Hi everyone. I hope your Superbowl Sunday was SUPER! We have two weeks left in our Challenge! Lets make this a great two weeks! I am super close to my 149 goal for this challenge. MY PLAN: keep on doing what I am doing. It seems to be working well. In January I lost 8 pounds The most I have lost since I first started My official weigh in isn't until tomorrow. My body may be done letting go of the weight quickly so now its just keeping up the momentum. I cant wait until I get to workout. I may only get an hour tomorrow since the kids have dental appts but I cant wait! I need that endorphin rush!

W 80 oz
E extra laps
E 1200 planned calories
D get through today

My eating for Super Bowl Sunday was awful, but I will focus on getting all my water today to flush out all the sodium etc I inhaled last night. Tomorrow will be a better day.

W 100
E Crunches, treadmill tonight.
E OP
D Have to start over, yesterday, definitely not on Plan. Day 1 BOP

Jeni...congrats on 8 pounds lost last month...that is awesome!! I'm sure you'll hit your goal of 149. just keep doing what you're doing!!

Mmavis...girl...i hear ya. I ate alot of things normally i don't eat but i didn't eat much during the day either, so i could afford the calories. But i don't think i got enough water in to flush out the salt before i weighed this morning.

I saw 154 on saturday and sunday...so i was really pleased. I was back up today but only a pound and a half. So, i'm not too upset. I know it's sodium. So, i'll drink my water today and tomorrow i will be back down to 154. That put me at a 5 pound loss for January!! Yay!!

Todays WEED:
W: 64 ounces
E- 1200-1300 calories
E- 30 minutes elliptical...weight lifting
D- just keep your head in the game...keep doing what works!!

And what an awesome Superbowl!!! Steelers win their 6th Superbowl!!! It was close but we did it!!!! :-)

Good morning...anyone remember me? LOL I know, I know.

Actually, what a week. What a week. It started back on Jan 16th, it was a friday...did I report back to ya'll about the girls weekend down at the casino? Yeah, I think I did, (that was a fun night!) But my TOM started that weekend and it got REALLY bad. Like bad that I nearly passed out, ended up in ER and actually getting a blood transfusion bad. Went on ten days of Premarin, got binge-y and moody and crampy for a week now here I am. Still having Flo hang around but now it's manageable. So I have a biopsy tomorrow and I am having an ablasion on Feb 16th (An ablasion is when they take a catheter into the uterus and burn the walls of the uterus completely out. So you don't have a "lining" to shed every month. You can still get pregnant but it won't "stick" because there is no lining for it to adhere to, but most women don't bleed at all, and some women have mild, mild spotting every month.) So I am looking foreward to getting on with my life!

Yeah, I know. More than you may have wanted to know. But I let my eating get SO out of control. Plus being anemic and asthmatic this time of year, I get tired and short of breath so easily. I need to get back on track.

So I just got off work. I will get up at 1:30 and go to the gym. And we'll take it from there.

I still need to go back and read next week's thread, I don't think I popped on that week at all. I miss you all!

Superbowl turned out to be no big deal for me. I worked 7p-7a. The patients were all watching it so I caught bits and pieces of it. One of the girls, it was her last day at work (before transfer to another dept) so we all took in snacky treats...so lots of junk at work too.

So I wouldn't mind a little kicking in the butt, a little nudge here and there. Must get back on track before losing control COMPLETELY. Love to all....

xxooxox Michelle

At your request But I have to add this as it sounds like you need it and it's great having you back!

lumifan4ever 5 pounds for January! Right on!!

jcatron243 And 8 pounds! WOW!!

mothermavis BOP, I'm with ya! We don't usually throw a party for the Superbowl, but the family got it in their heads that they wanted a party this time! So, yeah, sodium, pop and grease got sucked up here!

TOM arrived yesterday. That with Superbowl crap and my WI this week has me 3 pounds up. No problem, things will look a bit rosier next week. Now, if I want to reach my Valentine's goal of 158, I'm going to have to get serious!! A little fairy dust right now would be good!

W - 5 blue bottles of water = 110 oz. [1 DONE]
E - 40 minutes weights [DONE]
E - Lots of fruits and vegetables mixed with protein
D - You'll feel better all around if you do!!

Quick hit as I'm on my way to a Birthday Party that got cancelled yesterday because the weather was crapolla. Not bad today other than I let myself get too hungry and then ate too much at lunch. Got my water in but no exercise plans. Gotta get back on the tread. I lost 3 pounds for January- not bad. Now I have to dig in to get to 159 by the end of this challenge!

Will try to do personals later.

I am sick and tired of trying so hard to lose weight and not really getting anywhere. I'm just tired and confused. My friend keeps suggesting maybe I just need to take a break and stop trying for a while. I'm not crazy about that idea. We'll see.

Jeni- Awesome!!! 8 pounds. Good for you.

Lumi- See what happens when you get yourself back into the game.?? Good for you.

Michelle- There are days when I would love that procedure. Actually I would like to get rid of the ovaries that cause me such turmoil.

Gotta run. I have a ton to do yet.

Sorry I got off track for a minute. I wanted to send my sincere regrets to Shari. I am so sorry to hear about Leonidas. Breaks my heart.

SHARI You did the right thing. And you loved him fabulously! He knows it! Take a deep breath, and a break from all the craziness of life. It'll get a little better everyday!

I ate like it was going out of style yesterday. I didn't care, I had decided that it was going to be my last pain killer day and ate like crazy to make myself feel better. Today is 1st day no 800000milligram ibuprofin and no vicodin. Worked all day, tushy only reminded me a couple of different times that I am not 100% yet. But all in all... MUSH BETTA!

I am a gainer this week (shocking) and will recommit tomorrow to being a loser. Tonight I am going to battle a nasty virus my puter got. Ladies, if ANTIVIRUS 2009 pops up on your machine, DO NOT EXIT IT, DO NOT EVEN CLICK IN THE BOX, simply CNTRL ALT DELETE once to get to task bar and close it. We clicked on it... guess who gets to reformat her computer? GRRRR!

No real personals tonight. maybe later? Miss you all, glad to see Nchellie back. Talk soon!

Shari, I am so sorry for your loss.

Mindy, I know the feelings you are going through. I went for 5 months without a loss. That was tough, but I kept on at it. To break that dang plateau I switched up my workout routine, scrutinized my diet and fiddled with it. But you have gotten somewhere. You are down 53 pounds. That is TOTALLY AWSOME!!! sure the weight isn't coming off nearly as fast as it used to, but it is still coming off. You really need to kick the scale habit. Those numbers really are messing with your mind. You know the way your body works, mine does the same thing. You will not be happy with yourself if you give in to the frustration now.

Michelle, OMGOODNESS GIRL!!!!! What a week you have had. take care of yourself.


AHHH kids are screamming . . . .Grazer great job on the 3 pound loss for January. Clykk~MM~Lumi-Get in that water. Quick edit NIXIE I am glad you are vicodin free!

Man, I'm so irritable! I don't know what my problem is. Anyway, I'm op, though I only had one serving of veggies today. *oops* maybe I should say I'm under my calorie limit. I hope my mood improves tomorrow, because I'm really getting on my nerves. And so is everyone else

I'm so sorry Such a hard thing, but you gave him a really great life, I'm sure. he knows he was loved.

It must be so frustrating! You have lost a lot, and sooner or later the rest will come off. I'm sorry you're stuck

Shari You did what was best for Leonidas. It's tough, I know. Nixmom is right, it will get a little less painful every day.

Nmichelle Welcome back, we've missed you. Sorry about all that drama, must be that's why Gram called it 'the curse'. Hope all goes well today and the 16th and then, no more flow!! Sounds heavenly!

Clykk, I am with ya, too much food and tom and I am up 5 freakin pounds, no way I ate that much, so just chugging my water and getting it outta here so when TOM leaves, all the bloat goes too.

I think I am going to learn to knit, I need a new distraction for my hands at night besides the hand to mouth thing they are so good at. I do fine all day and then when I get home, if the crap is here, watch out, it's binge city. Last night I could not leave the chips and cookies alone so I went to bed at 8:30. (After I chewed for two hours!!) This morning I packed all the left over crap from the SB party, chips and dip and such and sent it all to work with DH!

OK, Nixmom, Grazer, Mtiger, all of us who are up a bit or stuck, let's push this thing to Valentine's Day. I challenge all of us to be COMPLETELY OP til Valentine's Day. We can do this, it's less than 2 weeks to devote just to us.

W 100
E Going to do cruches and elliptical before I shower, then all those stairs to get to work, may watch WOF & Jeopardy from the Dreadmill tonight.
E OP
D Glad those chips are gone, for the third time in a week, DAY 1 OP

Thin~when I get really irritable I eat some good carbs with protein. It really helps. (whole grain bread and peanut butter, Apples and string cheese)

MM~great job sending the stuff with DH to work. I had to start cooking dinner the moment I get home in order to stop the binge monster.


Official WI today down to 148.8 Met my V-day goal! (this is only the second time in two years I met a goal!)40 days until my Disneyland goal of 144! If I keep up the momentum I will be there in not time

Off to take the kids to the dentist.

W 80 oz
E 50 minutes done so far (30 tread, 20 bike)
E 1200 calories, I will be out all day so I will have to make smart choices for dinner
D smart choices

Jenni...yay for meeting valentines goal...and early too!!! Way to go!!!

Mmavis..i am sooo with you. I am up i think 2 1/2 pounds but i know i didn't put on that much weight in fat, so it's just the density of the foods in my body still and the fact that i didn't drink as much water as usual the past few days AND i did my weights workout last night and cardio. So, today, i am working hard to drink my 64 plus ounces of water and eating a little lighter today. (They brought pizza hut pasta in today but i said NO!!! Yay me!! lol).

So today i weighed in at about 156.something.
WEED:
W- 64 ounces
E- 1200 cal.
E- 30 minutes elliptical (throw in some high intensity sessions in it)
D- keep focused.