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daylitemag

That's a great NSV, MrsR! The camera can be so cruel - it's nice to get the upper-hand every now and again.

simplysara9

Cynthia -- Thanks for all of the advice. I was at the store yesterday looking at all of the fish oils and how big the pills are! I absolutely hate taking any sort of pill if I don't have to and the size of these things scare me! LOL. I didn't buy a bottle yet, I am going to check out GNC and some other health food stores. I will definitely look into better sandals and either a new pair of shoes for work (again) or a nice pair of insoles for them.


My only question this morning is...
Do we have an October Challenge brewing yet?

I will be honest and say that I have not checked the 100+ thread since this thread began so if it was posted over there I totally missed it!

laneybird

Happy Thursday everyone (aka MY Friday!) Thank you everyone for the kind words, I just was in a gloom n' doom mood and am slowly coming out of it. I am my own worst enemy... I guess we all can be. I REALLY want to reach the 50lb mark for tomorrow's weigh in. Because I am a self-professed scale-o-holic, I weigh every morning and this morning I was .8lbs from it. Since I can't exercise (procedure on my foot Tues) I'm not sure if I will be or not. All I know is that I'm drinking all the water that I can stand and my co-workers will just have to put up with me hobbling to the bathroom all day lol

Julie and Staci- LOVE the pics!!! Congrats to both of you, ya'll are doing so good!

Lexie- awesome NSV! Are we going to get to see the pic?? I LOVE seeing before/during/after/progress pics... Not that you should feel pressured lol

Cynthia- I love you almost as much as I love my (latin lover) Cardio... I LOVE seeing what you post next

Sara- I'm up for a challenge too if one is made

I didn't have a chance to check in the past few days because of whacky work schedules and my trainee comes in at 11, so I thought I would take advantage to say hey to my peeps!! Everyone have a great day!

lombrica

Lexie: I want to see the photo!

October Challenge... there is one, JJ has claimed it... I haven't been to the 100+ thread because my time has been limited, but I do know that JJ has an awesome challenge idea coming up that should be let out of the vault soon! ha, ha, ha. Yep, I'll build it up because I know just a teeny tiny bit and I am excited!

Make it a great day!

RENAEJAE

Staci - INCREDIBLE TRANSFORMATION!!! 12 months? I have goose bumps. It's amazing what you've accomplished! Congratulations.

StaciO

Thanks everyone. I thought I felt good back then but how I feel now, well there is no comparison. I don't even feel like the same person anymore. I look at that first picture and think "Holy S**t!".

k2quiere

Running like crazy, but I just have to concur, Stacie, HOLY *kitten*, you don't even look like the same person anymore, I can't possibly imagine you feeling like that person!!! You look amazing, and you continuously amaze me with all you do!!!

Wolfie: I am always enthralled and always shaking my head whenever I see your tomes.

Lexie: Congrats on being happy with the camera! That's a giant leap in the right direction!

JJ: I think you have left us in suspense about this challenge for long enough now...the month is almost over!

Becky: *HUGS* There is nothing wrong with taking some time to take care of you, and you are absolutely right that sometimes it is hard to see/hear/feel what someone else really needs from us because we look at it from the perspective of what we usually need!

stephaniezoundi

Hello Chicks and my favourite Canuck Rooster!
Not much new here. Feeling very very tired and very very hungry the last few days. Don't know what is going home. Came home tonight instead of going to the gym hoping to abate it. Did some wii zumba instead and had a good old natter with my sister. Sturggling to get my water the last few days, 90 minutes stuck in a class makes it challenging to get it in during the day.

i have a question: does anyone have a good apple crisp recipe thats not gonna use up all my calories? Its autumn and I love to use apples!

Hope you are all doing great!!

RENAEJAE

Becky - You know we luv ya! I'm glad you've let us know how hard you are on yourself and that it's HUGS you need when you're down or beating yourself up. We're all here to help each other and give ya whatch need. So it's HUGS HUGS HUGS to you. Glad you're back in full force. We've missed you loads!

Lexie - Must be great to like yourself in a pix. I envy you.

Bobbie - are you literally RUNNING like crazy or Running Around like crazy? There is a difference - tee hee.

Laneybird - good luck at hitting your 50lb mark tomorrow - I have a good feeling about this! Sending you and early "WOOT WOOT"

k2quiere

Renae...Like a chicken without a head! And I don't think I'm burning any extra calories, although the lack of cranial compartment could equate to lost poundage...anyone know where my scale is???:noway:

RENAEJAE

Empanadas question. I've never eaten these. What do I serve with them? They are mexican correct?

k2quiere

Not necessarily Mexican, but salsa works well ;-)

Honestly, they're what we consider antojitos (craving food), like tacos and burritos...Fast food, so to speak. At home, we usually just eat them just with salsa or cover them with shredded lettuce and sour cream WITH SALSA! Did you get the salsa??? LOL...the hotter the better!

daylitemag

@Renae: we have them with dipping sauce. Spicy and sweet.

laneybird

Laneybird - good luck at hitting your 50lb mark tomorrow - I have a good feeling about this! Sending you and early "WOOT WOOT"

Thanks, you're so sweet! Wish I had that good feeling too lol. We shall see... if not, then next week without a doubt!

lombrica

Welp... maybe it's my scale?!? Didn't really show much of anything on my scale this morning but end of the day and fully dressed -- and I was still down 3.4 pounds. I am celebrating THAT one! I am so, so, so very tired and plan to go to bed. So as I hit the hay - I will say to Make it a Great Friday!! Enjoy the upcoming weekend.

idahogirl71

Hello skinny chicks and a rooster.....it is finals week again so I am not able to be on here much yet, but hopefully starting next week I will be back in the forums/links daily like I used to be.

I have the eating back under control, but have yet to get my exercise mojo back. I just do not have the energy nor the desire to do anything more than I have too....and I dread cold weather coming. Guess I should get back into the gym so the weather won't be a factor :grumble:

I am trying to catch up on posts as I can....but a question....is there an October challenge and if so what is it? I need to get back into challenges and force myself to get back where I was before the separation and emotional roller coaster happened.

Icewolf_The

OMG OMG OMG

I almost couldn't sit up this morning to scratch my boobies

So my 'fun' workout went a little overboard last night.. It started out sane, Me sitting on my little fitness ball typing away to you guys and I decide I wanted to listen to music (something I almost never do, Hubby, hates my music almost all of it. He I swear would be a gay man stuck in the 80's if you went by his music. Me.. just about anything other than jazz, but I prefer hard rock, heavy metal etc)

So I put my headphones in. And on the ball... well you can just sorta bounce, and wiggle those hips (yeah like zumba sitting) (OH LANE, guess what doesn't anger the foot )..... So anyway I overdo it of course. 4 hours later, hundreds of crunches, hips moving forward and back and circles and ... now you know why I couldn't move this morning. I only logged 300 calories. I gotta HRM that the next time hehehe...

So that's gonna be my new thing for a while I think whee It was fun tho... and I gotta tell ya I do miss the music, sometimes hubby annoys me luckily they invented headphones

As for the Empanadas, yes salsa and more salsa But Bobbie, everything is better with salsa I could it eat it on ice cream if I really wanted to Yeah okay I guess I've converted after living in both Nevada and Arizona since 1994


Becky
-- go go go go go go go go See told you *thhhpppppptttt* I'm just sayin... I love you Speaking of challenges, Flying Foxes?



And Lane, at least with me around there's never a dull moment

Party On..

Oh I couldn't help myself.....


Renae... this is just for you... First post (today) on my website There's a linky... http://icewolf.us

RENAEJAE

Cynthia - thanks for the song! I love Olivia Newton John. Have you ever watched Glee? There is a really funny scene on that show where they dance to this song. It's the only 5 minutes of Glee that I have watched but our girls were hooked on the show last Spring. I like the exercise ball workout idea. Gotta get me one of those. Maybe by shoulder wouldn't bother me as much if I wasn't perched on the edge of this office chair 9 hours a day? I'll bet your sore body feels good. I can barely walk this morning from my Biggest Loser workout yesterday. I guess switching things up is a good idea.

Tami - good luck on those finals. God I don't miss college.

Becky - I'll be anxious to hear what your official loss is this week. So happy for you.

JJ - we're all waiting for you to unveil the October Challenge so we can psyche ourselves up!

Thanks everyone for the empanada tips. I picked up the wonton wrappers yesterday. Small little buggers. What happens if you bake them instead of fry them? mush? I'll get my deep fryer out Satuday night. Now of course that means homemade fries for the kiddos. I'll toss a few sweet potatoes in also --mmmmmm.

RENAEJAE

Cyndi - I checked out your web page a bit and see that you are a Chihuly fan. Once I saw your photos of his work I knew immediatedly I'd seen some of his sculptures at Mohegan Sun in Conn. Amazing!!!!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bluesyfish/5115653725/
http://www.travelwritersmagazine.com/TravelFeaturesSyndicate/Mohegan-Sun.html

KnottyNCrotchety

Ok, ok, ok!

I dropped my friends off at the airport this morning and I am back to concentrating on this! I am really proud that I was able to maintain during their visit here while still having a great time and not feeling like I was missing anything. Now I have just over a week to lose a little more before I go see my sweetie and knock his socks off.


******************OCTOBER CHALLENGE**********************************

THE SEVEN SUMMITS

In mountain climbing there is a small group of people that have summited the highest mountain on each continent. This is a huge challenge, usually requiring a few years, a lot of training and buckets of money. The group that has accomplished this incredible feat and lived to tell about it numbers less than 300 and only 34 of them are women. You can read more about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Summits

The mountains are:

Mt. Kosciuszko (7,310 ft) in Australia (or there is another option in Carstensz Pyramid (16,024 ft) which is the tallest mountain in Oceania/Australasia).

Vinson Massif (16,050) in Antarctica.

Mt. Elbus (18,510 ft) in Europe.

Kilimanjaro (19,340 ft) in Africa.

Denali (you can call it Mt. McKinley if you want, but I am from Alaska and we call it Denali, The Great One) (20,320) in North America.

Aconcagua (22,841 ft) in South America.

Everest (29,035 ft) in Asia.

My idea for the challenge is this. We will have seven different activities. Each activity will contribute to our climbing a particular mountain. By the end of the month we will have hopefully climbed all seven summits together!

My hope is that this will help us all to continue with some of the great habits we have picked up the past couple of months with our challenges, such as running, biking and swimming (thanks Becky and Sara!), but we will also be adding in some new activities to help us to expand our options and workouts. These activities will not all be exercise based and belonging to a gym will not be required to accomplish them.

I would like this to be a group challenge, so that we are all working as one group, just to change it up from this month (although I will really miss the trash talk fun!). I also would like this month to be unlimited. If you want to set yourself a personal goal, then go ahead, but one thing I have noticed the past couple of months is that many of us have set a personal goal and then ended up going way past it (sometimes even doubling it). So how about if we don't limit ourselves this month, but just see how much we can do! I love when we all work together to get to the goal and my hope would be that we would all try to contribute to each of the mountains, injury and physical limitations would impede this some, but hopefully most of us will be able to try everything at least once.

I will share more details about the activities in a little bit, but since people have started to ask, I thought I would share the general concept now. I will also post some more details about each of the mountains we will be climbing this week, so you can get to know them.

I am really excited about this challenge and hope you are too! I have always been intrigued with the idea of The Seven Summits so its fun to think I will be able to say I did it too...with my friends!

So are YOU in?

PS I am not a spreadsheet kinda gal. Anyone willing to volunteer to help out with creating a spreadsheet? :bigsmile:

k2quiere

JJ, that is an excellent challenge. Do you know that one of the guys who has done this, whose name I can't remember right now, actually comes to the high school I taught at the for last 6 years to speak with the students. Two years ago, he took a teacher, a student, and the student's mom to Mt. Everest Base Camp fully paid for by Hanes Brand Inc. The school has had a business partnership with Hanes for 25 years, back when it was still Sara Lee Inc. I can't wait to get started.................guess i need to finish this swimming first though, huh? 3 more times in the pool should do it!!

StaciO

JJ- I am so in for this challenge. I don't even care what the activities are. It just sounds cool.

Well, we are heading out to our cabin in a couple hours so I have to go get packed and what not. have a super great weekend and I'll be logging by phone so unless there has been an upgrade where I can get to the message boards I will be gone til sunday. have a great one all and think skinny since you're thinking anyway.

RENAEJAE

I'm in JJ - sounds like fun and I'll enjoy learning about the 7 peaks! Have a great weekend.

idahogirl71

I am up for the October challenge!! sounds great to me. Waiting to hear what the 7 activities will be!

Icewolf_The

Renae
-welcome for the song And yep yep that is surely a chihuly love ... love ... love that man. I have to update my pictures of pilchuck trip I guess this summer *I am so lazy sometimes*

JJ
-- Love the challenge, but can't do it this month, will be gone *hopefully* 2 weeks in Hawaii, and now in the cam boot But I'll do the chart for you if you want, send me the details in an email and I'll put it together for you.

Have a good day everyone.

Oh btw, Surgeon says

CAM BOOT! 1 month I'm actually not unhappy about it, I know, isn't that ****ed up? it means I'm not sitting around doing nothing to me very happy with that. yay!

laneybird

I'm up for the challenge!

mrsduck77

JJ- I'm totally in

CanToGirl

JJ- I am in for the challenge!!!

Hey everyone,
I was doing really good this week with TOM here but then yesterday happened. Way to embarrassed to say what happened but glad today is a new day. And a couple of NSV happened. Had to get my ring re-sized again. Can't believe its down to a 7.25, when I started this journey it was a 9. But when me and hubby got married it was an 8. So very happy about that. And I ordered knee high wide calf boots and OMG they fit!!! I have wanted a pair for so long and to finally fit into a pair. Super happy :happy: Excited about my weekend. Going to repaint my kitchen. Now its a light blue, but will be painting it a light beige and a dark red.

Tami~ happy to have you back. Good luck with your finals!!
Staci~Awesome job on the race. And you look amazing in your current pic. What a difference between the two. Good job!!
Cynthia~ happy to hear you have a new workout routine but sorry to hear about your stiffness this morning. Hope the boot works!

Well hope everyone else is having a great friday and check back in later.
Julie

Ziggie13

JJ....I am up for the October challenge.

I just want to thank everyone for helping me keep moving. If it wan't for all you, I would not be down on my weight like I am.

The challenges have been great.

THANKS

ziggie

lombrica

JJ -- I'm in... but of course! Sent you an email and have some thoughts to look at to send to Cyndi for the spreadsheet! Thanks for all the work on the October Challenge... While I love the triathalon stuff -- I just still have some crud in my head and am ready for a new month, new challenge, new attitude! ha, ha, ha!

ReNae -- it was my "official" weigh-in the other day. I just didn't know why the heck my scale didn't seem reflective in the same way. Lesson is learned though, get over myself already! ha, ha, ha. Love ya! Oh, and I've only ever did the frying of the wonton wrappers -- there are some bigger ones if you really want bigger. I used the bigger ones for homemade eggrolls. But please yes - let me know how baking them works. On a note - with the eggrolls, I rolled them all and then par-fried them (just enough to get it started and sealed), let them drain the grease and cool some, then froze them in smaller amounts in freezer bags. It was a lot of work to make them, so I made a ton and froze them and can cook them a few at a time. Anyway - I don't do the fried anymore but if it works for baking, I'd love to hear!

Lexie -- I'm serious about the photo... want to see the Pi Girls! woot woot!

Lane -- WOOOOOHOOOO!! Congrats on the big 5-0!

Steph -- let me know what you find on the apple crisp recipes... I did see a quick, easy and lower calorie recipe for this -- I'll have to see what I can find! sounds yummy...

Tami -- so happy to see you back sister! I'll send some exercise mojo to you... not only has Dr IceWolf ordered me to knock it off but the gym is also closed. Otherwise, I'd be going AMA, I'm afraid. HA!

Cyndi -- you make me laugh even in your misery... I'd almost feel guilty if I didn't know that it was your intention. What IS your plan around the boot? AND - no reason that you can't do the challenge even if you are gonna be in HAWAII (so jealous!) for 2 weeks. I promise -- there is still gonna be ways to participate... so, I'm signing you up... yes... yes, I can... I can... can to, can to!... because I said so... I'm Becky that's who!! Yep... I'm pretty sure that qualifies you as signed the f*** up! Ahhht... Ahhht... no, no Cyndi dear... this is where the Social Worker voice comes out... that's right, sit there and look pretty and be happy about it d*mn it! ha, ha, ha... LOVE YOU!! (and yep - let's go with that.. unless you can do Wing Women. But Flying Foxes are good!)

Julie -- WOW - not just on the ring sizes but more than that... YAY on the boots! Seriously - I want some but I can't even get pants over these calves... so, just know that I am doing a happy, happy, HAPPY dance for you! Photos please! Oh, watch the impact of the kitchen on your appetite... the red WILL increase appetite, so that's fine, it is a kitchen... but be aware that it is VERY real the impact colors have on us! I want red in my dining room/kitchen combo and have strawberry decor so there's lots of red... I love the sound of it and hope it goes well. Here's to both of us working on home improvement projects this weekend! ching-ching!