Day 1 of 5 under calorie goal. Today and tomorrow mandatory overtime at work, not much time for snacking which is good. It gets dark so early now, probably won't get my hike in until later this week or weekend. First 2 Muve videos danced to twice.

hi guys , how are you all
we are in the 4th place , but we still have time to advance more , so what suggestions you suggest , i'm sure we can do better , yesterday i was tiered so i didn't go to the gym, instead of that i walk and that is countable as minutes of exercising , it's an example to exchange hard exercises with easier exercises

if any of you can provide us of exercises that we can do it while we are setting , or laying on back , or doing house work , etc

we shall motivate each other more , this is the an important factor in team work

good luck for all of you

Kim - that's awesome using exercise to help you feel better....wish I would always have that kind of motivation. It was rough in the morning and still tense but he did end up calling not too long after I got to work and apologized so I apologized for my part.

Jenilla - I totally wish you could do some hiking for us. Lol. Of course I would not have volunteered to do some jump rope for you because I hated that too! Lol. One of these days, maybe there will be a challenge right up my alley to where I can express the same sentiments!!

Tameika - Amazing job finding a solution to start working on the hike challenge. Just please be super careful getting back into this. It is definitely not worth hurting yourself over. You need to make sure stay healthy, especially for the sake of your little one. One suggestion on the food, try to think of some higher calorie healthy foods that you might be able to add to salads or some other foods. Adding fruits to oatmeal, or black beans, nuts, and avocados to a salad. If I think of other things I'll post them too, but that is still one thing I struggle with is making healthier food choices. Baby steps!! Lol

Jen - awesome job getting the 4 miles in and not cursing under your breath the whole time. I'm pretty sure it would have been the straw that broke the camels back for me instead of seeing it as an opportunity!! Amazing job having that super attitude and using it to your advantage!!

Sabreen - great job getting in 3 of the 4 miles and thank you for the pep talk. I have been struggling lately with being so busy and stressed. I will probably have to skip the gym today again too and know I will be super busy tonight and tomorrow night but hopefully I can make it up later.

Anna - all I can say is YIKES!! Lol. Definitely sorry you are dealing with that. Good job getting back on track though!!

Joanna - I'm so sorry to hear about your dog. That is such a terrible thing to go through, especially when you know something is wrong but don't know exactly what. I hope the treatments she's getting do help. With our basset, he had gotten bad over a year ago and we thought it would have been the end but we were able to get him on several medicines and a shot every two weeks and got to have him around for another year relatively healthy. Will be thinking about you.

Hey teammates! Just started a ‘Keep Myself Accountable For My First Half’ Instagram page. I’m probably going to need a lot of encouragement. Haha! If anybody wants to join my little journey…. veronica_is_running

Can't believe 3 days under calories done. I have done a mile of walking outside but the weather hasn't been cooperative. Will most likely need to do a hike this weekend

Well, I was planning on doing the last set of videos tomorrow but I am seriously thinking I need to skip my workout and go into work early tomorrow. That makes me so sad. I'm pretty sure I'll have a big fat 0 for tomorrow, then the bulk of the day Friday and Saturday will be spent in a car. As for the calories challenge...I have been stressing eating like you would not believe. Right now I would have to do good the rest of the week...which is pretty unlikely. I feel I am being a pretty bad leader this week. Hopefully I can make some of the time up once we get to Florida. Kinda scary that they are already saying no replacements this week, so let's stay 20 strong. We still have some empty spots, so please fill in the spreadsheet as soon as you can and remember to put 0s where applicable. Thanks guys!!!

4 out of 4 days under calories. Today was close though ... I ended up with only 20 calories to spare!!

How do you all deal with stress and anxiety...I am failing this weeks food challenge as well because adulting is hard and food is comfort (horrible I know)

Home today with a sick son, had a fight with the bf that lasted the whole night, and morning. I dealt with it by eating chocolate chip cookies for lunch. Now my youngest 6 is throwing a temper tantrum outside my bedroom window because she has to wash off the marker she used to write on her door. This is the 3rd or 4th time she has done this in the last 3 weeks. Maybe this time she will learn. Going to go heat up leftovers for dinner, and do a bunch of pacing in the living room. If that doesn't help with the stress I will go walk in the snow.