Hi everyone just a quick pop in I off to work in a couple minutes. Thank you for all the congratulatory comments they make me fell even better and they are much appreciated. Congratulation to my fellow biggest loser this week as well Gracie, mageorge and weebleswobble.
I hope I can keep this up we just bought an elliptical on Sunday it arrived yesterday and I hate it. It has none of the functions I was told it had. Oh well my fault for not looking closer I guess. But I will still do my workouts in the basement and this thing is in front of the TV so it will still get used now and then.
I hope everyone has a great day I will catch up later with personals.

Hello Blue Team. We are dwindling down to the final weeks and contestants. I'm losing and gaining the same 2 or 3 pounds...sigh...I'm maintaining, I guess and I need to start losing for real. So much food and so little time to eat it.

LOL Ms. Retire!...............

I think I have lost a 100 pounds this past year. The only problem is that I have gained it all back

Amen to that Mercy, lol

Just a quick Hi hello to all you beautiful ladies!

Got a walk in outside, thank goodness for warm weather Off to cook some yummy dinner!

I forgot to post that I pissed away 3 pounds today Too much beer this week

Ok tommorow is all planned and I have a big sign on the fridge saying "NO MORE EXCUSES!!!". I'm sick of my constant excuses. I feel like caca because I've been making excuse after excuse. I'm tired and don't want to make dinner so we'll just do take out. Oh I'm starving so I'll just sit in front of the tv and munch. Oh I just don't feel like exercising. Not anymore!!!!

Hope you all had a good day!

I'm the same babygrant! Even after taking a step back, a deep breath, and calling myself out as an excuse maker I STILL ate a LOAD of chips last night. and CHEESE melted all over everything!? And I didn't go back to the gym like I said. WHAT THE ****????

I finally decided at bedtime to set my morning alarm an hour earlier than usual so I would get myself out of bed and to the gym. I realised it's been four weeks to the day that I last did any exercise! So this morning I ran two miles! It's not a huge achievement but I feel great and I'm hoping that maybe I've broken that self-destructive cycle just by forcing myself to DO something.

I am going to try to replace mindless eating with exercise. I am going on holiday in a week, so I need to be in the right place or I'll go away and put on ten pounds!!


I want to be back in that biggest loser list dammit!!

Bigmid - sorry to hear about the elliptical. Reminds me of my parents' treadmill they bought a few years ago. It's a really bare bones model and I hate going on that thing, but I needed the workout at the time (winter). Eventually, I got used to it even though there was no TV in the basement .

Mercy - at the beer weight. That's gotta be encouraging right? We should promote the "beer diet" - Instant pick-me-up about your weight!!

Babygrant - WOOHOO!! You sound incredibly determined and I'm sure you'll make it!

Dayone - 2 miles - go you! I'm gearing up for my long weekend vacay in a few days and I would LOVE to be at 150 then, but we'll see. I totally agree with you about being the right mind though. It's SO easy for me to go off-plan during vacays. Then I come home and regret it...

Ang - I did some random yoga video last night. It was on Netflix and it covered the basics so I thought it would be a good idea. OMG. I made it through 7 minutes and went back to playing my Facebook games. I think I'd like the BL yoga. I'm into workouts where I feel like I've worked out (muscles sore and sweating, all that good stuff ).

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Cleaned the whole apt yesterday when I was only planning on doing a room at a time because I'm lazy. I was sweating a teensy bit by the end of it so I know I got some sort of workout. Did yoga for a hot second and have sore back muscles and thighs. It's incredible but I need it to be a little faster. I'm going to search Netflix for the BL yoga.

Yesterday I was just SO hungry! I made and ate this cashew dessert. It's called katli and it's basically finely ground cashews mixed with ground cardomom and sugar syrup. The paste is then rolled and cut into diamonds. It's really easy and takes 20 minutes to make plus we had cashews sitting around. I ate way more than I should have. Thankfully I only saw a 0.1 lb gain this morning, but it's enough to scare me into eating right today. A couple of weeks ago, I would see gradual gains but think "oh it's only 0.3 lbs, no biggie." Well not THIS time!!

ladies, have an awesome day!!

I'm sorry I haven't been here. Finally yesterday we keep calling up the chain at the adoption agency. We did get approval for the boys. They got an email to place them with us that day. So we should be so glad.

But they aren't even AVAILABLE for adoption. We cannot believe they did this to us. We were going to get a newborn last Sept but in June last year they had called and said they had 2 baby boys, did we want them. We said yes. So we put all other plans on hold. Then they call and say there is a 4 month old boy too, the bio mother had but was hiding. So all 3 were removed and we wanted them all, even tho it would be very hard to logistically do. We'd have one 8 yr old and 5 others under age of 4.

So I'm losing my hair, alot of hair, my ponytail is half as thick as before, and have broken out in a bad rash on my face and neck that's gotten worse over last few months. I think it's stress. I can't believe people refuse to do their job. We called every month at least, asking. There is no excuse for her to keep saying they are just waiting for approval for our home study when the boys aren't even available. They want to let the bio parents try to get them back. Bios who have lost custody of 9 other kids they've had! I am just stunned. Stunned. Just couldn't believe what we were hearing.

As far as the game, I'm back down to 199.5 after TOM is almost gone, thankfully. If you all have helped me stay under 200 thru this whole challenge its been worth it. In times like these I would have Always gained. Thank you all soooo much for letting me vent.

My husband is devastated and my kids are sad and mad. It's just not right. Fine if they are wanting to give them back. Then MAKE the bios do what is necessary. I bet you anything they won't. Just like with the 9 other cases. But how can they let them be in care for 2 yrs with no permanent plans? They don't even care that they are growing up in a foster home who they won't get to speak to again once they move to the next home. I know because we don't get to speak with kids we've had. It's extremely hard for them to go thru. We just wanted them to have a family and to get out of all that. And now it could go on another 2 years. We can't wait two years and wonder if they'll come. We desperately want out of it all. We just want our family to be whole and move on. We are calling higher today and find out what is up and once we have confirmation that we can't have them, we are probably going to put in for a newborn. Which means getting one, bonding to it, and my kids bonding to him and they could take him at any time that a relative comes forward, even 2 years after we get him. I just don't know if I can keep going thru it all. My son wants a brother, they all do. I can't tell them no. So I guess we have 2 more years at least of inspections and orders from the agency. Do whatever they want. They check every plug in my house and every cabinet lock. And we've passed every visit for 8 and a half years. They get accusatory if each dose of tylenol isn't written down perfectly. They even question if logs were done later because the pen doesn't match. (A friend told me that.) Gets so old. Please, please pray for us. And if you don't like to pray, please send us magical fairy dust wishes that our dreams will come true.

Hugs, I hope things are going better in your lives. I promise to come read and find out soon.

Selina

LOL. I loooove farkle.

WHAT?!?!?!? I'm soooooooooooo sorry. I can only imagine the stress and sadness that you are experiencing.

Hi ladies. I ran and walked today and had a good workout. Last night I also jumped on my bike for the first hour of BL and biked along with the contestants. Ha, ha. I didn't know they'd have a biking challenge.

So sorry about your troubles, Selina. How unfair to everyone involved. I'll pray that all things work out for good.

Gotta run (not literally). Catch you later.

I'm just popping in quickly to say hello. I've been OP, finally losing some again. I actually upped my calories a bit and that seems to have helped. My GoWear even says I'm burning more calories with the increased intake. I've been unable to spend much time online...I am in the last 2 weeks of my classes and it's crunch time. The stress is making me want to eat everything, but I'm sticking to plan. I'll try to pop in when I can!

Hugs to all who need them!