Thanks for the congrat Jane. Sad to see we have lost two of our members, I wish them well. New goal for 2017! My nephew is getting married. Back in 2012 my brother got married, and looking back over the pictures (4 brothers and 4 sisters), I looked like a water buffalo. Next year I plan to be the beauty queen of the group ( I really mean it!!). I couldn't even dance through a whole song. Hope everyone is doing ok mid-week. Yes Jane, I feel that I am eating healthier. I just need to continue that from now on to finally reach my goal and to maintain afterwards.

Good morning my team mates. Hope you're having a good start. I keep forgetting to check in on the end of the week boxes. I have just been reading Weeks 3-6 entries. I was surprised to see I have won some challenges. No wonder everyone was congratulating me. Silly me! Talk to you later.

Good afternoon both - humpday indeed. All going well here although I'm also struggling a little bit in some ways. But on the plus side, we were near enough joint winners for last week and again Gloria blazed a trail with individual points - so well done team . Here's to a good second half of the week to us all.

I've moved to weighing myself once a week Gloria or I get a bit too obsessed by the daily changes.

Good morning ladies. It worked! I lost 2 lbs. Yahoo. Hopefully I'll be in new numbers next Monday. Everyone keep up the good work. Catch up with you later.

Morning ladies! team score for last week - 191. Individual winner - Gloria with 213 - brilliant work And great work on the 2lb loss Gloria.

Well, I've had the breakfast of champions today - a croissant, a twix and a cup of tea at my desk at work . Or perhaps more accurately, the breakfast of someone who's been up most of the night with a tearful, unwell baby - it's going to be a long day!

But on a more positive note, week 7 ladies and we are doing well. Let's give it a go for the bonus points for exercise this week and see what we can do. My work are offering free lifestyle and health checks so I've signed up for one on March 30th - will be interesting to get a wider picture of my health than simply calories and numbers on a scale. May be enlightening!

Good afternoon everyone. I managed to get a 47 min walk in during lunch so 14 points. Yesterday I only managed 2 15 min walks with the dog but every little bit counts. Can't believe we are in week 7. Fingers crossed for a successful week for all of us.

Well I see we came in 2nd again. Better luck this week.

Morning all! Soooo tired - having spent the last 4 nights looking after a combination of a vomiting child and a coughing husband, they both sleep through fine last night. Me? Lying wide awake till 1.30, fell asleep, woke again about 3.30, listened to the birds wake up for an hour or so then work again at 6am by my little boy who had decided it was time to get up! On the plus side, I've got my 30 minute walk in for the day and I have a jug of water on my desk. Will see how I'm feeling this evening - will try and get a workout in to push me over the 45 minute barrier. And it might help me sleep!

Hope the week is treating you well? At least it's Friday - any nice plans for the weekend? We are going family visiting tomorrow - it's amazing how much more you see of family once you have a little one!

Hello everyone. Sorry to hear how sick your family is Jane. Hope they get better soon and that you can get some rest. Gloria you seem to be just buzzing along - I'm glad you found another challenge to keep you going. I need to take a 15 min. walk tonight to get my 45 min. of exercise for today.

Morning all - week 8, where did that go?? Doing ok at this end - son is now healthy so just need to sort the husband out!!! One small step and all that! Brisk 30 minute walk already achieved this morning and a jug of water and the days fruit on the desk in front of me.

Gloria: tried to find that challenge but couldn't, will search again today as I could do with something to keep going with. Hope Monday is good to you both - I'll sort our scores out when I get home tonight.

Well done Gloria - you are continuing to show us the way with this challenge! I'm clearly doing something wrong with the group search - can't find your challenge group anywhere, can you put a link to it in here?

And while we are at it, thank you to you both as well - we are a good little team

Jane here is the site, I'm no wiz at the computer game hope this works:
http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10353079/welcome-to-challenge-23-please-read#latest

Good morning Team.

Congrats on the 3 lb loss Gloria. You're doing great.

Jane, I get the cookie dilemma -- I do well when treats are out of sight but have a hard time when they are right under my nose. Sometimes I can resist and other times I give in. But when I do give in I acknowledge that I'm choosing to eat that treat, eat it, and then move on. Sometimes having an internal conversation (e.g. how badly do you really want that treat????) helps me to choose not to eat it -- sometimes I take the treat and wrap it up to eat later and then never get around to eating it -- fulfills the psychological need to "treat" myself without actually eating calories. Sounds crazy but sometimes these psychological games I play with myself help me to do the right thing (I do the same thing with exercise -- I say I'm only going to do 10 min or just walk around the block and then once I'm doing it i think I may as well go the full 30 min or go the extra mile since I'm already doing it)

way to go yellow team - group winner and individual winner again with Gloria - you are rocking this challenge. Let's go for a strong final week!