Hello Gals,

Yes Faye I accept your challenge...I will lose 10 more lbs. by Aug 31st! :strong: :dance: :dancer: :stars: :sunny:
you are such an inspiration, and sooooo good to us all!

Having a good food day so far, planning a healty meal tonight, I am going to try the Almond Chicken recipe I found here on the forum, with asparagus and lemon rice:chef: :hun: drinking my water and keeping active.

I applaud you all for your continued efforts..WE CAN DO IT:grouphug: :high: :twirly: :cheers: :encore: NEW SMILEYS ARE FUN!!

CHECK IN LATER..PAM

okay girls, I need some help with this smiley business...how do you do it, how do you get them in there? double click, drag, I am lost....

Carri

I have this huge group of children on my thread! They all want to play with the smileys today!:lol:

Ok, first things first, gotta give out my kudos for pts yesterday.

Missy: YOU GET A: :high: for points yesterday. I miss Chinese so much. DS and I used to eat Chinese once a week. We worked at the same law office and there was this great cheap buffet. Unfortunately, that is how my butt got up past 400 lbs! I still talk my dd into it sometimes and dh takes me once in awhile (he hates it!). It does have a lot of calories and fat in 90% of the stuff though. The stuff that doesn't is boring! For the boss, how about big smile and a"Yes, we were there, but you must be slipping because we didn't see you." "I might have to watch out for you too." Actually, people like that are inconsiderate :foot: and don't even deserve to be acknowledged. Make her eat her words by losing and firming up Missy! You go girl, I know you can! :encore: :encore: I think maybe you SHOULD be snacking on good stuff during the day so you aren't so hungry at night and leave yourself some room for a skinny cow or ff fudgesicle or a serving of pretzel sticks an hour or so after dinner to tide you over until morning. I am telling you the best way is to space out your food about every 2-3 hours. No so much at one sitting, but eating every couple of hours with a serving of water. I also distance myself from the food. For me it is easier because I live in a 2 story condo and I just park my butt upstairs after my snack and don't come back down. It is also MUCH MUCH tougher to lose when there is not so much to lose because you have to cut calories and fat even lower than you are used to. I would go to www.dietitian.com and use her calculator up in the left corner to find out how much you should be taking in so you can kind of know if you are still overeating. Just follow the instructions.

Carri: All you have to do is click on the smiley and it will place wherever your cursor is or sometimes the line below and you kind of have to hit delete to put him back into the row before.

Pam: Ok, all I need is the 31st whether or not you took off the 10! I know you will do this!:hat: :goodvibes Listen, sweety, I want YOU and all you gals to lose the weight as much as I want it for ME so I am going to do anything to help you get motivated!

Peek: YOU GET A :wizard: just for looking at what you need to do! Now for you girly. I saved you for last. It is much much easier not to eat right and exercise and drink water than it is to have to do it and you know it! I know you want this and we pretty much started this together and we are gonna finish this together and darn it, you can even finish before me by months and months but you have to get serious now! I know you can do this and taking the really great positive step to start with your little "workout club" is a great way to go. Now, drink your darn water and slowly work back into getting back on track. I expect you to work all this week at trying to tackle what is making you gain whether it is type of food, how much you eat, whatever. Instead of messing with your head about it, just be calm cool and collected and see what is really causing the problems. Summer is a bummer for food especially when you have camp outs, weddings etc. I know, cause I gained a bunch with the wedding and then the 4th, but I am back on track and I expect the choo choo to stop and pick your behind up with me so pack your WW bag and be ready when the train gets to your door!;)

I have wasted all day fooling around on the computer and then watching NYPD BLUE so I guess I should get my tushy going on the upstairs.

Faye:dizzy:

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forgive me I am playing around on this....
:D :s: :lol: :smug: ;)

I know we can all lose the 10 pounds by August 31st!!!! I am excited now to have a challenge ahead of me, thanks Faye...

Peek - I know you fell off the bandwagon but get back up and start over, you cannot go back and change so just go forward and make smarter choices, even if at first you change small things

:jig:

I had a grilled cheese sandwich for lunch just now, it was so good I want another one...but thankfully I am not at home where I could have one, ha! Will power be mine....:)

Carri

Am I on the right thread?? I'm sure you will let me know if I am. and if I am then I am back at least for a little while, if this is the right thread then I will be back tomorrow to fill you all in on where I have been. TTFN

:hat: DEON, YOUR BACK!!! Yes, you are on the right thread.....post away we are all ears, ok we are all eyes:eek:

Morning girls, I know its Wed. Woes day. I don't have them like I did last week. I am awaiting Faye to pick my butt up on the wagon that she was bringing. Acutally yesterday was pretty good, so I think I am back. Now for the water...and the exercise, although I sweated my butt off yesterday cleaning the cellar and the car....does that count?

I love the new smiles ;) and could play with them all day...

10 lbs by August 31, you got yourself a challenge or a friend along for the ride which ever way you want to look at it.:cheers:

:bubbles: I just think this one is so cute!!!

Well girls, gotta go jump in the shower and get myself ready for work.

Hugs,
PEEK:corn:

WEDNESDAY: Today is Wednesday's Woes so gripe away girls!

My one and only gripe is still not having a job! I am doing all I can so I guess I have to just let it go!

Peek: Yeah, my peek is back! YOU GET A :cp: because working in the basement would use up calories so it definitely is exercise and I didn't give you credit for four because you just said, "Now for the water..." which didn't tell me anything girl! :lol: Good for you! I knew you would be up for the challenge!

Deon: Good to see you again girl! Hope things are straightening out for you. If not, today's the day to spill your guts about it! I miss you bunches and wish you could or would post more often!

Carri: I had a grilled cheese and tomato soup for dinner last night. I buy this lowfat cheese slices and use I can't believe it's not butter lite (lowest in cal and fat I can find even from the "diet" stuff which is nasty cause it won't melt) and white bread and get the whole can of soup and I think my total dinner was less than 600 cal . I had a ff ice cream sandwich and an apple and still stayed under cal so I am jazzed.

Faye GETS A: :bravo: as I did water and exercise and stayed way under cal and fat last night! Woohoo, I now only have 9lbs to finish the challenge. I have lost another lb.

I did get my upstairs cleaned but not until last night. I kept screwing around instead of doing it. Dh told me "You're stressing about something that is not important again. Don't do it if you don't want to." Sooooo, I promptly did it! So it is the downstairs for me today and then tomorrow I have my little guy ALL day and that should be interesting! He will be here at 7:30 and we are taking his parents out to dinner for their anniversary so I will get to see him a long time tomorrow! He is my water baby so we are going to get in the pool together tomorrow.
Hope everyone has a beautiful day.

You ladies are THE BEST EVER!
Our group is gonna beat our challenge all to heck! Not that we will be able to know, but I want us to do better than any thread ever has with a challenge! I want us to be 100% at the end of August and I need your help to accomplish that so keep on your program ladies, get your exercise in and water! We can do this!
:strong: :jig: :cb: :dance: :flow2: :grouphug: :high: :bubbles: :encore: :hat: :bravo:

Faye:dizzy:

Morning
 

Good morning girls....Woe Weds? I want some sweets and I want alot of them...the last week has been hard trying to stay away from all of that...I want a big piece of cheesecake with caramel sauce drizzled all over it, but I will not eat it, I would have a bite or small piece if I had that kind of will power - but I dont, or I wouldnt weight over 200 pounds :lol:
Faye - I didnt think about getting lowfat cheese, I usually kind find one that is edible, which one do you use? Congrats on the 1 more pound - You go Girl !!! :high: :encore: :)

Peek - glad to hear that you are getting right back on track - keep it up, we can lose 10 by 31!!!! Easy!

Points - I get 3 points yesterday, I lost the last point because I did not exercise...I had too many things to do last night, grocery store, dinner, etc...will make sure that I do tonight...
Have a good one...

Carri :angel: ( yeah right ! )

Woeful Wednesday uh?
 

Good Wed. Morning Girls,

woes.......woes....woes...?? what is a woe? Guess what? I dont have any right now!!!! life is grand! Too much to do, but I have made my list and I am doing it! I look around literally and figuratively now, and I am not so overwhelmed anymore, I know I am getting back to "normal" a good place for me, since my "dysfuntion :devil: " is in check. The part of me that ate to sedate myself. WELL LADIES I AM WAKING UP!!!!:spin: :cb: :dance: :dancer: NOW!:D

2 PTS FOR PROGRAM, 1 FOR WATER, 1 FOR EXERCISE YESTERDAY

Check in with you a little later on...maybe I could think of ONE WOE!!!!:dizzy:

Faye, as always thanks for being our head cheerleader!:D

Pam

Chicken and Noodles
 

Faye - speaking of Chicken and Noodles, which I am going to be making today too, odd coincidence :D

Do you do anything to make them lower in fat? Or are they not that bad to begin with? Ya got chicken, low in fat, the broth that I buy is lowfat, maybe the noodles are fattier?

Let me know....


Carri :dance:

WOW JUST PICTURE IN YOUR MIND: Someone over 300 lbs in a cheerleading outfit! That would be one BIG skirt!:cb: :lol:

Pam: YOU GET A: :bravo: Keep it up, keep it up, keep it up! Man you will have that 10 lbs off in NO TIME!

Carri: YOU GET A: :cp: for points yesterday. Exercising doesn't always work out for us so we can only do what we can do. As far as cheese, I am not sure of the brand, but I think it was bordens. I don't like non melted cheese so am not sure what it tastes like cold on a sandwich, but it makes a humdinger of a grilled cheese. I read somewhere once that white cheeses are always lower fat than any kind of yellow cheese so if I am eating cheese I try and stick with swiss or mozerrella. My fav is munster but whoa! I know what you mean about cheesecake. I love it too! My favorite thing during this part of the year is chocolate covered strawberries. This candy store here called Dinhstahls makes them and they are to die for. :faint: They have a little syrup between the strawberry and chocolate and the chocolate it pretty thick. Yum but a killer when you are trying to lose weight. My other big avoidance is La Baguette, which is the french bakery. They have chocolate croissants that are out of this world warmed up in the micro. See a theme here? You can tell I haven't had breakfast yet!

I had gone back to bed to try and sleep for another hour or so because I got up at 5 and put my chicken on for chicken and noodles, but dd called me a few minutes ago wanting to talk about T and what to bring him tomorrow. Bummer!

TTFN and Stay strong today ladies!

Faye ;)
SW: 400+ CW: 321 GW: 145 Summer challenge to be under 300 by 9/28/03 for my 50th birthday!

Carri: First off, I do it the old fashion way all the way. I buy a whole chicken, cook it in a crock pot, debone it, (secret to dropping calories here is when taking chicken out to debone put stock into fridge by itself, chill completely and let the fat solidify at top of broth then skim off and put chicken back into pot) I make homemade noodles using eggbeaters, not very much salt, flour and water in my bread machine (I use the dough setting and let it mix everything til it forms a ball around the blade then I unplug it to stop it and take out and roll them out) I stink at doing it myself and the bread machines mixes them just right. BUT if you are not inclined to make your own, just by No Yolk packaged noodles and these aren't bad for packaged and cuts the fat! Now easy easy easy way and the least amount of fat is to boil chicken breasts then romove from water (toss water as breast meat has very little broth quality) shred or cut them up and put in FF canned chicken broth and cook for a few minutes so breasts absorb broth back into them then cook with no yolk noodles. Pretty tasty and pretty good fat and cal wise too!

Hope this answers your questions!

Faye

Thanks
 

thanks Faye...also I wanted to tell you that I noticed your goal to be down to 300 by your 50th on 9/28/03...just wanted to say that my birthday is on 9/29 ! I will be 30 ! I have been sad about it, ya know leaving my 20's behind, but everyone tells me that these are good years...and with the excitement of being at my goal weight, hopefully by my 31st birthday, I know these will be good years....

Carri :strong: :cb: :dancer: :sunny:

ALRIGHT! :shrug:

ALRIGHT! :rolleyes:

ALRIGHT! :dizzy:

I tried to ignore you all and wallow in my self pity, but you did it, you got me off my butt and feeling motivated again. :^:

I was being just plain silly sitting here being all :blah: and just givng myself a hard time.

I was getting frustrated :?: because I have been going to the gym (8 days now!) and I haven' t lost any weight or cellulite.

But you know what? I've been drowning my sorrows in fast food or junk food. And just getting pissy, when I SHOULD be congratulating myself for working out AT LEAST an hour almost every day. I mean that's great! Before 30 minute videos were alot for me. I'm just the kind of person that benefits from something more if she pays for it.

I'm not cellulite free or down any lbs...BUT

I am stronger :strong: and I'm hurting less from working out :cb: and I'm doing it.

I'm kicking water's butt, but now I have to head to the site that Faye recommended and work on eating.

So yesterday I have 2 points...not perfect, but good nonetheless.

So that being said:

Deon ~ WELCOME BACK GIRL! WE MISSED YOU! :balloons:

Peek ~ WELCOME BACK ON THE WAGON! YOU ARE GONNA KICK THOSE 10LBS. BUTT!!! :grouphug: YOU GOT ALL OF US HERE TO HELP YOU OUT and I just know you're gonna do it just fine. Get back on the plan this week and you'll do AWESOME.


Faye ~ thanks for all your support and love and suggestions and help and all the other good stuff you bring to this group. you are a shining star :flow1: OK so that's a shining flower, but you get the idea! :lol: I am all about that grilled cheese idea. Sounds like a good plan, I'm totally looking into it. I'm ready to try again and I am not gonna let my hard hour spent at the gym go to waste! Also way to go on losing that extra lb! :goodvibes :dancer: :dancer: :goodvibes You are truly an angel :angel: !!!


And I have no woes (except for waiting to hear back from a job I interviewed for.. :crossed: ). I just don't feel like complaining. I'm gonna be tough and just be ready for the challenges I'm sure to face.

You're right, it does feel hard to lose these damn 20lbs. And I feel so silly complaining about it when some people would love to have only 20lbs. to lose. It's just my own personal weirdness that I need to get over. It's 20lbs. It's not that hard. I CAN DO IT!

One quick question...does anyone else notice that they fluctuate in weight like everyday anywhere from 1-5lbs? It's probably my digi scale, but who can say for sure, right? I might try measuring myself too, but I'm afraid I won't do it consistently every day and come up with wacky measurements.

OK..heading over to Faye's website, sorry for the long post.

Adios amigas!

:queen: Missy :queen:

I needed some extra queens today!

SW: 150 CW: 145-150 (who can tell!) GW: 130-135

I love this group! :cp: :cp: :cp:

Good Morning Girls!

Yesterday I got all my points. Did my weight training and an hour of dance practice and a pilates tape. I am following WW and was OP 100%! Drank all my water! :flame: :flame: :flame:

Sure can relate to the job woes. I have been looking for months and finally, yesterday I got a call to come for an interview tomorrow. It seems like a job I would like too!

I will accept the lose 10 pounds by August 31st challenge!

Will write more later...

Have a great day! :sunny: :sunny: :sunny: