I don't know how you can do anything else while LOST is on! I sit and stare at the tv the entire time and I still miss stuff!! Love it though!

Good morning ladies! Well scale isn't showing a loss yet....Actually showing a slight gain. Hoping I can get it down before WI. I have lots of chores for DS to do today, also have to go to his school and pick up his school work for him to do. Not to mention find a holisitc Dr for my kiddos to start seeing. Going to be a busy day today for sure. Oldest DS is already getting on my nerves, and we still have another week to go before he can go back to school. ARGGGG Well had better get moving. Hope everyone has a great day today.

LOL Karen...thats how I am too, luckily with hula hooping I can just stare at the TV, but I will admit most of the hooping came during the commercials! I was gonna say last nights show was a little boring and then we find out Kate's son is Aaron!!! What the heck happened to Claire!? LOL!

Kari...dont worry too much about that ol scale! You are doing great and the results will show! Can I borrow a son for chores? LOL! I dont know about boys but it is SO HARD to get girls to help! At least mine anyway.

I forgot to mention that I finally watched the show last night. I'm loving the Blue team, they are so focused! I think Dan especially, now that his mother is gone that boy has really turned himself around. But, the best part of the whole show came in the first 30 seconds when I got to see Danielle hugging Betty Sue! Made me kinda sad though, when I saw her as an actually moving, breathing person I realized how much I miss her! (our primary communication is the internet) Cant wait to see her at the finale when we win this thing!

Okay back to cleaning the kitchen!

Melissa~ My daughter does much MUCH better at cleaning then my son does. He cuts corners, so he has to redo things and then gets an attitude with me about it. I tell ya! TEENAGERS! Can you tell he is frustrating me today?! LOL

LOL Kari...my dd turns 13 in just a few short days but I swear she's been acting like a teen since she turned 9. And now my youngest just turned 9 and OMG!!! the moods and the attitude! She used to be my happy go lucky girl! Its good to hear its not just my kids though, I guess none of em are all that eager to help out LOL! I do have some advice for you though...duct tape! LOL!

Good afternoon Red Team.

Well yesterday was day #55 OP and it was as close to a perfect day as I can get. I planned my menu from morning till bed time and stuck to every drop of food and even had 1pt left over when I went to bed, AND I earned 11ap's. I stepped on the scale this morning and I was back down to 226...so i'm hoping for about a 2lb loss tomorrow at my weigh in. *fingers crossed*

Today it's snowing and I already earned 1 ap for shoveling for 20 minutes outside. I worked up a sweat and it felt good. The snow was light this time.

I was relaxing in my room and someone knocked on the door. It was my DS's father. He lives in Florida and he showed up with this huge parka on looking for Torre. Well Ds was at a friends house so I called him to come home for a minute. he argued with me and I said, just leave your stuff there and come home someone is here to see you! He was shocked to see his father. He only see's his dad once a year on his birthday in May and that's it. He used to go see his dad for the summer (like 4-5 weeks) but he stopped doing that 2 years ago. So it was a nice surprise for him. I guess my ex's brother was stabbed the other day and is in the hospital, so he came up to see him. He's only here for a few days so i'm taking DS over to my ex's mothers house later today so he can hang out with his dad! He's probably not thrilled about it because he is always so bored when he's with him. Which is why he doesn't go to Florida anymore. But, at least he can see his dad for a few days and his dad can see him play basketball tomorrow!

Hope everyone has a great day. No time for personals. Gotta jump in the shower!

Good afternoon ladies! I'm just popping in for a second to say hi. I have my youngest home sick with a fever. He is resting on the couch right now. I feel so bad for the little guy. We don't have much going on this weekend. Madison has a b-day party tomorrow afternoon, and I have to grocery shop. Other then that though pretty chill weekend I made the gym yesterday for my cardio, so today I'm doing strength training at home and tomorrow will be my last gym day for the week. Sunday is my day of rest. I'll be back later to do personals. I'm going to try and finish some stuff up around the house while Kyle is resting. Hope your all doing well today~

Kari, I am the same way; I hate taking medications unless I absolutely HAVE to. I certainly don't eat an all-organic diet or anything, but I try to be at least somewhat careful of what I put into my body.

Jasmine, I'm glad to see you reading even if you don't post a lot

Melissa, I used to love FitTV! We had it on our TV in college and it was one of my fav channels. Unfortunately, my current cable provider doesn't have it. I have plenty of exercise DVDs, but there was some other programming on there that I just really liked.

Today was a bit crazy. I was supposed to be on the 6 AM flight out of Boston, but that was cancelled, so I was going to be on the 6:30, which was delayed 30 minutes or so. Not a huge problem. I boarded, waited on the tarmac for a while, and then we flew to New York. When we got over New York, they announced a ground stop on airports because the weather conditions made it too dangerous to land. After circling for a while, they announced that we were too low on fuel to keep circling so... we headed back to Boston. Landed there around 9 and switched planes. We then waited (on the plane) for about 30 minutes until LaGuardia was open again, and headed out to our runway. As we were waiting on line to taxi off, now LOGAN imposed a ground stop: no planes could take off because of the weather. Waited another 30 minutes, until a passenger insisted that they wanted to get off the plane because they were going to miss their connection anyway. So back to the gate, and we then missed our spot in the takeoff line. We then waited for another two hours on the plane, finally leaving around 12:30 PM. I got home at 2:30 PM, and wow... I am just exhausted.

On the brighter side, I have plans with some good friends for tonight that I'm excited about. I did fairly well with eating today, and am on plan so far - we'll see if I can keep it up with going to dinner tonight. Speaking of which, here's one thing that's kind of interesting... I've been eating out so much lately that I'm not too happy about going to dinner tonight. I really want to just cook at home and grill up some fish and veggies. Traveling seems to be weaning me of my "going out to eat is a special occasion" thinking!

Laura
Just think, all that time on the planes you dont have time to eat lol.

Hi everybody,

Just wanted to check in and say hi and let you know I have managed to stay OP since I started back up on Tuesday and I have also managed to exercise three times this week, and hoping I can get another one in by Sunday. I read a few posts and like the others, I too have a hard time with posting as much as I should. That is one of the things I have always struggled with as I am not good with sharing my thought and expressing myself. I admire and envy all of you that post and do personals all the time so for now I will try to do my best to just at least pop in daily and keep up with you all, hopefully one day I can do personals to.
Well, I have to go get all my stuff ready for my wedding tomorrow...I have my own company which I do hair and makeup for as well I do work full time all week in an office, plus try to run a household with two young teenagers which is a job in itself (mind you they are my everything and so is hubby)...so I will try my best to improve and be a better team member.

Take care everybody!

Laura that definitely sounds like an exhausting morning even though it was all on the plane! Glad to see you made it home safely. Hope you have a great night out with your friends.


I am going to be heading out of town tomorrow morning. I may not have time to check in over the weekend. I am probably going to have to take a freebie this week as I won't be able to weigh in on Monday as I normally do for the weigh in here. Hope everyone has a great weekend!

A quick fly-by to say hello. I read everyone's posts - it was a busy day! I hope you all have a wonderful weekend!

I'm off to finish doing my taxes and FAFSA application for DS.

Just got home from the gym, I did 1 hour of running for 1.5 minutes and walking for 3.5 minutes. Man, am I sore and tired! Hopefully it'll do me some good for tomorrow's weigh in!

Way to go Mel - I know what you mean about feeling it but awesome on doing the whole hour! The first few weeks I was a bit sore too. I just bumped mine up to 4run and 2 walk. I felt fine at the time (although the last 2 were hard) but when I got home I felt over-worked so I took it easy and just walked a bit today.

I signed up for a beginner Tri Swimming class which is tomorrow morning. I don't have a suit but I didn't know I actually was still in the class until tonight so I ran out to target. Nothing there worked for anything more then sitting around in a bathing so I ended up with some just below the knees legging type things which were similar in material to a bathing suit, and a sportsbra/top. I asked if I could wear shorts and she said yes, so I hope this still acceptable. I'll look for something more suitable later this week.

I'm hella nervous. I haven't swam much since I was a teen.

Good morning ladies,

No time for personals, I'll get to those tomorrow. I just had to post quickly that I lost 3lbs this week. YIPEE! I"m so excited. That means only 1.2 away from my 10% goal and 2.2 away from my 25lbs. I will meet BOTH of those goals next Saturday! I"m sooo excited!

I hope everybody has a great day today! I have a busy one. At around 10pm mom and I are going to go shopping at the Whole Food Store and Old Navy and to our favorite Crystal/spiritual shop on the way. Then DS has his last basketball game of the season at 2pm so i'm meeting him and his Dad there! He is so concerned that Dad won't get him there on time, typical, so I assured him that i would call him at 1pm and if they hadn't left by 1:15pm to call me and I'd go get him. LOL. He knows his father way too well! then I have an Elvis gig about 30 min away tonight at 8pm and I have to be there around 7ish so I have to leave here at 6:30pm.

I won't be back home until late and will probably be tired, so I'll check back in tomorrow morning! XOXO

HOpe everybody has a great On Program Day! Go Red Team!!!