Good morning Lori!! My focus this week is portion control and moderation. Oh and water! LOL! Way to go on quitting smoking!! You are doing so great! Look at all that life being added back on for you! What an amazing accomplishment! See you can do anything!

~melissa

Thanks everyone - I seem to be better - though I did stay home from work yesterday. I think that helped. I haven't exercised yet this week, but I might tomorrow - depending on how I feel in the morning. Hopefully this cold will be gone soon - I just have NO energy!

I hope everyone is doing great!

I need to still get to the store and buy a tape measure so I can get my measurements!! :)

Good Morning Purple Team!! Hows everything goin? Making those great choices?!

I had such a fantastic day yesterday, I ate so clean all day long I'm so proud of myself and i got in my water too! I havent done that well with food in a LONG time! I have severe sciatica pain that prevents me from exercising right now, but my hope is that the more lbs I take off the pain will subside and i can finally get back to it. Yesterday was a good day pain wise so I might just try to do my elliptical for a little bit this evening, I just dont want to push it so we'll see.

My biggest victory yesterday was at the parent meeting for my daughters school they plopped down a great big bag of chocolates right in front of me, I could smell it the whole meeting and i hadnt had dinner yet so I was hungry...and I didnt have a single piece!! Oh I was tempted but I won!

Lizzy...I'm glad you are feeling better! Dont be down on yourself for not exercising this week, when you are sick you really need to let your body get well before you push it too hard! That energy will come back and you can get back to it! Just keep making good choices!

Have a wonderful day today Purple team!! Weigh in is coming soon!!

~melissa

Just got back from a very hilly walk and I feel great:running:

I think we have such a great and positive group of gals here, there is no way we can't be successful:carrot: :carrot: :carrot: :carrot:

I am really looking forward to seeing our numbers from the weigh ins.

Mine is already posted in the other thread. Am I supposed to IM to you Melissa, or do you just grab them from the other posting? Have you been able to get everybody's numbers Melissa, or are you still missing some?

Its actually Belinda running things, not me. But way to go on that walk!!!

~melissa

:dunno: Oppps, sorry Melissa.


I was looking around the web yesterday trying to find something to help me in my goal and thought (as crazy as it sounds) that a graph would work really well for me to see the progress first hand. Well, I came across this site that is specifically geared for weight loss graphs. You put in your current weigh, goal weight as well as the goal date and it works it all out for you. It will make up a graph with graph line showing what you need to lose in order to reach your goal my your goal date. You then enter your losses each other day, week...ect and your line will be a different color than the original line the graph made for you; so as long as you stay within the line you will reach your goal. I think it is great because I will weigh in tomorrow and am so geared up to make my green line go below the black one:p Let me know what you think. Here is mine set up, hope it works.

http://www.fridgegraph.com/graph/?id=971

Apparently you can do challenges with the fridge graph thing too.

You need to put your email address in for this to work.. but I see we can't do that here.. so, if you want to do a challenge graph, pm me your email address that you are using at the fridge graph.

Lori

Good Afternoon everyone! How's it going? I have a "fridge" type of thing only mine is on the wall. I have a big tree with leaves on it, and for each pound that I lose I take a leaf off my tree. My goal is to have no leaves on my tree when winter starts. Here's a picture of my tree:

http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k4...ay13/tree2.jpg

I had another great day yesterday. I might have overate just a smidge but lowfat/low calorie stuff so I need not beat myself up over it. Tomorrow is my official weigh in day so I gotta make it another great day today! So far so good. I've been craving salad lately, which is weird with this rainy cold weather but I'll run with it!

Tonight I'm making my family cheesy tatertot casserole for dinner, just looking at it is like 1000 calories I think. So I'm gonna skip that and have a teryaki stirfry with some brown rice. Thats the plan stan!

I hope everyone is having a wonderful day!

~melissa

Wow Melissa I LOVE the tree :) What a cute and creative idea. I looks as though we have the same weigh in day....good luck tomorrow :)

Lori, did you set yourself up a graph? I will work on a challenge and maybe we can get some other ladies on it as well. Tomorrow my goal is to punch 188lbs into the graph an of course my ticker...keeping my fingers crossed. I noticed you are in Ontario, where abouts are you....we might be neighbors :)

Belinda, how was your dinner on Tuesday? It's so nice to treat yourself to a nice dinner every now and then...it's important. How did the teams do last week? Can't wait to hear. Wow, we are coming up on our second week already; it's hard to believe.

Lizzy, I hope you are feeling better. Don't worry about the working out; your body does need time to rest. Just take it easy and watch what you eat so you don't think too much about the :exercise:

I think I might be off by a week on our Challenge Thread. I noticed I am the only one who put in a weigh for last Sunday and tomorrow I will put my October 22nd weigh in. Am I doing this right? :o

Where are all our Purple girls...we have 8 on our team right? Can't wait to hear how is everybody else doing....let us know.

Just incase anybody misses it, here is a link to a site that gives you weight graphs. It's fun and a good motivator

http://www.fridgegraph.com/graph/?id=971

Happy Friday Purple team!!! Gotta make this a drive by but had to let you know I'm down 2 lbs this week!!! Have a fantastic day and lets make this weekend the best one yet!!

Woo Hoo Melissa, that is awesome :carrot: :carrot: :carrot: :carrot: :carrot:

I am also posting a quick message because I am so proud of my 3lbs loss, I got my first m&m in my signature:D :D I have been enjoying a lot of soup lately, especially the Liptons Soupworks; it's so filling and does me 2 lunches. Today is a crappy and wet day so no long walk but I will make up for it tomorrow since we are taking the kids the the orchard for pumkin and apple picking.

How is everybody else doing?

Thanks everyone - I am definitely feeling better. I should get my butt off the computer and work out before my bf wakes up and wants to watch football :)

I made horrible choices this week - ok maybe not the WHOLE week, but the last 2 days. We need to go grocery shopping, so maybe once I do that, I'll have better things to eat :)

Hope everyone else is doing much better than I am!! :)

WOOOHOOO andrea!!! Way to go on the 3 lbs gone!!! You did GREAT!!! Keep it up girl!! I'm gonna check out the soups you've been doing. Our weather has been the same, rainy and cold and soup always sounds great. I have had the cambells soups but they are so full of sodium. Apple picking...how fun!!!

Lizzy, I'm so glad you are feeling better! Back on track and making those good choices!! You can do it!!

Have a wonderful day Purple team!! I'm making chili today, it goes with our weather! LOL!!

~melissa

Sorry Purple team... :( no loss for me this week.

I am in Brampton Andrea.. where are you?

This week shall be better!!!

Lori

Good Monday Morning Purple team!! Well I allowed myself to have another off plan weekend. Seems like maybe it was better than last weekend but probably not. I'll keep working at it and i'll be right back on top of things today! I did awesome with water yesterday!

Have a wonderful monday!!

~melissa