i wanted to wish you both Angela and Sunni, best of luck for the first weigh in!

my weigh in , is tommorow morning!

today is my last chance workout! so far have done 2 workouts. 1 before lunch and 1 before dinner. i was gonna do one more workout after dinner and before bedtime, but feeling sleepy and i want to get up at 6am tommorow. so heading to bed at 11pm! which is a drastic change from my usual 3am! need to change my body clock.
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i just i ordered some extra gum from the internet! yummy. cant wait for it to come. i'm so easily influenced by biggest loser lol. i did buy strawberry flavour from the store today, but doesnt taste that great. i wish we had watermelon flavour. but we dont. but i ordered other flavours from ebay instead. like tropical. which sounds delicious. and sugar free original bubble gum flavour

i went to the grocery store today. (rode my bike there) and at the beginning, i put all these different chocolates in my basket. 2 terrys orange chocolates, 2 packets of kitkat fingers, 5pack wisba bar chocolates...and said to myself. will have like a piece of chocolate as dessert after dinner, occassionally, and it would be like 50 calories. so thats okay...but then later on something just clicked inside me, and i ended up putting everything back! i think it might have something to do with the fact i was in my workout clothes, (Cause i rode my bike to the store) and had been listening to jillian's podcast! so i had like jillians voice in my head! even though i know i can have a piece of chocolate here and there and its not a big deal. i dont know i just put everything back and thought if i really am craving it. i can just come back later on. as i wasnt really craving chocolate. but the cereal that i wanted. the whole reason i went to the store was to buy cereal, that i was craving (cinamon graham (which is like cinamon toast crunch) whole grain cereal, and whole grain cookie crisp cereal ) - both desserts to eat as a treat occassionally.

so i stuck with buying things that were on my grocery list. even though terrys chocolate was on my list. i scrapped it out! haha

i did buy low fat organic peach yoghurt for dessert, so yummy!!! (Which was on my list and been craving peach yoghurt for ages)

i think its all jillian's influence, all her talk about eating healthy. organic, etc etc. been listening to her podcast everyday hehe. and watching biggest loser! biggest loser show has made a huge impact on my life and being on this challenge too

Had a busy day of church rummage sales, yard sales and errands. I was out for the entire morning and I figured I walked at least an hour of that time.

today's food:

diet dr. pepper
water
coffee with creamer

herbal green tea
2 small grilled pork chops, thin center cut, plain
2 small baked potatoes
2 tbsp gluten free calorie free thousand island dressing on the taters
1 cup of green beans with garlic

large salad with 1 oz reduced fat cheese and 2 tbsp. reduced fat ranch
banana
herbal iced tea

*I still have a few hundred calories for the day and if I feel like a snack I have fresh cranberries, blueberries and strawberries, yum!

Echo, you are my new hero - TWO papers published? Holy crap, lady! You're on fire! That would be enough for my committee to go "pass" without even listening to my talk. Haha. :) Good luck with everything. PM me if you need some support. :hug:

Good for you on putting those treats back! I try not to go grocery shopping when I'm hungry. Especially Costco, those jerks put out samples of delish

Angela - Your emotional eating is um my regular snacking. Don't worry about it, chica. Like you said, tomorrow's another day! You'll get back on track (you betta, we have weigh-in!). Hehehehe, just kidding. :D

Good luck to both of you with weigh-in! I guess I'll weigh-in tomorrow. Don't think Monday would make a diff over Sunday.

Hydra - Good job on the walking and the cals for today! You've been doing really well lately - go you! I'm inspired! :)

Lunch - homemade fried rice (350 cals)

Snack- 1 trail mix bar (140 cals), 1 slice multigrain bread with 1 tbsp homemade guacamole (85 cals)

Dinner - 1/2 CPK bbq chicken pizza (750 cals)

Total comes out to 1906 or something. That's alright. I was really hungry today after that hike. We were hiking for 3 hours!!! It was up in the mountains and we were in the clouds (cloudy day) at the peak. Really beautiful to be surrounded by wilderness (except for the spiders, ew). So I thought I'd be industrious and fill it in on fitday. Turns out, according to Fitday, 3 hours of hiking 4.2 miles is about 1000 cals. I just had to snort. Come on. 1000 cals? Pish. I sweat more when I play tennis for an hour. Oh well. I was really good about not eating until dinner time...that is until I sat in the car and we had to drive these hairpin curves to get out of the mountains and I got dizzy and nauseous. That's when I ate the bar. I felt better afterward, so I figured it must've been hunger that caused it.

Alrighty, off to eat my pizza and then probably shuffle off to bed. :) 'Night, ladies. Talk to you all tomorrow!

A day behind here.

Yesterday,
turkey sandwich for brkfst
fast food lunch, unforeseeable circumstances
left over pot roast, potato and carrots for supper
snack at football game, 6 nacho chips
But I got in a good workout, I'm keeping stats for my son's high school football team so I walked up and down the field for 4 quarters.

Today was bizarre, had to go to work then to funeral.

Turkey sandwich for bfkst
pre Husker game drink for lunch (just 1 bloody mary)
1 bowl of chili with crackers at half time
WW pizza, fresh tomato and 2 slices leftover bacon for supper.

I must get back on the wagon tomorrow, this weekend has just been to hectic.

Thanks Angela!! :hug:

your last chance workout sounds good to me!

have you guys heard about how when you exercise, your electroylytes are off balance abit and you retain abit of water, so if you see a slight increase in weight after working out intensely. thats why. i heard something like that from jillians podcast.

good job hydra! you're being so consistent. well done. :cheer:

good job shcirerf! :bravo:
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awww thanks Sunni ! that's so nice of you to say! i really appreciate it. i still feel so insecure ! i dunno i feel like on the day my brain is gonna be all empty haha. thanks for your comment, made me feel better though!! put a smile on my face!

thanks Sunni!! and LOL!! haha i remember when i used to visit my cousins in america, we used to go to costco to eat those yummy snacks hahah. but yah not good if you're trying to lose weight.

lol if i were you, i would take it! just for fun!! hehe. good job on the 4.2 mile hike!! good for you!

ps dont know if i mentioned it. but love the new avator Sunni!!!

and Angela, looking gorgeous!

LAST CHANCE WORKOUT!!!
Bike riding outside- 3.2 miles (33 minutes) (total calories burned - 175 calories (included from walking whilst grocery shopping)

c25k week 1 day 2. total distance covered - 2.4 miles, total time (including extra walking) - 36 minutes. 170 calories burned.

food:
breakfast - 1 banana (105 calories)

lunch - 1 lamb bbq kebab (70g - 204 calories) plus 1 more bite (~20 g) (58 calories).
1/3 cup of chopped salad (35 calories)
1/4 cup of mock mashed potatoes-made with cauliflowers (~36 calories).
30g chick peas curry (55 calories).

dessert - 4g cookie crisp cereal (15 calories) with 1/4 cup of semi skimmed milk (33 calories).
8g cinamon toast crunch cereal (33 calories) with 1/4 cup semi skimmed milk (33 calories).
diluted apple squash drink in a wine glass (with ~5 teaspoons of apple squash (6 calories).

total calories for lunch = 508 calories

snack - 1 packet of frisp cheese and onion flavour (152 calories).

dinner:
appetizer: 1 slice of pineapple (134g) (64 calories)
main - 1 bbq lamb kebab - 70g (204 calories) 1/2 roti (~100 calories). low fat yoghurt. (25g (16 calories). 1/4 cup of rice (65 calories).
dessert - low fat organic peach yoghurt. (100g- 90 calories).
1 stick of gum (5 calories)

total calories for dinner = 544 calories.

total calories eaten today= 1309 calories.
total calories burned = 345 calories

calorie deficient -1036 calories (0.30 lbs)

i know the calorie calculation isnt accurate. but its just fun for me to do hehehe and i dont say to myself, oh i burned X number of calories, i can have this chocolate now. if i want a naughty treat like chocolate, i have to take it out of my 1500 calorie allowance for food

so today was is official weigh in for week 1: biggest loser challenge.
here are my stats :)

week 1 weigh in:
starting weight = 168 lbs
current weight = 164.2 lbs
pounds lost = 3.8 lbs
percentage weight loss = 2.26 %

(i changed my models clothes even though i'm 0.2lbs off hehe)
the look is inspired by Jillians skinny jeans and black turtle neck top with sexy boots look from season 7. but the website for the virtual model didnt have sexy boots :( lol. i'm tall, so i would never wear high heels that high, i wouldnt be able to walk in them! haha but they look really good on jillian.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3449/...fd0f4b9d_o.jpg

Great thread you have going here ECHO...you rock kiddo!

awwwwwww Thanks EZMONEY , that's so nice of you to say!!! thanks so much:hug:

hey guys! just noticed the post count on this baby! its nearing 500.

so i've made a brand new spanky thread , so from tommorow onwards start posting in here.

thanks!!

http://www.3fatchicks.com/forum/weig...ml#post2933710

Also i wanted to take this opportunity to thank each and everyone one of you for joining me on this thread. you guys are super!!! and have helped me loads!!! Thanks everyone!!