Black Team Week 8!!!!!

Nonibug

Good morning team!

Just wanted to stop in and wish everyone good luck with the weigh ins:drinker:

Lori-- Happy digging

tamelab

Good Wednesday morning...Hope you all have a great day. We have a 2 hour delay this morning so I'm late getting started. See y'all later.

Marla64

Just finished my morning typing-- wayyy late-- financial crap I had to type. derivatives.....securitization....recessionary spending.....zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz -- AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

have a great day everyone--

Marla64

3pm meeting tomorrow with Sarah and hubs with the aforementioned potential sponsor.

everybody think sweet thoughts!

jimswmn

Lori...Happy digging!

Marla...Happy thoughts coming your way !

familygirl37167

Needless to say I told hubby I was wanting to ride with him so he choose to wait for me to eat my oatmeal and get a shower...can I say big mistake its 5:20 pm and I still havent gotten my running shoes..I am going before 6 pm promise to myself...Was gonna eat cici's pizza for dinner ( pizza buffet for 3.99) but I passed on it we are having a bunch of people over firday and having a cookout and then sat i will eat what I want so I decided to be good today,,,That I am super proud of normally I would have said awww I am not weighing in tomorrow anyways let me just eat the pizza but I didnt I ate my normal normal which was AMAZING!!

well off to go get my running shoes...yippee...then to the mall for hubby to get a game....ewww he is a big kid...

Lori I ate almost 1400 caloires today arent you proud of me???

And let me just tell ya'll the trainer told me to drink a cup of coffee in the morning before my workout and I am loving it..nothing like waking up to the smell of coffee brewing!!! I set the coffee pot for 410 and my alarm for 420 I was wide awake like 412 wide awake to get my coffee, I so look forward to the morning now and I never ever was a morning person...This is a whole new me and I am super proud of me I have only been on the scale once and that was friday...gonna weigh every friday!!!

Have a great day everyone

jimswmn

Good evening BT ! 672 calories burned for the day, and I am feeling every muscle in my lower body. I did Jillian Michael's, Shape Up Backside plus the 30 day shred. Got a mile walk in, I know its not much but at least the weather is getting better so I want to get outside. I also have her Shape Up Front too ! Planning on doing Front tomorrow then Back. Alternate days, until I feel like I'm not going to break or pull something.

Have a good evening !

72lori

Tamara- good job eating more and hope you like your new sneaks

Digging. Uh! Actually, the digging isn't that bad. I got a system. It's the filling the wheel barrow, hiking in down and across the back yard, out to the front yard, trying to hold on to a seriously heavy teetering load as I go down the really steep front hill with it to dump it. I would no sooner start digging again and have to take another trip to dump. The digging I can handle, the relocating all the dirt elsewhere is exhausting.

4 hours worth of back breaking work. I am past exhausted right now. Hubs is in mega crank *kitten* mood and complaining that his shins hurt from his 3 mile speed walk yesterday. Excuse me if I have no sympathy right now. I ran 3 miles, did 15 minutes on the steeper, swept the entire house- carpet and hard floors, did 2 loads of laundry, went to Walmart for food, dug and moved dirt for 4 hours, ran to the school to pick up a kid from tennis, cooked dinner, cleaned up from that and now I am DONE. All I wanna say is stop your b!tching and moaning!

Whew! I feel better now. Well, not really but it still felt good to vent.

Got monkey bread in the oven for the kids. They are busting a gut for that stuff to be done baking! It does smell good and I have no idea how many calories I burned, but I do know it was a lot and I'm eating some. Yummo.

zippy111

tag - Hi all! I've had some crummy days that I am not proud of. Hope it doesn't last long....

still reading entries though so keep em coming!

Marla - Good thoughts on Sarah's sponsor.

Nonibug

Good evening BT ! 672 calories burned for the day, and I am feeling every muscle in my lower body. I did Jillian Michael's, Shape Up Backside plus the 30 day shred. Got a mile walk in, I know its not much but at least the weather is getting better so I want to get outside. I also have her Shape Up Front too ! Planning on doing Front tomorrow then Back. Alternate days, until I feel like I'm not going to break or pull something.

Have a good evening !

Bobbi-- I have those Jillian Michaels Shape Up Backside (and Front) dvd's also. I havent tried them yet, what's your opinion of them...do you think they are great workouts?

Nonibug

Good morning all!

Donna-- Hang in there, we are always here:flowerforyou:

Lori-- Do you have a recipe for that Monkey Bread? Ive never seen any or tried it, but I have heard it is great. I would like to try and make some for the kids...Wow girl, what a day you had yesterday!!:drinker:

Marla-- Hope you got great news on Sarah's sponsor:flowerforyou:

Jeannie-- Where of where are you?:ohwell:

Have a great day everyone!!:flowerforyou:

72lori

Roni- I had never made it before either, but remembered it from my childhood the other day. It was so easy to make. The kids devoured the entire thing! I bought a 4 pack of the PIllsbury Buttermilk Biscuits and used all of them and there was plenty of sugary goo!


MONKEY BREAD
1/2 c. white sugar
3 tsp. cinnamon
3/4 c. brown sugar
1 stick melted butter
3 pkgs. Pillsbury biscuits (10)

Cut biscuits into quarters.
Put in sugar and cinnamon mixture (to coat biscuits on all sides).
Grease bundt pan.
Put biscuits in pan.
Pour remaining sugar and melted butter over biscuits.
Bake 45 minutes at 350 degrees; remove immediately.
Remove from pan to plate.

Nonibug

Wow, they do sound yummy! Gonna try that out for them today, thanks Lori:flowerforyou:

tamelab

Good morning team...I'm off to a late start again. I went to the gym first thing this morning and I feel fabulous. I forgot how good it feels to work out early. I have to type a few hours now and then run errands. Hope you all have a wonderful day. I will drink 8 glasses of water today (with a little Crystal Light)

I will catch up on posts today or tomorrow. This job just keeps getting in the way of my fitness pal time:laugh:

jimswmn

Good evening BT ! 672 calories burned for the day, and I am feeling every muscle in my lower body. I did Jillian Michael's, Shape Up Backside plus the 30 day shred. Got a mile walk in, I know its not much but at least the weather is getting better so I want to get outside. I also have her Shape Up Front too ! Planning on doing Front tomorrow then Back. Alternate days, until I feel like I'm not going to break or pull something.

Have a good evening !

Bobbi-- I have those Jillian Michaels Shape Up Backside (and Front) dvd's also. I havent tried them yet, what's your opinion of them...do you think they are great workouts?

Roni..If the soreness in my lower half is any indication yes they are good. She moves through the exercises at a faster rate then the Shred ones but you do more of them. I can definitely tell I worked out yesterday. Good luck with them and let me know what you think.

mumsanutter

Hello from over the pond. Sorry haven't been around much, am feeling quite low and don't want to bring anyone else down, so am lurking but not always typing!

Have managed 90 minutes walking today, and am going to try for an early night tonight. Having some girl-friends over tomorrow night for an early birthday celebration and going out with dh somewhere as a surprise on saturday, so am aiming at not being good but still trying to do my exercises so that I don't feel so bad about any over indulgances, and will start afresh on monday.

Marla - hope that your meeting goes ok at 3pm will be thinking of you

Lori - hope that the digging goes ok. Oh how I would love a hot tube but little english gardens don't have enough space, am trying to convince dh to get one of those hot tube come shower cubicles for the bathroom but so far no luck

Tamara - hope that you are having a good time and that the change of workout time doesn't effect you too much

Donna - fully understand and am in a likewise place

Tammy - good luck with the typing and chores and glad that ds has gone back to soccer and not track

To everyone else, hello and sorry that I haven't addressed you all individually, xx

72lori

I'm avoiding going outside. Don't wanna......

Here's the pics I took for my blog, I will share, plus it will put off heading out.

Here's what I have done so far, still about 2-3 feet more, of course on the steepest part of the yard.

Pictures make it look like nothing. That hole will be 10 feet by 10 feet and at least 2 feet deep on the back side. It looks piddly in that pic! LOL

Once I fill a wheelbarrow, I have to take the wobbly heavy thing down the yard, out the gate- which is in the far corner of course, across the driveway.



At which point I need to get it down the even steeper front yard to a spot that has no dirt left because it all ran down the street to our neighbors. Houses on hills are impossible to grow good grass!


I figure I dumped 20-25 loads of dirt in the front yard yesterday. As deep as I have to dig today, I can only imagine how many I will have to tote out there. Luckily I have a lot of crappy front yard to dump it all.

Uh, crud. Guess I'm done stalling. Off I go!

Marla64

Lori, you are the man. LOL

Can't tarry--

Joyful news-- my son is coming home. With trepidation and joy we've reached an accord with the wayward lad, and he has accepted our terms for return.

My daughters are all in blissful tears. I'm very happy, and very worried that we'll have to kick him out again in the future if he doesn't mind his P's and Q's--

Prayers for peace in the Brown home are coveted.

Must go-- busy day on tap.

SatelliteCrush80

Hate to picture drive-by and run, but I got my hair cut last night and am dying to show it off...

Profile pic is obviously before, and here is after...

loreeb18

Shuntae - Super cute!

Marla64

Oooooooooh-- I love it, Shuntae!!!!! You're adorable!

72lori

Shuntae- love it!

jimswmn

Shuntae..I love it !

jimswmn

Lori...Just keep telling yourself what a good work out you are getting. Burning calories, cardio, strength all to get that hot tub. Which btw you are really going to need and enjoy after all this digging.

mumsanutter

Shuntae - I love the hair

I am having a crappy evening and just want to cry...... little John my 5 year old has come home from his friends (where he went for tea after school) with a broken nose - he fell off the trampoline!! Last week Thomas broke his finger at school and this week little John has broken his nose. I feel so useless, there was nothing I could do to prevent this and how can I make it better for him - I can't and the poor little man has to suffer the pain and discomfort :sad: :frown: :sad:

Sorry - just needed to vent

familygirl37167

Cute shaunte

Marla64

Meeting went well. TONS AND TONS to tell you-- but I still can't.

Can't wait. Nothing decided yet for the sponsorship, this was a meet and greet, and official tour of the facility-- blah, blah, blah. Too flippin' cool.

Tri_Dad

New Thread! sorry it's late!

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/84813-black-team-week-9

sdarnell

Ok, it sounds like these kids acted like fools, but why would you dub the team "pagan". Christians and Pagans alike act like idiots all the time. It's the parents and how they choose to raise their children. I am Pagan and have a Pagan family. My daughter plays very competitively on a ball team and her team mates be they Christian or not love her reagrdless of her religious upbringing. She is polite and voluteers as a camp councelor for kids with diabilities and helps tutor the down syndrome children at her high school. That is acceptable behavior for our teens and it has nothing to do with the religious label she wears. It sounds like you have raise a bright and polite child and these other parents need to maybe quit catering to their lazy whinny kids. As, someone looking from the outside in. I would have automatcally over looked the fact that they were playing under a "Christian" label and gone right to the source of the problem. Lazy parents raising lazy children.

Marla64

Ok, it sounds like these kids acted like fools, but why would you dub the team "pagan". Christians and Pagans alike act like idiots all the time. It's the parents and how they choose to raise their children. I am Pagan and have a Pagan family. My daughter plays very competitively on a ball team and her team mates be they Christian or not love her reagrdless of her religious upbringing. She is polite and voluteers as a camp councelor for kids with diabilities and helps tutor the down syndrome children at her high school. That is acceptable behavior for our teens and it has nothing to do with the religious label she wears. It sounds like you have raise a bright and polite child and these other parents need to maybe quit catering to their lazy whinny kids. As, someone looking from the outside in. I would have automatcally over looked the fact that they were playing under a "Christian" label and gone right to the source of the problem. Lazy parents raising lazy children.

This is an old thread, so I'm not entirely sure anymore to what you're referring-- but, I think if I'm reading it right......... My choice of "pagan" simply was to coin the term that a lot of Christians would use to describe something that isn't "Christian." If it's not under the label of Christianity, a lot of professing believers that I've known use the label "pagan," simply meaning non-Christian.

It wasn't a term of offense, which is clear in the context because the children of the non-Christian league behaved better, and so did the parents--