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Me too. My kids go til Wednesday, because of snow days. My son is a senior but has to retake a couple of one semester classes in the fall so I get him just a tiny bit longer. My daughter is finishing 4th grade. The worst part is that my son signed up for National Guard and will be gone all summer to Basic Training, and…

THIS! I stand nearest the speakers in my classes to make sure it's loud enough to cover that noise!!!! :noway: :blushing:

I don't know the answer but mine is Cherimoya Punch! Love it.:drinker:

I'm with you too. Skinny Cow is my best friend... LOL. I also have been getting half gallons of frozen yogurt in flavors that i like but don't love. That seems to help reduce the amount I want at one time.

I didnt spend as much as these folks who got Polar models. I have a Timex, but I researched it on Consumer Reports and it seems to be the best low cost option. It is the watch and the chest strap. It shows how long you worked out, your heart rate during your workout, keeps track of your average and high heart rate, and…

Okay, so I went and read your profile to help me decide what advice to give you. I came across a section where you talked about a little black dress that you would love to wear again. I say, get into that dress. You know that you feel happy when you can wear that dress, and when you are happy with your own weight, your…

That's funny that this came up now. I bought my daughter one for Easter (less candy, more stuff for outdoor activity!) and decided to get myself one too... Got it home and found out I can't do it to save my life! I'm sure the neighbors got a great kick out of watching me try though... :embarassed: Good luck to all of us…

bump!

I know exactly what you mean too. My husband works an hours drive away and he wants me to join him once a week for lunch. This used to be an affordable past time because we would choose a relatively healthy lunch place and I would get something light. But recently, by the time I spend the extra to drive up there and back,…

I am a big girl, and was totally sedentary til I started a contest, and one of the things I did was start going to Zumba. I knew I was getting more cals burned that what I could find here on MFP so I bought a Timex HRM with chest strap. It logs me as burning 1200-1400 cals for an hour class. I push myself and I am soaked…

Yes I get it too! I posted it a while back and only got one answer, but I have found a couple of things that have helped me a lot. I was using Crystal Light packets, (one packet, in a 20 oz bottle, so that it was a little less flavored and I was trying to lower that amount even.) Then I realized that it has aspartame in it…

I use the packets too, and have 3 or 4 a day. I use a 20 oz bottle, instead of the 16 ox, and it still seems a little bit strong, although I like the flavor. I am hoping I can reduce it to half a packet per 20 oz bottle. That would keep my water intake high while reducing the aspartame...

Aspartame is extremely poisonous, and here is why. One of the toxic ingredients of Aspartame is wood alcohol. When the temperature of Aspartame exceeds 86 degrees F, the wood alcohol in the Aspartame is converted to formaldehyde, and then to formic acid, which in turn causes metabolic acidosis. Formaldehyde is grouped in…

I have this one too. I use it for Zumba class and working on the elliptical. When I did the elliptical before I had it, it showed I was burning about 100 calories total for my whole 10 minutes that I could actually survive on it. The HRM gave me a reading of about 450. I KNOW the 100 was way too low, but I felt that 450…

Oh mine were all the same things until I remembered... when I was a kid, my family made cheese dip using Velveeta, Hormel Chili and jalapeno peppers. Add a bag of tortilla chips and it's an amazingly tasty snack. So I thought, I'll make this for my family. The only one who likes the peppers is my hubby, so I would dish out…

That is awesome! I am just finishing up a local contest that is the same type, and I know that I am in no way going to win. BUT I am still a winner just because I have made the necessary steps to start losing weight and getting healthy. You are a double winner because not only did you win your contest, you also have made…

I bought 4 boxes and had DH hide them from me til my contest is over. I figure after that I will work them into my daily calories and have a couple ever few days or so. Of course I also have the fact that as soon as my kids know where they are, I won't get anymore anyway...

Even better, lets do this at my house!!! I could use the help getting it all the way clean. LOL! I don't log anything extra EXCEPT the day I had to work on the car to get it to run... Auto repair is in the list of exercises, and I jumped at the chance because between the actual work and the stress of doing it myself I know…

I just signed up for the 30 day trial too, but it looks like a repeat of this site. The only thing I like better about it is the weekly menu/recipes. I will probably hang on to the site just long enough to download a bunch of the recipes and then cancel my trial before I have to pay for it. Although I will be watching for…

L1D2 is history. I have modified some. I do jumping jacks for about 10 seconds til it starts hurting having all this extra *stuff* flopping around... LOL! I can't really do the reverse crunch. I do push ups until I can't (I am up to about 11 total! Girl-style of course). And the last cardio section was almost a moot point…

Bump! One of those foods I thought I would probably never see again, so I am THRILLED to see a healthy version! Thanks!

Would love to know if you decided to go to the tryouts or not? If so, what was it like?

I haven't posted for a while, and I will have to go back to the original thread because I also don't recall what my starting weight was for this challenge... LOL! However I lost 4lbs this past week (and since I was using my Friday weigh-ins for the one on here, I can go ahead and post that I am down to 269. Was so thrilled…

I did a half hour on the Wii following my first try at JM 30day shred. I loved using the balance activities as a cool down after the shred! The zen thing is awesome, my husband tried to distract me through the entire time and I just ignored him. I wish it would go a little longer as you do it because I could use some…

Congrats on getting up and moving! I too am obese, and found that the group workouts that they provided for the contest that got me started would not work for me. They were so intense that I made about 5 minutes before feeling like I was going to die. So I have made up my own workouts out of cardio machines (my personal…

I DID IT!!! L1D1 accomplished! Yay! I did do modified jumping jacks, and a kind of jog in place rather than a straight jump for the jump rope. Modified push ups, and although I have a set of 5lb weights, I traded them off with my husband who did the workout with me. So half with weights, half without. I feel just enough of…

I am guessing that, as a 20 something, she may need to hear multiple options from multiple people before she makes the choice to change her lifestyle. I became a mom before 20, which started my weight-gain journey, and it hasn't been until my mid-30s that I finally decided to get off that road and start a weight-LOSS…

Ok I watched it for the first time today so I am prepared, at least as much as I can be. Does watching it count as an exercise?!? I kept sucking in my abs! LOL! I am not sure how my knees will do with the jumping but I will fight through it unless I absolutely cannot! Can't wait!

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Have been doing a lot of other exercise this week and haven't turned on the Wii at all. I am going to my daughter's basketball banquet tonight, which includes a parent-student mini-game, and if they are in need of more parents to play, I will be doing that. If I don't get that exercise in, though, it is the Wii for me…