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Weight this week: 215.8. Exactly the same as last week. Blah. Not too bad for TOM though, I guess...

I'm jumping on the bad food weekend bandwagon too, apparently. I knew I'd have pizza this weekend, but I had it yesterday AND today. Ugh. Yesterday I ran and still stayed within my calories, but today...oh man, there's no hope. I have 74 calories left for dinner right now. HA! Even if I do get my butt off the couch and…

Ooo, Amy and Jessi, you like "Bodies;" have you seen this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uguXNL93fWg I could watch that about 10 million times and not get sick of it. :smile: I'll catch up later; I just had so share that!

I've been to a couple of WV weddings where they played Country Roads and it was actually pretty cute. I've never been to a wedding where they played the Hokey Pokey, but hey, why not? :smile:

I'm up for the challenge! Can I just tell you ladies, I tried that "bear crawl" thing last night and HOLY COW. I couldn't get many of them done. Of course I showed the bf how to do them and he was quickly bear crawling all over the floor. That's what I get for having a fairly fit bf, I suppose. He could at least make them…

Nice job; you look fantastic!!

I moved to Morgantown (from the DC area) last year and I love love LOVE it here!! Go 'eers!! :smile:

Rain, I'm glad you're safe! Hopefully you won't be stranded for long. You story about the deli is crazy! In those situations I always want to say something, like "Look who's being judgemental, Ms. smoking-brownie eater," but I never have the nerve to actually say things like that. :laugh: Karen, I like the Wii Fit Plus…

Someone in one of the other challenges I'm in posted that they did bear crawls today....has anyone tried these? http://www.ehow.com/video_2359505_do-bear-crawl-exercises.html Looks hard! I think I will try it when I get home. :smile:

I've been totally slacking off on my water this week, AND I've been eating too much salt. Bad combo! So I need a water challenge for sure, but I'm up for an exercise challenge too! Bring it! :smile:

Holy cow, that sounds DELICIOUS!!

Katheryne, awwww, he ate brussel sprouts for you? That's a step in the right direction! Welcome back, Crystal! Lacey, maybe you could just post pictures of the chocolate for us. :smile:

That could absolutely be the reason your scale isn't moving. If I eat too much over 2300 mg of salt, the scale just won't budge for me, no matter how much water I drink!

I am purposely skipping over all of the True Blood talk because I'm way behind (I just got season 3 from Netflix, so I need to watch that first). I plan to watch it while doing my treadmill time, but right now I'm in the middle of rewatching all of the Ally McBeal episodes via streaming Netflix. :) I made a yummy frittata…

Lacey, I LOVE that! I never had one of those when I was a kid and I always wanted one. I can already picture myself bouncing around on the hardwoods on my main floor...

Good morning, everyone! It's my first day back to work since Friday so I've got a stack of work to do, but I wanted to pop in and say hi! My parents left to go back to St. Louis yesterday, and I could not be more tired this morning. Lots of running around while they were here (of course), and lots and lots of "bad" food. I…

Weigh-in for this week: 215.8. Only down .8 this week, but I'll take any kind of loss over a gain.... Hope you all had a fantastic holiday weekend!

Weekly weigh-in: Starting weight: 225.8 07/23/11: 221.8 08/01/11: 221.2 08/08/11: 218.6 08/15/11: 219.4 08/22/11: 218.8 08/29/11: 216.6 09/05/11: 215.8 Not down a whole lot this week, but I suppose it's better than being up.... Hope you all had a wonderful holiday weekend!

Amber, I love it! Super cute!

Oops, forgot to post my weigh-in! Kristina, this week my weigh-in is 215.8. I'm only down .8 this week, but it's better than nothing... Megan, I've been experimenting cooking with new spices that I'd never tried before so the I could use less salt. I just got a new spice rack filled with 20 different spices this weekend…

Hailie, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!! :drinker: Amy, your blackberry cinnamon roll pictures on Facebook made me drool. Yum yum yum....I have GOT to make those! I'm way over my calories today...so hard to not be with this tour of food we've been taking my parents on! Yikes! I am going to try to eat better tomorrow... Hope you all are…

Holy cow, I was busy Friday and today and I'm already behind 3 pages! Wow! No time to write....my parents are visiting from St. Louis, so we're taking them all around. Fun, but guess what the number one thing they want to do is? Try all of our favorite local restaurants. So we're basically doing a tour of food for the next…

I moved to Morgantown a little over a year ago and I love it! Welcome, and good luck on your weight loss journey!

[/quote] You need to read this: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/173853-an-objective-look-at-eating-exercise-calories It clears everything up in really simple terms. It will make the world of sense for you, promise. [/quote] What she said. Read it and it might help you understand. If not, try this: Let's say MFP has…

Let's see...a weight loss goal for September....well, I'd like to lose like 10 pounds, but since I've started losing weight I've never managed to lose more than 6 a month no matter what I do, so I should probably make my goal smaller than 10. :smile: I'll go with a weight loss goal of 7 pounds this month -- let's see if I…

Amy, no problem -- you ARE inspirational! Kerry, I don't like walking or hiking with stuff in my hand but I can deal with it. For running, I'm totally like you. HATE having to carry anything. I've thought about getting a Camelback but a huge majority of my ridiculous sweating happens on my back, so I don't really want…

Lacey, what the...?? It's always weird to me when people pop in on this board mid-challenge because it just seems like we've got this little insulated community, but to have someone pop in on this board just to be negative? Ugh. I'm sorry about everything going on with Bart. I don't have any advice for you but I know how…

It looks like you & I are close to the same weight, and I have to eat WAY more calories than that if I want to see a decent loss. I started out doing what you're doing -- my goal calories was 1400 and my net wound up being between 1100 - 1200 after exercise. I was losing weight very slooooooooowly or hardly at all, and…

Well, I made homemade soup from scratch last night with lots of spinach and swiss chard from our CSA...super nutritious and really yummy, but HOLY COW was it ever labor intensive to make. It took me 2 1/2 hours! Whew. I had intended to make enough to freeze, but I had a bit of a blender accident with part of the batch (as…

Nava, my barefoot shoes are these: http://www.zappos.com/merrell-barefoot-pace-glove-lavender-lustre I love them for hiking, although on really rocky parts of the trail they can be annoying and I do plan to get boots or trail shoes to cover my ankles. I wore my last hiking boots (Vasque boots) into the ground -- had them…