Blue Team Total Lost: 5.4 lbs. as a team or 0.30%

Blue Team Biggest Loser: EofAZ (-3.0 lbs., -1.20%)

Honorable Mentions:

Bigmid (-1.6 lbs., -0.85%)
eliza31 (-0.4 lbs., -0.27%)
ak812 (-0.4 lbs., -0.22%)

Congratulations to all the losers ! You ladies are kicking butt !

Here's to a great week 9 !

Happy Monday Bluesers !

Hope everyone had a great week 8. It was busy busy here again... seems everytime it looks like it's getting a bit slower somethine else comes up.

Had a great week overall, although the eating/exercise is still a bit off... and my head is so far out of the game right now.

Saturday was an amazing day.... I walked my first (and as of now last) 1/2 marathon. My friend and I did it in under 4 hours which was our goal. What an amazing experience ! Hubby also ran in the event but he did his first full marathon ! Pretty huge accomplishments when just a year ago I was 400 lbs and hubby was 330. What a difference a year makes ! I was a crying mess after crossing the finish line.

Trying to get the head back in the game now and concentrate on weight loss mode again !

Have a great week team !

Way to Go, Blue Team on winning again. Sorry I wasn't much help this past week but a big YEAH to our BL, EofAZ and the honorables Bigmid, Eliza and ak812. You all rock!

Congratulations, Leslie and DH, on the half/full marathon. Wow, is all I can say! What an accomplishment with both the weight loss and the walk.

I'm on "holiday" at my DS's place for the next 2 weeks. Yesterday was a total disaster with food. This is like candy land and chip land rolled all together. Today, I must gather my wits about me and take control of my mind and stomach.

Have a great day and week everyone.

Have fun visiting your DS and good luck on the food control. Take time to really enjoy the fellowship and don't focus on the food thing so much. Because I want to whip your butt in the next weighin

Leslie, good job on the walk. Why don't you want to do it again, wasn't it fun?

I went to my Dr. last week and all of my blood work came back improved. She was so pleased with me. Felt pretty good, now I need to keep up the good work. That, of course, is the hard part.

I'm having trouble with this stupid ad popping up on me while I try to visit the site so I guess I will close and wish you both a good week.

Hey, just wanted to say I'm so sorry I ended up out of the challenge! I've been working lots of overtime and trying to complete observation hours for school, as well as the three little ones--so I just completely forgot when it came to posting last week Hope you all have great results from this challenge! Go Blue!

I had a much better day yesterday. I'm all off schedule though, because they eat at different times. I like to have my large meal at noon and of course they have theirs in the evening. Today I'm taking everyone out to eat so it's going to be a light breakfast and probably just a snack for lunch.

EofAZ, I would rather like to whip your butt in the next weigh in, lol, lol, lol

Congratulation EofAZ, eliza31, and ak812 for being in the top loser category.
This is the only place that you can actually hope to be a loser and mean it

Leslie - congrats on the half marathon that's an awesome accomplishment. WTG!!! Congrats to you hubby as well.

retireddone - hope you have a great visit with the family, it can be very challenging on the food front when your not the one in full control over it. Good luck. Enjoy supper out tonight

EofAZ - congrats on the blood work, I just had some done a few weeks ago but never asked to see my results from before so don't know if it's better or not. One can only hope it is after all the hard work we put into this. I'm sure you are going to be great at keeping this up and to keep seeing improvement.

Rainydays - sounds like you have a pretty busy life going on right now. Stop in once and a while to keep us updated.

Well I have been not to bad this week, I was right on Sundays post about gaining on Monday, but by Tuesday I was back to Sundays WI again. I'm a little worried about this weeks though as I've been out twice this week with another outing on Friday.....want to be with friends but the eating out scares me. Plus TOM so here's hoping for some results on Sunday.

I did great last night though met some friends at 8pm and they had appies and I had water. Then the manager at the restaurant recognized me from wher I work. I helped him out so he wanted to say thanks and return the favor by buying desert. We ordered the hot fudge sundae and I had one taste pluse about 7 of the peanuts and that's it. IT WAS AN AWESOME ACCOMPLISHMENT for me. I didn't even feel deprived that is an ever bigger achievement. I hope this is some sort of breakthrough.
Friday I go to a fundraiser for a friends school that includes dinner and have no idea whats on the menu so I hope I can make this better eating out thing a trend.

Well I hope you all have a great day, the sun is shining here finally and it feels so good just seeing it.....even if I'm stuck inside working.

Hello BLUE TEAM!!

It's nearly the weekend ... so excited! I'm glad to see you all are on here and doing well. Again, I have been shamefully absent from the thread for much of this week. I'm flying out of town tonight to see my family and have been preparing for that, PLUS I've had such foot problems this week! I think I mentioned in last week's thread that I've got a bunion on my left foot and it's caused me so much trouble this last week. I was barely able to take a step without pain, let alone exercise. This led to me having kind of a tough time with food - I was so frustrated with not being able to exercise that I figured "What's the point, I won't lose anyway, might as well eat what I want and be happy." However, I barely managed to stay within calorie goal every day and had a surprise loss of 1 lb. today! Was so not expecting that but I'm glad it happened. It's going to help SO much when I'm tempted to go overboard with food while home next week.

Well I'd better be off to finish getting ready for work! Have a beautiful weekend, ladies!

I'm not getting in any exercise, either. DIL has a bike but it's in their bedroom and it's not always convenient when I want to use it. I've been trying to really watch my calories with my meals all served so differently from home.

We're off to the park soon with DGS, DIL and her mother. Maybe I'll get in a little exercise walking around.

Have a great weekend. It's Canada Day here on Sunday so it's BBQ time and the weather predictions are for a great day. Note to self: Go easy on the potato salads and chips...sigh...

I will be out of pocket for a while, my internet is down at the house and rather than buying a new modem I think I am going to check into swapping service. This is going to raise havoc with my weigh in so I think I will take a freebie this week and hopefully have it up and running by next week. If not I will weigh in next Friday and post during lunch. No big deal, I had such a good drop last week I expect this week won't be that great. I seem to be doing that lately, lose a little, lose a little then a really good week and back to lose a little.

Other than the internet the week has been good. I've eaten on the high end of my calories but still on plan. This weekend will be a challenge because I log my food online and without the internet I feel like I'm limping along with a broken wing. Crazy how dependent I've become on it. Recipes, logs, exercise ideas, research, games. Oh My. I did fit in a good workout on my bike on Wednesday. I had to move it into the living room and HATED doing it but figured if I put it in the bedroom it would become a clothes rack so opted for the living room. Low and behold, where it is sitting is directly across from my chair and looking at it all the time motivated me to go over and log a workout. I warned DH that if it works that well I may have to move the elliptical out in the living room too, LOL.

Have a good weekend everyone,

Morning it's a beautiful day here this morning and a relaxing one too. Just sitting here debating what to do today. May head out to the lake, not sure yet.

Well I am very bloated this week and not really sure why so WI tomorrow will not be great. My food has been good this week, if not even a little low on certain days. Maybe that's why it's holding on to whatever it can. Don't think so though.

I'm off work for three days due to Canada Day so that's really nice and the sun is supposed to shine for most of it so I'm really happy about that. Think I'll go for a nice long walk.

Well good luck tomorrow for everyone for WI I'll talk to you all tomorrow.

Enjoy the day

Evening all. I just looked through the weigh in page, not many people left in the challenge. In fact, i am the only one from the second page left and im 1 missed week from being eliminated myself. Its hard posting a gain or even a same, i feel like im letting the team down. The logical side of me knows im not, we have all been there, but the emotional side of me is stronger atm

This trying to lose weight thing is so hard. It can be extremely difficult getting (and keeping) your motivation. Me, i have none at all. Im still trying, but have managed to lose less than 1 pound in the 9 weeks of this challenge!!!

Im going to be brainwashed (hypnotised) next week. Instead of eating once or twice a day, it will be 5 small meals. Instead of virtually no water, it will be 6-8 glasses. Instead if looking at the dreadmill ( ), i will be using it at least a half hour daily. Well, that is the aim. I kind of think of it as cheating, but i am making no headway at all and my health will really start to decline if i dont do something drastic very soon.

I know i dont post often, but i read them all every week. Rainydays, please keep posting when you can, you are definitely an inspiration!

Good luck with weigh in all

We have lost a lot of people and I hope we don't lose anymore today. Good job for those who are sticking with this challenge

I just weighed in at 144. Yesterday, I weighed 143.8 but didn't have time to get to the computer. I went out of town for a vacation since Thursday and got back yesterday. I had a great time and ate pretty good. I didn't get to take my normal exercise classes but plan to go to the gym later today.

Good luck everyone at weigh-in today.

I'm on holidays at my DS's house, using their scale, so I'm not sure exactly what the difference is between mine and theirs. I posted my weight as the same again this week but this morning I was down half a pound. So I'm happy it's on the downward slide again, even though it won't show for this week.

This is Canada Day today and we're having a BBQ with potato salads and all the trimmings. We have a red and white cake that I will have a serving of but I've put everything into fitday.com and if I stick to the plan I'll be on plan. I'm having 1 veggie burger and bun with just relish and mustard, 2 tablespoons of each salad, large serving of green salad with no dressing (maybe a little lemon juice or vinegar), a slice of watermelon and a piece of cake. I'm going to try and skip the chips... I ate a good breakfast so I'm going to skip lunch and we'll be having an early supper. If I do eat anything for lunch it will just be a piece of fruit or some raw vegetables.

Yesterday I ate chips and blew 250 calories on a large handful. It's really not worth it. I could have eaten a lot more fruit or even another sandwich for those calories. So I am resolved to stay away from the chips and to eat slowly.

I know we all worry about letting down the team when our weigh ins are not good but you are actually letting yourself down when you knowingly and uncaringly eat what is not healthy or good for you or even eat too much. Relying on the team to make us feel obliged to lose weight, stay on plan, exercise daily, etc is actually a way of shifting onus away from ourselves because maybe subconsciously we don't care enough about ourselves and we say we are doing it for the team. I don't know if this makes sense to you. But I think it is foremost to do it for ourselves. Anyhoo, that's the sermon for the day, lol.

HAPPY CANADA DAY! To all my fellow Canadians on here

Well I'm down from last week which is very good news seeing as I was so bloated for the week. I have 3 different weight from this morning (all within .4lbs) so I guess I'll take the middle one. I should know better than get back on a couple minutes later...just to see if it was right

Tkkoz - we have all been there so don't feel bad at all. Remember this is your journey and were just here to help you with that ride. If you lose, gain or maintain we will be here for you. If you go back a couple weeks you will see it was me that was where you are right now. It's very frustrating when the weight doesn't come off. I have been doing everything right with diet and exercise and yet the scale didn't or barley moved, you wonder what it's all for.....it for you, you can do this for you. I think your plan of eating more than 2 meals is key. Your body needs fuel throughout the day so smaller meals more often is great. As far as hypnosis....whatever works. I have a weight loss app on my phone and have been usung it now for 1 full month. Is it working....I still want bad food sometimes, but I'm losing small amounts right now too...so maybe it's the app, maybe it's just time for my body to reset itself lower....who knows. Point is we do whatever we can to win at this game called life.

Eliza31 - glad you had a good vacation. That's the hardest for me, it's like I should get vacation to eat whatever too. Old habits! Congrats on eating well.

retireddone - Happy Canada Day! Enjoy your BBQ, sounds like you have the eating all planned out so that will be good. Enjoy the rest of your holiday.

Well went to Costco yesterday and had an ice cream from there.....so good, yet so bad. Then I decided to walk home from there. It 5.8km away so I felt great afterward and hopefully burned off the ice cream calories.

Have a great day everyone.