T.H.E. (Trying Hard Everyday) TEAM - Week 28

I am still up 3 pounds from where I should be - TOM arrives this week again so water weight - too much sodium but I am working on it.

Thanks Healthymom for starting the thread

healthymom - sw208 gw250 cw172 no change
Buttonnose -SW 200 CW 192.4 GW 140 - lost 4 lbs
indiana - still up 3 pounds from where I should be
Crazybee -sw 273.3 gw 175 cw 252 l lost 1.5lbs
Lorann - SW 285 / GW 145 / CW 238.5 = lost 3.5 lbs

Woohooo I'm into the 230's ... never thought I would see those numbers!!! It's been a weird week for me... I didn't log anything all week and the only exercise I did was a couple days at the beach, yet I actually lost 3.5 lbs. But I did watch the eating and drank my water ... maybe in a couple more months I won't have to log anything at all This next week I will get back to logging everthing and making sure I do my walking and hopefully if this weather clears up I can spend some more time at the beach.

Did my measurements yesterday and so far here are the results
May 6/09 August 13/09
Waist 53" 44" - 9"
Bust 54.5" 47" - 7.5
Hips 56.5" 50" - 6.5"
For a total of 23 inches lost in just over 3 months!! I am just sooo amazed!! (that's not including the few inches I've lost on the legs and arms)

My fitness activity I would like is to play baseball next summer and be able to run the bases without huffing and puffing, also I want to swim at the pool and not feel so self conscious. That is what I am working towards!!

Have a wonderful weekend!!

healthymom - sw208 gw250 cw172 no change
Buttonnose -SW 200 CW 192.4 GW 140 - lost 4 lbs
indiana - still up 3 pounds from where I should be
Crazybee -sw 273.3 gw 175 cw 252 l lost 1.5lbs
Lorann - SW 285 / GW 145 / CW 238.5 = lost 3.5 lbs
adopt4 - sw 273/gw 165/cw 230.5 - down 2 pounds from last week but still up 2 from last month
Losingit4good- SW 252/ GW 175/ CW 212.8 = lost 1.5lbs

Pretty happy! I remembered it was weigh in day when I woke up this morning and was pretty happy to see that the scale had dropped.

As for future goals? Definitely to run a race with my daughter. She has ran Portland to Coast for the last 3 years and will be doing it again at the end of the month. In the past she has gone with another team, but this year as captain of her cross country team she made her own P2C team and got all her teammates to join her! Im volunteering to help for a day..hand out water.. direct traffic and Im super excited that I get to participate on some level even tho Im not running! P2C is for high school students, otherwise Id tell her to give me a few small legs in it.. The one for adults is Hood 2 Coast and I sure as heck aint ready to run 3 legs at 17 miles each! :laugh:

Also.. just for fun... I want to go up to Mount St Helens and so some more hiking with my camera in tow to some of the harder to reach places. Some of the things Ive seen...I want my own pictures of.

healthymom - sw208 gw250 cw172 no change
Buttonnose -SW 200 CW 192.4 GW 140 - lost 4 lbs
indiana - still up 3 pounds from where I should be
Crazybee -sw 273.3 gw 175 cw 252 l lost 1.5lbs
Lorann - SW 285 / GW 145 / CW 238.5 = lost 3.5 lbs
adopt4 - sw 273/gw 165/cw 230.5 - down 2 pounds from last week but still up 2 from last month
Losingit4good- SW 252/ GW 175/ CW 212.8 = lost 1.5lbs
stillkristi - SW 480 / GW 195 / No change.

my active goal is to bike the white rim trail in Canyonlands National Park. Its a three day bike trip. Hope to do it next year some time. How is everyone? As I mentioned yesterday, no change for me. Today is the same - no change. Kind of a bummer, but I am feeling good and people are still commenting that I am looking better all the time, so I will just keep refining what I am doing and try to stay focused. Its a day by day process I guess. Good job Lorann!!!!!!!!! ANd all you other losers. Catch you later.

healthymom - sw208 gw250 cw172 no change
Buttonnose -SW 200 CW 192.4 GW 140 - lost 4 lbs
indiana - still up 3 pounds from where I should be
Crazybee -sw 273.3 gw 175 cw 252 l lost 1.5lbs
Lorann - SW 285 / GW 145 / CW 238.5 = lost 3.5 lbs
adopt4 - sw 273/gw 165/cw 230.5 - down 2 pounds from last week but still up 2 from last month
Losingit4good- SW 252/ GW 175/ CW 212.8 = lost 1.5lbs
stillkristi - SW 480 / GW 195 / No change.
cyndeebee - SW 136 GW 115 CW 123.5 1/2 pound lost

Yes, button...Take lots of pictures. How will you find out, for sure, whether the rock is the burial place for our ancestors? Wow...I lived in Chapleau, quite a few years back. Never knew there was so much family history tied up in the place.

I just dropped my daughter off, for the weekend, with her brother and sister. So I'm free! Can do what I want, eat when I want, sleep when I want, redecorate if I want...
It's almost overwhelming...you know?

Adopt - I'm 5'6" ... you?

5'7 or 5'6 depending on who's doing the measuring... your goal weight is 25 pounds less than mine, how did you come to that number? I thought 165 was pretty good but it may be too high... have to see when i get there.

I'm not locked into that goal weight ... but according to my BMI I should be between 120 and 148 .... I don't think I will want to be at 120 but if I get close to the 148 I will be happy ... also when I met my hubby I was around 160 and there was a lot of excess fat on me ... that's why I was going for around 145

Well good Afternoon Team.....

Yes its me the long lost Sheila!!!! I have been doing pretty well although i havent been posting I have been eating good lots of fruits and veggies :-) I spent 100.00 two weeks ago on fruits and veggies and another 60.00 this week!!! love my fresh fruit and veggies... I have been riding my bike in the mornings with my cousin still doing my 5 or 8 miles depends on the kids!!! but this past week i was having a flare up with my fibromyalgia and my ellbows were killing me i could barely use my arms so i didnt ride the bike this week at all... I went to the dr and got my shot on thurs and started feeling much better last night they are still a bit tender.. the dr said i am still retaining water and i should start taking my water pill again so lots of potty breaks today!!! *sigh*

I have really missed april since she has been gone and she was strugling so bad once she left... and i just wished she was closer so that i could help her... she has been my bff since 7th grade even though we lost contact for a while she has always been in my heart and my kids's heart... now she just needs not to stay gone so long... We all love and miss you since you have gone home... XOOXOXOX

I must say i have missed my MFP team... You all are in my heart and thoughts all the time... I have grown closer to a few of you over the past months on FB... I have really liked chating and hanging out on the internet with you...

LuLu - I have missed you since i have been away and ty for what you said about me a couple of weeks ago!!! I try my hardest to make everyone happy... and I love to help people as much as i can...

Kristi - I have missed you as well but havent really chated to much on FB hope all is well I see you have set you a new goal... good luck and stay focused and you will do great...

anyway... I will be popping in and out... I have been doing good on my eatting!!! so thats a good thing!!! well will post more later... have a great weekend and remember I am lurking in the distance... you can always catch me on FB...

HUGS

Sheila

I added you Lisa. Hope things go better for you.

It wa nice to meet you yesterday Adopt. Your kids are beautiful! Wish we had had more time together.

Cyndeebee I hope you did something for you and not just clean this weekend.

What an exhausting day today was!

Spent time chewing *kitten* at the gym again, this time threatening to sue the bejeezus out of them if they dont resolve the billing issues with my membership. Im about to cancel them and go to 24hr fitness since I get an employee discount there and its just as far away.

On a sad note, and also the reason I am totally exhausted....Morgolis found out that a good friend of his is dying of cancer. Its her 2nd round of it and her husband says she has maybe a week left. They live in Texas and have a rental home here that they evicted the renters from on the 1st of August. Anyway...they asked us to go check it out and make a list of repairs that needs to get done so they can sell the home. We couldnt say no.. its the only way we feel like we can help them right now. Needless to say.. it doesnt look like the people who lived there knew what a broom, mop or vaccum was much less soap or water. The place is absolutely disgusting! holes in the walls, broken doors and broken windows...toys, games and crap everywhere! Theres even a dismantled swingset shoved into the crawlspace under the house.. I spent from 3:00- 7:00 over there just scrubbing the kitchen after unhooking the fridge, dishwasher and stove and when I left, I knew Id have to do it probably 10 more times before it even remotely becomes sanitary..:sick: HOW people can live in that kind of environment is SOOO wrong! The house is only about 7 years old and would be a VERY nice place if it had been taken care of. We will have to replace carpets and repaint the whole inside, replace bathroom fixtures, the dishwasher and have the lot relandscaped. Also, For someone who owned 2 lawnmowers, a rototiller and all this cute garden stuff (all of which they left behind)..it looks like they never touched that yard with it and its not a big lot.....ROFL!

Anyway..thats been my day...tomorrow I am off from work and plan to relax! Im getting a pedicure and a hair cut for a change! :bigsmile:

ok all, whew, what a weekend! went to seattle (3 hours away, plus the potty breaks for mommy) for the adoption kids weekend, the boys saw the man in charge from Ethiopia (who really cares for these kids), we asked him to tell their mother they are doing well and are happy (they are). also saw almost all the people in my travel group from last year, i had the only older kids, all the rest were babies - now toddlers running around all full of spice and vinegar! it was awesome! today we were supposed to go to a picnic too for that but the boys are either coming down with something or are just stressed, and we decided to stay home.

did ok with my eating when I wasn't home in the sense that i was limited in what I could eat, but I didn't eat the ice cream or that stuff, just the main meal. on the other hand, i haven't been so successful while being at home. well the ice cream is gone and no more of that, apparently it's become a temptation for me (never used to be).

went to bed at 7 pm last night, woke up for an hour or so, then back to bed and slept in until 9. had the weirdest dreams - btw losingit last night i dreamed our families bought a house together and it needed a LOT of work - today i find out that was your day today... funny... my brain did a big dump in my dreams, had the weirdest dreams, but i haven't slept well for a few days so it all came out in one night. also dreamed hubby dated dr phil's wife before marrying me... yeah i know she's like 20 yrs older, but still, what a strange, odd dream!! dont' know what that was about... but i woke up laughing at the idea.

have to go back and log my food for the past two days...

Well, Im up...have brain cloud still! Drinking my coffee and trying to get that cleared up!

I am off from work todayand was looking forward to a day to do nothing but self preservation stuff and then i remembered that im supposed to make a huge cake for my grandma's 101st birthday party tomorrow. :sad: :sad: Decided that i am NOT going to make it, but instead am going to hit Costco and buy a big sheet cake from there. I just dont feel like cleaning up the mess from making it myself. I am exhausted. After 6 hours of doing dishes at work on Saturday (of which I cut or burned my fingers about 4 times doing), then cleaning at that house yesterday... my hands and feet hurt like mad.. so no cake decorating for me! Im just gonna be making phone calls to see how many people are coming to her little shindig.

Anyway... Im off to shower, then to the chiropractor for a popping and to get a haircut and pedicure. My feet need some TLC today... Have to go grocery shopping and restock my naked fridge with healthy stuff so morgolis stops buying his lunch.. LOL

have a good day everyone!

Took Z to his speech therapy today (I hate his therapist, I think she's an idiot, but we had to get it in over the summer and she was the only one available). She says stuff like, when he can't pronounce a word right, tell him the right way and have him repeat it. I'm like, lady, I"ve been coming here for six years, do you think I'm a total idiot? Just cuz he's a drug baby doesn't mean I'm a doped up druggie. Doesn't she remember the part in the paperwork about where he was adopted??? Grrrr...

On the other hand, hubby and I have decided to adopt a little girl, ages 0-6. Can be the same age as our boys or younger or in between, social worker says any of that will be fine for our boys. Even another drug baby or a special needs baby, he said the boys would be fine even if the baby requires a lot of time, which is nice to know they are doing that well after a year. We're going to start out trying from the state (again) and save up our money and if the state doesn't happen by the time we have enough money to go international, we'll go international. ALthough he said if we ask for a drug effected child, we'll get one. (Then how come we hadn't for the past 4 years we'd tried??) But we are in a different state this time so hopefully.... it will happen. I would really like to try again with a drug baby, even as difficult as Z was, because he's done so well and what we learned with him we can use again. We have it narrowed down between 2 agencies, the same 2 agencies we had it narrowed down for Ethiopia (including the one we used) so we'll see. Don't have the finances for the homestudy at the moment, but we're going to start putting stuff away as best we can. We'd get it all back on our taxes next year if the adoption is final this year, plus the state gives back up to $1500 too. So eventually it would cost us nothing for the actual adoption.

I'm getting a girl! I can't wait!! Realistically a year from now I might have a daughter!! whoo-hoo!

I did get hubby to agree to ALSO adopt a teenage girl after the boys are grown and gone... that's where my heart is but it's not safe or a good idea with the kids we have now and their current needs and their potential special needs in the future, and the special needs a teenage girl would require coming from state care. I ALSO got him to agree if we don't do state (if nothing pans out) and we do Ethiopia again, we'll take 2 kids if there happens to be siblings. Whoo-hoo! Bring 'em on!! (losingit will laugh at that as she's seen me tearing my hair out with my current kids... and then I say, more???)

Hey guys, I thought that I would stop by and say hi. I haven't really been posting much lately. I got a lot of stuff going on right now with my boyfriend and it's been very stressful.... I'm trying to work through some things and I haven't been very talkative lately. I'm mostly staying on track. But that's about it.

Prayerful~ Dang woman - you ROCK! Or should I say, you ROLL!!! Congratulations ~ and do I understand correctly that you are closing a decade with this triumph? If so, when is the birthday?? I a very glad you are feeling better this week:flowerforyou:

LI4G - Busy woman you are, girl. Good for you for ordering the cake and taking care of yourself today!

Adopt4 - or are we gonna have to change that to Adopt5 or 6 or 7??? What beautiful aspirations - I stand in loving admiration and joyful wonder at your (soon to be) growing family! Congratulations on your plans!

Pawprint ~ Be good to yourself, hope everything is okay. Thinking of you.

Cyndeebee - Glad you went to the doc. Hope you feel lots lots better really soon:flowerforyou:

Everyone else ~ Crazybee, Indiana (or is that you that changed?), Manda, Healthymom, Kristi, Chanty and the rest a ya's, hope you are doing well!

Eat right everyone! Drink your water, move your bums!
lulu