Oh my goodness! First, I hope you stop beating up your hand. Second, gross.
Sounds like something my husband would do. Lol

Hmm. I think our next challenge should be to drink only water for the next week. Exception cam be made for steeped tea with nothing added. I like my morning coffee as much as the next person, bit i don't think we should be relying on it to improve our personalities. We can exercise self control for a week, right? Just so you know, i also have cream soda and rum in my fridge which turns out is a magnificent combination, but I will abstain starting now until next Saturday. And then we can all wake up on Saturday morning and have a coffee together next weekend.

And to try an exercise we've never done before. Look up a video online or add another move to your strength routine. Mix it up a bit.

it may sound gross but I do have to say that it makes a world of diffence in pain level.

Not a bad idea. Question...does Crystal light or some other 0 calorie powder count? Also, I have a protein shake at least once per day...are we not doing that as well?

Katie, how do you feel about only having water until next Saturday???

Oh my, ONLY water? Sounds like a real challenge... :drinker:

Bill, I'm sorry you're having physical difficulties with your hand. I hope it heals quickly so you can get back to work here. Since your laptop has been MIA, I've missed your harassing comments.

Where's Kathy, does anyone know??? Haven't heard from her in a while although I've been in constant contact with her husband for weeks. (insert rude comment here.) ..Kathy, where are you????????????...

I'm buried at work and at the beginning of the week, I lost my edge (distracted with FSOG and work, I think.)

Thanks Margaret for the FR. It's nice to know we can go at each other without dragging the group in, every time. :flowerforyou:

Is there anything we want to add in the challenge guys? Water will be difficult for me but I'm in.

Crystal Light or lemon/lime juice, yes.
Tea, yes.
Coffee, No.

No creamers/coffeemate/milk in the tea, either.

One or more new exercise(s) this week.

Because Andrea is weaning herself off coffee for this, we are starting on Sunday with the water only, and taking it to Saturday morning, where we will toast one another with our weightloss-sin-beverage of choice and discuss our new moves, and Bill's drilled hand.

Idea for group challenge - Each of us have our strength and weaknesses. What if we pick one our our weaknesses and try to improve on it for 2 weeks. Example, mine would be I've been not completing my food diary for the last couple of days.

We could check on each other and to get us back on track again.

That's an awesome idea too. Bill's weakness may be taking care of his body and not getting injured, especially his hands. Margaret has a pang for beating on Bill but I rather like watching that, so please don't stop that. My weakness of course is the water thing.

Can I just say, this group is fantastic. Cause now I REALLY have to pay attention to the beverage challenge, now that you're all waiting for me to get off coffee... starting tomorrow! NOOO!!! Oh my god, this is going to be hard.

This is an exchange between my fiance and I:
"For the next week, I'm only drinking water, from Sunday to Saturday."
"No you're not."
"What? You can't do that! Don't be like that!"
"Why are you doing a water cleanse??"
"No! I'm just drinking water instead of pop and coffee and stuff. I'm still eating!"
..."Oh... That's different."

I love swimming for exercise; that's awesome that you have a pool!

Drinking the last of your kids juice must seem like second nature. Now they'll just have to finish their juice themselves! Or just pour them a little less.

I could probably do pullups on this one door frame in my apartment... if I had man hands. Have fun at the park.

Proud to say I am enjoying a cup of green tea, plain, not coffee this morning. We'll see how I feel later, headache-wise. I'd rather not even drink the tea, because it's just a cop-out for my caffeine addiction.

As for my weakness, I need to start saying "No thanks" to things like beer, homemade cookies people bring in to work, and second helpings at dinner. I know it sounds lame, but that's how I rack on anywhere between 300-1000 extra calories a day. Especially when we go out for some beers, and then of course we need to get some breadsticks or something when we get home...

New exercise: I need to think about this one... I should try out a workout video on netflix. Any suggestions for someone who doesn't like to work out? I prefer dancing, swimming, walking, and manual labor for exercise. Right now, I walk my dog, play Dance Central 2 on Kinect, and "get stuff done" at work, i.e. move furniture, walk briskly for hours, and clean.

Ok, I woke up with the start of a migraine, which I can usually blunt with a combo.of ibuprofen, tylenol and caffeine. Just tylenol doesn't do anything, and my Motrin is packed and in the other house, so I had to quadruple the usual tylenol and drink a coke.

It was medicinal and seems to be working somewhat. So I'm going back to just water now, and hopefully the migraine doesn't persist into tomorrow.

Much better, thanks.

I felt sick to my stomach after drinking it, didn't want to even finish the thing, but I did anyway. Gah. But it worked so I'm happy. Still drinking water like crazy, too. I would have helped you finish those chocolates because I'm kind like that.

Yeah, mine are weather related. When the air pressure shifts drastically, I get hit. Hoping the air pressure stabilized for this week. I got stuff that needs doing!

Seriously having issues with this challenge.

Gonna have to do better about the water, barely hanging on to that one challenge condition. Work load is heavy. No yoga for last week nor this week, save last Monday. Staying late (until around 8pm) and getting in early taking it's toll. Last week was in at 4am.

Grrrr. Will try better once these few days are past me.