We had a high of 98* today. Blech! Thank goodness for a/c.

Yes! I need to get back to exercise. I haven't done anything for longer than I would like to admit. I think this is the program Rhonda posted.

I am not sure if this is the proper way to do this, but I am going to drop out of this challenge. Since I initially signed up for it, I had changed my weight loss goals. I am more into the bodybuilding aspect of this (meaning I am gaining muscle mass while losing bodyfat). My personal goal was/is to lose 10lbs by Thanksgiving of this year. My weekly weightloss fluctuates, but remains in a constant maintanence range. I am currently 230-235lbs, 24% bodyfat. My goal is to reach 220lbs (100kg)/18% bodyfat by Thanksgiving.

Due to internet issues, I am not currently on the WWW. I will be back online next weekend (I am using the internet at my library).

I have been very inspired by TBL, and am continuing on with my own personal lifestyle. In fact, starting next week (waiting for Bush's Stimulus Payment) I will start studying to become a personal trainer. My trainer has been supportive of this, and will be helping me along the way (testing is in November, near my Thanksgiving goal). She will be helping me to get my CPR certification as well.

Please, if anyone wants to communicate with me (eg., reply to this) please send me a instant message, as I will not be online again for a week.

Good luck to anyone participating in this. I hope everyone reaches their goals.

I got my hair cut, colored and highlighted today.... New avi picture tomorrow!!

I not only have had 4 14yr olds....I work with them! I completely relate to your feelings. We are of the "old school" thinking with our kids.....they all have been very good about our views on dating.....they all waited till their senior year. Our oldest is engaged now (3rd yr of college) to his HS sweetheart. They can socialize with friends here at the house or at select friends houses ie: we KNOW the parents and their standards on dating.

At the Middle school I work at 2 yrs ago we had an incident when a substitute teacher was in for one of the english teachers, they had free reading time....the sub allowed the lights to be turned off (there is a security light that always stays on) the sub then sat down at the desk and proceeded to read a book, to himself. NOT looking up or around at all. A boy was sitting on a bean bag directly diagnal to the teachers desk......a student sitting infront of the teachers desk was trying to get the sub's attention but couldn't w/o drawing attention to themselves by the boy on the bean bag. The boy on the bean bag called a girl over and she performed oral sex right there infront of the whole entire class! Several students went to their next period teachers and reported the incident......the sub was relieved from our school and off the sub list for the district completely. I know if my daughter was in that classroom at that time I would of been very heated since she has not seen anything of that nature even on TV!!! It is very sad that girls these days think that doing these things are fun and cute and that the boys will want to be with them forever.........which ends up being a week if that and then every other boy wants to be with them just because of what the first boy is saying.......

Our girls were allowed to go to the mall if they were looking for something to buy or with us as a family....we would take some of their friends and buy them all lunch they would wonder off on their own but we were there if they needed us.

It is hard being a parent to teens these days.

just wanted to put my 2cents in LOL

Bernice

Thanks, Zinke. I will check it out to see which program I want to do. This one or C25K. I like the fact that whatever program I do I will be able to wear my HRM. For some reason although I hear the HRM connecting with my computer when I'm trying to transfer data to the personaltrainer website I keep getting the message the data transfer failed. So for now I will just log the information in my journal or I guess I could just type it in on the website.

Sorry to see you go but I am sure you will accomplish what you intend. Good luck!

Can't wait to see. I seriously might have to check out that aisle again.

That is UNACCEPTABLE! That teacher should be more than just fired. They should be brought up on child endangerment charges or something.

I'm kicking myself in the butt. When I decided to purchase one I got the Ormon HR100C. I really regret not spending a few extra bucks for a Polar. I am sure I would have liked the geek factor of seeing things on the website. I don't wear it nearly often enough.

I am sure you have tried this already but have you tried eating more? Since you are exercising daily maybe your body is just holding onto everything. Or maybe trying low carb for two or three weeks to see what happens?

What is a heart rate monitor, what do they do... other than tell you your heart rate?

Without the book, can you elaborate? I love mind-body connection info. Can you remember the book's title?

I also am considering crack, heroine and good, old-fashioned smokes.

I am pretty low-carb anyway. I am sure I would lose on the low-carb, but with not eating a whole lot of meat, it would cut my cals crazy low. I am just going to stick with the 1000-1200 and see if that will help in the coming weeks.

Of course that starts tomorrow, as I went to a grad party today. There is good news and bad news. I will start with the bad. I probably ate too much.

The good: I prepared for the party and had only eaten 400 for the day when I got there. I only ate ONE spring roll. I split a piece of cake with Meara. I only had 4 chips. I drank nothing but water and unsweetened tea.

The best news is that when I got home, I walked for an hour. I plopped Meara in the stroller and took off at 9 PM to get my exercise in today. It was not a perfect day, but I stayed true to my exercise everyday goal.

No tornado in your neighborhood, Anna?

I LOVE my HRM. Forgot it tonight at the gym and had to "guess" at things.

I am so lost. I know that ever since the SFC system thingy went down, everything that was posted in the past 2 weeks have been erased right? I don't remember my weights and exercises. I haven't read all the posting for this thread so I'm not really updated as to what is going on. Don't you love this technical stuff??!!

nevermind I got it!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Today is really cold here.. me and the kids are cleaning the house ansd cooking to try and stay warm i have both my haters on but its still freezing.. My kids havent had a bath today yet ( its 4.30pm atm) becuase the house wont warm up.. Im considering getting the big heater out of the family room and plugging it in in ther bath room.. to warm it up enough for them to get undressed.. ..

Its like granmas laundry around here. i have washing all over the house trying to dry lol Winter washing drives me crazy.. I dont have a dryer and there is no sun coming in my windows .

My house is looking back to normal now though.. with the weeks of us all being sick i let a few things go.. like the dust under the couch and the papers on the kitchen table .. and a few loads of washing ive now caught up on . the only thing that still need to be done is the sheets on my bed.. But with John coming home thursday i think i might change them then. He loves fresh sheets even more then i do .. and he hates the blanket i have on the bed atm.. so i will change it all before he comes home.. I have a dishwasher to get out a new one coming to be fitted and im sure plenty of messes the kids make b4 then to sort out lol. My vacuum cleaner doesnt ever get put away.. its always being used .. and im sure it will be the same till the kids move out ..

My weight sucks lol ..why is it the minute your sick you eat crap and gain weight??? lol i seem to weigh more and more each day .. Its not like i just sit on my back side and do nothing .. i have done 630 minutes of exercise this week and i gain.. my calories have not been that bad .. but i spose a little bit over each day is enough for me to gain

Im hoping its fluid retention i know i havent been drinking enough .. so lets hope a couple of days good drinking and ill be right.. again.. .

I loose so slow but can gain so fast ..

Oh well doesn't matter ill just keep on keeping on my body has to give in and loose weight eventually right?? i think for my size my programme is right on the money maybe im just plateauing again i seem to loose a few and plateau and jump around the same 2 - pounds for a while then loose again.. the last time i did it was 276 pounds so if im doing it and 271 maybe ill do it every 5 pounds until im at my goal of 150.. .. lol well it took me a long time to get this big it will take a long time to get smaller too.. Im not prepared to do anything drastic or stupid to loose weight .. just good cardio 2-4 times a week weights 1-2 times a week and walking most days .. when i have lost weight before i wasnt calorie counting just being sensible and i was only walking.. i lost 60 pounds then..
But this time couting and cardio and weights im losing very slowly .. the thing is those 60 pounds came back with freinds cousins and relatives lol.

I have gained this week im sorry to the team but im not disapointed in myself I was sick and alone caring for sick kids.. stress happens .. lol and with it for me comes pounds lol ..

ok im off to cook dinner

So I'm down ounces again. It is that TOM so that could be partly responsible. It was 220. I so want to get out of the 220's. But I think I'll probably end up stuck. Plus I want to start trying to get PG which I guess if you lose too quickly can cause problems so I'm just trying to eat a little less and lose slower. But a loss is a loss. Our stupid town is under a boil water order which is really annoying. Plus my son who is already under the weather had been drinking nothing but tap water most of the time and who knows when the yucky stuff got in the water. So now at least Aiden and I are taking showers at my Mom's and we'll bring the dishes there to be washed. And everything else is bottled. I know the website said doing you laundry is fine but we may go t o the town on the other side of where we go to do laundry cause I'm not sure if the place we go to now uses our towns' water. My DH thinks it will be fine to take a shower in the water but it just seems gross and I'm like you won't be touching me after taking a shower in that water. My mother offered her shower. Okay enough ranting. I gottta get cleaning before it gets tooo much hotter. Its only 7:20 am and its already awful humid.