Good Morning Ladies!!!

Tina, hope you enjoyed the day at the museum with the kids! I just finished watching Night at the Museum with Ben Stiller last night & I thought of you. LOL So glad that you are having great OP days and really enjoying your OA meetings. KUTGW!

Utah, WTG on sticking to plan...pretty soon before ya know it you'll have strung together a bunch of great days together and away you go! Kudos to mom for doing so well with her plan too! Great to see you around.

Mel, YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! A loss for you, *I* am SO proud! I know how tough your week was and I know you were having a hard time mentally knowing what you'd been eating, but you were kindly rewarded for all the good deeds you're doing. And, because Bob was waiting to come visit you in your dreams!! Keep it up chicky, you are simply AMAZING!

Rennie, hope you enjoyed your time in front of the telly yesterday. Underneath all that snow..............

Jen, what a wonderful day spent with your family, go you!!!! Where abouts in CA do you live? I grew up in San Diego.

Laurie, great job on the loss!!!! Good luck with your trip but I know you'll do great!!!

cakses, great to see you! I know how rough it can be trying to make time for yourself with work, kids, etc....but I have every faith that you will figure something out. Keep it up, you're doing great so far!

Laura, WOW! You had one heckuva day didn't you! Yeah, I don't know how those BL contestant even do all that exercise in 1 day! You did fabulous!

Terapet, so great to see you today! I'm sorry that things are still rough going with your son. I really have no words of wisdom regarding his weight at all. All I can speak from is experience as a small child & having a mother who was relentless with pointing out that I was "fat" (I was only maybe 10lbs heavier than friends) but never did anything to help, but fed me lots of junk.... now as an adult I have alot of "issues" when it comes to my past and weight loss. Just be as supportive as you can and lead by examply. I think you can only hope that he will feel inspired by watching what a wonderful job you're doing and realize how great you feel inside & out. That's a tough situation and I wouldn't wish it on anyone. Hang in there lady, so glad you kept up with the workouts if for just your sanity!

I havent been online too much, I have been spending most of my time online looking for a job.

I have a job currently but I will be honest I do not like it at all. You know its bad when you would rather get in a car accident (non fatal) just to get out of going to work.

I spend my days off counting down the time before I have to go back in, its making me rather depressed and emotional.

I want to just never return.....am I losing my mind here?

What would you do if you were me?

Sorry to be just a downer today

Tera, that is a tough problem. I had a close friend growing up who was overweight, and her mom would always comment on it or try various techniques to get her to lose it (buying a treadmill/elliptical for the basement and encouraging her to use it, etc). I thought her mom went about it in a good way, but my friend always resented her mom for it.

Jasmine, one time when I was doing an internship I hated, I remember thinking the same thing. "Maybe if I got in a fender bender I wouldn't have to work today." Just be careful and don't let it actually happen! Is it possible for you to look on Monster.com or something for other jobs? Are there other jobs you'd be interested in where you live?

I did a 15K race this morning, which was prob not the best idea after my exhausting day yesterday. But, I finished, and finished faster than the 15K I did last summer (which I was fully rested for). So it seems like I'm a bit more fit than I was then, even if my weight is the same. Hurray for non-scale victories!

Good afternoon ladies! Just popping by quickly to see how everyone is!

Danielle & Melissa, you girls are doing awesome! I commented on your MPMU page. Can you believe there are only 2 more days before MPMU is over? Holy Cow!! Where'd the time go?! We are going to keep our site up though as it is such good motivation and is awesome for staying accountable...putting it out there for all to see how good or bad we have done.

Terapet ~ I have no words of wisdom for you with DS. I was always about 20 pounds heavier than my friends when I was in high school and college. My parents never made comments or tried to get me to lose weight as I was active in sports and friends. Is there something that maybe you and DS could do together outside of the house? Join a bowling league or something like that? It will at least get him out of the house and moving, and he could possibly make new friends that will help motivate him to start to care about himself and how he portrays himself to others.

Muse ~ I agree with Danielle's idea of checking at Kohl's or Penney's for a swimsuit. Good luck!

Laura ~ WOW! You rock girl! That was an awesome day of working out. Yeah, I sure do give the TBL contestants props for working out such long hours with such drilling instructors!

Counting ~ congrats on the weight loss!! You are below 150!! You hit my final goal

Cecil ~ Congrats to you on your weight loss as well! Keep up the great work!!

Jasmine ~ if you are hating your job that much, I would definitely look for another place to work. I was going through the same emotions a year and a half ago, I finally found a new job and LOVE it! I'm not crying in the car to or from work any longer and I have made new friends that have totally changed my outlook on life and are supportive of me losing the weight, my old job was notorious for spoiling appetites with junk food.


DOT came yesterday but when I weighed myself I was still down 2 pounds for the week! We will see how tomorrow morning's weigh in goes. I also am sick again. I went to the gym to finish my W1D3 of C25K, went out for lunch, called my mom (who is sick) and as soon as I walked into my home I was pretty much full force sick again even though I didn't feel anything before walking in the door. Go figure. have been sneezing and coughing. Not sure how I am going to run with the cough. I'm going to be loading up on Mucinex that's for sure! Can I blame this on the Daylight Savings Time switch? I sure hope no one else is getting this crud!

Good Evening Ladies! Hope everyone is having a great weekend!

I didn't make it to WW yesterday for WI - we got dumped on with another snow storm and I didn't want to risk the trip. I weighed in on my own scale and no change - hmph! This always happens, I always hover around the high end of the 170s/low end of the 180s and stall. Feeling a little bummed, but I know that I need to get back to the gym to get my system moving again. I decided that I will set some boundaries at work this week. I need to get back to the gym and the only way to do that is to leave work on time.

Anyway, off to watch BigBrother and then off to bed! Have a great week everyone!

Just checking in! Busy day for me! Sabbath rest day from exercise, but I still was busy getting things done around the house. Big NSV tonight. Our Lenten study at church has had a different "theme" for the food each week. Tonight was the dreaded "dessert" night. Thankfully, they had fruit and cheese and crackers. With brownies and pies and cream puffs and - OK, enough food porn, you get the idea - all sitting there calling my name, I wasn't even tempted by them. They really didn't look very appetizing. I at some melon and strawberries. I had an ounce of cheddar cheese on a few whole-wheat crackers.

I really think that the small changes I have made over the last 8 months have reaped some magnificent rewards

Hope you all have a wonderful Monday! Let's make this our best week yet!

Okay! I only have a few minutes. I went through and read everything, and I want to thank every one for the prayers. The appointment is on Tuesday with the oncologist.

I lost .5 pounds. I need to look at my eating, and see if something is wrong. I I lost .5 pounds I think in three weeks. But, its okay. Life style change. It WILL come off eventually. I do think I could be a little better on some things, so hopefully, next week I will have a better loss.

Have a great night everyone.

Counting
Nice choices good for you.

danielle
We had a great time. After I got more shopping done ( they had chicken breasts and stuff on sale ) and this took me 3 or 4 hours lol. We have just vegged out all day today too.


Chat with everyone tomorrow. We are getting ready to watch the Left Behind series of movies.

Andi, if you're down even during DOT, you must be REALLY down! Nice work! Give yourself a little break to rest up and get better - you deserve it

Counting, that is fantastic willpower you showed - great work!

Mom23BC - every half pound counts! You're not staying the same and you're not gaining, and that is an accomplishment in my book.

Hi Ladies.

I am up a little this week due to TOM. Sorry, hope I did not bring the team down too much.

On the exercise and eating front, I have been doing pretty good. I have been doing some extra activities like walking the dog more, working in the yard, playing soccer with my daughter....It has been fun and I have had much more energy.

Have any of you tried Slim Fast? I was curious about the program and considering it. I am usually pretty rushed in the mornings and the shakes seemed like a good solution.

Have a good day!

Hi Jen - I meant to respond before but I forgot. We live in the Houston area. We are visiting Sea World in San Antonio with the kids over Spring Break. It is a fun place I am sure your brother's family will like it there. My husband spent about 6 months there during his AF training. I went up every weekend to visit him.

Hi Girls

Doing a bit better since last weeks pet drama. I'm down 3lb this week and now passed the low end of my challenge goal and also passed the point of losing 30 percent of my body weight which is kinda cool.

I just ordered a new bike for training since I found a huge inventory sale at a bike manufacturer and I only have a heavy old mountain bike. I got a great deal on it, so I'm quite happy. Can't wait till it gets here. It will be my first road bike ever.

Hey team.

Decent loss this week--3.5lbs down. I'm happy with it, but to be honest...I thought I would lose more lol. I didn't lose last week, and I worked so hard this week...blah. I shouldn't be whining about 3.5lbs, but I really wanted to be under 200 by Easter and now I just don't think it's looking like it will happen. Oh well. I need to stop setting deadlines, but it's hard.

I'm still trying to get caught up on homework, but once again, I will be SO GLAD when the semester is OVER! This summer I am hitting the gym and I expect to be much lighter come next fall.

I hate it when that happens. Makes me so mad.