Sixers Love Yourself Challenge

Good day ladies!!

SBB1, that's a pain about the neighbours. Having bad neighbours is such a draining thing. We've been through that and are currently dealing too. Congrats

Cathy, YAY for son and his job!

Robin, good on you for the nagging. Women in particular are trained by this society that to compliment another woman they must put themselves down somehow. It's a dreadful habit and once you're aware you see it ALL the time! Instead of "you're so great at putting together presentations!" we tend to say things like "I'm SO disorganized.. I could NEVER put together a presentation like that!". We all need to stop it and just honour ourselves AND celebrate each other!!! :bigsmile:

Amy, heya! How long have you been doing weight-watchers? What do you like about it? Have a fun visit with your friends!

Kristin, I'm glad that you're feeling positive. That's ALWAYS a good thing

Ava had her first cleaning at the dentist today! She did really well. And Leith wanted to go next :happy: He has to go to the paediatric dentist in a couple of weeks. It's a consult but they need to do some work. I took Leith in the other day because I've been concerned about his teeth (we had to use a cloth to brush them when he was smaller because the attachment from his lip to gums was low and bled if we used a brush). My old dentist said no problem and suggested the cloth in the first place. But I've never been able to really get his teeth CLEAN and I've been worried that there is some decay going on. So I found a great new dentist and I was right. I'm really nervous at the thought of any sedation but he needs healthy teeth!! He's really cool with the process though so I'm hoping they can just do the laughing gas and not put him right under.

My meals for the day:

1. pumpkin apple oatmeal
2. gala apple & some dark chocolate covered pretzels (YUM!)
3: sodium-free Ezekiel toast w/ hummus & alfalfa sprouts
4. scrambled egg whites w/ salsa & mixed veggies
5. stuffed chicken breast left-overs
6. sweet & sour bison meatballs w/ rice & broccoli
7. blueberry vanilla power smoothie (plain ff yogurt, skim milk, vanilla ice cream protein powder, acidophilus, flax meal, blueberries & banana. It's a 300 cal before-bed snack that is WELL worth the calories!!)

Today is a rest day but I'm back to the grind with bosu tomorrow! May or may not check in later but I'll be lurking anyway :glasses:
Oh right, something I love about myself... I love who I am as a mother. I know that my children are getting a great foundation of love, emotional health, safety and routine and seeing the amazing little people they are affirms that I'm doing right by them! :bigsmile:

Hey everyone!:flowerforyou:

I had a wonderful day today, nothing to complain about, yet. Give me time, I'm sure I'll come up with something. JK!:laugh: Nothing to report today, just been doing my thing.

Love myself: I love that I am so universal at work. It helps keep my busy on slow days and lets me know every aspect of our office.

Food:
B- 2 packets of Maple and Brown sugar oatmeal
S- Popcorn
L- Rice and some broccoli
S- 100 cal cookies
D- Don't know yet. Youngest one wants Chick Fil A

Well, gotta go before hubby kills the little one.:laugh: Talk to ya'll's later.

By the way how did you come up with the name SIXERS.

Like Lauryn said, it's the six week challenges we do! A couple of us met in the summer during a 13 week challenge and since we wanted to keep posting together in challenges Kristin realized that it was 6 weeks between the end of the 13 week challenge and the start of American thanksgiving, then another 6 weeks between that and the new year!

Glad you're finding motivation here There is definitely a lot to be found and the great thing is that we all take turns :bigsmile:

Just made about a bzillion bison meatballs and they're now bathing in sweet & sour sauce in the crock pot and I'm off the the kiddos to walk our pooch!

Cathy - WAHOO! Glad you got some good news your posts always crack me up! Inflict pain that is good!

Amy - I love that poem... have for a long time.. you made me cry ... a good cry tho!

Tamm - So glad you decided on the job! SOOO Excited for you!

Strawberry - not everyone can be an animal lover like us! Cathy gave you some GREAT advice.. just be patient with him.. he/she's just a baby. What breed is ur dog? Certain dogs have what is called detachment disorder - I have a sheltie and she has it... does some crazy stuff when I am away....A friend of mine leaves a radio on when she is away it tends to sooth her dog - you could try that.

Pedal - I am coming to live with you so that you can feed me! Always sounds so good...

Okay why did you have to throw down the challenge of trying a new exercise.. yeah I wanna start going to the Gym in the AM instead of my basement to work out - do a class that will challenge me.. but it is soooo cold that early in the am! = )

Today I love that the stress didn't get to me! I am winning the battle!

Not lookin forward to weighing tomorrow! Good luck everyone!

Oh yeah - I am running a Biggest loser Challenge at work 12weeks. How fun right? Well any ideas you ladies have please send them my way.
Becky

Oh yeah - I am running a Biggest loser Challenge at work 12weeks. How fun right? Well any ideas you ladies have please send them my way.
Becky

Hey Becky, we had a Biggest Loser at work twice. The first one the winner won a WII Fit package and runner up won a $200 gift card to JC Penney's. It had lasted 12 weeks and was before Christmas. They did wonderful. Then the second one they did ended the week before Christmas and was like 7 weeks or so. That one they had everyone put in $10 to join and gave so much of that money to the winner and runner up. I didn't do either because I had done one weight thing there before that and nobody was motivated to do anything. Half of us weighed more at the end than at the beginning.
Good luck with it though. A good advice that we did was we met once a week for lunch and had a meeting persay about how our week went and any ideas. For that lunch we would make low fat, low cal dishes to bring in and try and the recipes. It was some good food!!!! I hope this was enough. I'm sorry I'm very talkative tonight, ready for bed.


Everyone else, hope ya'll have a good evening. And I'm glad Momma you can inflict pain on my little brother.:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

Good night.:yawn:

Hey! Where is everyone?! This is our check-in! Well, I'll get it rolling then :happy:
I don't think we're updating the list on Fridays, right? So I'm not copying it here. But I'm down.... wait for it... 2.8 lbs since Tuesday :bigsmile: :drinker: :bigsmile: :drinker: :bigsmile: And my word, I've earned every bit of it. Of course, that is because I've had 5lbs of holiday weight to shed but as new weight does, it came off quickly with the right work. I'm now weighing in at 169.8 lbs and I will NOT be visiting those 170's again this time. So I'm back to what I was the day before I got my horrid flu last month and everything spiraled into a pit of less than ideal choices. WOOHOO!!! I'm very happy about this :bigsmile:

My meals for today are:

1. pumpkin apple oatmeal
2. ezekiel toast w/ hummus & alfalfa sprouts
3. ezekiel toast w/ almond butter & banana
4. scrambled egg whites w/ skim milk cheese, veggies & salsa
5. chocolate protein shake
6. we're ordering from that amazing local organic pizza place (where they brush the crust with honey and sprinkle on poppy seeds and use all seasonal local ingredients, goat cheese... oh my lordy it's SO good!) I'm having 3 slices.
7. chocolate protein shake

work out is bosu / cardio kickboxing class tonight.

Breakfast time!! TTYL!

Good morning Sixers. I am the same this morning. No change. That is good and bad. Down would have been lovely. Oh well. I am off to the gym right now after this posting.

Food is not planned.

I will be back later to read everyones posts and post my food choices.


Amy:flowerforyou:

PS- What I love about myself today.....I am making it to the gym!

I am down 0.2 lbs. haha!!! but I'll take it!! :laugh:

Today I love that I got to sleep in!!!

Needing to do a little research for work today before I speak with my adviser on Monday so hopefully will get that done!!

Check back soon!

O.k. Since I am new to this group I now know what Sixers stand for and when the challenge is over and to post something that I love about myself every day, but now I am still trying to figure out all the rules. You know like when you all weigh in, when are we supposed to copy that chart with everyone's name on it and change our stats, and maybe anything else I may need to know.

Everyone sounds so great in this group and I hope that I can get to know you all better. I have struggled with my weight ever since my first baby. I hope to keep steady on here and gain some confidence. I want to be at my goal weight by the time my anniversary this year and before my SKINNY big sister has her baby. This is my chance to catch up you know!

Today I love that I have planned all my meals and snacks and am following the plan so far!

chipper15173 THANKS SO MUCH!!! Since I am new I feel a little out of the loop, but I hope that I can read enough and check in enough that I will get to know all of you better.