I just wanted to let you all know that are going to be there, that I won't be able to show up this week.... First of all, I haven't gotten my book yet, so I haven't been able to read the assigned pages... Secondly, we have out of town family showing up today and they are spending the night before they head back to GA... We haven't seen my husbands brother in years and I have never met his wife, so it would be kind of rude of me to get online and go into a chat.... I will be there next week though.... I will catch up with the thread that is supposed to be posted about the chat.... Thanks for understanding... HUGS, Shawn M.

1) 1500 - higher than I wanted tp take in - did not make the bestr choices today 2) 300 - cardio and upper body 3) not a great day - couldn't resist PIZZA (almost 2 slices) 4) 100 5) yes 6) mini goal this week - Take it a day at a time - WORK MY RESISTANCE MUSCLE 7) get back to 142 - exercised and drank my water note - I really have a hard time passing up things sometimes. When i am ON (track) I am ON and I am so strong and feel so good saying no THANK YOU when I am off track ... passing things up is a VERY challenging task. I need to have a a good week. A FULL GOOD week. That is what I need. hugs, Britt

1) Calories in (you can post your actual meal plan if you want to share) 2) Calories burned or time and movement / exercise (give us the details) here is a site that can give you an estimate of the calories you burned http://primusweb.com/fitnesspartner/jumpsite/calculat.htm 3) Successes / challenges (did you pass up a temptation? - do you have a challenege coming up?) 4) Water intake - how much? 5) Vtamin supplement taken? 6) Mini goal for this week - what did you do *today* to get there? 7) What is your Big goal? - what did you do *today* to get there? 8) notes -

so one of the really bad things about working at the Whole Foods regional corporate office where all of the regional buyers work is that they constantly have samples coming in. Yesterday our bakery person had about 6 bakery vendors come in with samples. Now they are all sitting on the counter in the kitchen...free to anyone. I am going to DIE!!! I can't handle this. I've already had a bite of chocolate cake and a biscotti and all I want to do is go back in there and eat MORE. There is this amazing gooey chocoloate mint cake with amazing chocolate frosting, a flouress chocolate cake, pumpkin cranberry cake, cranberry biscotti, walnut canberry cake, about ten different kinds of mini pastries with fruit fillings, a couple different kinds of scones, muffins...and so on a so forth. Literally there are about 30 different packages of amazing bakery items. How in the he** am I going to resist them for another...oh God it's not even 1pm...3 1/2 hours??????? Just shoot me now! Pray for me ladies!! Corinna Q

1) Total: 1071 Fat: 27 242 24% Sat: 5 44 4% Poly: 5 48 5% Mono: 10 94 9% Carbs: 99 346 34% Fiber: 13 0 0% Protein: 108 432 42% Alcohol: 0 0 0% I was a bit high on carbs but these included oatmeal an apple, squash and mixed green vegetables. So mostly good carbs except for the 100 cal packs of oreo's and popcorn, I know bad but at least controlled portions. 2) about 400 burned- I got back to the gym today! YEAH ME! I forgot how good it makes me feel. 3) Success today- stayed on track, tracked my food, skipped the doughnuts in the breakroom- YEAH ME! 4)Water- 80 oz- YEAH ME! 5)Yep- got em all 6)Mini goal for week- exercise 3 gym days and 2 abs days at home- 1 down, 4 to go- YEAH ME! 7)Big Goal- get to 145 lbs-today I was not perfect but I was GOOD. YEAH ME! 8)I hope you guys don't get tire of me cheering. Another of my big goals is to give myself more credit. It is so hard to be *nice* to me. Also wanted to share a WOW moment for me. This weekend I went shopping with a girlfriend. I haven't been shopping to buy clothing since before the fire. There was a huge sale at Goodies and I went straight to the racks. I was looking and picking up dresses when my girlfriend came over to ask what I was doing. Looking at her puzzled, I said duh, getting some clothes to try on. She then grabbed my arm and drug me out of the plus size section to the "regular" section. I had not even thought about it. I just automatically went to the "old me" clothes. Turns out, I picked up size 14 dresses. They were too big! Then I got size 12....they were too big. Then 10's....I am a size 10 with room to spare! Yeah Me! To borrow Wanda's expression....I am Lovin' My New Life! Thanks for letting me share. Hugs, Val;