Black Team Week #1 Challenge thread-

Andrew- great spreadsheet. I don’t know that I actually know why we call you Batman. What’s the scoop?

I know SpongeMarla’s story on that name. LOL. Great run lady! I give you so much credit for doing those runs at night, I can’t imagine. If I don’t workout early in the day, I struggle to get it done. Can’t even fathom headed out at bedtime!

Retrobaby (name?) and Tiffany- I love watching the numbers go down too! It’s even more exciting when mine goes with it. (Hint, hint dear bod)

Bobbi- glad you created a monster; it’s more fun to go on this journey with a partner. My hubs ‘sort of’ is along, but not so much. Sort of means if I tell him what to eat and fix it, he’ll eat it, although he may add some extras.

Kati- water at bedtime, brutal. Did the kiddos pull up fit? LOL

Tanya- great job on the rowing. I love reading your posts and the way you say things and talking about tea every day. Is your job with kids what we would call a childcare provider or maybe a nanny? You watch them while their parents are at work?

Richardsrm- sorry about the scale increase, but better days are ahead. Now you have the love and support of a team to kick your booty!

Roni- aren’t teenagers fun? Actually I shouldn’t complain, mine get out of bed pretty well. Sorry the weather is too icky to get out. Good attitude about the videos. It will be like an exercise down memory lane. Don’t fret over the next weigh in. You’ve come so far, you will do fine. You also have come far enough to know that every week doesn’t give you the numbers you want and it’s ok too.

Tamara- you are like the energizer bunny. For real! (I told her yesterday on Facebook she’s like the weight loss machine.)

Jeannie- no sweets girl, great news, eating every 3 hours, better news- good for the metabolism. CALL YOUR TRAINER back!

I’m a little slow- just realized what you meant by discounts….. you want your weight discounted…. LOL! ME TOO!

For me, plans to do Zumba, no weights, an easy-ish day (Yes, I made up that word). Headed out to do a few returns at the stores after the gym. Figuring out my food, taking after gym snack and lunch with me so I’m not out and about and unprepared, bad things happen when that occurs.

Have a wonderful day team!

Good morning Bad *kitten* Black BAT team..:laugh:

Woo- Hoo Andrew you went all out! Thanks for all your hard work!!

Now time for all of us to work hard to see/ get lower numbers for next week.... we can do it, one positive choice at a time.....

Have a day everyone.

Good morning Bad *kitten* Black BAT team..:laugh:

Woo- Hoo Andrew you went all out! Thanks for all your hard work!!

Now time for all of us to work hard to see/ get lower numbers for next week.... we can do it, one positive choice at a time.....

Have a day everyone.

Don't say *kitten*-- it's not nice.

Bad Butt Black Bat Team--

Good morning Black Team!

Andrew, the spreadsheet looks great! Love the Batman logos all over it:glasses: After my last 4 weigh ins of having a gain on the scale...Im already nervous about next weeks weigh in!!:laugh: And we have lots of snow here already with more coming in, so I dont know if I will make it to the gym...may be time to break out the old tried and trusted workout dvd's! But thats ok, I lost my first 100 lbs doing those so it might be fun to do them again just for old times sake

Kids are back to school today, so I will check back in a little bit later. Looks like these teenagers are having a hard time getting out of bed this morning!

~Roni
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Roni, I understand this because when I weighed in yesterday it was the lowest number I had seen in awhile; actually dropped three pounds overnight. That is great but scares me because what if it was a fluke thing and the scale goes back up. I guess I better bust my butt and know regardless of what the scale says I did everything in my power to make it go down. SIGH!]

Good morning Bad *kitten* Black BAT team..:laugh:

Woo- Hoo Andrew you went all out! Thanks for all your hard work!!

Now time for all of us to work hard to see/ get lower numbers for next week.... we can do it, one positive choice at a time.....

Have a day everyone.

Don't say *kitten*-- it's not nice.

Bad Butt Black Bat Team--

Now - Now Marla:happy: :happy: ... But I want to be Bada$$blackteambat... better??

Spreadsheet looks great..I'm going to be out for a day or two...coming down with the cold and my body aches..no exercise this morning, and not really hungry..hubby making me some chicken soup...hope it does not last long.:sick:

Andrew- great spreadsheet. I don’t know that I actually know why we call you Batman. What’s the scoop?

i don't remember why everyone started calling him batman, either. it was around the time he was using this pic as his av, though.

That picture is priceless! Just having joined the black team I was wondering that myself! Sorry to hear about all the snow everyone is having. It's just cold here in PA!

Love the spreadsheet, Andrew!

I'm slow on the water intake today but will definitely catch up. Doing well against the sweets, and even took myself a step further -no sweetener of any kind in my coffee. I normally use a little agave nectar, but just wanted to see if I would like it without any sweet at all. It's probably an acquired taste, but I didn't hate it. Big deal for me.

Later kids!

Love the spreadsheet, Andrew!

I'm slow on the water intake today but will definitely catch up. Doing well against the sweets, and even took myself a step further -no sweetener of any kind in my coffee. I normally use a little agave nectar, but just wanted to see if I would like it without any sweet at all. It's probably an acquired taste, but I didn't hate it. Big deal for me.

Later kids!

Shuntae, I did away with coffee sweeteners this past year, too. Believe it or not, not only will you get used to it, when you do taste sweet coffee down the road, it'll taste sickening sweet.

On the advice of my wolf friend last summer, I started phasing it out and only have cream in my coffee-- and I love it.

Water intake going well, my friends-- testing the sodium, like an idiot, though. We got free lunch coupons from our local Chinese restaurant for Christmas-- my husband is a regular customer there-- so I just had some shrimp with lobster sauce and a bit of fried rice. Only a bit, though-- gave most of it to Caleb.

My 1.5 down today will no doubt be back up tomorrow, but all in all I'm doing well.

It's beautiful here in New Jersey today-- heading out soon for a leisurely run solo-- when I run with hubs, he's always freaking racing me-- he kills me. So I'm heading out by myself.

Donna-- where in PA are you? I'm just across the river from Easton on the New Jersey side.

So today was the first day back on the treadmill and with my HRM. I have been going by the treadmill number for calories burned but I came to find out that from the treadmill to the hrm it's about 300 calories off.

I did 5 miles for 1123 calories burned. I wanted to quit at about the .25 mark but kept going. It's amazing how my stubborn head works.

Have a great day all!!!