Topic: Topic: T.H.E. (Trying Hard Everyday) TEAM - Week 30

Lorann-SW 285 / GW 145 / CW 235 = a loss of 1lb
Prayerfulmom-no change
crazybee w 273.3 gw 175 cw 248.3=lo 1 lb

I made my 25lb goal. I've lost 25lbs before Vegas and I go to Vegas in 20 days!!! Gonna be late for work though. Good luck all!

Hey,
I was so focused on work this morning that I forgot to weight in.

SW198, GW 135, CW 174 = no change

But that's better than gaining

Lorann-SW 285 / GW 145 / CW 235 = a loss of 1lb
Prayerfulmom-no change
crazybee w 273.3 gw 175 cw 248.3=lo 1 lb
Manda1111-SW198, GW 135, CW 174 = no change
Pawprint061-SW-168 / GW-140 / CW-158.9 1 pound loss

One more pound to go to hit the 10 pound mark... I'm almost there.... I'm doing ok with counting calories and logging. I am not logging every day like I use to but I'm still watching... my stomach is getting fuller quicker on less food... I'm struggling to meet my calorie count for the most part.... I'm still under most days but I don't want to eat because I'm not hungry lol.

Lorann-SW 285 / GW 145 / CW 235 = a loss of 1lb
Prayerfulmom-no change
crazybee w 273.3 gw 175 cw 248.3=lo 1 lb
Manda1111-SW198, GW 135, CW 174 = no change
Pawprint061-SW-168 / GW-140 / CW-158.9 1 pound loss
lulubar - SW205/ GW145/ CW189 = 5lb gain
healthymom - maintaining at 171. only 21 lbs to go!

I decided to coast this week - watch what I eat and exercise when I can. Busy interviewing new families for my daycare and cant get out to exercise. anyway, feels good to not count/log for a while. Next week I will be ready to go at it again. I don't have far to go but it may be the hardest challenge yet!

I was talking online to Lisa last night and told her that I was happy about dropping 2 pants sizes and she said I needed to post my success so here I am. When I first started this everyone was talking about losing clothes size and how happy they were when they went shopping and could get a smaller size pant. So I got in my closet and got out a pair of my favorite jeans that were 2 sizes smaller than I have been wearing and hung them on the closet door knob to remind me of my goal. Well 2 weekends ago I was cleaning my room and walked by the jeans and wondered how close I was to getting into them so I stopped and tried them on and was sooo suprised to find they actually fit!! I was doing a happy dance all over the house. My son thought I was nuts. This week I dug out 3 different pants that were the 2 sizes smaller and wore them to work. I decided that 1 pair of "big" pants I've been wearing has to be retired because they are too big. so big I could fit a child down the front of them with me LOL. Anyway I am excited and now more excited to see the next 25 lbs come off.


I'm praying for all of you with health issues and hoping you are all feeling better soon.

Good going for all of you who are losing and maintaining. It's just as important to maintain as it is to lose. If you don't learn how to maintain you will start to gain back what you have lost. So maintaining is really important.

just stoping in I wanted to share a few before and now pic of me and some of deb cuz she dont know how to get the pic on here!!! so i will show you her first...




this is crazybee in March



this is crazybee now



this was me Easter of 2008



This is me as of May 2009

Lorann-SW 285 / GW 145 / CW 235 = a loss of 1lb
Prayerfulmom-no change
crazybee w 273.3 gw 175 cw 248.3=lo 1 lb
Manda1111-SW198, GW 135, CW 174 = no change
Pawprint061-SW-168 / GW-140 / CW-158.9 1 pound loss
lulubar - SW205/ GW145/ CW189 = 5lb gain
losingweight4me- sw216.2/gw150/cw183.8 -4.8 pound loss
cyndeebee - SW 136 GW 115 CW 124.5 gain 1.5

(What can I say? I've been slacking...)

Love the pictures, Sheila and Debbie. Can you ever see a difference! Be proud.

I love having my daughter home, but I'm looking forward to school starting, just so I can get back into my groove...

And also, like I told Debbie, I'm modifying my goal. I'll stick at 120. I'll put a picture up, in my photos, and you'll see that I'm starting to look kind of skinny in the face...
120 is a comfortable weight for me...

Yeah I've been MIA since being sick. Started feeling myself again late last night but couldn't get to sleep from sleeping all day, so then i only got a few hours nap this morning and my schedule's all messed up. But I've been reading, just not posting, the past few days. Back on track now. School starts for 1 of my guys on Wed. Whoo-hoo! The following two the day after labor day. So then I can really get focused again.

Had roast beef with potatoes, gravy and corn for dinner. I feel like I haven't eaten in months, I just scarfed it down and ate too fast, now I"m overfull. Guess my stomach shrunk over those few days. But at least I'm drinking my water!

Went to the grocery store, didn't go for the previous two weeks except for milk, so we were getting pretty low on food! So stocked up again, I get nervous when we're out of stuff even if we have other stuff to eat. So got myself a bunch of salads again and some WW meals so I can keep on track at lunchtime. Since some days I won't have any kids home at lunch time, that will be nice.

Can't believe it's Sun, lost quite a few days this week just sleeping.

Hello to all...congrats to all you losers!

Shiela- the pic is awesome! You look like a different person!

Bee- Congrats on the first 25lbs! You too are lookin good, girl!

Adopt4- I miss ya! Sorry you have been sick! Glad the tummy is feeling better.

No Change for me this week. Steadily maintaining at 212 so Im happy with that.

Oh the drama at my house this weekend! Ive had 3 days off in a row and feel like i need another 3 days just to recover from my 3 days off!

Friday night hubby and I volunteered for my daughters Portland to coast running team. Shes been planning this for months and got her whole cross country team to join her in it this year. Hubby and I were each assigned a 4 hour shift at an exchange point for the relay. It was alot of fun! We basically stood in a big field in the middle of nowhereville and directed team vans for parking. The different teams decorate thier vehicles and really get into it. Some of them were pretty hilarious! Anyway.. we had a good time, got home about 1:30 in the morning from that..... then the drama started...

My daughter showed up yesterday about noon. She was about in tears because thier team was disqualified. To make a long story short...her dad and his girlfriend volunteered to help as long as they could drive for the team. The team is made up of 12 girls, so 2 drivers are needed to drive 6. Once they start... they drive them down the course and stop at various exchanges so the next person to run gets a timer and keeps going. Hence... why its called the Portland to Coast Relay.

Well, first off he got them there late. They were supposed to be there by 6:00 and they all met up to eat at 4:30 then were going to leave from there. He decided while they were eating that he was leaving to go take a shower and didnt get back to pick them up until 5:30. That put them at check-in at 6:30. Well....if being late wasnt bad enough.. he decided not to follow the rules. He skipped stopping at the exchanges (because he wanted to stay with his girlfriend) and lost 3 of the runners on the running team. When the girls riding with him decided they had had enough of his crap...one of them called her Mom who was waiting at the coast for them. (this is a 127 mile run!) Shes explaining to her mom on the phone whats going on and he decided to tell her to "stop being an f***** drama queen". after that... he decided he was done volunteering and that he was taking the whole crew to the coast to meet their parents so he could go home. So... they were disqualified because he wouldnt let them finish. Nice huh? All that hard work putting her team together and getting things organized... flushed down the drain because he's too arrogant and selfish to see past himself.

Anyway... onto other things. Today was cleaning day at another friends house. She has 7 kids and her hubby is deployed to iraq. Her oldest son goes to basic tomorrow. She suffers from horrible migraines and her house is totally run by these kids who do absolutely nothing to help her out. Boy did THEY get a wakeup call today! I spent 7 hours over there cracking the whip. By the time I left I had made a few enemies! :bigsmile: :bigsmile: but her house is much cleaner than it was! Completely organized and cleaned her kitchen, mopped the floors and did some laundry. Needless to say... I got my exercise today!! LOL I am pooped!

Wow LosingIt...that is a sad story about what your Ex did to your daughter and friends. Some men just don't get it. My ex has never been good to his daughters. He goes around and tells people he doesn't have children and then they will meet someone and they will ask if they are related to him and my daughters will say I am his daughter and they say to my daughters he told us he didn't have children. Heartwrenching for them at times...but they are both full grown now and just try to move on as that is all they can do. But when they were younger was really tough for them to deal with. My heart goes out to your daughter and all the hard work she did, she should be proud of herself for trying to do the right thing. Hugs to her!!!

Anyways group, still plugging along here. Like I said not really staying on track much right now...but going to try this week more. Went for a walk with a friend yesterday which was good as I was becoming depressed and needed to get some exercise. Felt better after that. Thinking after work today might go out myself.

Will try and pick up the water again today too. I don't want to regain what I have lost so if I can maintain it till I get back on track completely then that is what I will try and do.

Go to the doctor's again on Thursday to follow up on some of my test (blood work and Xrays) and then I have my abdominal and pelvic ultrasound booked for the 18th of this month which means I will have to go again to see him for the results of that. But thinking on Thursday going to push for him to send me to specialist for my female problems...as I really think he is off track on his testing. Was reading some information on the net about cyst on the ovaries and the symptoms they listed are exactly what is going on with me...even the vomiting. But hey I could be wrong too right....I mean I have been known to be wrong - not often - lol - but occassionally.

That's it for me....will keep you posted as I find out more and more results from the tests.

Take care all and hugs,

Button

Hey gang! Whassup?

Swignol and Crazybee - Wow on the photos. You gals look great! What a difference. I love the "then and now" pics - sooooo motivating! Thanks for sharing girls!

Lorann ~ have fun with the gym trial! Work it, work iiiiiiiittttt.:bigsmile:

Cindeebee ~ yep, I'd say just maintenance is a good goal for you. What a great job you've done - now, just focus on being healthy overall and continuing to treat yourself well!:flowerforyou:

LW4M - thanks, I did have a great weekend! Girl, you did some serious walking this weekend!!! Holy moly! You must be taking lessons from Prayerfulmom:laugh: I hope you had a good weekend too - and that things in your life are becoming less stressful

Adopt4 ~ What?? I can't believe it - you have three little boys... and they are fighting and arguing?!?!? That's just crazy talk woman! Not sweet, precious little boys!!:bigsmile: I am so glad you are feeling better!! Yayy to wellness:drinker: And yayy to back-to-school!

Pawprint - You work and walk, you play and walk - How great that exercise in so incorporated into your life - keep it up!

LI4G - You are a seriously busy woman! Do you ever stop??? And by the way, your ex is a flippin' jerk and can I just say, I really, REALLY don't like him. What a selfish, horrible way to wound his own daughter! I am TICKED and don't even have a stake in this, so I can only imagine how you feel - not to mention your daughter AND her friends! Whew, sorry. That just riled me up! Hugs to you - and your girl, who certainly deserved better.

Button - I don't like your ex either. I have no tolerance for people who don't do right by their kids. It makes me crazy! Hope your doc appts go well, keep us posted.

Prayerful - Where are you? I hope you are taking care and feeling less tired. Don't stay away too long.

Healthymom, Manda, Anita, Kristi and the resta yous, poke your head in and say hi, we miss ya.

I had such a fun weekend, got to hang out with my kids and hubby and we just generally enjoyed each other and did a lot of laughing! It was too much fun. Tonight hubby went walking with me and has promised that he will go with me every night this week:happy: Yayyyy. Got my water in today and ate really well - 20 under on cals before exercise - so I had a little dessert, mmmmmmm gooooood.:bigsmile:

I am on facebook so if you wanna friend me, send me a message and I'll give you my full name, or if you are friends with Kristi, you can find me in her friends (first name Lauri).

Eat less, move more
later gaters