MM~I got the pre-registration paper from the Y this morning or was it afternoon? It has the mapped route on it. They give door prizes. Each age group listed the first male and female to finish in their age grouping wins $25. That is an advantage for the runners/joggers. She said I can walk it, and the registration form says you can walk it. So, that said I am officially in trainning to walk the Sleigh Bell 5K!! Yeeeeeehawwwww. MM~You have inspired me to do things I never dreamed of doing a few short months ago. B L E S S~Y O U!!!!!!

Dixie - No, bless you! That will be awesome. I am so happy for you. I'm glad you get a shirt too!! I love to have the shirts to remind me of what I've done. Take your bib number after the race and write your time and the date on the back so you'll have it! I have them all on a wall, fun to see the progress too. I just saw where a lady made a quilt of all her husband's old racing t's, what a neat idea, huh? I know you and Eny are crafty, the only thing I make is a mess!!!

Who I wanna be. I am there with you. I am planning to hit 135 minimum by Christmas.

Barabra Jean- welcome back! Glad you are feeling better!

Hey girls - sorry that I've been MIA - I've let the leg injury effect me completely! I've been eating like crap, not doing any workouts - and gaining weight back... UGH! I need to STOP RIGHT NOW! Even if I can't do a lot of the lower body stuff, there is a lot I can DO!!! Someone PLEASE COME KICK ME IN THE BUTT! :kickbutt: I get SO discouraged SO easily!!!! I'm so glad I have you girls! One of the great things about hosting challenge threads is that it FORCES me to at least check in everyday - which starts the motivation back.

MM - I am crafty - but don't think for a moment that it doesn't include a HUGE mess! :lol:

Man it's been a while since I've posted here!!

Christmas seems sooner than ever! My neighbours already have their Christmas tree out! :p

Eny, I've missed something, what happened to your leg?

Stephi, A tree already, really?

Morning Ladies! I've been MIA as well. This last week was a busy one - house guests, a business trip, days off my school - all the things that get in the way of my routine! I'm happy that I still managed to drop another 1.5 lbs, but I'm really happy about finally being able to get back to my routine! (And I'm even happier that I'm happy about it!! I never thought that eating healthy and exercising would be something that I like to do. But, I feel sooooo much better when I do!)

Eny, it's so hard when you have the type of injury you have - it seems one little move and EVERYTHING hurts! But, you're right; maybe you can get some upper body work in while you heal. Take care of yourself!

Pat, congrats on attempting the 5K! That's really great. I've been adding a bit more running/jogging to my walk, but my knee is a bit messed up and I'm always paranoid of seriously hurting it. Also, I'm so jealous of your YMCA membership; we don't have a local Y. There's a local gym which I was thinking of joining, but right now my son is sharing my car to get to school and work, so I'm not sure how/if I would get to the gym regularly. I'm doing pretty well with my at-home routine - stationary bike and some DVDs, with some DDR thrown in (I love that!).

Hope everyone has a great day and enjoys there weekend!

MM~What a wonderful Idea!! As Eny said don't think I create messes too!! I was talking about some Christmas decorating with my son this morning> Eny gave me a great site with quit designs for tree skirts. I am going to have at that here in the next week. I want to put my tree up the day after Thanksgiving.

I posted a real rag on another board. I am so stressed I binged yesterday. Have not done that in a long, long time. I have a lot to make up for calorie wise. Today is better food wise, but no exercise as yet. I did buy a new winter coat and gloves. It is so cold here, a jacket just won't do it. I got denied some legal beagle financial stuff. I am calling my lawyer Monday morning. I want to know what is going on. I feel jerked around, like a second class citizen. I don't know weather to cry or puke. Off my rag. I will catch ya all later. Pat

dixie--I hope you can get all that straightened out--you were doing so well there!

I got emotionally derailed this week and didn't exercise much. Made myself go today, and weighed--amazingly down to 185.8. I just didn't feel like eating much. Usually I stress-eat. But occasionally I don't eat when I have certain blue periods.

So, I feel a bit better. Onward and upward for us all.

Happy Sunday ladies. Hope everyone is on the wagon. Every day is a chance to get back on the wagon. I need to go to the gym or for a walk today. I have been hanging on with the eating plan (a little variation yesterday with some home made French Onion soup (minus the bread and minus the port wine)).
Time is coming for the holidays. We are gonna' do it!!!

Hope everyone is doing well. Hugs to all.

MM~Modcat~ Thanks so much for your support!!! I finally came up with a very doable plan B. I don't need to pay a sitter at the Y. They have open swim at night. They don't have a fitness class in the evening, I can do a dvd to get around that problem. I am on my way. The stress is off. I feel better about things now. Catch ya all later. :-))))) Pat

Hey girls - sorry I wasn't on this past weekend. It's been CRAZY! I have developed a huge I DON'T CARE attitude! Ugh. I'm getting through it though.

MM - I pulled my quad muscle pretty bad a few weeks ago, and it still isn't 100%. I'm going to attempt a 1 mile Leslie video today, adn do some upper body work. I haven't wroked out at all since the injury. :nono:

right now I'd LOVE to be back in the #180's - and I know that my fast food diet, no exercise and bad attitude the last few weeks has killed any plan of that. I need to reel myself back in!

I'll be back later girls.. right now I have a lot of work that needs my concentration. :)

morning all, I am having trouble figuring out where I am losing focus, on & off lately. I seem to fall off the wagon tom and then spend the rest of the month getting back to where I was, not so good! Need a better plan, on the other hand, exercise is ok again, so if I can just get both pieces at once, watch out skinny jeans!

MM - I'm just starting to get focus again too. Last night I did a 20 min wog, stayed in my cal range it felt good actually. :) I don't have that *yuck* feeling this morning like I was hit by a mack truck! :)

Anyhow, tomorrow's weigh in day. I'm not expecting much. to be back under the #190's would be nice, but I'm not even pushing that. I'm just going to take what the scale says, chalk it up to REALLY bad choices for 3 weeks - and move forward.

Hey ladies! Hope all are doing well. I see that I am not the only one that it has trouble keeping focus and falling off the wagon. I have managed to keep it on with this latest weight loss journey (and God willing - the LAST TIME I take this journey). I can say, HONESTLY, that the difference this time is that I have NOT fallen off of the exercise wagon. The exercise is making all of the difference. The farthest I have strayed from exercise is 3 x per week instead of 5.
Ladies, we are worth it! Every day is a new opportunity to get back on track.
Hugs to all!!

Morning Chickies!

Eny, hope the scale fairy is nice to you! I'm with ya, let's regroup and move on! How's married life?

Dixie, yoo hoo, where are you?? Preparing for your 5k?

LIF, great job on sticking with the exercise!! Good for you!