Great loss, Sarabella. Welcome, dollar and daughter.

Great loss Sarahbella You're right.....it doesn't hurt to dream!!!!!!!!!

WELCOME dollar (& daughter), Kaylets & Guinever.......good to have you on board.

Great job on your loss as well, anagram

Have a great day

Hey you five pound challengers!! Nice to see everyone jumping on the bandwagon !!!

Sorry I haven't been able to post and haven't been able to welcome the new members (welcome by the way!!)

I've been a little busy with some projects around the house but hopefully I can spend a little more time around here.

I'm very happy for everyone who's working towards the challenge. I started my period this week so my weight loss has come to a H A L T ! I hate that! But that's life and it will pick up again. No doubt! I weigh in tomorrow, so I will let you know my new weight although I think it will be a gain and not a loss. That's ok. I'm working on getting out of that obsessive behavior of mine. Wish me luck!

again! Hello to all and CONGRATULATIONS

Elbertine Pep here, personal trainer to Emp. Amarantha of the Walking Poles. Amarantha is drinking her water and gearing up for a wonderful day, so I'm posting for her. She hath arisen with a new outlook, though her calorie challenge did not go well yesterday, having endeth with 2210. Not a bad effort, though. Her daily challenges today are 1) Eateth between 1700-1999 or less; 2) Take 5 extra fiber tablets as fiber regulateth blood sugar and helpeth fitness goals; 3) Finish overdue story and turn in to her employer; she saith this is related to her weight loss program as stress seems to impede her progress; 4) Do weights though she doesn't feel like exercising in this heat!

GOOD NEWS, GOOD NEWS, GOOD NEWS!!!SARAHBELLA HATH CHASED AWAY A WHOPPING 2.5 POUNDS OF HER 5-POUND CHALLENGE!!! A WOO-HOO TO SARAHBELLA FOR A JOB WELL DONE!

Welcome to Dollar, Daughter and Kaylets!!! It's so motivating to see the spirit and challenges posted here. Because of everyone's inspiration, AMARANTHA IS MORE DETERMINED THAN EVER not to give up! She will posteth an updated list presently.

AMARANTHA, FIVE DOWN BY SEPT. 1, UP .5

ANAGRAM, FIVE DOWN BY SEPT. 11, DOWN 1.8

BABETTE, FIVE DOWN BY SEPT. 15

BYRD, FIVE DOWN BY AUG. 19, DOWN 1

BOBSGAL, FIVE DOWN BY SEPT. 1

DOLLAR, FIVE DOWN BY, AUG. 27

DAUGHTER, FIVE DOWN BY SEPT. 3

DUSTCATCHER, FIVE DOWN BY SEPT. 13

GTERA, FIVE DOWN BY AUG. 30, DOWN 3.2

GUINEVER, FIVE DOWN BY AUG. 31

JUSDOIT, FIVE DOWN BY SEPT. 9, DOWN 1

KARENA, FIVE DOWN BY AUG. 26, DOWN 1

KAYLETS, FIVE DOWN BY SEPT. 9

MARUSHA, FIVE DOWN BY AUG. 27

PUNKINSEED, FIVE-PNT-FIVE DOWN BY SEPT. 9, DOWN 1

RYCHERBABE, FIVE DOWN BY SEPT. 2, DOWN 1.6

SARAHBELLA, FIVE DOWN BY AUG. 28, DOWN 2.25

UPANDAWAY, FIVE DOWN BY SEPT. 11

P.S. Gtera, fear not the dreaded water weight gain ... remembereth that nature must taketh its course!!!

Signed, Elbertine Pep

WOO-HOO!

Good morning and happy Friday-eve!

Warm welcomes and hugs to Guinever, dollar and her daughter (both of whom are a lot lighter already!) and Kaylets, my goal buddy!

Sarah - Congrats on the awsome loss!

Snuck on the scale again... my "oh look, I've lost so I can binge now" weight is gone - I'm officially back where I was last Monday (gee, it only took 4 days), so it's all fresh weight loss from here (and NO, I'm not weighing again until Monday! I won't, I won't, I won't!!).

A headache kept me from walking last night, but I will tonight - I've already told my Mom and she wants to walk with me.

Have a great day everyone!

Terri

No, no, no, Q. Punkin o' Friday ... that sneak scale look was NOT an official weigh-in so it doesn't count! You KNOW that four days is not a long enough period to gauge a true weight loss or gain. It's just that silly ol' scale illusion thing. I'd bet by Monday, you'll be in good shape, though I'm sure you are already.

Great job in getting your Mom in tow for the walking program.

See you! I've pledge to focus on my job today and stay off the net. You can see it's working already! Hah!

Happy Thursday all. I'm here to report a couple of "incidents" I had yesterday...one with a big fat piece of coffee cake and the other with a bottle of Chardonnay . HOWEVER, I was at the gym this a.m. at 5:30 and did 20 mins. on the bike/20 mins. running on the treadmill and 20 mins. of weights/abs. So, I'm on the road to recovery....

Sarah, you are SO HAPPENIN' . Excellent progress!

Welcome to Dollar, daughter, and Kaylets .

Back later.....

Hey Justdoit, what is one piece of coffee cake in the grand scheme of life anyway? Not a whole lot! Frankly I find being at the gym at 5:30 FAR more impressive, I didn't know there was a 5:30 in the morning now...they must have just invented it

Keep it up everyone! We can make our goals!

Guinever

Thanks for the kind words Guinever!

I'm having a little "scale fright" today, but since my weigh-in day isn't until Monday, I have time to MAKE THINGS HAPPEN!

FOCUS ON FIVE EVERYONE.

Hi everyone,
glad to see you are all up to the challenge this is so great. I'm hoping to get out for my walk tonight my daughter and I usually walkthe dog 1st for 40 min with some intense frisbee in ther and then we head out a few minutes later and we do our walk. Each night we would add a block and try to do it in the same length of time. We were up to 10 blocks in 40 min. However due to a car accident 7 weeks ago I had to stop walking because of a concussion. Now I think Im ready to start again I have been walking the dog the last few days and while on vacation last week I managed to walk 4 blocks to the beach twice a day...a a slower pace of course. So I will now start at the beginning again and build it back up. Slowly but surely one step at a time. Have a good day ladies and keep up the great effort.

Good afternoon!

Amarantha, my dearest Empress dahling.... No, it doesn't count because it doesn't show the loss I KNOW I'm in for on Monday. What it did show however is when I behave like a it takes almost 1/2 a week for my body to undo all the water retention and get the sludge back outta my system. It also shows me that I do indeed need to keep my not so little, not so huge hiney offa the scale until the previously agreed on day.... the numbers after a huge meal mean nothing - but I've given them power (in the past, of course).

dollar - I'm sorry about the car accident and glad you're ok! You sound like you're recovering nicely - probably better than the car is anyway! I'll be walking tonight "mother and daughter style" too!

Jusdoit - You know, it sounds like you've got the give and take thing down pretty well. Those splurges aren't gonna kill you in the long run when you maintain your healthy lifestyle. Yea, have your cake - and hit the gym, not just as "punishment", but so you can indulge occasionally! Bravo!!!!

Off to drink my now verboten water. Whatta buncha b.s....

Glug, glug,
Terri

Hey! So I haven't weighed in yet, but I today I managed an incredible (for me at least) feat of willpower. So I run for 40 minutes everyday between 1 and 3, and if I miss my window of oppertunity I tend to just be lazy forget it. But today was going to be my 14th day in a row that I've excersized and I missed my normal running time (I was running errends), but I still managed to get off my butt and go, despite how much I didn't want to. I guess I'm just happy that I've proven to myself how much I want to do this. Plus, it gave me that much more hope in myself - and all of us for reaching our goals.

Keep it up everyone, I know we can do this!

Guinever