THE ELIMINATORS 2011

Okay, I apparently haven't been serious enough about this weight loss. I'm so glad I found this site and you ladies. You are all an inspiration and I just need to get real about the work that needs to be done. My parents have a treadmill in their basement collecting dust. I know I'm allowed to walk so I just gotta do it. I can do this, I just need to remember its all worth the sacrifices we're giving up.

I"m very interesting in all these Wii games I see people using. I have the fitness coach and loved it. I guess I should break it out. However, I"m thinking the dance ones are something the kids and I could do together. I know there is a walking one too.


Crazy - You are just rocking it. I love your idea of having a goodie bag to choose from. I had goals written down but I think your way makes it a little more fun.

Jessa - I think I actually played a horde toon on that server for a bit. I don't remember the last time I raided. I just don't have time for it anymore. I can't seem to stay awake past 10pm even on the weekends. I'm also trying to get my house, finances, and health back in order so I've got other things taking up my free time.

Off on a weekend trip. Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend. Thank you for the accountability that you give me.

Jana

SW: 288
CW: 265
GW: 260 - 10% weight loss at a time

Well I didn't lose anything, but I didn't gain either. However, I am wearing a size smaller today. Woohoo!! I've got a positive outlook and am motivated to do things right today. Hope everyone has a great day!!

Okay....so I went on vacation and gained back everything I lost. I knew I would, so I guess it's okay. I have been eating out and junk food since last Wednesday. I feel like crap.....not from the weight gain but simply from the bad, really bad food! I can't weight to get started again and to eat much better food! We were at the beach so I tried to keep moving and playing with my kids! We had a great time but now it's time to get things done!!! Back to reality!

Hello everyone, I am doing great so far. I weighed in at 293 this morning.I am so happy to be under 300 lbs.

First week of the challenge and I didn't even make an effort. I am up 3 pounds to 275. I'm going in the wrong direction! I'm really frustrated with myself. At one point my weight loss ticker said 37 pounds lost, now it only says 17 pounds lost. I've gained 20 pounds back. I've gotta do something about this!!!!

Good morning ladies, I want to appologize for being MIA all weekend. I struggle alot with depression and this weekend was a bad one. Had a fight with the 10 year old (what else is new) that turned into a screaming match with the husband. Lots of yelling, lots of tears, and lots of why am I doing any of this.

crazynay96 - fabulous rewards system. What a way to keep yourself on track. Haven't really started a rewards system, deffintly something to put some thought into though.

janaj88 - I get really upset and go looking for food too. Despite the terrible Friday hoping you at least had a few moments of pool-side relaxation over the weekend. Tottaly feel you on the husband calling with the oh just throw the kids in the car and come down. I'm forever getting the "oh we're having a command pot luck can you whip something up and bring the kids down?" Did I mention this last pot luck was bacon themed?

acmcoc - I'm sorry the scale isn't moving. I would say step one is making sure you don't have a big fat chocolate cake in the house. Chocolate cake is sometimes totally necessary believe me I get that. Would one of those individual slices they sell at the grocery store fill that I need cake spot inside without the accompaning guilt of I ate the whole cake? My I'm upset food is potatoe chips and I can't eat just a few so can't have them in the house ever at all not even snack sized bags.

ch112803 - Good for you, claim that treadmill and don't let yourself turn it into a coat rack. Pretty sure you can get most of the work out video games through a game fly subscription. Just sign yourself up for a month or two, try out a bunch of different ones then go buy whichever one you like best. lol that's too funny of all the servers out there, I'm on alliance though. Raiding is one of the most difficult times to not snack. I could drink a few sodas and if there were chips, crackers, or M&Ms in front of me the whole package would be gone before I realized it. Trying to keep bottles of water filled in the fridge and no snacks anywhere near my desk. Sad as it sounds our raid schedule is forcing me to menu plan some. Since we're 6 hours behind server time I have to have dinner either in the crockpot or completely prep'd in advance so I can cook quickly and plate everything up in between 25 and 10 man. Used to do alot of pizza and fast food on raid nights but that 1 costs a ton of money that we don't have these days and 2 since husband makes dinner Mondays and Friday's while I'm at zumba and his idea of a balanced dinner is grilled cheese and apple slices I have to make sure there are veggies and good stuff the rest of the week. Smaller size is great keep at it.

brandymk - enjoy your vacation and great job on the sandwich is better than a couple of cookies!

msstillion79 - ranting is good, better than eating the frustration. Nothing wrong with baked potatoes and corn on the cob, its the butter/sour cream/butter/bacon/butter/cheese/did I mention I like butter on mine? that will do you in. What did you end up making for dessert? Not sure I exactly understand what you mean by points. Like if I drink my water that earns me 1 point, doing exercise would earn me 1 point and lady with the most points at the end of the week wins?

Congratulations to everyone who lost lbs or a size! Everyone else keep going! Don't let a bump in the road become a roadblock.

Jana, have you read any of Dave Barry's books to debt free living? Haven't done them myself but know tons of people who rave about him.

To make your diary visable go to settings up at the very top of the page, then click Diary Settings, then at the bottom change the Diary Share setting to public if you want the whole world to be able to see it, or friends only for well just friends only. Not sure of any sane person that would lock it with a key cause yeah its hell when I have to change my own passwords never mind remembering someone else's. LoL

Jana, don't be so hard on yourself! I went over my calories all last week and gained a pound. I refuse to do the surgury also! I will be the biggest teacher around also. But I know I am changing the whole way I live my life. I have to return to work in a week.....not sure how I'm going to avoid all those good foods during inservices but I know I WILL limit myself.

Jana, did you find any pants? I despise shopping, have to do most of it by catologe and right now despising Roman's with every fiber of my being. Not only are the models sooo totally not plus sized so you have no idea what the clothes actually look like but it took 4 months to get a t-shirt shipped and they charged me 3 times. Grrr read the other day that in the modeling world a size 8 is considered plus sized. An 8!!! okay rant over. I don't want to do the surgery either, I know ladies who have had it lost a bunch and within 2 years gained it all back and then some. I don't want to be unable to ever go to really great resturant and have a 4 course dinner because you can only eat a few bites. Not to mention it pretty much takes bread out of your life and this Italian soul would pretty much wither and die without bread, pasta, pizza, and pastry. Not all the time, but once in a blue moon you need it. I'm often the biggest person in a place too. Dave Ramsey that's it, think Dave Barry might be a comic, I swear the kids suck the brain cells right out of my head. Once upon a time I was a highly inteligent contributing member of society. Really.

Brandy, Alton Brown did a whole thing about why animal crackers are crackers and not cookies. Something about how the dough is folded and rolled. Is it masocistic to watch food network all the time while dieting?

Dinner tonight, not so much neither overly tasty nor in keeping with my goal of keeping dinner to under 500 calories. Rachel Ray you have failed me. Although the macaroni's I threw together because I knew the younger ones were never going to eat it and didn't particularly want to hear the oldest sniveling that he didn't get enough to eat at dinner did not help matters in the calorie department. Open house tomorow, oh joy! I will never know why they hold it at 1:30 in the afternoon. Right smack in the middle of baby's nap time. Must determine a make ahead dinner so we don't eat fast food. We really need to do some recipie swapping. Going to go surpress the need to snack with needlework.

I like the new exercise schedule. I think it will work good. I have been getting some off of other groups but since we are going to have them I won't have to do that anymore. I was wonder too...where did all the people go? I'm not a hard core posted but I do like to check in occasially. I had my grandson this past weekend and lost and 2 lbs. Big difference if caring for a 3 month old infant when your in your 20's than when you are 50. lol. Wore me out. I like our group. I'm ready to carry on this journey with everyone here that is participating.

I like the schedule but I don't know what all those exercises are!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And, I have to add!!! Argh...I'm sooooo not good with numbers!!! But, I will try!!!! msstillion, thanks for planning this for us. I don't get here everyday to post but I'm behind us all the way!!

Jana, have you ordered online with Woman Within. It's like a sister to Roamans.....but the prices aren't as high and the clothes are more...well.....not as fancy.....more practical, maybe. I usually order from Woman Within and not Roamans. They have some of the same identical items but Romans is more expensive. I hate having to order online but that is all I've been able to do for several years. I'm soo looking forward to being able to go into Walmart or Sears and buy something that fits!!!

I'm a school teacher too and have one more week off. I started this during the summer so am a little anxious about how I'm going to transition into work. I will have to plan lunches more and take to work but being around food and people more might be a challenge...and, then again, it might now. We shall see......

Good luck to everyone and hope you all have a great Thursday!!

I am in. I will need to look up the exercises. Do I need to PM my totals everyday? Not a problem now, but when school starts I will not be on as much. Thank you for organizing this. I appreciate you.....and everyone else that is making themselves better.

See you tomorrow.

Jana

I'm in! Not fond of points but that's okay, I'll give it a try!! Thanks for organizing this!