T.H.E. Team (Trying Hard Everyday) Week 39 ~ Newbies Welcome

I would like to join the team, for sure.

I'll try to do some catchup work!

My name is Ali and I'm originally from Ohio, but in school in Chicago, and maybe going to Detroit next.

I am currently around 235, and have lost around 65 pounds since highschool.

I'm hoping to open myself to understanding why food has been such an issue in my life. Looking forward to trying hard every day.

Thank you Lulu for starting the new thread... I was starting to get worried major...

My check in for the week was...
SW 168, GW 130, CW 150 = Loss of one pound

Welcome new members.

I hope everyone else comes back around....

Sorry I forgot to include everyone's check in when I posted...

Lulubar: SW 205/ GW145/ CW 185 = +2lbs
AlmostHot:SW 226/ GW 143/CW 222 = -4
Pawprint:SW 168, GW 130, CW 150 = Loss of one pound


We usually copy the list and add on to it so everyone can see...

Welcome newbies! I'm Julie & I've been with THE team since September. These wonderful ladies have helped me lose almost 25 pounds in under 2 months!

I had posted my weigh in on the old thread:
Lulubar: SW 205/ GW145/ CW 185 = +2lbs
AlmostHot:SW 226/ GW 143/CW 222 = -4
Pawprint:SW 168, GW 130, CW 150 = Loss of one pound
Crazybee sw273;gw 175 cw 239.1=loss of 2 lbs
jlb123 sw 270 gw 150 cw 246.6 = -1.2lbs

I'm getting a couple servings of fruit in right now. I have fallen in LOVE with post-workout smoothies. This one is .5c nonfat plain yogurt, .5 cup frozen pineapple .5 cup frozen berries (raspberries, blueberries, and blackberries), 60 grams of banana, .5tbs half&half, and a little water. I added 1/2 pack of splenda with fiber, too because my pineapples are a little tart. YUM! Tastes like ice cream and contains about 200 nutrition-packed calories. And it really peps me back up which is good since I'm planning on 30 day shredding and biking later today.

I just got back from a 40 minute walk with my dog Mo. We probably walked about 2.5 miles. I have never worn my HRM walking before and I just take what MFP says I burned walking 3.5mph and go with that. But I wore my HRM today. I walked along the canal which has some mild hills but overall is pretty flat. I threw in a few minutes of jogging 30 seconds at a time (I want to start couch25k in January). I didn't even tire myself out, I turned around because Mo was dragging & it's a little warm outside so I didn't want him to get overheated (greyhounds are extra sensitive to temperature because they hardly have any body fat). I got back to the car and looked at my HRM and my mouth dropped open. It says I burned 624 calories! It almost always agrees with MFP so I don't get it... but I'll take it! :laugh:

Lulubar: SW 205/ GW145/ CW 185 = +2lbs
AlmostHot:SW 226/ GW 143/CW 222 = -4
Pawprint:SW 168, GW 130, CW 150 = Loss of one pound
Crazybee sw273;gw 175 cw 239.1=loss of 2 lbs
jlb123 sw 270 gw 150 cw 246.6 = -1.2lbs

Even though I have checked in I thought I had better tell you all a little about my self.

I am a mother of 2 swimming boys 12, 10 and a bossy little girl 3 (she is not to bossy but trying to be). I am really proud of them, they are all great kids. I live in Australia so usually I am sleeping when you are all talking. I go to bed with noone online and get up to heaps of forum news to read. I started in june and lost about 20pounds and then put it all back on again. I am here to lose it and keep it off. I dont use the diary on this site becuse there are not much australian products on the site, so have to enter heaps of new food, but found an australian site to do it. But I LOVE the people on this forum so I spend my time here. I would really like to get to know all of you, and would really appreciate your support as I have to do everything on my own usually. Anyway thanks for having me and I look forward to getting to know all of you.

Hello everyone.

I hope you are still looking for more new members. My name is Victoria, I'm 41 and have been married for 18 years. We have no children but 5 spunky cats. I've been using MFP for 6 weeks now and enjoying it. I live in the middle of nowhere (northern Michigan) - I get excited when we make the hour drive to a city that has Walmart :blushing: The closest mall is 2 1/2 hours away :grumble: Needless to say, we have no gym close by so all of my workouts are from home. I have a very supportive family. My husband isn't using MFP but is eating better and exercising with me and has lost 10 lbs. My mother lives close by and she has lost 5 pounds exercising with me. I am looking forward to being a member of THE team.

Lulubar: SW 205/ GW145/ CW 185 = +2lbs
AlmostHot:SW 226/ GW 143/CW 222 = -4
Pawprint:SW 168, GW 130, CW 150 = Loss of one pound
Crazybee sw273;gw 175 cw 239.1=loss of 2 lbs
jlb123 sw 270 gw 150 cw 246.6 = -1.2lbs
pinbotchick SW 237/ GW 140/ CW 225 = -2 lbs

Morning Almost hot. Well by the time you read this it will probably be YOUR morning. It will be a little harder for you to get quick support from us cause when you post a problem we will be sleeping but FEAR NOT we will wake up and come to the rescue!! We are here for you and will do all we can to support you. Biggest thing to remember is to not hide from us when you have a hard time. We have found that people who hide take longer to get back on track. You can share your joys and your sorrows with us and we will help you through. I don't just post my weight stuff I come here and tell ALL my stuff to get it off my chest then I don't eat out of emotion and no one has told me to shut up yet!

Well I am off to spend the day with my mom. She is leaving for Missouri on Thursday for a month. My dad is already there. She and I are going hopping for smaller clothes and then off to the casino!!

Have a blessed week all and may we all be big losers this week!!!

Deb

Good afternoon ladies,
Well, 2 mornings in a row, so I made it official and changed my ticker -- I've lost 25 pounds since September 8th! :happy: I'm so happy about this. I'm really doing it. And it feels great. I like putting forth the effort. I like being in control. My self-esteem has always been non-existent but I can actually feel it improving every day. I feel my depression and anxiety waning. I am so glad I found MFP. And I'm so glad I found THE team. It's not only changed my life, it's pretty much saved it.

Hey sorry I missed the weigh in I'll post my stuff tomorrow. I was at a woman's retreat sponsored by my church. It was really fun. I hope you all have a great week.

morning team! Yay jib, cool that you are doing so well on the new years challenge!! I hope to join you when I get this weird weight fluctuation thing under control! Lulu, thanks for the info. Any special herb tea? Or just anything herbal? Thanks! I am thinking if I am doing everything right this week and it still isn't heading in the right direction, I am gonna see the doc. I was just there about a month ago, and got good news in everything like blood pressure, heart health, blood sugar, etc. So, we'll see.

:flowerforyou: :flowerforyou: Welcome new folks. :flowerforyou: :flowerforyou:

Since we are doing introductions, I'm Kristi - age 50, single, live in Salt Lake City, Utah, social work is my occupation and my passion -- drug and alcohol and trauma recovery therapy. I've been doing MFP since the middle of February this year. I've lost about 100 pounds during that time and a total of 130ish pounds from my heaviest weight. Still have almost 200 pounds to lose. This website has been the best thing I have ever done in terms of weight loss. Good luck to everyone!

Lulu, I like your thought for the day, too. I have been doing some study lately on the interaction between different foods as well as the way foods interact with us in terms of whats going on at the biochemical level. For example, something like a yeast infection can trigger cravings for comfort foods like white bread, pasta and such. And, if we aren't metabolizing nutritients from the food we eat, we may still feel hungry, even though we are really full. Like the feeling when you've just eaten and you feel really full, yet you find yourself standing in front of the fridge looking for you don't know what??? But SOMETHING!! Yeah. :blushing: Anyway, its pretty interesting stuff. Ok, enough rambling. Gotta exercise. Love you guys!
:bigsmile:
Kristi

afternoon ya'll. i just spent hours with our bills, etc trying to get out of the monthly "hole" we are in (including payday loans to get by) and figured out what we need to do to stop having the payday loans or overdraft... it should only take us about 2 1/2 mos! Whoo hoo! Then we can start working on getting out of debt completely, paying off medical bills that are sitting, paying off the van early (truck will be paid off on the 15th, making a double payment!), etc. I really thought it would take much longer than that. We can truly have all our bills paid off (adoption loans, student loan, EVERYTHING since we don't have a mortgage) within about 12 mos. Wow. So I'm pretty excited, because at that point we will be in good standing to buy the house we are living in, which we really want to do. Although I may have to get a job part-time (trying to do that now) to make things move faster and to get more down money that the $15000 we already put down on our option. So I'm pretty excited to see light at the end of the tunnel - and the girl! Once we've paid off the boys' adoption loans and readoption fees (for citizenship) then we can save a chunk and I can go get my little girl! So that's even more exciting! The last adoption moved so fast - we were told 12-18 mos, it literally took 3 mos from start to finish - so we had to take out some loans to cover some of the stuff. So next time we want cash in hand and be prepared so we have no loans. I'm pretty psyched. I'm listening to an online audio book by Dave Ramsey - Total Money Makeover. We could do it much faster if we sacrificed a lot of things - by this I mean shutting off our cable, but since we rarely go out (maybe every 6 mos or so?), we don't go to movies, we don't do much of anything, that's our only relaxation and entertainment. I could save us $100 a mo by dropping it down... so we're considering that. But no tv??? Hmmm... Not sure we'd survive, LOL. Have to see if ALL our programs are available online for free first...

A lot of what I"m learning about finances also apply to healthy living. One thing he says with money that I can really see applying to weight loss is make 1 goal, and meet it before moving on to something else. So for money if you pay a little for this bill, a little for that one, etc you don't feel like you're getting anywhere and can get discouraged and quit. So pay off one bill completely (start with the smallest) and work your way up. That way you feel like you've accomplished something. I can see that applying to weight loss as well, if you change everything all at once and you struggle, then you feel like you've not done anything. Pick one thing and meet that goal, for example, drinking all your water. Then once you've got that down, cut out certain junk foods. Once you've done that, exercising 3x/wk. Once you've got that down, cutting down your calories. and so on. I know that since I've struggled the last few months that I have had a really hard time getting back on track - but in the beginning, I only changed one thing at once, so I need to do that now again in starting over. Ya know?

We have some Halloween candy left over, went thru the kids' stuff and pulled out all the snickers (too hard for them to eat) so junked out on that but once they're gone, the kids' candy doesn't tempt me. I still have a few baby snickers in the freezer. and baby snickers are not bad, anyway, cuz they're so small.

I'm not worried about Thanksgiving as far as weight is concerned because it's just that "one" meal in our family. Sure we'll have turkey leftovers, but I'm not keeping any dessert leftovers, people will have to take that home with them. Christmas is harder, though, it's a season. As long as we're not invited to any parties (usually aren't, LOL) then it will be just that one meal then too, same rules, no desserts left over. That's IF we have people over, if it's just us, then I'll make a batch of cookies and that's it, no pies. (mmm... pie....)

Kristi i'm interested in what you said about some foods you eat and you're hungry right away. I have that problem. What's the book or what's the general foods, or what's the foods you mix so you don't have that?

lulu LOVE what you said about how you CHOSE not to go naked each day... never thought of it that way.

Good morning everyone,

Last night was a treat, my husband was off playing basketball and I worked out with mom. Mom made my unemployed brother cook dinner for us while we worked out :drinker: If only someone else would cook every night. Thank goodness my mom sent me home with cooked spaghetti squash yesterday. It was so good, I ate it all - so I got my veges in for the day. I think I was supposed to share with hubby :blushing:

Hey,
so here it is a little late but worth it.

SW 195, GW 135, CW 168= 2lbs loss

I had fun at my retreat but came back with a bit of congestion/ cold. So I've been taking it easy. I expected to gain weight over the retreat but my cabin was the farthest from the main lodge and I walked instead of driving. I also did yoga both mornings that I was there. I'm really proud of myself for not eating crap over the weekend. There was lots of candy and temptations but I managed to stay focused on what I wanted for myself - to be healthy and good to my body,

Have a great week

P.S I'm almost half way!!!

Way to go girl. That's very awesome. I'm glad that you had fun, sucks about the cold though. Keep up the good work on meeting your goal.