SB & Amy, I am excited for y'all too! i hope ya make it and I'd totally use the fact that you two met here @ 3fc's as a selling point! Good luck!!!!

I'm sorry so many of us have gained ot stalled this week, maybe the VD challenege is just what the doctor order huh? hehe

Day 1 of c25k DONE! My quads are freaking killing me lol! I just ate a banana to try and help with the cramps. I did .5 mile of laps in the pool too and I tell ya, the treadmill was the easy part! OMG! I think the laps are harder because I have asthma, but hopefully I can build up to a complete mile. All and all feel proud and pretty good. it was a struggle doing both and I just kept saying to myself, YOU CAN DO THIS! and I did!

Hello black team! How is everyone today? Last nights game was soooo good!!! Well I am off to a great start today! Just want to say to everony that posted a gain that not to worry, it will come this week!!!! Great job trying!

Caitbeans I am so sorry about your dog I hope that he pulls through!

Great job losing everyone!

Ill post everything later tonight! Have a good day

Happy Monday Ladies....
I have finally now just caught up with all the posts since my last one on Friday.

SoulBliss and Amy....do you have web cams on your pc's? If you do, part of your video could be of the two of you chatting through the pc. I dunno, that was just the first thing that came into my head.....I'll keep thinking.

POSTUS-INTERUPTUS...I hate meetings. That is a whole hour of my life I will never get back.

ANYWAY...1.6lb loss for the week. Not a great number, but a number. The scale has been stuck on me for about a month. To avoid being tempted to throw in the towel, I look back at my measurments. - 10 inches in my hips since I started this January 2007. That was good motivation.

What else? Oh, I got a heart rate monitor this weekend. It's kind of fun...right now, I can tell you that I have burned 4392 calories since 4:30 this morning. That is largely due to the fact that I went to the gym for the first time in 4 years this morning....1/2 hr on the LifeCycle, and 45 min of weights (plus all the steps to and from the car to the gym, the gym to the car, the car to the office for a shower, and from the office shower room back to the car....after that I took the elevator.).

OK...as for goals for the challenge:

• Lose 9 lbs.
• Go to the gym M/W/F...1/2 hour bike, weight circuit
• 1 hour of aerobic excercise - T/TH/SAT
• 64 oz of water each day
• Stay within WW Points...no flexpoints.

That's a start....


PS - Heather....don't be afraid to take the pain killers the Doc prescribes. Don't wait until the pain is unbearable. You will be fine. Like you said, you will be out.

Ack! Life has been pulling me in about 10 different directions recently, several of them not so good! But, I am really excited for the 10 day challenge. It is almost 2pm and I haven't even eaten my lunch yet, so I have to run but I hope to be back soon.

Happy Monday ladies
Sorry, I stalled this week...no loss this week, but with the help of the V-Day challenge, next week will be better!!
We had a busy weekend...basketball tourney for my oldest (the team came in second place), hockey for my other 3 kids, getting rid of head lice (hooray!) and one of our fish died. I was glad to get back to work today!
Here are my goals for the V-Day challenge:
1. On plan for the 10 days..no munching or nibbling..less bread/pastas, more fruits/veggies (yikes!!)
2. exercise every day (10 out of 10)
3. lots of water
4. not setting a goal weight...whatever I lose will be great!

So far, I have done well today..50 minute TBL workout this morning....smoothie for breakfast, oatmeal and grapes for lunch, soup for after work, and 1/2 of diet coke. Plus four bottles of water.
My toughest time is after school...the kids get home and want to eat, and then so do I. What I need to do is stay out of the kitchen...avoid the temptation!!
Have a great rest of the day ladies...check in again tomorrow!

DAY ONE, Valentine's Day Challenge:

1. Stay on WW core plan for the whole ten days.
2. Exercise every day of the ten days.
3. Not eat anything except fruit after 8pm.
4. I want to break the 160 mark by Valentines day, which means being at 158.

Exercise
M: 1.5 hrs weight training, Ulimate Frisbee

Food Menu:
breakfast (12 pm):
salad - greens, 1/2 red pepper, 1 egg, 3 walnuts, 2oz turkey, oo/vinegar dressing
1 c 1% plain yogurt, 5 strawberries

snack: apple
miso soup


lunch:
stir fry of
1/2 c brown rice
1 egg
1 cup cabbage
1/2 a med zucchini
1/2 a red bell pepper
1 Tblspn Melissas stir fry sauce, (1pnt)
2 squirts oil spray
ginger and garlic

dinner:
stir fry of 2/3 C brown rice
4-6 oz chicken
1/2 a red bell pepper
1/2 an onion
a handful of broccoli florets
2 small carrots
ginger/garlic
1 Tblspn Melissas stir fry sauce, (1pnt)
2 squirts oil spray

dessert:
raspberries
1/2 c. 1% plain yogurt

So it is 8pm...that means that I am now in the "eat fruit" only zone for the rest of the night.... i had a big dinner and i play ultimate frisbee from 9:30 pm- 11pm....so...hopefully I am done for the night. (I live in Germany so my time zone is ahead...of the US)...

Day one, almost down.

Soulbliss and Amy: It would be so great if u guys on the show: go 3FC!

Chickichickibangbang: Well today if the 1st day that I am going for the no eating past 8. I am hoping that since it worked for others, it will be for me since I consume half my cals a day from it. (yes I am ashamed) so I am trying to chew gum and drink lots of hot tea which I love instead.

V-day Challenge Day 1:
(I will edit this to make it cover the whole day-I just need some inspiration!)

Points so far: 21.0
Exercise: 55 min Carmen Electra Strip Tease dvd 1
H20: 9

Breakfast: 0 Tea
.5 1/4grapefruit (my kids kept eating it on me!)

Lunch:
5 Tuna pack
1 drizzle EVOO and vinegar
.5 tsp dry cranberries
0 spinach
0 sip apple juice
1.5 1/2 serv tortilla chips

Dinner:
6-(2) Chik Patties
1- (2) WW bread
1 Low Ranch Dressing
.5 Sprinkle Parm cheese
0 sip soda
0 3 baby carrots
4 (2) small ears of corn (! Shoulda read the pkg b4 I ate!)
0 Gum

Hey all!

I'm proud of everybody that is still here. Facing a gain is just part of weight loss. It sucks, but it's going to happen to all of us at some point. (Like me last week! )

Wouldn't it be great if black team had the fewest dropouts??

Ok I need to vent so I am sorry. I was talking to a male friend of mine, whom I do have a bit of a history-read 1 nite-with several yrs ago, last nite. He decided to tell me that the last time I saw him(1 1/2 ago)-at the bar for a friend's bday-that I propositioned him for sex, was sitting on his lap, and basically made out with him when I was drunk. He said another one of our friends pulled him away cos I was too drunk. He said I was lucky he didnt or my son could have been his since I told him a week later I was preg.

Now the kicker is, I wasnt that drunk that nite. I prob made a comment, sarcastically. I was not on his lap and I def wasnt kissing anyone. I was and still am engaged to my children's father-who that guy doesnt like. And, I did not get pregnant with my son until the following year, which is why I did not go to the bar again for that same friends b-day plus I didnt tell anyone with the exception of a few close ppl-that I was preg until well into my 2nd trimester.

I reconfirmed all this with my good friend-who's bday it was. She was hysterical cos he made it all up. In the past, I was a bit of a black out drunk in college-but thats been about 5 yrs ago.(Again why I pretty much gave up drinking). I am just so mad b/c he really believes it. It's bad enough my finance doesnt know I slept with him in the 1st place (We were broken up for a period of time), like 6 yrs ago-and now he's saying this. I wouldn't care as much if he didnt run into my guy's friends every now and then and doesnt like them either. Cop or no cop, I think I'm gonna have to take him down. I'm a responsible mom and not some hooch. It just makes me so mad.....GRRRR. Sorry guys I had to get it out.

Here is my day, I did not make it to the gym this AM, way too tired to get up at 5 after the super bowl, I am planning on doing a DVD after dinner.

Goals
Drink 96 ounces of water daily
Eat 26 points, no flex or AP's
Go to the gym

Food
Breakfast: Oatmeal and OJ (5 points)
Snack: Grapes (1 point)
Lunch: Salad with veggies, cheese, chicken and WW soup (8 points)
Dinner: Noodles, potroast, carrotts (12 points)
total: 26 points

Water 101 oz

Exercise none, tried to do a DVD last night and my daughter was not having it.

well team, I am excited! Diva thank you thank you for the V-day challenge...it is midnight here...i am taking a shower and then heading to bed....and i haven't eaten anything since 8pm! This hasn't happened in a long while! I don't know how you get those bouncy carrot things on your posts....but if I did...trust me....there would be one swinging its booty on here right now... good night all...see you tomorrow....

Hotcubanmama: 1. I am so sorry to hear that you have this added stress from dealing with rumors and people who have so little going on in their lives that they have to talk about/make up stuff about others. 2. You can do the no eating after 8pm too.... or just make it fruit ..... you can do it! you can do it!

Hi everyone.
I apologize for these last two weeks. I know I promised to be an encouraging person here for the team but I have not been here at all. I've been grieving over the loss of a friend two weeks ago and it's taken me down really hard, to where things like weighing, exercising, putting gas in the car, getting mail out of the mailbox -- all seemed like: "What. you're kidding." types of things.
This week however, I am beginning my personal training at the gym (having signed up for a challenge there BEFORE the tragic event) but I am signed up and now I need to do it. Since I need to show up there I promise to show up here also.

Regarding the gym challenge, it is based on greatest % bodyfat lost, and all the participants' starting numbers are posted. I think there must be something very wrong with the measurements. They have to be low. I believe I am much higher than the 28.9% they measured me as. And what blows my mind is that there is a guy on the list with 10.9% bodyfat and two women on the list in the 18%'s. Why are these people in a challenge to lose bodyfat? Must be something wrong with those calipers and or calculations.

Good luck to everyone.

Happy Birthday London!!!