Wow, can you believe it? How are we all doing on our goals? I had set a goal to hit 206, and I'm down only 2 so far. But with work life settling down (and finally getting paid after 5 weeks of them not paying me!), I'm hoping to see more consistancy!

I was just thinking about how much time we've got until this challenge is up, and thats MORE time than the people on The Biggest Loser (can you tell I watched it tonight?). We ARE going to do amazing things

So lets REALLY get this challenge going!!

-Aimee

P.S. I thought our last thread kinda got lost in the shuffle...

i am under 200 finally, but good lord, i have 50 to lose to hit my christmas goal. sigh.

I want to be 160 for xmas. I lost 1.4 pounds last week, so I might make it if I can keep it up

Keiko got stung by a (dead) bee last night. He face all swelled up and she was shaking really bad - she seems to be doing better except she kept throwing up all morning Poor girl!

Oh, poor Keiko! I'm glad she's doing better, but I know you'll be keeping an eye on her, Mommy. :-)

Here is her poor face: And if you look right below her nose on her chin, you can see the bloody spot where we had to pull the stinger from

OH poor doggie!! Ouch!

Your dog is killer cute!!!

My goal for Christmas is to be down -50 pounds from when I started. I'm up to -28.5 right now.

Wee haa.. either way.. I'm gonna be thinner THIS year than I was last year!!

~Angie

Aww Poor doggie!... I have a little Westie Terrier, and she has allergies when there is a lot of pollen in the air, and her leg gets all swollen like that...
Anyway---
My goal is to be at least under 190 by christmas. This is my first time attempting to lose weight, so I still don't know what my average weight loss per week will be. I guess it depends on a lot of things. This is my second week on my Zone diet, and I've lost 8lbs so far, but I've also been doing A LOT of light exercise, so that might have something to do with it, and I don't know if I can keep up that amount of exertion once I start my new job...

I'm back form vacation and pretty bloated. I blame it on TOM and all the bad food that I had in LA (aww, I love that place!). But I am ready to get back to my regime...tomorrow anyways. As soon as I get home, I am going to bed. I have not slept in the last 30 hours and boy, am I exhausted. But I am really going to get into it because I am tired of fighting with the scale over the same 4 pounds. It's time to get rid of it for good!!!

Christmas goal...well, I hadn't really given it a whole lot of thought just yet. Taking one goal at a time, and right now that's working on the Trick or Treat Challenge. I would DEFINITELY like to be in onederland for Christmas, but I'll wait to set my target # until November 1st.

omg! I am SO frustrated right now!! So I'm sure I've complained about how my last job hasn't paid out my vacation pay yet (supposed to come tomorrow... fingers crossed for me!).. well my bf decided to look online at work about how much my first paycheck from the new job is going to be. And it turns out they LIED TO ME!!!!!!!!! I was hired at 10.43, I was doing my training at 10.43 or so I was told. So my paycheck says I have 21 hours at 8 dollars an hour, and then 20 hours at 9 dollars an hour (20 hours of instore training), and then 5 hours at my wage. No one told me EVER that this would be broken down like this. Not only that, I was hired to work as a photo specialist, and just found out yesterday I'm going to be put into electronics nearly fulltime, which is what I told everyone I did NOT want to do. I was basically told that they don't have enough hours for me, and therefore I MUST work in electronics if I want shifts. I'm not an electronics person. And thats my rant..

And the stupid phone call ruined my day, because now I'm so upset and missed my walk. Bad day.

-Aimee

Aimee,

Use that anger to exercise!!! You'd be surprised what it can do!!!! Push yourself harder cuz you're mad!! It works for me. hehehehehe

Hmmm, I might have to think about a Xmas goal. right now I'm just focusing on exercising with an end goal in mind. After this first 21 days I will have to pick a xmas goal!!!

13 Weeks, argh! i hope I can make it, especially since I'm getting married December 30th!

I would like to be 145 by my Christmas trip to Mexico so that puts me at a little less than 2 lbs per week. I'm really hoping that I can do it.

I'm sure you can, Amy! Just be sure to come here and read/post whenever you're feeling discouraged; my worst times have been when I haven't visited the site for a while.

Good luck, everyone!

aimee--that blows big time. isn't there someone you can talk to?? I'd be pissed if I was told one thing and then got something else. but don't let it throw you off your plan. like trish said, use all that negativ energy towards soemthing positive and work your little heart out. I'm sure it'll make you feel better. I hope it all works out for you.

I am up 4 pounds from what my signature says. So any losses for me probably wont count until I get under 234. I am determined to get under this week!!!!