Just stopping in to say hi to all my fellow bluezers. I have to get going to work plus there have been 200 more messages since I last was reading to I don't know how I'm going to keep up this time. I had a bad day yesterday but it was my day off and I always have bad days then. I had to call poison control last night cause my son got into some Aleve. I heard him choking so I figure he only got the first one down. I counted them and only 18 were missing which seems like how many I would have taken. And the lady on the phone said he would have had to get down a handful to do anything and I know he didn't have time. They're the big horse pill liquidgels so they don't go down easy. Well gotta get going.

Maybe I wont be as self conscience of myself. I hope to have more confidence. I have arthritis and the weight doesn't help, so I think the less I can weigh, the better.

I can not imagine how you must be feeling. We are here for you whenever you need a shoulder. I hope the next couple months go by FAST for you.


That' scary, Im glad that he didn't get a lot down and that hes ok. My daughter once did that with Arthritis Tylenol and I had no idea how much she had taken. We ended up taking her to the hospital stuff where they had to put a tube down to her tummy and give her charcoal ... not sure why, but I think to absorb it?

ANyway, Im glad your little guy is ok.

GREAT JOB!!!! I knew you could do it!

And great job Jill for rocking the exercise! So awesome!

I'm off for a 6 mile run, gotta earn those miles for my beach trip!

Oh, and I broke out of the 190s today,YIPPEE, I'm 189.2 this morning!

LittleBig - I love what your shirt would say I'm glad you were able to get some rest.

Francie - What a difficult time this is for you. How about more ?

good morning everyone,
Happy May day!!
debi

EXCELLENT!!! WAY TO GO!

Amy, you are not weak and you don't suck at this. I think it's just time for you to re-evaluate your reasons for doing this and make a recommittment to yourself. I also would like to lose weight for my Hubby and be sexy for him. But, the reality is that doing this for someone else never seems to be enough motivation for us to stick with this journey. What would you like for yourself? Increased self esteem, to feel better, to wear beautiful clothes? Find your reasons, then go for it. And,don't think for one minute that your Blue team is gonna let you go without a fight! We're here for you....to provide the encouragement and support that you need...but, it's up to you to pick yourself up and keep going. You can do this!

Francie - My heart goes out to you. Two months...7 months....regardless of the length of time, its all time away from your sweetie and that must be so very difficult. I'm sorry that you will be without him during this rough time. I'd also break down and cry if I heard my Mom's voice. When she comes into my dreams, I always feel just a bit sad the next day. She's been gone since December 2004 and Mother's Day is still a rough time to get through. If you need to chat, please feel free to PM me. We're here for you.

My goal for this challenge: I have several, but the primary one is to lose some weight every single week. Some of my secondary ones are to start the C25K program and to get into my next incentive jeans. They've only been hanging in my closet for 6 months now!

Yesterday, I didn't track all of my calories, but I did stay on-plan with what I was eating. I actually felt true hunger several times yesterday. Wow...haven't felt that in a while! I ended up with a headache yesterday afternoon (detox?) and took an hour nap. Hubby and I did walk, but only for 30 minutes. Not a bad start to being back on-plan, but lots of room for improvement.

Today's plan: Track all calories and walk for 60 minutes.

Hope everyone has a great on-plan day.

GO BLUE!

I'm actually allergic to most OTC pain killers (all NSAIDs for those of you in the medical field). It hit me out of nowhere one day. I took some Aleve for cramps and had taken it plenty of times before with no problems, but this time I ended up in the ER with full blown anaphylactic shock. Once they brought me around enough so I could sit up a bit and was coherent, they had me drink a cup of liquid charcoal. From my understanding, it sort of absorbs and binds the offending stomach contents so no more of it will get absorbed. Then the charcoal comes out with the allergen with it (mine came right back up--thick black chalky vomit is lovely, let me tell you ).

Thank goodness these little ones were okay after getting into the medicine cabinets!

Tyler, congrats on getting out of the 190s!

I'm going to try again for the exercise challenge today. 70 minutes a day from 0 is a lot, but if I could do it yesterday, I'm sure I can do it today, too! Plus, since I know about it all day, maybe I can do something like a 40-minute walk at lunch and then a 30-minute walk this evening to break it up a bit.

Oh, and after all that walking I did last night, what hurts today? Not my feet, not my knees, not my hips...no, my ELBOW! When I brought Bowser out walking, all he did was PULL on the leash the entire time. 25 minutes of constant battling with a strong little dog = sore elbow and shoulder/upper back today I tried the Cesar Milan thing where you keep the leash really short so the dog keeps his head up--yeah, it didn't help

Amy - I've had the same problem with dinner calories before. I got in the habit of eating lean cuisines and now its a habit I wish I could kick but my time schedule is really rotten right now.

As far as exercising then not making up for the calories, take it from me (because this just happened to me this morning!) I exercised last night for 45 mins and had like 237 calories left for the day. It was 11 pm last night and I was starving after my workout. So instead of eating all 237 calories before bed, I had 2 slices of cheese and some water to hold me over.

But this morning, I woke up 10 mins early and by the time I got my bagel at Starbucks I felt famished.

But I was also down another pound this morning

So while you may not want to eat because you'll afraid you may not lose, Bob says it on the show all the time, you need to eat to refuel your body from the work its done.

My suggestion is not to try and eat all the calories you gain back from exercise, but at least half. See if that helps with your calorie budget at the end of the day since it sounds like you exercise prior to dinner (in my case its usually after.)

Sonja - I really need to check the nutritional content of the non fat version vs the soy version. I don't know if I could go with SF syrups, they are usually a lot sweeter or bitter to me.

Jill - OMG! I'm so proud of you! Fitness Monster is conquered! And here I thought you'd want the shorter distance. You get my little Hula Girl Achievement Award for the Week.

Josephine - Out of the 190's dance for you!

Francie - Oh goodness you've got me tearing up! Don't worry, we are here for you whenever you need us. As an added bonus, when your hubby comes back from his deployment, you'll be well on your way to being the smoking hot mama you are!

Everybody! - Pretty pretty please make sure you are posting your exercise and getting off your tushy! We want/need/will have that 2 lb pass if we bust our butts for it!

Just to give you an idea of how BIG this thing is...

The majority of weigh ins last round were won/lost by 1 to 2 lbs.

Thanks for all the compliments about the challenge. Its taken me since 2006 to get things into a non confusing format (at least for myself! ) So I'm giving myself a pat on the back too!

Other than that, I'm going to be doing invoicing today, so I will be off and on all day depending on how long it takes for me to get them written up and checked over by the VP.

Oh yea! and I'm down 4 lbs already for the week

Question of the Day:

If you could have any job in the entire world, what would it be and why?

wooohooo you rock jose well done

jillybean720- you did great on your workout yesterday, you are really going to make the rest of us look bad, thank goodness YOU are hear to whip us too! You rock all kinds of ***! So proud of you and inspired.
I did my 40 minutes today, and there was a part of me that did it for the BLUE TEAM!!!!


QOTD- Lose 16 ish lbs. 149 is no longer obese baby!!!!!!!!!!!

WOOHOO! Hula girls!!! Of course, I like the BLUE one

And already -4 for the week--go chelle!

My friends treat me like Blockbuster LoL Sounds like we will never not have something to watch!

If I could have any job, I would say it would have to be a photographer, specifically nature. I'd love to be outside and capturing mother nature in her finest light. When I was little I said I wanted to be a marine biologist so I could take pictures of the sea life, now I know I don't have to know all that science stuff, just need a sweet camera!

Surprised I didn't say "dominatrix"?