My husband calls cagers - *******s.....lol

I was lane splitting/white lining/filtering/whatever-you-wanna-call-it last night and I saw a guy in his car reading! And then another one further on was watching a DVD! No lie! My god I almost got off and punched him just for being a

I got my orange kickboxing belt! I got a rubbishy mark that I'm dissapointed with but it was a hard grading. Another gal said she always got rubbishy marks and not to worry. She is still v good though!

On a lighter note - I am starting to look like mighty mouse! My shoulder muscles look like big bulging things from the back when I do this:

2 Fru - Congrats on getting your orange belt - good for you.....
So your looking like Mighty Mouse? Is that the look your going for? Muscles are always good. I have noticed that I have lost all my back fat, which for me is a great look. I'm looking more toned all the time and my DH thinks my arm muscles are big, I just think they look much better than flubber....lol
Any of you watch the Biggest Loser last night? I love that show.......

Morning biker babes!

2frust-Congratulations on the orange belt!! Yay! Isn't it great when you can see muscle development? I remember the last time I lost weight I had this (what I thought) sexy muscle striation in the front of my thigh. Look so defined and definetly sexier in short shirts and tall heels...

Ahh...how I miss and long for those days again....

Trina- I missed yet another week of Biggest Loser , which frustrates me b/c I love that show too. Hubby doesnt care for it, but oh well. I guess that having Monday off got my days screwed up and I thought that last night was Monday night...bummer. Yeah, I fully understand the backfat problem. It's great that yours is gone! I still have it, but my buttshelf is really diminishing.

Dh really wants to keep doing South Beach and that's fine with me. I guess it is a lot easier to do it together. We are both entering phase 2 and maybe that will help me stick to it a little better on weekends. This morning I ate a cup of oatmeal and then rounded out the starch with some fat free cottage cheese, lunch will be my usual (sometimes boring) salad with tuna, and supper I am going to grill chicken breasts that have been marinated in fat free dressing, and then some green beans and maybe a cup of sugar free jello for dessert. I need to add some snacks. I'm not much of a snacker. I used to skip breakfast, lunch, and daytime snacks and then just eat a huge supper and evening snacks. It's funny, but I always wondered why I would gain weight...

Whats on everyone else's menu? I like to get ideas from others.

Well, I will check back in with you girls later!

Good morning Gina, Harley, and Holly!

oKAY HERE'S A RECAP OF BIGGEST LOSER LAST NIGHT - IF YOU PLAN ON CATCHING A RERUN DON'T READ.......RAther than attempting to write something cohesive, I figure I'd just take notes during the show and copy them verbatim here.

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Tuesday 11 October 2005 8:00 pm
Last week recaps...
plus pix of Drea from last season - she looks even better nowadays!
Blue team - still in strife
Suzanne busy manipulating, selling herself to rest of team
Knows if they lose next week, she's the top candidate to get the boot.
Suzy upset. She doesn't have a whole lot of confidence does she?
"I can't handle any more of this". A tendency to take on all blame even though she's probably working harder than anyone else.
Check out her profile - her face has REALLY slimmed down.
Bet she's getting fan mail from guys.

Tonight's temptation:
Bob and Jillan, a silver domed platter
containing a x-cheeseburger, fries, onion rings and shake with a cherry.
The team that comes the closest to the actual calories wins a trip to Universal Studios; losing team has to take one step on Stairmaster for every calorie they are off.
Everyone hates the Stairmaster apparently.
Bob itemizes the ingredients and the teams write them down.
70 gram sesame seed bun...8 oz meat...1 cup ice cream, 1 cup whole milk, etc...
Teams are meeting to figure out calories.
4,750 calories? Apparently Suzanne is INSISTING that they use her number. WTF did she come up with THAT number? Apparently she just pulled it out of the air...Um Suzanne remember a couple weeks ago when you guys were learning how to dine out??? hmmm?
Okay time for the teams to show their guesses.
Red Team, of course they have a doctor, but doctors don't necessarily know anything about nutrition. They come up with around 2,750.
Blue sticks with 4,750.
I bet that Jillian had to keep from laughing out loud - I would have had a hard time myself!
Blue is well over 1,000 off. That's a lot of stairs to climb.
Turns out that Shannon's guess - the one that Suzanne said was wrong - was closer than the guy's guess. They would have won! dang.
Red Team gets to go to Universal early, so no waiting in line.
Dr. Jeff...I hate rollercoasters too...they make me ill.
Jillian spent time giving the guys some lessons in Amusement Park Healthy Eating 101.
Share a Cinnabon between 5 guys = 1/5 fewer calories Moderation...
Meanwhile at the ranch, Suzanne trying to save face.
Funny...I haven't heard an apology.
Blue team kickin' butt in the gym. Bob: "We WON the temptation".
Drea from Season 2 comes by to give the Blues some much-needed inspiration.
Drea "I didn't take home $250,000 or $100,000 - I took home a better ME".
If Drea can't inspire the Blue Team, then they're totally screwed.

Commercial break...
Challenge - brought to you by Jell-O apparently.
A forest of different refrigerators in a warehouse.
Five of them containing trays of Sugar Free Jello.
Mission - to find and unlock the fridges containing the low-calorie snacks, then move the trays and their contents to the Jello Refrigerators.
Prize - winning team gets to watch videos from families at home.
Nice product placement by Jello.
It's neck and neck for both teams.
Of course, that's when another commercial break comes on.
Back to the show.
Ooh it's so close.
Think it's gonna be the girls this time...yup.
After the challenge, interview w/Suzanne in which she takes most of the credit for pulling team together.
She really gets on my nut.
Shannon takes credit for strategy.
Well she WAS right on the calorie thing.
Watching the videos - lots of tears and stuff.
Hey, I see they get Jello as a snack, with popcorn (I'm sure it's airpopped!).

Last workout before weighin.
Both teams kickin' butt in the gym.
Who will win this week?
Another commercial...
halftime prediction:
If Blue loses - Suzanne's out, unless she gets immunity, then I'm betting Andrea.
Red Loss - either Mark or Seth.
Red has really bonded, it will be really hard for them to let go of a teammate, now that Nick is gone.

Red Team weigh in:
Dr. Jeff: from 326 to 316: - 10
I notice his manboobs have shrunk a lot!
Seth from 250 to 243: -7
Pete: from 350 to 338: -12!! 63 lbs total - go Pete!!!
Matt pretty nervous as he gets to the scale.
no worries - from 290 to 279, he's lost 11 lbs for a total of 60! Psyched!!
Mark: from 308 to 291: a whopping 17 lb loss - he jumped in the pool for joy!
He has been an butthead on occasion, but he's just a fun lovin' guy I guess...
67 pound loss is nothing to sneeze at.

Total for Red - 67 lbs or -3.74% loss

Blue Team - Suzy always looks totally nerved up! Who can blame her...she always seems to feel like she's the most likely to be kicked off.
Suzy from 196 to 191: -5 lbs, but she doesn't think that's good enough.
I think Bob needs to have a little chat with her.
Suzanne from 196 to 191 (-5)
Jen gets immunity again, from 234 to 224 (-10)
Suzanne looks worried
Shannon from 229 to 221 (-8)
She's doing this for her family - everyone in her family has bad weight problems judging from the video.
Andrea steps on the scale and the music goes to a cresendo.
which means another cliffhanger break arrggghHH!

Hm I like the 24 hour fitness commercials.
They seem to use Aaron from Season 1 quite a bit. He did turn out to be rather hunkalicious. They haven't shown him in the commercials though, only his feet.
BTW I noticed in the earlier 24HF commercial with the current cast, they've cut Nick. He was doing situps next to Suzy with her "to find Mr Right" T-shirt on. Serves him right I say.

back to the show...the cliffhanger...
Andrea...loses FIVE pounds...from 198 to 193.
Good, but four lbs shy of what the Blue Team had to win to beat the guys this week. -- 3.4%, 36 lbs.

Ah here we are, the day of the vote.
Jen has immunity again.
Only three votes are needed to eliminate.
Suzy being self-negative. Bob gives a pep talk that they became a team this week and deserved to win.
Red Team meanwhile is rockin'. Jillian very happy
Suzanne starting all the crap and double talk.
I don't think anyone trusts her now. She reminds me a bit of Lisa from last year.
eww.
Andrea tells Suzanne she can't trust her.
Suzy and Jen talking and deciding between Suzanne and Andrea.

Commercial...
Okay...here we go.
The march to the elimination table.
Andrea - votes for Suzanne.
Suzanne "game about personalities" so she plays the blame game, then picks Shannon.
Interesting choice since Shannon's guess in the Temptation would have won it for the Blues...hmmm.
Shannon doesn't look at all worried, while Suzanne is not smiling.
Shannon - votes for Suzanne.
Suzy - looks pained. She doesn't like this part at all. Votes for Suzanne.
Three votes - Suzanne's outa here.
At least she leaves with some class instead of stupid harsh words, so she IS better than Lisa.
Four ladies left.
Shannon says after Suzanne exits that "Suzanne flies off the handle".
Looks like with Suzanne gone, the rest of the girls can pull together as a team.

Ahhh one of my favorite bits - the after the show shot of the eliminated player.
Just before leaving the ranch interview Suzanne vows to lose 100 lbs by the show finale (which was in January last season).
And today - she's close to her goal - she's lost 70 lbs already
WOW SHE LOOKS GREAT!
Bikini Shot and Everything!!!
Even though she was a PITA, still I'm VERY happy for her, she looks hot!

Whew...next week looks like they're going to climb what looks like the famous Santa Monica Stairs and a mountain. Should be good - I doubt that any of them could have done that in the first show

Time for bed now!
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May 1991: 174 pounds (-91 lbs)
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Hi Andrea - have to run to doctor soon for my last tests.....oh-rah

Glad your DH is so positive about his diet plan - good for him. Any diet can get boring, trust me, I've done them all....

I totally look forward to my snacks and I think they help keep me full and allow me to eat smaller meals....I think that is very good for the degestion too......plus drinking the water, which I have really been slacking on since the cooler weater.....

Well it's time for me to run, I'll check back in when I get back...
Hugs to all, Gina, 2Fru, Holly, Harley and you Andrea......is that everyone? I'm blonde and old don't forget...lol

That's a pretty comprehensive run down of the show...I now have a strange urge to eat Jell-o....I'm glad Suzanne is gone...but now I have no one to hate...Suzy's self doubt could get annoying...
2frust - orange belt WOO HOO!!!! Mighty Mouse - you go girl...

Rebel -
I am the snack queen.... ..but I'm working on it...does SBD have limits on starchy foods? I just discovered cheddar cheese flavored rice cakes....I was already addicted to lowfat kettlecorn...unsweetened applesauce....merengue cookies....some dang fool brought donuts to the office....I swear I can smell them from two desks away... ...bad donuts...also thinking about the calorie count challenge from last night - once again I say bad donuts...I think 'll eat my yogurt...

.....under re-GINA-vation.......

Gina- Yeah, that blasted South Beach...lol. I think that now I can have airpopped popcorn, but not the microwave type. I'm not sure about rice cakes. I would have to see the sugar content as well as other other ingredients. Basically, the right starches are ok. Whole wheats, grains, veggies, but things made out of white flour, sugar, and certain types of oils (hydrogenated, palm kernal, etc.) are no-no's. Like those 100 calorie packs of Oreos or other crackers wouldn't be allowed. Kinda stinks. Snacks could be turkey, low fat cheese, yogurt, some nuts, and low glycemic veggies.

Trina- How did the test go? Did you get any results back? I'm hoping that all goes well. Thanks for the run down of the show. I seriously think that you did to get a job as commentator of that show... you're side notes crack me up...like..."She really gets on my nut."

Oh I forgot to tell you all that with my miserable cold and Dh's heart attack...I came to a decision. I have been smoking long enough. I have tried quitting cold turkey several times, but I finally just slapped a damn patch on my arm and I'm feeling good! With the cold, I really haven't smoked much anyhow (2 a day) and I couldnt stand the taste, so I thought why keep torturing my body. It's been almost 24 hours of smoke-free and I don't have the desire to!

Andrea - that is fantastic news about you quitting smoking!!!! I quit about 3 months ago, I was a dumb social smoker, doing about 1 or 2 a day, but if I drink I became a human chimney........my doctor was thrilled....
Well my Heart Calcium Scan came back and I have zero plack in arteries, I'm better than 90% of women my age and actually you can't do better than zero. I think its due to exercise and diet.... She put me on a low blood pressure med, becuz I get nervous when I get it taken, better safe than sorry and it is low miligrams and it's working. Pap and mammo were good, the other results I will get when I go see her in Novemeber...thanks for asking.....
about the recap of the Biggest Loser, it wasn't mine, it was Mrs. Jim's - I stole it from another thread, but I agree it was great! Mrs. Jim is always fun to read.....

MrsJim rox

Andrea - WTG with the quitting smoking...I quit for the last time in 97. Just don't listen when you get cravings - they go away...easier said than done. But everytime I gave into the cravings I was back to 2 packs a day within a couple months. Then it was all that work to quit for nothing! That little voice that says you can smoke just when you are having a beer or any other specific time is full of ...I need another emoticon that has it's fingers in it's ears saying lalalalal. That is the correct response.

Star - Yay for 0 plaque - a testament to healthy living!! All your hard work is paying off.

And BTW we already knew this...

good morning ladies!!

Star, congrats on taking such good care of yourself!!!

Rebel, congrats on quitting smoking!!! quit when they were, ahem, .85 a pack, hah!!

gotta run, just wanted t check in !! have a great day, all!

Hello everyone! Been out at lunch to get some petrol. Got SOAKED this morning on the way in... My gloves are still soggy

Not much to report, glad I'm actually doing some work again rather than just surfing the net - it makes me feel so guilty! I'm in the process of a lot of projects, so hopefully they'll keep me amused for a while!

Going to talk to my instructor tonight about fast-tracking to black belt - so we'll see what that's all about!