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Not necessarily Mexican, but salsa works well ;-)

Honestly, they're what we consider antojitos (craving food), like tacos and burritos...Fast food, so to speak. At home, we usually just eat them just with salsa or cover them with shredded lettuce and sour cream WITH SALSA! Did you get the salsa??? LOL...the hotter the better!

Laneybird - good luck at hitting your 50lb mark tomorrow - I have a good feeling about this! Sending you and early "WOOT WOOT"

Thanks, you're so sweet! Wish I had that good feeling too lol. We shall see... if not, then next week without a doubt!

Hello skinny chicks and a rooster.....it is finals week again so I am not able to be on here much yet, but hopefully starting next week I will be back in the forums/links daily like I used to be.

I have the eating back under control, but have yet to get my exercise mojo back. I just do not have the energy nor the desire to do anything more than I have too....and I dread cold weather coming. Guess I should get back into the gym so the weather won't be a factor :grumble:

I am trying to catch up on posts as I can....but a question....is there an October challenge and if so what is it? I need to get back into challenges and force myself to get back where I was before the separation and emotional roller coaster happened.

Cynthia - thanks for the song! I love Olivia Newton John. Have you ever watched Glee? There is a really funny scene on that show where they dance to this song. It's the only 5 minutes of Glee that I have watched but our girls were hooked on the show last Spring. I like the exercise ball workout idea. Gotta get me one of those. Maybe by shoulder wouldn't bother me as much if I wasn't perched on the edge of this office chair 9 hours a day? I'll bet your sore body feels good. I can barely walk this morning from my Biggest Loser workout yesterday. I guess switching things up is a good idea.

Tami - good luck on those finals. God I don't miss college.

Becky - I'll be anxious to hear what your official loss is this week. So happy for you.

JJ - we're all waiting for you to unveil the October Challenge so we can psyche ourselves up!

Thanks everyone for the empanada tips. I picked up the wonton wrappers yesterday. Small little buggers. What happens if you bake them instead of fry them? mush? I'll get my deep fryer out Satuday night. Now of course that means homemade fries for the kiddos. I'll toss a few sweet potatoes in also --mmmmmm.

Ok, ok, ok!

I dropped my friends off at the airport this morning and I am back to concentrating on this! I am really proud that I was able to maintain during their visit here while still having a great time and not feeling like I was missing anything. Now I have just over a week to lose a little more before I go see my sweetie and knock his socks off.


******************OCTOBER CHALLENGE**********************************

THE SEVEN SUMMITS

In mountain climbing there is a small group of people that have summited the highest mountain on each continent. This is a huge challenge, usually requiring a few years, a lot of training and buckets of money. The group that has accomplished this incredible feat and lived to tell about it numbers less than 300 and only 34 of them are women. You can read more about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Summits

The mountains are:

Mt. Kosciuszko (7,310 ft) in Australia (or there is another option in Carstensz Pyramid (16,024 ft) which is the tallest mountain in Oceania/Australasia).

Vinson Massif (16,050) in Antarctica.

Mt. Elbus (18,510 ft) in Europe.

Kilimanjaro (19,340 ft) in Africa.

Denali (you can call it Mt. McKinley if you want, but I am from Alaska and we call it Denali, The Great One) (20,320) in North America.

Aconcagua (22,841 ft) in South America.

Everest (29,035 ft) in Asia.

My idea for the challenge is this. We will have seven different activities. Each activity will contribute to our climbing a particular mountain. By the end of the month we will have hopefully climbed all seven summits together!

My hope is that this will help us all to continue with some of the great habits we have picked up the past couple of months with our challenges, such as running, biking and swimming (thanks Becky and Sara!), but we will also be adding in some new activities to help us to expand our options and workouts. These activities will not all be exercise based and belonging to a gym will not be required to accomplish them.

I would like this to be a group challenge, so that we are all working as one group, just to change it up from this month (although I will really miss the trash talk fun!). I also would like this month to be unlimited. If you want to set yourself a personal goal, then go ahead, but one thing I have noticed the past couple of months is that many of us have set a personal goal and then ended up going way past it (sometimes even doubling it). So how about if we don't limit ourselves this month, but just see how much we can do! I love when we all work together to get to the goal and my hope would be that we would all try to contribute to each of the mountains, injury and physical limitations would impede this some, but hopefully most of us will be able to try everything at least once.

I will share more details about the activities in a little bit, but since people have started to ask, I thought I would share the general concept now. I will also post some more details about each of the mountains we will be climbing this week, so you can get to know them.

I am really excited about this challenge and hope you are too! I have always been intrigued with the idea of The Seven Summits so its fun to think I will be able to say I did it too...with my friends!

So are YOU in?

PS I am not a spreadsheet kinda gal. Anyone willing to volunteer to help out with creating a spreadsheet? :bigsmile:

JJ- I am so in for this challenge. I don't even care what the activities are. It just sounds cool.

Well, we are heading out to our cabin in a couple hours so I have to go get packed and what not. have a super great weekend and I'll be logging by phone so unless there has been an upgrade where I can get to the message boards I will be gone til sunday. have a great one all and think skinny since you're thinking anyway.

I am up for the October challenge!! sounds great to me. Waiting to hear what the 7 activities will be!

I'm up for the challenge!

JJ- I am in for the challenge!!!

Hey everyone,
I was doing really good this week with TOM here but then yesterday happened. Way to embarrassed to say what happened but glad today is a new day. And a couple of NSV happened. Had to get my ring re-sized again. Can't believe its down to a 7.25, when I started this journey it was a 9. But when me and hubby got married it was an 8. So very happy about that. And I ordered knee high wide calf boots and OMG they fit!!! I have wanted a pair for so long and to finally fit into a pair. Super happy :happy: Excited about my weekend. Going to repaint my kitchen. Now its a light blue, but will be painting it a light beige and a dark red.

Tami~ happy to have you back. Good luck with your finals!!
Staci~Awesome job on the race. And you look amazing in your current pic. What a difference between the two. Good job!!
Cynthia~ happy to hear you have a new workout routine but sorry to hear about your stiffness this morning. Hope the boot works!

Well hope everyone else is having a great friday and check back in later.
Julie