RED TEAM WEEK 5

I'm at 180, where I was when I started this team. And, as I explained in the week 4 thread, I'm quite pleased with that after 2 not so great weeks and fracturing a few ribs during my kid-saving, rib-breaking adventure on Thursday. Soooo now the fun begins.

Week 1: 180
Week 2: 179ish
Week 3: 181
Week 4: no weigh-in thank goodness
Week 5: 180

I'm jealous that you are taking summer classes Mack (and anyone else, I can't remember). I LIVE for school and I am SO bored. I have been previewing my abstract algebra book trying to learn some of that ahead of time. But it's just not the same as school. Yep, I'm one of those freaks who loves school and homework and such. Good thing I'm going to be a teacher! haha. :happy: 85 days until fall classes start for me....

Hey everyone....

As of this morning I'm at 242. Lucky me found 3 of the 11lbs I've lost so far.

It's okay........it's a new week and I've done really well today and plan to workout later this evening!!


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I have not had time to go by the gym. I really want to buy a scale for home so I do not have to trek across town to weigh myself. I can't wait to get under 350 so I can weigh anywhere but until then I have to go the gym to weigh. I also can't wait for school to be over. I finish giving exams this Thursday then 2 work days Fri and Mon and I am finally done then I just have my classes to contend with.

Week 1: 273
Week 2: 268
Week 3: 263
Week 4: no weigh
Week 5: 256

Hurley I'm sorry you didn't make the team. And I'm sorry to hear that you are struggling. But I am glad that you are very motivated and still looking up. :flowerforyou: You can do this!

(By the way, PS I love you, is an amazing movie. I used to hate movies like that, but they are growing on me and this one was really good)



Wow. It's almost 8am here on the East coast. I've been up since 4:30am... time flies. I went for a walk early this morning (really slow because my ribs are killing me!) but I needed to get out and do something. It hurt a lot because just breathing hurts, let alone moving, but I really just needed to get out.


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Ok well Don't say anything about the movie, I haven't seen it yet!
And yes, I plan on seeing it! It is in my netflix list!!
Well...MORE rain coming today/tomorrow....

I was up at 5 am this morning and went on a 45-min. walk. Luckily now because the weather changed I don't babysit (I've already done the caregiver thing this morning) so maybe I can take a cat nap..:bigsmile:

ok, well, a real nap. When I'm asleep, I'm out cold! lol. so technically it wouldn't be a cat nap...

Hope you ladies are doing well today!!

P.S. (this has nothing to do with P.S. I love you, lol)--- I don't know how many of y'all like pineapple....but today I had a cinnamon graham cracker broken into small pieces with pineapple (make sure to include the juice) on top and it was sooooooooooo good!

Laura, that's great!

I used to be addicted to my scale and weigh myself everyday, but I've been forcing myself to only weigh-in once a week (twice if I am going absolutely insane).

Today I walked for a long time, but again, it had to be super slow because of my ribs. Oh well. I'm having a rough day and have some personal issues I need to work out. Before it was making me really anxious and I wanted to eat an insane amount of food. But I didn't... mostly. I stopped myself before I went nuts. But now even though I'm hungry I don't feel like eating lunch. I just don't. But then I'm going to go nuts during dinner and eat 138940184 times more than I should. ugh. :ohwell:

I hope you all have a great rest of the day!

Hope everyone is having a wonderful week so far! :flowerforyou:

I hope everyone is doing well.

Yesterday I ate too much. I need to conquer this emotional eating problem. I tried binging on carrots and celery, but it just did not work. :ohwell: :sad: And then this morning, I just could not go for a walk. My ribs were killing me and it was gross and raining and miserable outside. I'm leaving in a bit to volunteer until noon, then I drive 90 minutes to all of my doctors and meet with them for who knows how long, then drive back. And by then, I'll be so tired I'm not sure I'll get any exercise in today.

But Friday I'm definitely getting up early and walking!! No doubt about it.

Happy Thursday Everyone!!
Wow, this week is just flying by. Sorry I have been MIA the past few days, I am just trying to get adjusted to my new schedule. But it seems like we had a pretty good weigh-in for the week...CONGRATS are in order to all :flowerforyou:

I am super pumped, I am starting the ChaLean Extreme workout either tonight or tomorrow. Hopefully, it works for me! Also, I have to share a fabulous recipe with you gals.

Diet BBQ Chicken

Things You'll Need:
2-3 chicken breasts
1 cup ketchup
12 oz. diet coke

Instruction
1) Cut chicken to desired size. I like to make mine like chicken strips. You can leave as whole breasts and even use for a sandwhich. Place in a nice sized skillet.

2) Mix 1 cup ketchup with 12 ounces of diet coke. Mix well.

3) Pour mixture over your chicken and heat to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer covered about 45 minutes.

4) For the last 10 minutes or so, remove the lid and thicken the sauce. Tastes like an amazing barbecue sauce, but without the calories.

My husband and I tried this the other day and it tased just like BBQ sauce. It was awesome. I do not have the calorie counts, but I am sure it would be easy to figure out!

Oh and:
Laura- Congrats on your weightloss....I know it wasn't easy, but you did it!

Hurley- I am sorry to hear about the softball team. It is nice to hear that you are going to work extra hard at school. It is a great feeling when you are finished.

Mel- Girl, good thing you are going to be a teacher. It is hard to find people that school. I know that I don't! Keep up the hard work with the bum ribs, your a trooper!!

Well, hopefully I will be around more! Have a fab day everyone!!

thanks for the recipe Mack, I'll try it out this weekend!

That looks like an awesome recipe Mack! I am going to try it out tonight! Lets see if I can pull it off with my non "dieting" husband. :bigsmile: He is so darn picky.....

Jess, I hope you successfully stayed away from that freezer! I'm sure you did!

I hope everyone is having a great Friday.

This morning I decided to go to the gym (yes, I did actually go sign up... back to whenever I posted that). I realized that for some bizarre reason, the elliptical (at a low level) is easier on my ribs than walking... hmm... interesting. So I did that for 50 minutes and burned a mess of calories. Yipee! And then I ate well for breakfast and lunch and only strayed once this afternoon when I ate half of a cookie that was staring me in the face. But it was small. And I stopped halfway through and threw the other half out. But tonight I'm going out to eat and I have not come close to mastering eating healthy when I go out, so I know it's going to be a disaster. :sad: I really didn't want to eat all of my exercise calories from this morning, but it's probably going to happen. But I shouldn't go over!

I hopped on the scale this morning and the numbers haven't budged... which is better than going up. haha. We'll see come Monday.

Hi everyone,
Just thought I would check-in before I start doing my homework. Yesterday I had a good run, I wish everyday was that easy! I am going to take a day off from working out today to finish up the last of my homework for the week. Tomorrow will be day 1 of ChaLean Exteme, wish me luck!! I hope everyone has a good weekend and makes good food decisions!! :happy:

-Mack