Purple team!...
 

I just wanted to wish you all a GREAT weekend! I dont know about you but weekends are the hardest times for me to stick to my plan. Its like the weekend hits and I think its party time and throw caution to the wind! I'm going to work very hard this weekend at being conscious of all my decisions and how they will affect my goals!

We can do this purple team!! Be strong and be in control!! Most of all be good to you!!

Thanks Melissa. You're right weekends are horribe. :( My husband is taking me out to dinner tonight and I know wine will be involved, so I am worried but will stick to my plan.

Everything in moderation Andrea! You can enjoy and not over due! You can do it!! Have a great time!

~melissa

Hello ladies, Weekend are so my worse time . I seem to really blow it. I am doing pretty well this weekend though.

Bev

ahhhhh - weekends! I'm with the rest of you. I find it hard to eat right and get the motivation to exercise.

I think having the 1 free meal a week will really help me to get through the harder times as I have something to look forward to.

Weekends do seem to be the hardest. And then on top of it, I started getting sick yesterday - so now I have the cold that was going around the office last week. I thought I was going to be lucky and not get it, but I was wrong. Hopefully I'll feel better tomorrow, so I can exercise.

I need to remember to get a tape measure thing, so I can take my measurements.

So far so good.. no cheating here.... I did eat too many nuts yesterday... but other than that I am right on plan... I even resisted pancakes this morning.. good for me!

Lori

One month, four days, 12 hours, 48 minutes and 51 seconds. 345 cigarettes not smoked, saving $138.13. Life saved: 1 day, 4 hours, 45 minutes.

Good Sunday morning Purple team!! Tomorrow is the big day! Are you ready?!I know I am, I can focus so much better when I'm in my regular schedule! I lost my thunder this weekend so I'm hoping since the challenge starts tomorrow I'll get it back. Weird because I'm coming off a 3.6 lb loss last week you'd think that would keep me riding high. For whatever reason I chose to use it as an excuse to slack off.

Andrea...how was dinner?

Bev...Great job this weekend!! Way to go at keeping the control!

Outbackgirl...you are right, giving yourself that one meal is a good thing. I find this weightloss journey you've really got to keep talking to yourself and not just winging it. Telling yourself....think of your 'free' meal, thats where I should be too! Keep up the good work!

Lizzy..oh no not the cold!! I've been avoiding that one myself. I hope its not too bad for you. Take good care of yourself so you can be back to 100% soon!!

Lori...Way to go this weekend!! And no pancakes!! WOOHOO!!! Keep up the good work! Man I need your strength to rub off on me! LOL!!

Have a fabulous sunday everyone!!! We can do this!!

~melissa

Everybody sounds like they had a great weekend. Dinner was great! I tried really hard to stick to my plan so I ordered Brushetta as an apetizer (I am an apetizer junky..lol) and grilled tuna, baked potato and salad as my entree. Well my tuna was dry and overcooked so they brought me some grilled shrimp on a skewer instead. I was thinking "great..not bad at all" but I unfortunately I think they put butter on it :mad: As for drinks I did have 2 martinis as well!!!!!! So I am now working this week to make up for yesterdays dinner.

It's frustrating sometimes because we work so hard that we deserve to treat ourselves every now and them..but it sucks to come home and feel guilty for having a good time.

Question: When is our first official weigh in? We have listed the 15th as our first day, so I have posted my loss....is that correct?

Morning everyone (well it's morning here!),

We are still waiting on a couple of people to weigh in which I have PM'd them.

Hopefully I will have them all be the end of my day so that we can get our total starting weights!

I'm all fired up this morning! Had a bit of a blow out yesterday afternoon but today is DAY 1!

I have my gym bag packed ready to head off to the gym this afternoon! I am going to pick up some chicken breasts, fillet steaks and salad stuff for my lunches at work (I'm lucky that we have a BBQ at work so I can cook myself lovely lunches!).

Hubby heads off to a wedding on Wednesday and will be gone for the week. Rather than sit at home on my own, I'm really going to up the exercise for week 1 and make sure that my eating is immaculate! AFTER ALL I CANNOT LET MY PURPLE TEAM MATES DOWN!

C'mon guys! We can do it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Belinda

Okay I'm a stragler! LOL...I dont know why I thought we started today rather than yesterday so my Day 1 was not so much of a success!! Luckily I've got 6 more days to kick butt!! LOL!! Sorry Belinda!

Andrea...no feeling guilty! You just acknowledge and move on!

Belinda...excellent plan for this week!!!

Alright Purple team...here we go! Lets have a fantastic day and make every choice about reaching our goals!! We can do this!! GO TEAM PURPLE!!!!! :cheer2:

~melissa

How is everybody doing? Don't you just love mondays?...NOT! Well I am hoping it's a start to another successful weight loss week.

Belinda: Did you get any news for the weigh ins? How are we looking?

Melissa: Don't worry about the 1 day, you have acknowledged it and I have no doubt with your positive attitude you will be successful:carrot:

Lori: YOu are very stong...pancakes are so yummy:dizzy: :dizzy: Keep up the great work and don't worry about all those nuts....going nuts, it's what dieting does to us:o

Lizzy: I hope you are feeling better

Bev: Weekends are always hard for everybody. Just think of this week as a fresh start. Good luck!!

I am feeling really good today and am really working hard to keep up the water intake. I don't like water much so I call it more a Crystal Light intake. I have also been making the low fat Jello Pudding and jello to keep in the fridge for times of need especially chocolate. The fat free jello pudding is great for that.

We should really think of starting a challenge for our team...working out, water intake, walking...ect. Any ideas?

Howdy all!

It's Tuesday night here and Hubby and I are heading out for dinner (fillet steak and salad for me!).

Hope everyone is doing well. I will update the weights for both teams tomorrow morning first thing! I think as long as we can post the weights for the previous week by each Wednesday that will be great.

I had better go as we are about to head off. Will catch up with you all first thing tomorrow!

GO PURPLE!!!!!!!!! WE ARE ALL GOING TO 'ROCK' THIS WEEK WITH OUR FOOD CHOICES AND OUR WORKOUTS! Everytime temptation hits, just think of your purple team mates egging you on!

Belinda

Good Tuesday Purple team!!! Hows it going? Are you making good choices to help you reach your goals?

I did pretty good yesterday except I forgot all about my water for most of the day. I got so busy doing paperwork, sitting at the computer for 6 hours and no water bottle! Not good! But today I'll turn that around.

I saw my mother yesterday, she's lost 42 lbs and getting skinny...I have to beat her! LOL!

Andrea...I love challenges and I'm always up for one! I love the sugarfree jellos! Lime with pineapple is my favorite snack! and SF chocolate pudding with a little bit of FF coolwhip! YUM!! It looked like last week they added some berries to it on the BL show that would be yum too! How's the water/crystal light going?

Belinda..have a GREAT dinner tonight!!! Or I suppose I should say I hope you had a great dinner LOL!! Gonna take me awhile to get aclimated to our time difference.

Okay Purple team lets all have the best day yet!! As long as today is better than yesterday we are winners!! We can do this!!

~melissa

So purple team... how is it going?

What are you all doing to win this week???

I am assuming we are supposed to keep our chatting in one thread!

Lori

One month, six days, 12 hours, 31 minutes and 28 seconds. 365 cigarettes not smoked, saving $146.09. Life saved: 1 day, 6 hours, 25 minutes.

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

Pretty close Lori, I am in Burlington.

So my weekend was touch and go which I am super angry at myself for. I was doing great until Saturday night and Sunday rolled around. Saturday we had a few people over and I had a couple of beers, but Sunday was a killer:mad: We are a big football family and we had the same people over watching the games, which included pizza and wings. I had 3 slices of pizza and 3 wings :( :( :( :( That is alot for me considering even prior to dieting 2 slices was my limit. Needless to say I am spending all week making up for that because I have promised myself at least a 1lb weight loss. I did not eat much for the rest of the day since even at bedtime the pizza had still not digested and I ate it at 2:30.......I guess my system was in a bit of a shock.

Well here is to a good start to the week!

How is everybody doing? Did I miss our losses for last week?

Good Tuesday Morning Purple!! I'm so glad the weekend is over LOL!! I had a great day yesterday with very little effort. Why is it just so easy during the week. At least the week is longer so i can have 5 good days and 2 not so good and not the other way around LOL!!

Andrea...no negative self talk about the weekend! Just pick up, dust off and keep on moving! You can do it!

I think we did lose some of our team. Where are you purple team!!?

Well I've got an exam to study for! Have a fantastic tuesday!!

~melissa

Good Wednesday Purple team!! Yesterday was my 14th anniversary and we went out to dinner. I didnt to too bad. Skipped the cocktails which is a huge victory for me. but probably had too many bites. Plus I had the bread w/ butter. AF is circling the building which leads me to believe there may be no scale moving this week but I'll deal! LOL!

I hope everyone is having a fantastic week! Be strong for you and for your team!! We can do this!!!

~melissa

Well congrats on the 14 years.. wow that seems like so long.. I have been married for 3 :)

Where is the rest of the purple team anyways?

Purple Team come out come out wherever you are!!! Well AF showed up last night so the scale only went down .2, but hey....its still in the right direction. I need to get more focused this week and make next weeks WI a big one!! I can do it!!

Hope to hear from more purple team!!

What happened to the purple team?

I havent really done anything because the purple team seems to be gone. I dunno? I feel lonely! LOL!

~melissa

Week 1's biggest loser was Tracynoelle23 with 2 lbs lost -1.11%
Week 2's biggest loser was ACharron with 3 lbs lost -1.58%

Week 1 purple teams totals 6.5 lbs lost -.65%
Week 2 purple teams totals 5.7 lbs lost -.57%

Way to go purple team!!

~melissa