Hi all

Leanne, aren't they so cute at this age. I wish I could put everything on pause. Way to go with the weights, time for toning. I'm still waiting for my videos, Idont' know what is taking so long, Patience

Ricci, you'll start losing again soon, maybe try a different exercise. Or maybe you're like me and it's TOM. Oh, fun.

Hi Christie, I have decided that when I move I will join TOPS. My sister just joined and I will go with her. I'm looking forward to being close to my sister again.

Have a good day all.

Diana

Diana- You will love Tops I have been a memeber for 4 years now and it has been great ....plus the extra time with your sister will be a huge bonus

Christie,
There is a TOPS here, but the same people have been going for 15-20 years and still haven't lost weight, in fact some have gained. :rollseyes: I'm sure there are a couple that have lost, but I've gone before and it was lousy. The contests were non-existant, and I don't know, just not too good all around. But I'm sure the one my sister goes to will be better

Well, I ate my 24 points today and exercised, drank some water, ate some veggies. I did very well today, to bad it took till tuesday...Thursday is not far away. I think I have lost a little anyways, you peeking like I do (we all do ).

Yeah, baby is now screaming all the time, not crying but screaming for the sound of it, I know you Mom's will know what this is about, but I still find it very cute, and loud

Hey, I will tell my sister about this site, maybe she's interested. I know I need the supprot I get form you guys. Maybe she can find a group here that meets her needs.

Well, I should surf some more, have a good night all.
Diana

Hey Girls i'm here so is this our 'new home' ? maybe someone should close the other thread and re-direct any lurkers to this one

Diana, have you made a decision about W.W. yet? if its any consolation i lost more weight when i quit going to meetings and started doing it alone i was sick of paying $13 per meeting to just weigh-in the support was it was very clicky and the same ones got the praise for losing while others of us who had lost were'nt even acknowledged i decided that the $130 i'd paid on ten weeks meetings could have bought me a nice little piece of exercise equipment or something to wear so i quit
Anyway, you've got us! WE'LL KEEP YOU ON THE STRAIGHT AND NARROW!

Walked/Jogged 3mls today and did 20mins of Pilates

Welcome aboard Cathy
And I agree with you on the meeting prices.....I could have bought 2 gazelles at the price I have paid since August

Yes Ladies, I did it!

Today I went for my run....

5km was my goal....but then came 6km, then 7km then 8km then 9km and finally 10KM........I DID IT, I RAN 10KM....I CANT BELIEVE IT!!!!

My feet are so sore....blisters and all, but it is SO WORTH IT!!!!

SO I ran 10km in 92 minutes....Can you believe it? 92 minutes of STRAIGHT running....WOW, hope I dont feel TOO bad in the morning....but again, it really is all WORTH IT....

It is really funny though, I KNEW with training I would be able to run it, I just didnt KNOW I had it in me not to give up....and I mean I really WOULD NOT let myself give up today and I fought for the last 2km it was a mental struggle more than anything, part of me saying you did enough and the other part saying what an accomplishment to KNOW you ran 10km...
Sorry to toot my own horn but this (other than having my boys) is one of my greatest accomplishments ever!

Leanne

Leanne, WELL DONE!! Wow, 10k is that about 6mls? i'm only guessing that because i know that 50klms on my speedometer is equal to 30mls an hour or near enough what a fantastic achievement is this an outdoor run that you did? do you plan to do it again? or was it just a goal that you wanted to achieve? CONGRATULATIONS once again!

Yeah, we're combined. Ricci meet Cathy a friend from another thread. Cathy meet Ricci, the rest of us you know

Leanne, my mouth dropped open when I read your post. I'm serious. I am absolutely shoked Although I shouldn't be as you are superwoman That is just fantastic. I would love to run that someday, but as I've said before, I can't run, at least not yet. I have rather large breasts and would knock myself out if I tried That is such an accomplishment. WOW, you are amazing. I am so impressed How long have you been training for this? Was this on a treadmill, or so you just have better weather than we do?

Cathy, thanks for closing the other thread, I wonder if we'll gte a ny stragglers from the other thread there. No one else had posted in ages So did you have another good day? I had my third good day in a row now. We'll have to see who can do this the longest A little competition. Maybe we could have a challenge between all of us and see how long we can do it? That would motivate me, how about the rest of you? For example mine would be drinking water, exercising, staying within my points, situps, daily. So Cathy, you're a Grandma, tell us about the little ones, how many are there? We like to hear about babies

Ricci, where are you girl, missing you. You better not be off track

Christie, well, how was weigh in? Don't keep it a secret now

Oh and by the way, I made my decision today. I will not renew my membership at WW. I ahve been thinking about my supports for weight loss, an there are quite a few that are more important to me than that group. I have you guys, twice a day. I have my husband who helps me, my sister just joined the weight loss wagon, and I have friends that I could go to if I wanted. The few last straws that made my decision are Christie and Cathy saying stuff about the money, and it is very expensive. I regard my own scale number much higher than the WW one, and some of the people there bug me, including the leader I was talking with one of my friends at WW and we're thinking of starting our own little group in a home and jsut us all pitching in a getting a scale, I'm not too sure about that, but I just don't think I need to support a "for profit" organization with my weight problem. I think I'll join tops when I move and go with my sister. Sorry, I did really go on. I've just been debating this for a while now, and am happy that I have made a decision. now I do need you guys to keep me on track

So I was down 1 pound this week, I'm happy with that as I was not good for 4 days and then good for only 3. I'll have to get a move on if I want to reach my Valentines's Day goal. 6 pounds in 23 days, that's a lot.

Leanne, you should reward your run with a massage tomorrow when you're sore, it might make you feel better. Tomorrow's pain will be the best pain you've felt I'm still thinking about your accomplishment and all I can say is WOW YOU DID IT

Talk to you all tomorrow

Thank you all for being so enthusiastic with me about my run...makes me feel really good...
Yes, it is SO COLD here that I would be NUTS to go and run in the snow...YUCK!! We have a really GREAT indoor track here at the army gym so I run there...It is GREAT!! SO the 10km was just to prove to myself that I CAN do it....In MAY, I will be running in a 10km race (probably in Toronto, I have picked it officially yet) and my goal is just to finish...SO I will have to train more and more and get more speed and endurance...but now that I know I can do it, I am more psyched than EVER.
Cat- Yes I think 10km is about 6.4 miles...
Diana- I too have a larger chest, but since I have been running it has shrunk to a "comfortable" size....but I think I told you before, I still where 2 bras to hold them in place...
Best part of all....I am NOT NEARLY as sore as I thought I would be....which gives me hope for the next time I run...
I really must say that I was NEVER a runner...but this is something I wanted to try and am SO happy I did....
Okay, I am really sorry to babble on and on so much...
thats it for me!
Happy Friday to all...
Leanne
CW 142.6

Way to goal Leanne You have proved that if we put our minds too it...Anything can be accomplished

Diana- Lost 1 pound yesterday too Wer'e twinkies

Cathy- Yes...dish on the grandbabys girl

Hate to run off so quickly but I have a mound of laundry and housework...I will be checking in a little later

Good Morning,
Glad you're not too sore Leanne I had forgotten about the two bras
Way to go Christie on the loss, that's great. You're only 7 away from goal now. You're doing so good
I too have 4 loads of laundry, and all my cleaning to do.
Talk to you later
Diana

Hi Girls

Diana, I won't be able to take part in the mini challenge this week cos i'm going to a party tomorrow night but i'm not going to go mad i'm definitely going to eat whats on offer but i think i'll be drinking diet coke because so far i'm planning on driving. I will be in on the 6lbs for V-Day tho' cos i'm going home to visit my family shortly after that and i wanna lose a few more before then Olivia (my grand-daughter is 13mths old and is such a character i'm bound to see a big change in her since last August i wonder if she'll remember me? i doubt it although she was always laughing at me..maybe it will all come back to her when i start pointing my camera at her

The scale had a lucky escape from you know what this week and showed me a loss of 3lbs so all the hard work is paying off

@ the 2 bra's Leanne..i would never have thought of doing that!

Diana, Leanne, and Christie,
I am definatley still here, and no, not off track. My boys have gotten really really bad colds, again. They have only been well for about two weeks.
Hi, Cathy. Nice to get to know you. I have kind of stalled on losing weight. I think when I get my tax return, I am going to buy some sort of pilates dvd and switch that with my aerobics. My hardest thing is eating. Not calorie wise, but what I eat.
Leanne, I can't belive anyone could run that far. Good for you that you finished it. Well, I hope you all have a good day, and weekend. I will really try to post in here more often.

Hi ladies

Cathy, way to go, 3 pounds in one week, that is awesome. All the work pays off in the end. How much have you lost now? Whatever you're doing, keep it up wouldn't it be nice to see the same result next week? I love the name Olivia, it was one of the names I wanted if we had a girl. But then our neighbors had a baby a few months before we did and named her Olivia, good thing we had a boy Although I'm still shocked we had a boy, I was expecting a girl

Ricci, nice to hear from you again. My sympathy goes out to you and your boys. Sickness is no fun Speaking of tax return, I don't enjoy doing my taxes (reminds me of what the big man takes) but I sure do like the return I'm sure we'll put it against the mortgage, but even that is fun.

I've had 4 good days in a row. that's unusual for me Usually the day after weigh in ends up being a free for all, but not this time I'll try for a good week. I got a situp thingy yesterday. It helps support the neck while doing situps. I did them for the first time since the surgery and it felt fine. I could have done it sooner but I was a bit too chicken.

Christie, how'd you do with the laundry and housework? I got all mine done except wash the floor, and then I went and checked our water level, and it was almost empty. It's not supposed to go under 6" and it's at 1.5". We get our water hauled. It could have done damage to our water system if I had kept using it (I hope it hasn't wrecked anything already). Well, so now I can't wash the floor I didn't have time today anyway, I guess I'll do it tomorrow after the water man comes.

Well, have a good night, and day tomorrow.

Diana

Morning ladies

Glad to see we all made it here safe

Cathy- way to go n the 3 pounds !!! That is really good for a week...that definatley shows hard work, and hard work equals reward

Ricci- sorry to hear about the boys being sick again ....I have the same problem with my 10 year old...she gets sick and stays sick about all winter some years , But in the summer she usually feels great...go figure

Diana- I am still not done with the laundry You are way ahead of me ...
I have about 2 loads today as we have dirty chothes from yesterday now

Leanne- What weight did you set as your goal?? I know you have got to be close
Well guys I am off for now.....Have a great OP weekend

Oh yeah---- Diana- I turned away from biscuits and gravy this morning so I am trying hard to make good choices...even if DH is home cooking ...........