:lol: Faye are'nt they adorable and you just can't get :mad: at them for being so honest either :lol: i think i must have jinxed poor John :p ( :sssh: but i'm secretly glad to see the back of him :lol: )

Amanda, fingers :crossed: for Chad :goodluck:

Susan, Congratulations on the job :cp:

Julie, you're right ;) i will pick up the pace once i get all my flowers transplanted out and the jobs i want doing around the house finished :) i'm just trying to find a 'diet' i can live with at the moment :dunno: i think i might just go back to calorie counting as that seems to work best for me.

Goodnight all
 

I am just popping in to say I am enjoying all of your posts. Good luck Faye - I am praying that offer comes for you. I am having a downer day - not going to say much more than that.

Tomorrow is another day. Hopefully, I will be out of my funk by tomorrow and we will see a new number on the scale. Have a great evening.

mscat

Morning!

Faye and Susan good luck with the jobs. Amanda I hope that Chad gets his job as well. Gotta have a job that you like and the working conditions are liveable. I pray that Chad's boss gets a good healthy does of his medcine.

I will send in the final weight and the start weight for the next challenge. I know that I have had a gain due to all the lovely medcines that I have been on for this leg but that is not going to get me down. The one thing that has me down is the shear exhaustion that I am living in right now. I gave my mother the final dose of the iv meds yesterday and that will help out so much. I never minded doing it but the one thing that was getting me down was the fact that there were days that I was so exhausted and then had to go to her house and then give her the meds and then if there was anything that needed doing I went ahead and did that. By the time that I got home I was too tired to move. I did however learn something about my eating habbits. When I am exhausted I will pig out to stay away. That I am learning to deal with. Gotta run this is the first day in many weeks that I did not have to go and do something for someone so I am going to enjoy it and go back to bed. I need to clean and such but this is my time.

Hugs
sandy

Good Morning beautiful ladies!

4 points for yesterday.........woo hoo 2 in a row.

It's a gorgeous sunny day today,already almost 50 degrees! Which is way warmer than it got all day yesterday. Already took a nice walk this morning.

Well, yesterday I weighed 204, but today I'm back up to 205....so I guess that's what I'll claim for the winter challenge. Overall, 16 pounds down in 16 weeks........right on target :dancer: Probably not enough to win any prizes, especially with Carrie's awesome losses......but I'm so happy, it doesn't matter! One pound a week seems to be what my body wants to do, so who am I to argue?

The best thing is, at 205 I am officially HALF WAY DONE! I'm half way to my 90 pound loss goal. And THAT is something worth celebrating! :cb: :hat: :dancer: :flow2: :flow1: :twirly: :encore:

I never thought I could actually accomplish so much. But I've finally realized that changes this big take a long time, and you can't rush it. Being able to talk to you gals everyday makes such a huge difference. I can take things one day at a time and not be in such a hurry. SO, THANKS!

Well, the kids are already in the car. :crossed: for Faye and Chad's interviews! Good luck kiddos........

Be back later,
Julie

FRIDAY: Today is Fabulous Lbs Down Friday. Any losses this week???

Sorry I am late getting in here, but couldn't get the site to load this morning without timing out.

I will be back later and start the calculations! WooHoo who is going to win?????

Faye :) **Thanks to all of you for your good thoughts today with my interview!

Morning All -
 

Hello, had another 4 points yesterday...seem to be on track now....
I was only down .5 of a pound this morning, so I am not going to count it, it is too small - obviously I didnt bounce back to well from my eat-a-thon weekend last week :)
Oh well, I am very happy with what I have done this challenge period and no that I will see a good loss next Friday and NO cheating this weekend for me!!!

Julie - Congrats!! I wish I was halfway done, even though I have lost quite a bit I still have a buttload more, but I know it can be done - and you are one of my inspirations ( and all of you girls who are losing ) ... you are doing a great job Julie, and if you dont win this challenge I know you will be a fierce competitor for it next challenge :jig: :cp:

Hi to everyone else, have a great day....

Hey chickies!

Julie, I am so pround of you! Half way, you will be there in no time.

Carrie, I see you hiting your 185 goal by June!

Everyone is doing so great. My ending weight is 189, up 5 lbs but I am happy with that. I sit and think that if it wasnt for the meds I would have lost some but oh well it wasnt ment to be. I am just thankful that I was able to loose a total of the 5 that the meds put on. I guess that I will use 189 as the beging for the next challenge as I will be extremly busy this weekend and it will be tues before I will be able to check in.

hugs
sandy

Good Morning!

Julie - :grouphug: A very big contratualtions! and very soon you'll break into the 100's I'm excited for you! :dancer:

I've got some good news of my own, I'm down 2 pounds which makes me a pound LESS than what I weighed before Christmas...ITS ALL GONE that :censored: candy and gouda and grrrr ...This is the lightest I've been since I remember stepping on the scale in the 5th grade and I had broken 100 lbs. (I avoided scales at all costs) WOO HOO I am also ONE POUND...just ONE from no longer being Obese...here's to this week!

Well that only puts me at 6 pounds loss for the challenege I guess...but...if you count what I gained total and then lost back...its 10 pounds ;) Just kidding.

Everyone did a good job and we are going to do better the next challenge, which starts tomorrow, right??????

SandyB: I need your current weight for the challenge

AmandaP: I know you said you didn't want to continue to participate because where you lived, etc, but I am more than willing to send you the gift card if you win and not only that, but even in England, you can use it anywhere they take Visa so feel free to give me you ending weight if you would like to participate.

NOW FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE NOW PART OF THE GROUP AND WERE NOT ELIGIBLE FOR THE FIRST QUARTER, I NEED YOUR CURRENT WEIGHT BY TOMORROW AT THE LATEST FOR THE SECOND QUARTER CHALLENGE, ZOOKEEPER, MSCAT, CAT IF YOU HAVE DECIDED YOU WANT TO PARTICIPATE THIS QUARTER, AMANDA456, KNOBHDY, PLEASE E-MAIL OR PM ME YOUR BEGINNING WEIGHT.

I am 318 this morning so that will be my beginning weight to keep track of. I put it in my spreadsheet, but just wanted everyone to know my starting weight since I get to participate in this quarter's challenge.

I did about as well as I could at the interview. They spent a whole hour with me and I even talked with 2 of the doctor's besides the office manager so that is encouraging.

Need to eat because I was too nervous to eat before I went.

Faye :)

Hi Ladies,
I hope everyone is having as good weather as we are here. :sunny: Sunny, slightly breezy and very warm.
So happy. :dancer:
Well I won't be making my goal for mayday. I weighed in at 189 lbs this morning, which while a 3 lbs loss for this week :cb:, isn't enough to bring me to 185 by tomorrow. I blame it on the weigh lifting :strong: I was doing (and will be continuing to do again next week) I was gaining muscle. Tonight I am taking progress photos to compair to 6 weeks ago when I set my goal. I hope I can see the difference there to help me get through the slower weight loss.
Also this weekend I will be getting new shoes for walking so I can go back to my 5 miles a day. I have really missed walking since my blisters grounded me. They are almost healed, which is good cause I will be on my feet running around all saturday. (and by running I do mean running, my friends and I still chase each other through the woods with sticks. The only difference is that now that we are older and wiser we pad our sticks :D)

Faye- I am glad to hear the interview went well. I will keep my fingers crossed for you and this job. :crossed:

Julie - congrats on the loss and being half way there. That is dedication! :cp:

Congrats to everyone who lost this week. We are all fabulous and we will all loose it all.
:wave:

CONGRATS ON THE AWESOME LOSSES EVERYONE

I'm so psyched to read about everybody's successes!! Great Job everyone......

Faye, since I'm buying the gift card this time, I guess that leaves me out of the challenge. Not that I won't be working my butt off anyway :lol: Can't wait to hear if you got the job!

Knohbdy--it sounds like you have a hobby like mine. Are you in the SCA by any chance? We run around the woods hitting each other with sticks, too, but we don't pad them. Course, we also wear armor.

Well, just a quick check in. See you in the morning.
Julie

Hello everyone, just checking in before the weekend, I thought Faye would have posted the Winner of the Challenge by now ( slacker, ha ) :lol:
Anyway I may be able to check in over the weekend...

Everyone is doing such a good job - it seems like sometimes we are all slacking off but right now we are all doing great - I am proud of all of us!!!

Have a great weekend all !!!! :D

Man, I never get a break around here! :lol: Actually, I was waiting to hear from Sandy B as she is the only one that hasn't reported in. Sorry, have to keep you in suspense for one more day. SandyB you have until tomorrow morning to let me know your weight if you want to compete for this quarter's challenge.

Hope everyone is having a nice evening. We get another mini trip next weekend. I got a free two days stay at one of the casino's down here for next weekend and $15 so Jack is taking me for Friday and Saturday.

Well, Jack is back home so I need to go.

Talk to everyone in the morning!

Faye :)

Sorry I've been away again. I've found that if I get on the computer in the morning I spend too much time catching up instead of exercising. I've been walking almost every morning for 45 min, which is great, but I don't have as much time in the evenings to catch up here..

Thanks to everyone for the breakfast advice. I looked through a Suzanne Sommers book, and there are protein breakfast ideas that I think I can modify and use.

In spite of being WAY op early this week I still lost 1/2 pound and I'm back on track now. It was raining this morning, so instead of walking I did a bunch of chores around the house, so that'll have to do for today.

Congratulations to EVERYONE on all your determination and hard work!!

Jessica

SW 167 / CS 160 / GW 135