T.H.E. Team April 10-16 Week 10

Actually, I am here for party hour, which happens every day at 10:00 am and again at 9:00 pm. :drinker: :drinker: :drinker:

Nice start, CM! I like your bunny!

Li4g - have a safe trip!! Check in with us!!

Paryerfulmom - good luck on the marathon! You rock!

Tayner - welcome back!! good job on the 12 lbs!

Well everyone, tomorrow's our favorite day!!

adopt4 - SW 273/CW 247.3/loss 1 pound

Good Morning

SW/GW/CW 214/160/196 0 lbs lost for the week

I think I am stuck - Oh I am going to work harder this week on it - part of it is my sodium intake and my water. Going to switch up my exercising too. We will see. I would like to drop a pound this week as my birthday is a week from Sunday. Yesterday was a busy day - didnt get on here till late. Had to go out and help dad - got a little confused with his medicine. His blood pressure was way high. So went to help him sort his pills into pills planners for the week. You could tell he felt better after I done this. Then my son stop by and I spent some much needed time with him. Hadn't had a chance to talk for a while. Keep him and my daughter - in - law in your prayers. They want a baby so bad and so far no luck. They have to go to the doctor to have things done. Well they are there at the hospital this morning - hoping she is pregnant by the 22nd of April - 3 days after my 50th birthday.

adopt4 - congratulations on the pound that is great. I have a problem with sodium too Any suggestions?

Kristi - I am an order selector at an Autozone Distribution Center. I have been there going on 11 years with 10 years being nights. I walk all night filling orders for different stores.
By the way, I am here for party hour too, this girls really are great people. Enjoy the knowledge and help you all give out.

lulu - I get through the night pretty good with no problems. My sleeping on weekends really depends - I am single - kids grown out on their own. But usually no matter what I am awake by three in the morning. I can sleep in if I tried. I enjoy the 4 day work week greatly though.

cm - like the start to this weeks thread - I too like the bunny. Like the part about rebirth, too.

prayerful mom good luck on the marathon - that right there inspires me - maybe some day.

LI4G - hope you had a safe flight and I know you are checking in but you still will be missed.

Tayner - congratulations on the 12 pounds - KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK.

Well girls I will check in later getting my hair colored this morning - then do some spring cleaning.
you all have a good day. ttyl

Good Morning everyone! I am bummed.....here is is.....

adopt4 - SW 273/CW 247.3/loss 1 pound
indianagranny - SW/GW/CW 214/160/196 0 lbs lost for the week
Yari - SW: 192/MGW:173/CW:190= 1.5 LOST
Jamie - SW: 195/ GW: 155/ CW: 187.8 / 0lbs


:grumble: :ohwell:

Hey everyone! Sorry I haven't written much this week, but I've been sick with a wicked sinus infection and chest cold. Unfortunately, I haven't done much exercising, and haven't even weighed...I'll save that for next week when I'm feeling better!

Hope you're all well!

Greetings. My name is Eric and I am a complete newbie, but I really like the site and would love to get to know other folks on here and get new tips. I just started my diet two weeks ago and started logging here my progress a week ago. Any advice is welcome and I am happy to disclose any info. I am 6ft 3inches tall and started my diet at 260lbs. I am down to 252.5lbs in two weeks. I am exercising on a treadmill once a day for 30 minutes. I have eliminated all snacks and I have removed soda pop from my diet. I drink water in it's place. Any comments, suggestions or words of encouragement would be great.

Sincerely,
Eric Empson

Welcome, Eric! This is a good group of gals and guys... a little crazy at times, but supportive! We weigh in on Fridays. This site is great for giving you a place to push off a new lifestyle from, and I've learned a LOT from so many different people.

Peek-a-boo!!!!

Yep!! Its me!! Told ya I'd be checkin in!! Im currently on layover in Dallas. The flight here was alot of fun. Crammed in a window seat with about 10 american soldiers packed into the seats around me. Boy did I feel like the "odd man out" :laugh: But, they were cool... very friendly and OMG.. SO YOUNG!! I was just in awe of how OLD they made me feel. They were all heading to here to check in then on to Kuait. One guy was saying this would be his 3rd trip there. God, he didnt look old enough to be going this time!:laugh:

Anyway.. I been real good... I had a bagel w/ cream cheese for breakfast....then hit subway for lunch for a 6" veggie & chicken sub and some water. YEP!! Drinkin my water!!

Awww bummer, they just changed my gate from A29 to A13 so I best pack up all my crud and head down there. See ya in a bit! My plane boards at 1:35 so I still have about 45 minutes.

:drinker:

Somebody trap the bunny CM dropped off!!! I cannot have it delivering ANY candy to my house! What were you thinking lettin' that thing loose woman?!?! I am absolutely being reborn - what a nice reminder that Spring brings rebirth ~ thanks for starting us off this week CM!

Welcome Eric!

Tayner: Serious WAY TO GO! :drinker: :drinker: :drinker:

adopt4 - SW 273/CW 247.3/loss 1 pound
indianagranny - SW/GW/CW 214/160/196 0 lbs lost for the week
Yari - SW: 192/MGW:173/CW:190= 1.5 LOST
Jamie - SW: 195/ GW: 155/ CW: 187.8 / 0lbs
nitag - SW:220/GW 145/ CW 195 - = 1 lb lost
lulubar-SW205/GW145/CW190-1lb lost

So, that takes me to fifteen pounds gone gone gone. Yay! Happy Easter everyone!!

Peep show for you CM .....



HEY LI4G! Are you there yet? Are you there yet?

adopt4 - SW 273/CW 247.3/loss 1 pound
indianagranny - SW/GW/CW 214/160/196 0 lbs lost for the week
Yari - SW: 192/MGW:173/CW:190= 1.5 LOST
Jamie - SW: 195/ GW: 155/ CW: 187.8 / 0lbs
nitag - SW:220/GW 145/ CW 195 - = 1 lb lost
lulubar-SW205/GW145/CW190-1lb lost
beahurey-SW 208/GW 140/ CW202 - 5 lbs GAINED
healthymom - SW 208/GW 150/ CW 191 - 0 lbs
Eric - SW:260lbs./Goal???/ CW 252.5lbs = 8 lbs total lost
Kristi - SW: 461/GW: 195/CW: 445 = 5 lbs GAINED :sad: :sad: :sad: :sad:

Ok, I had this perfect post written up this morning and in the middle of that process, my internet went down! :grumble:

Luckily, I could see what was happening, so I quickly blocked the text and saved it to a word doc. So, here is my post from this morning that never got posted.

Ok, first things first. WELCOME Eric!! This is a great thread and will get a great deal of support and assistance here. I love these guys! They will always help and be there for you if you let them!

Now, its time to address what I have done wrong this past week, or since getting home from vacation.

First - all the snacky food from vaction wound up at my house since we took my cooler. So what did I do? I ate it. On vacation, with people around, I did a great job - very few sweets. I had one cookie one day and a bite of a cookie another day. No soda, almost no crackers or any of those kinds of chippy snacks. Since getting home with all that crap, I have eaten it all. For some reason, I can't bring myself to throw stuff out, so I must eat it. Need some help figuring that one out! So, lots of sugar and refined carbs - result - S L O W metabolism, very little exercise, feel like crap, increased aches and pains in joints.

Second - (oh yes, I am just getting started!) Routine all screwed up. I am staying up WAY too late, which is prime late eating snack time as you all know. And I have done late eating proud. Part of staying up way too late is getting up way too late. No time to exercise, no time to prepare food for the day. Result - eating fast food meals, increased stress - eating for comfort, gargle, rinse repeat. :grumble: In addition to eating and sleeping at wrong times in wrong amounts, I got home from the vacation and just plopped everything down in the kitchen. And then, spent several days dodging around it because I have been getting up too late, have been feeling like crap, yada, yada, yada.

Third - not reaching out for help. So, I've been in this funk, but not really sharing with anyone about it. I did finally let CM know (kind of, not really but I alluded to my funk in the most minimal and wimpy way.) I know this stuff. Its what I do ALL DAY EVERY DAY. (Sorry to shout, not at you, believe me.) Of course, that also plays into the relapse, because I feel like a failure, so, I turn to my source of comfort.........

Ok, thats the past. I didn't tell you all that to beat myself up. That's not what this is about. I do have enough sense to know that beating myself up does not make the problem any better. So, its a new day. Check out this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHWByjoQrR8
(Warning, if you are a Republican, it has highly Democratic content. :happy: ) After the election, Will.i.am wrote this song. It is kind of my theme song for my own personal battle/journey to emancipation. I love these words:

"I went to sleep last night, tired from the fight. I've been fighting for tomorrow all my life, yeah. I woke up this morning, feelin' brand new, cuz the dreams that I've been dreamin' have finally come true. Its a new day." and later "We gotta invest in that dream. It feels like we're swimmin' upstream, it feels like we're stuck in between a rock and a hard place. We've been through the heart ache, and lived through the darkest day. If you and I made it this far, then hey! We can make it all the way. They said no we can't and we said yes we can. Its you and me together! "

So, here is my new commitment, or rather, my re-commitment:
1. Measure and log everything I eat. Back to healthy foods.
2. Back on track with respect to water consumption - at least a gallon a day
3. Exercise - something (at least 20 minutes) 5 days a week.
4. Get the routine back! In bed by 11:30 - exercise, healthy meals made by me, not a fast food diva.
(NO offense to the diva,)
5. Carpe diem!!! Tired of sitting on the sidelines friends!

"Its been a long time waiting, waiting for this moment. Been a long time praying, praying for this moment. We hope for this moment, and now that we own it, For life I will hold it, and I aint gonna let it go." Will.i.am

AND, I am not moving my ticker. :noway:

Thanks CM for kicking me in the butt. Thanks to Jared (at work, you don't know him) for your support. Thanks to you all, even though I didn't do you the courtesy of coming to you for help, because you would have been there for me, and that means a lot. So, I am going to go now and exercise!!! Catch you all later!

Hey Folks,

So LI4G and myself are in Florida now. I'm so happy to have my wife back, it's amazing to find that after 5 weeks you realize how much you missed someone until you see them again.

What I can tell you all is that after being in somewhat sunny Florida is that I am going to go back to the gym on a regular basis!!! My friends took me to swim at the beach about a week ago and nearly killed myself trying to snorkel. (Would rather strap on a scuba tank TBH, maybe down in the keys) I can't believe how out of shape I am!!! I didn't even make it out to the reef from "Bath Tub Beach" before it felt like I was going to pass out.

So LI4G has my public permission to flog me in to submission to get me to the gym with her on a regular basis.

Oh yea, CM: I don't think we're moving here, so no moving train for joo!

Hey Lulu.. guess what?? I AM HERE!! That peep show..:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

Kristi- Good girl getting back on the wagon. Its not easy going on vacation and being out of the "norm". Im gonna have to really be careful myself this week. I think I'll be ok as long as I get my workouts in. All you can do is a big U-turn and get back on track, which it sounds like you are already doing....so YOU GO GIRL!!

Eric- yeah, Im not scary. My hubby is on our thread too (Morgolis). Im just one of those overly friendly, gotta know everything about everyone peeps. :laugh:

Got in around 5:30 last night. I drank so much water in Dallas I had to go go go when I got off the plane. Met up with hubby and our friends, got my bags, got our rental car and then we went for dinner. Ended up at The Cheesecake factory for dinner (UGH!!) and I ate WAYYYYYYYYYYY too much... but I had Herbed Salmon & Shrimp Scampi, so I guess I coulda done worst. Avoided the dessert menu like the plague because I was so full. The old me woulda gotten it to go, the new me decided I could do without it! :laugh:

This morning our hotel served free continental breakfast. Had (surprisingly NOT greasy) Sausage gravy (made by a VERY nice southern black woman..omg..yum!!) & buscuits, a banana, a hard boiled egg and some OJ. Grabbed a bagel and cream cheese for later to have as a snack. Noticed on the way down to breakfast that the hotel has a workout room with 3 whole machines in it. A treadmill, an elliptical and a bike. Its about 4 doors down from our room so that is a BIG plus. There is an LA Fitness here within about 4 miles, so Im planning on hitting that eventually just to check it out.

Not sure yet, what we are doing, but Im gonna go get on that elliptical and burn some calories, maybe do some wogging on the treadmill since I have my wogging music loaded on the MP3 player.

I'll check back in later tonight. We have a kitchen in our room too, so that at least will make it a bit easier. Gonna go hit the grocery store for HEALTHY snacks and stuff.

Take care everyone!

okay, so im here... i didn't weigh in yesterday because ... well, too much fiber can make a girl... well, constipated

anyway, I weighed in this morning... down 3.2 pounds.... so, I have been at this for exactly 4 weeks today, down a total of 15 pounds!

The best part is that although the exercise kicks my butt I feel better afterwards, and I have not been hungry all the time... or ever for that matter!

I love this site, love the people, and love losing weight

Dana