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HELLO LADIES!

I did weigh in no change which is Awesome because I KNOW I have water weight today, so I will take it! Hopefully I can see it by monday or so!
About this 10 lb mark holdup! I think it is mental for me like I am afraid of passing it for some reason. IDK maybe in my twisted little mind I think the farther down I go the more likely I am to stop or something and we all know what happens when we stop! Well whatever it is... I am going to work it out in a 2 hour workout by myself tomorrow morning(well me and our pit bull) And again Sunday with my husband. That little pit bull is an AWESOME workout partner!! Since I can't afford a trainer she gets the job. I don't know if any of you have ever been around a happy pit bull but she loves to exercise and she is really strong! So she will pull me at a nice pace (when I allow her to pull) and help me keep from slowing down.

Have an awesome weekend everybody!!
Jena

Good morning and Happy Saturday. I woke up feeling fabulous this morning even though I had take out last night. I know I know I said no more. Chinese is a weakness of mine and we ordered it. The worst part was that it wasn't even that good. I ate maybe half of it and was over it. Chinese food in CT really sucks. It made me miss my chinese place in TN. Anyways the husband and I had a picinic in the floor and watched Monsters vs. Aliens. After that we curled up on th couch and talked for an hour or so. It was fantastic. Then we curled up in bed and talked for another hour. It made me fall so much deeper in love with him. We talked about anything and everything that was on our minds. We talked about where we want to get stationed next because he should be done with school here by the end of the summer. We can go anywhere from Japan to Hawaii. The biggest two places he is thinking about is Kings bay, GA or Bangor, WA because of the type of subs they have. If he goes on a fast attack, he will get less notice for deployments, but we would have more options. His other top two places are Pearl harbor, HI or San Diego, CA. We coule also go to Spain or Italy. So we have a lot to talk about and a lot of things to consider. He is a good man and wants to keep me happy. I know that when the time comes that he will make the right decision. If he is top of class he may get to pick where he goes. The better he does in school means the better choices we will have for our nesxt station. I am definitely excited to see where this takes us.

Today we are going to go shopping. I am going to get my new cook books that I want and we are going to browse and look for other things. It is going to be a great day.

Tamara - Have fun at the derby and circus for Jade. I hope you feel better soon. I know you don't need to be sick right now. Love you girlie.

Amber - You are doing an amazing job. Keep up the great work on the losses. I am so proud of you my friend.

Marcie - I am so glad you are still here with us. You can have as many do-overs as you need as long as you keep trying. You will get there. I am still here for you lady. Pop in that Jillian's dvd and just work it out.

Deneen - Thank you for your words of encouragement and the email checking on me. Now come back to us and stay with us. You can do this too. I am going to have to get your phone number and start hounding you when you disappear.

Karen - Get your water in. It will really help, especially if your sodium is high. I know how bad the eating out is for me, but I just can't seem to say no. I am working on it thouhg. Keep on working out it and we will get out of that stupid 10 number that keeps messing with us.

Jessica - Good job on losing the holiday gain. Now you will get out of the 150's for sure. Great job on the bike workouts. My new workout dvds will be here in a week and I am excited about them. We got to get over this hump.

Jena - Have fun working out with your free trainer today. The desert sounds fun. Enjoy your awesome workouts this weekend. I am totally with you about the mental games that the scale plays with us. I have been trying to get out of the 180's and stay out since the end of November. I am my worst enemy when it comes to it. My new small goal is to be under 175 by the end of February. I think that is totally attainable. DO you want to set a small goal with me? I feel like we are kind of in the same boat with being stuck at this point. Are you up for it?

Anyone else that is stuck super close to a 10 mark, do you want to set a mini goal with me? We will have 5 weeks to get under the 10 mark and on the lower range of the next 10 mark. I am at 182.5 and I want to be 175 or lower by the end of February. If anyone would like to join in this goal, please let me know. We can all do this. It is a mental game that we keep playing with ourselves. Lets win the game and own the scale. Who is with me?

For anyone else that I missed, I am sorry. I hope you are all doing great. Keep up the good work and hang in there.

Okay I am slacking on the challenges. I have gotten my water in all week, but I have not done any situps. I have also not posted any positives so I am going to post a few.

I look in the mirror and I see how thin my face is. I used to have like 3 chins and now I have one and a very long thin neck and I love it. I also love that I have nice shoulders and they don't look like a football players anymore. lol I colored my hair this past week and I love being a red head. I feel really pretty as a red head. I like the way that my jeans hug my hips and I don't see much back fat anymore. I have some new lingire (spelling) and I feel SEXY in it. I still have problem areas like my stomach, but overall I feel great about my body. I think my legs are my favorite part of my body now. Oh and I tried on ball gowns last weekend and I felt amazing in them. I felt better in them now than I did almost 11 years ago for prom. There is a submarine ball April 16th and I am goinw to get a ball gown and have a princess night. I can't wait. Okay sorry if it sounds like I am tooting my own horn, but I do have positives to catch up on and I am very proud of how far I have come on this journey. I am going to continue on this journey and meet my goals. I will not give up on myself or any of you. So this weekend I would love to see some positive posts.

Okay enough of my rambling, but I did warn you that I would be back to my old self again today. Everyone keep up the great work and have a fantastic weekend.

One pound down this week. I have to say I am impatient...why can I easily gain 5 pounds in one week and yet when I am really focused, the weight loss is so slow?!?!?!

BOBBIE!!! YES!:bigsmile: Lets do it! It will not last long though cause I am realllllly close!! BUT as we know even if I hit 179..9999 tomorrow by wednesday I could be well back over the 180 mark! So 175 sounds like a great mini goal, that is well away from 180! I would like to hit it by Valentines Day(my 5 yr wedding anniversary) but we'll set it for 2-28-11 that is a little over 5 weeks so totally doable!

What I am doing to push out of this plateu:
1. Upping my intensity in work outs! This is a must. Even at 180 lbs I am not weak by any means and my body knows it! :grumble:
So even doing the elliptical everyday won't(and hasn't) worked. Why? Because I have been too comfortable barely sweating and just fooling myself into thinking that when it says I have burned 550 cals it probably is more like 300. So this week I have upped my intensity and have been pouring sweat by the end of my session. For the past few months I was starting at a resistance of 3 ending at 5 maybe a little 6, and was barely winded. So this week I have started at 4 quickly going into 5 and last night ended at 9! WHEW!! FELT GREAT!!
Also this week I have added in STEP UPS for 5 full minutes I have 2 step ups each are I believe 6 in high which one by itself is really not high enough so I put them together so 12 inch step which is pretty intense when your 4'10 right Jessica? :laugh: My hubby saw me doing it last night and asked isn't that a little high for you!? :laugh: "hey did you just call me short!" :indifferent:
I have also kept doing the 30 situps. well actually more than 30 I just do as many as I can in 5 mins.
My DH was telling me this morning how a jumprope can really kick your *kitten*! SOOOO I will be picking one up soon cause kicking our own *kitten* is our goal right? :bigsmile: AND IT IS SOOOOO Back 2 Basics! :drinker: :glasses:
Maybe we could give everyone here some time to get a jumprope and have it as a challenge exercise?? He said (btw my hubby is a really fit guy and spent years doing cardio and weight lifting to the point his body always looks fit even if he lays off the exercise) I as a wife sometimes don't like getting my fitness advice from him, its the witch in me:devil: , but I know he is right about the jumprope so I'll listen this time )
A jumprope uses just about every muscle and fully engages your core and is an awesome cardio workout. He said do 100 to start with doing 5; 20 rep sets. I am going to go see what Ross has today I have a few errends to do today all within 2 miles of my house so I am going to walk to them. Going to do the park/pit bull routine when DH gets home from his class before dark and then again in the morning. 170's I am coming after you this week with a vengence! :devil:
jena

Hello everyone! Hope you had a relaxing Saturday :flowerforyou:

I decided to sleep in today as a treat for the last few weeks of hecticness! It was well worth it

My roommate and I are both doing the Jillian Michaels DVD together so its been going great. We decided to take a break today, and went for a nice long walk instead, so it was a fun, gossipy, girly day for us.

So excited for everyone and their goals and mini-goals. Have a fantastic saturday evening....

rupi

Good morning everyone. I had a fantastic day yesterday. My schedule is changing this week. My hubby has night classes for the next few weeks. So now I will have to do my workouts at night and I am used to doing them in the morning. This week I plan on working out super hard. I am not happy about my gain from last week and I will work it off this week. I am planning on double workouts each day. Since I am working otu at home, this means I will be doing 2 workout videos each day. This is my personal workout challenge for the week. I want to do 2 dvds each day until weigh in on Friday. My new workout dvds should be here this week hopefully. Until then, I will be doing a Jillians workout and a Leslie Sansone walk at home. Looks like I am going to be working it out. I am also going to get all my water in, do my jumping jacks, and add the sit ups back into my routine. I am going to stay positive and work my butt off this week. I will be out of the 180's very soon. I can do this. 175 here I come. Oh and this week should be my turn for TOM, but I am not going to let it stop me. It should be here on Thursday.

I hope everyone has a great day. Good luck with the challenge. We can do this. I gained 3 pounds last week and I refuse to let it stop me. Let's all push ourselves to reach our goals. We are all here for support and motivation. Good luck team. Oh and 41.3 pounds lost in 3 weeks is amazing. Way to go team. Keep it up.

Tamara - Thanks for the chart and keeping up with everyone. I hope you feel better soon. Love ya!

ok sorry I did not get on here sooner but yesterday I left for work at 10:15am and did not wak bak in my door till 1am this morning. So jumping jacks huh? Well I hate it but I guess I will do it since no one can see me doing them. I am a ltlle discouraged it is only week 3 for me and already gained 2 lbs that I can't seem to drop. I work such crazy hours that not eating after at a certain point so I do eat dinner at 10pm because that is when I get the first chance. It was either that or go to bed again with 1000 cal left for the day oh yeah and starving. Also I am finding that I am either not eating enough which I totally thought that I was or not eating enough calorie dense food as Tamara would say. So if anyone has any advice or suggestions I would really appreciate it.

Bobbie- Glad your back and got ur fighting gloves on. I need you here not only for inspiration but as my friend to help me through this journey that will very soon get so hard I won't know what to do.

Tamara- I am still waiting to hear from the gym. I am hoping to get in there before weigh in but I am still doing my Leslie Sandsone walk away the pounds. Oh yeah I am so not loving you for the jumping jacks but I will use my anger about them to get me through them LOL

Marci- I hope your son feels better and I am sorry all your plans for yourself got wrecked. Keep up the good work.

kincar- I am sorry I don't know what your real name is. Your body is just throwing a fit cause it probably feels good where it is at so it does not wanna do anymore work. Keep up all the hard work and it will pay off in the end.

Everyone have a wonderful day and I will be back soon to check in.

Jena you are by far the best cyber cheerleader anyone could have! I think every forum on every internet site needs one of you!! :flowerforyou:

Jena you are by far the best cyber cheerleader anyone could have! I think every forum on every internet site needs one of you!! :flowerforyou:

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Karen I'm sorry that you're struggling but you can do this. Just look at the tickers of people who've lost a lot...it's such a great reminder of what hard work can do. Also, remember to take one day at a time. When I decided to quit smoking, instead of looking at the big picture (which can be so daunting) I'd just look at today. I'd tell myself that I was just not going to smoke today, that's it...and I would say that every day and before I knew it...tomorrow took care of itself. That was almost 7 years ago. Well now, we have this to tackle. And if we just tackle today, there's no need to worry about anything else....HANG IN THERE!!!


Marcie, yes I'm 48 and so I know how slow going it can be but you're right...I need to be patient. I FINALLY really hit the gym this morning. After all these weeks of this stupid cold, I am finally on the mend. It felt so good to be back. There is such great support here so I know I can't let anything get in my way.

Rupi you hang in there too!

Thanks for the motivation Tamara!