea. And gargling with some salt water always make my sore throats feel better for a while.

@Angela - Go Saints!

I am off to read in bed. My neck is really not feeling any better, and all I did today was relax, pop ibuprofen every 4 hours, and put on fresh heating pillows every 30 minutes or so. :( I hope tomorrow is better! I hope we all have a good weigh in!

ars, it's healthy to give blood? I'm all ears! Tell me more!

Selina - I love it when healthy foods and traditions start. My main struggle with special occasions is trying to think of an excuse to eat well without it being glaringly obvious that I'm trying to lose weight. Or worse yet, when there are no healthy options available! And congrats on your 2.5lbs!! :high:

ars - I hope your neck gets better soon!
Dora - Hope you're feeling better!
I generally use injury or illness as an excuse to go off plan, so I hope you guys have stronger willpower than me!

weebleswobble - I don't think I would ever choose fruit over Ben & Jerry's if my weight wasn't an issue. Maybe some day, haha, perhaps that's why my weight is an issue in the first place...

Nixmom - Hope you're still doing good without the cigs!

mageorge - Woo! Congrats on the 3lbs! I am ever so jealous! :cheer2:



And wow, turns out that going back to very strict calorie counting is not only going to be helpful for my motivation, but totally necessary for my weight loss!!!! I was obviously eating more than I thought, as for the last 2 days I have stuck rigidly to 1200-1400 calories and it has been DIFFICULT!!!! In hindsight, I estimate I was consuming at least 1800 per day before. :frypan:

My exercise hasn't been fantastic the last two days, but I'm definitely doing a 5km run today and I need to get that Ab Focus done for our last chance workout. No Thursday-Sunday challenge again this week? I don't think I would have taken part this week anyway, but if there's one next week it'll be part of my routine! I am feeling positive.

I have a night out planned for Thursday and after a discussion with my SO last night I came to the conclusion that I am not going to drink at all. It would just throw my efforts from the rest of the week down the drain. I also have a lunch out on Tuesday, but have got the menu from the restaurant website already and am going to select my healthy choices in advance. Hopefully doing both these things will mean this week will be my best yet on this challenge, so long as I can resist temptation.

hey angela, sorry you've had a rough week! hope you get some rest soon

good luck with your new eating for life plan!

the post vanishing happened to me a couple of times, now i write my messages in notepad and then copy paste them into a new message on the site.

congrats selina! you superstar you! 2.5lbs is awesome!! :celebrate: i'm so happy for you :hug:

have a great superbowl party! impressed by the healthy snacks!

wow 80lbs loss is amazing!!! :carrot: :carrot:

Aww Angela, i didnt realise about your bf, i hope he has a great time, bless.

lol Ars! thank you :) i feel better that i'm not the only one!! :)

hope you feel better with your neck, you poor thing :hug:

update from me: i am showing the same weight as i was last sunday. at first i was dissappinted, but then i did some calculations, and looked over my food journal and realised i had a few high calorie days, and total calories i ate past 6 days is approximately 13,905 calories. so on average 2317 calories per day which is 667 calories onto of my AMR calories (active metabolic calories, ie around 1650 calories).

so even though i burned 4192 calories through exercise this week, taking into consideration the high calories i ate, i pretty much balanced it out.

i do find it hard to eat within my calories pre-TOM. all willpower is thrown out the window. but going to get back on the wagon again and it will be a fresh start next week. at least on the plus side, i did not show a gain like i did last week, (i showed a 2lb gain last week!). so am relieved i'm showing a maintance instead of a gain.

these past three days i've exercised even though i felt no motivation for it and really had to force myself.

i was listening to a podcast about procrastination and it spoke about choosing one thing in your life and making a consious effort to do it regardless of your willpower or whether you want to do it or not and doing it on a regular basis. as the more you do something, it then becomes a "habit".

I think for me, taking a little holiday over xmas whilst my cousin was here, threw my regular exercise and diet plan off kilter, and ever since she left in jan i've been strugging on getting back to my daily routine before she came.

but i've started to make a daily routine again, and these past 3 days i felt good that i've exercised and not procrastinated about it and said, oh i dont feel like it, i will do it tommorow, tommorow i will feel like it. like that ever happens! so i've been strict with myself and said NO! you do the exercise NOW, not tommorow. who's to say you're going to feel like it tommorow anyways?

thanks for listening, sorry for the long self indulgent message :p

ps Angela, no worries at all about the boost challenge. we totally understand! :hug: dont worry about it.

and day1again, I can SOOOOOOO relate on staying within allocated calories is HARD! especially when your tummy is like MORE MORE MORE, i want more!! its a constant battle and struggle, not just everyday but every hour! and every moment

Thanks guys! :yay: I actually am down another half so posted just now on the WI thread. So I'm well on my 'weigh' to 189! Yay! Then next goal is 177. :dancer:

I am rushing again. Gotta feed Tinky and take a shower to get ready for today. We have some paperwork to catch up on and then Superbowl tonight. Go Saints!! OMG Angela, that is so great they are taking him with all that he needs with him to watch it! Wow!! Too cool!!! :cp:

I think I'm coming down with a cold. I have no desire to eat. Guess that's good. Who said that already this week, Dora? So true. Easy to lose when you are sick. :faint: Just gotta drink enough water. :swim:

Ok, gotta go for real, would stay all day with you all if I could!

Hugs!
Selina :hug:

Just a a quicky. i have been way off plan the last 3 days (food and wine)! I really need to check in daily. I got my act together today.

Morning blues -

quick stop for me this morning.

Thinner - I dropped the ball the 3 days as well. Food has been okay, and I even exercised once - but smoking.... ugh!

Dayone - as you can see from above, I fell off the wagon. Getting back on again tomorrow though, and staying on. Actually gonna drive the wagon I think... off a cliff somewhere :dizzy:

Bigmid - I'm here. Got up at 6am and did a work out at home yesterday. Shocked myself and my dog was super confused about all the jumping around and heavy breathing that early on a weekend. How are you doing????

Congrats on losses ladies, and NSV's! My scale crept back up since TOM will be making his appearance soon. Plus I ate too much chilli last night :^:

Have a great weekend! GO SAINTS!

Just want to say a quick good morning I am heading off to the shower and then to a friends house to try out a new camera. I think I want this one too so trying it first is good. I may have to postpone as it is really foggy here today. But we will see what happens after my shower. I'll be back later for personals.
Nixmom - I'm here

I hope tom comes today!! everyone pray im not pregnant. im probably not, seeing as when i do want to get pregnant it takes months and months. my baby is 11 months old and i have a hernia, i wouldn't be able to lift her past 5 months pregnant. oh my heck. show yourself tom. ive been trying to lose 1 pound a week, and being knocked up that would have to end too!! oh man. thanks for listening.