Doin' It By The 10's (Team 10) ~ 1/24

[mommiematters]

I am finally back!!!

Gosh this weekend was crazy!!! I love my friends but man it is so good to get your house back.

Kim- I am so glad that you are still with us.

Well, Jarret and I finished the DD challenge on Friday. It was our own version of it. A place full of pastries, pies, cookies, cobblers, etc....We passed with flying colors.

Then our friends showed up. We did awesome up until Saturday night. We should still be within our range of carbs for the month. But, we learned a lesson. Dont allow anyone to bring something to your house that you should not eat.

So, I am sure I am out of ketosis. So we decided we would just do a meat and egg fast for 2 or 3 days just to get into deep ketosis. We will not stay on it long like others do. I like my veggies to much to give them up too long.

Well, I am going to get the children fed and then put them down for a nap. They did not get much sleep this weekend and their behavior is showing it. While they are down I will get in my Pilates and then tonight will be my 30 mins on the bike. Plus it is my personal goal to get in over 200 ozs of water for the next few days to help flush out my system.

I will post more later.

[SJN02]

Checking in real quick.

Shanna - Glad you had a good weekend. Sounds like you got a plan to get back into ketosis I am making myself NOT cheat. It is hard, but once I eat something I shouldn't I am done for...lol How you doing on your water? That will help you fill full too over the next couple days until you are no longer hungry. Hope the kids took a nice nap for you Oh how I wish mine still napped
Yes, I was going to pm you and forgot Sweets pmd me and said you were on team 10...she was looking at the line below

Today has went well. I need to start fixing somehting for dinner. May make cabbage rolls again. I love those.

I will do a last check in and post my menu for today..

[Smilin Mary]

Hello everyone just checking in...
water is at 72 oz
have worked out 30 mins
and am at 5 carbs for the day ... i am sure that will change by dinner time.


I went to the store and got some Ketosis testing strips and I am in the Pink

I had a really good day, when I was in walmart I ran into a frined I hadn't seen since the first of Dec. She told me I looked great ! and that she had never seen me look so good! I told her thank you and have not taken the smile off my face!

Breakfast - 2 scrambled eggs

Lunch - double burger no bun no catcup and water

Snack - 2 Crab cakes ( low carb style)

Dinner - Baked Chicken, green salad with dressing


If anyone has a cure for PMS Chocolate cravings Please let me know.

[SJN02]

Mary - That is a great compliment You are doing a great job!!!!

Gini - Hope you had a great day today!!

Shanna - Have a great evening!!

My food for today was:

B: Nothing
L: meatballs
D: cabbage rolls
water: 165 oz.
Exercise: getting ready to go and walk now.

I am going to change my avatar to the one you all have. I hope that is ok. I asked about it on the other thread

Have a great night ladies

[Smilin Mary]

hey Kim... nice avatar ya got there
Now your officially one of us

[Gini]

Kim, when I saw your avatar I had a big smile!! When I hit the 30 lb club i want to figure how to flash the 2 avatars!

Looks like we all had challenging weekends and survived!!

I spent the afternoon and evening with relatives. When dinner came it was my bro's absolutely awesome homemade tomato sauce, luckily he had lc pasta in the house and was willing to cook it for me along with the noodles everyone else had. He used splenda in the sauce. Luckily I had had very little carbs for breakfast and lunch.

today:
B-2 eggs, .5 oz cr cheese, 5 links
S-2 bacon
L 2 oz pork, 1 c gr beans
D-such a tummy ache, think I am going to just have water.

So nice to see you all posting!!

I was going to drive to Blockbusters and rent the movie but was so ill I just went home and to bed!

I also have been writing my figures on the print out of the spreadsheet that Sweets emailed us. So I have to go in and key the stats so I can see my totals to see where I have to kick it up to make points In the morning I don't have time to turn on the puter which is when I write down my stats.

Since I am down 14 lbs I feel pretty hopeful will be down the 15 for the bonus points there!

I am happy to be part of such a great team!!

[Smilin Mary]

ok last post for today..

everything stayed the same but I did get in 100 oz water

Goodnight everyone!

[mommiematters]

Good Evening!!!!

Today was good.

B: none
L: chicken breast
D: Chicken Salad (chicken breast, 1 egg and mayo)
W: Over 150 ozs with still a little while to go.
E: 30 mins of weights and 30 on the bike. Also 50 crunches

Kim- Of course you can use the avatar. You are apart of our team!! We are so happy to have you.

Mary- Yeah on pink. I will check on Weds and hopefully I will be in. I dont want to check before then though.

Gini- I can rotate the avatar's for you when you are ready. Just let me know when.

Well I am about to hit the sack. I love being on this team!!!!!

[SJN02]

Morning Ladies

Hope everyone has a great day planned. I do , but it is busy. Makes it go by faster that way I suppose. Don't know what I will be eating today. I am going to aim for 10 extra min. of walking tonight. I love the way I feel when I get done with 60 min I can't wait until it warms up so the kids and I can go outside walking. I would love to be able to walk to my parents house. So that is a goal I have for this spring/summer. How are you all doing on your points? I think I am doing ok. Still need to watch the movie, and bake another cake (doing that thurs) then I will be done. I wonder what the challenge will be for Feb. I love the challenges. Feels so good to pass them Well I need to be heading out the door. Will be back later to check in

[Smilin Mary]

You make two friends,
Who make two friends,
Who make two friends more.
The cycle of friendship continues to go,
Till friendship is all around the world.
As friendships grow,
Unity flourishes,
Good will to your fellow man.
Of those two friends,
And their two friends,
We will gain friends across the globe.
For every two friends who have two friends,
Our numbers continue to rise,
As time goes on, with every two friends,
It will become a friendly world.
So make two friends,
And watch it grow,
Always two friends more.


GravyDave © June 1998

[SJN02]

Mary - I loved that!!! Thanks for posting it for us to read.

I am getting worried about this challenge ladies. What do you all think about it? It upset me that they deleted the positive post for Shawn and Wendy. I don't think that was fair to Shawn and Wendy for them to delete the postivie things everyone had said about them. Shawn has posted and said that he can't be a leader. His pm's are turned off by admin. He is the one who started all this...I feel bad for him. Sometimes life is not fair

My food for the day was:

B: nothing
L: 2 cabbage rolls
D: 3 cabbage rolls (can ya tell I like these)
Water: 165 oz
Exercise: aiming for 70 min. tonight

Have a great night ladies

[Gini]

hugs!!

B-2 eggs, .5 cr cheese, 5 links
S-2 bacon
L-4oz chicken 1 c gr beans
D-5 oz chicken, .5 c spinach, lettuce

January is the Shake Down Flight of this challenge! A few rattles are to be expected. I hope it settles down. I think Shawn was doing an excellent job.

I want to continue this challenge regardless and I want this group to stay together til 12/31/05 when we add up the huge amount we all lost this year!!

I rented Super Size Me today. LOL I had to sign up a membership. I haven't rented a movie in years!

The group has been great for me. There have been a number of times where I said no to a taste etc because I didn't want to let my group down!

[Gini]

Mary! Loved that! Thanks so much!

Shanna, Jarret, Kim....keep up the great work!! Less than a week til we see how we did

[Smilin Mary]

I dont read the other posts... what is going on?

[mommiematters]

Hello Everyone.

I am really depressed tonight. I went to a homeschool gathering and I was very disappointed. I know I sound like a middle schooler but man. I have been here almost 3 months and only have met about 4 people. None more than a Hello pretty much. Well I was really looking forward to tonight in hopes of meeting some other homeschoolers. Out of about 50 people only 1 person even said Hello. All these people know each other so obviously I stick out cause no one knows who I am but only one Hello. I came home and cried on Jarret's shoulder. And to be honest I think that was the first time I have ever done that in our marriage. I guess I am just used to the friendliness of Texas. You would never have gone to a homeschool meeting at my old group and people not spoken to you. I am just tired of not having someone to talk with. I feel so alone here. OK...I am going to stop before I start crying again.

Food today has been good. I dont have all my water in yet but I am working on it. I will chat with you all later.

BTW- does anyone know what has been going on on the main CC Challenge board? I dont read it. I just come to our link and read. It seems there has been alot of crap going on.

[mommiematters]

Originally posted by Nocarbs4me


D: 3 cabbage rolls (can ya tell I like these)

How do you make these?

[Gini]

Cheri posted this:
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ATTENTION Biggest loser challenge members..
This challenge is suppose to be for support... That is what this site is all about. There has been a lot of fighting on these threads and I am asking you all to stop... No more inuendo postings... no more name calling... No more negative PMs back and forth.... This means emails as well. If this continues, I will be forced to take futher action and I really do not want to have to do that.

If there are any other problems please report the post to an admin... Forward any offending PMs and emails to me. Please do NOT take matters into your own hands, such as PMing the person offending you... or posting in the thread, as this causes a negative affect... I have had to prune many threads in the past few days and that takes a lot of time... I might have to pull threads all together and each time you will have to start over. I don't want to do this either because you will lose a lot of supportive posts but my time is running thin here.... Please think before you post... before pushing the submit button ask yourself.. is this a post that may or may not get it or entire thread deleted? If the answer is even a "I don't know" then it is best not to post it at all.

Please do not dwell on past events and move on from here.... Go back to supporting your team members the best that you can... if some of you do not feel the challenge is right for you, you can always start your own group... It IS volunatry after all.

Lets try to get this challenge back on track!

cheri
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[mommiematters]

I guess I am still lost. Oh Well. It looks like Shawn has stepped down. Which is pretty sad. But, since I dont read the other threads I have no clue as to what has been going on.

[Gini]

Hopefully it is only temporary. He was getting a lot of negative pms and the admins closed his pm box. But the vast majority of us want him to remain leader.

[Gini]

actually doesn't sound like he did step down
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"This is from Shawn.

" Hey guys
My PM's have been shut off by admin. Involuntarily, I might add. For some doggone reason, I guess just a few - like Crazy Chuck said spoil the bunch. There is no way I can be a leader without being available to all the challengers. I don't know how, but can someone please inform people that I am not avoiding anyone but that admin has shut my private messenger service off.

Thx, Shawn"
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[SJN02]

Gini - I want this group to stay together too. I really am enjoying getting to know all of you.

Shanna - Sorry the meeting didn't go well. I don't know why some people can be so friendly and others, well I admire you for homeschooling 4 kids.

Mary - Hope you are having a good day. I will post the recipe for you in a little bit.

My dd was sick this morning so she is home with me today. Which means I got of doing my errands They are both watching a movie now. I am pming all of you so check your pm's I will be back later with the recipe for the cabbage rolls.

[Gini]

church tonight...gotta run, have to be there half hour early. DD is learning how to run the CD duplicating machine for the recordings of pastor's sermons.

LOL think I am .4 from 15 lbs....scale is teasing me!

MM, I am so sorry they were not welcoming to you. Some people never put themselves in others shoes. It reflects badly on them.

I am eating chicken for dinner....have some vegies when I come back. Just had to grab something quick...as a diabetic I just can't skip.

[Smilin Mary]

Hello everyone!

I am having a crazy week... Had company last night, my uncle stayed the night and left this morning... Now tomorow I have to pick some friends up at the airport ( 1 1/2 hr. drive ) then get back just in time to get my youngest to the Chruch, her 1st grade sunday school is doing the mass this sunday and they need to prastice what they are doing...

It had been non stop in my house since the weekend! I hope next week is nice and slow.

As for me I have 105 oz of water in and still drinking!
I got 30 mins in on the machine
carbs are low
and pants are loose!


Shanna, sorry for the not so fun meeting lastnight... They don't konw what they are missin! I am so glad we are teamates!

Kim, Thanks for the PM

Gini, did you like the movie????


Jarret, are ya getting the exercise in????

to all!

oh yeah I forgot to post my food

Breakfast - 2 eggs, 4 bacon

Lunch - Double cheese burger no bun

Snack - 2 chicken legs

Dinner - roast venison. salad, jello

[SJN02]

Cabbage Rolls

1 med. cabbage
1 1/2 lb. ground beef
4 T. diced onion
4 T. chopped parsley
2 eggs
1 tsp. salt
pepper to taste
1/3 c. tomato sauce

Sauce:

1 c. choped cabbage
1/2 c. water
2/3 can tomato sauce
2 T. lemon juice
2 packets sugar substitute (I used Stevia)

Clean cabbage and remove any damaged leaves. Pour boiling water over cabbage. Cover and let stand 1/2 hr. Mix meat, onion, parsley, eggs, salt, pepper and tomato sauce together. Drain cabbage, core and separate leaves.(to cut down on carbs, I did not use the tomato sauce in the meat mixture, I also only used 1 T. diced onion)

To stuff:

Use 12 leaves. Put 3 full T. of meat mixture in center of each leaf. bring sides up aover fulling and roll leaf up. Set aside.

Sauce:
Chop remaining cabbage (the core and leaves not suitable for stuffing). Heat water in med. size pot. Bring to boil. Add chpped cabbage, tomato sauce, salt, lemon juice, and sugar substitute. Reduce heat, cover and simmer for 15 min.
Remove 1 cup sacue and set aside. Place cabbage rolls in pot with remaining sauce as clost together as possible. Pur reserved sauce over cabbage rolls. Cover. Simmer 1 1/2 hrs.

[SJN02]

Whew, got it posted finally. I lost it once Glad it went through this time...lol

Gini - I am sure you will hit your 15 lb. mark tomorrow That is so exciting. You are doing awesome!! Have fun at church tonight. (we skip wed. nights, it gets out too late and my kids are bears if they don't get enough sleep)

Mary - I hope your dd has fun doing Mass on Sunday I love children's Sundays. They are so cute How do you get anytime to rest? I hope you have a quite weekend planned..(I would need it after all that company)

Shanna - Hope your day went well for you You will have to let me know if you like the recipe...it is so good

My food for today was:
L: 2 cabbage rolls (finished them up)
D: steak and cheese fajita (on LC wrap)
Water: 165
Exercise: will do in a bit

Next week I am going to go back to the basic of induction. I am happy with what I have lost so far, but it is slowing down alot, I am wondering if I am eating too much?? So back to induction foods for me saturday. I am at 20 grams a day now, but just eating lc tortilla and I think that can stall some.

Well I need to get in my room to walk and watch Little House...gee how I wish things were that simple now days You know I don't think I have heard Mary or Laura argue with ma and pa...oh how I want that...LOL

[Smilin Mary]

ok.. I didn't get any more water in, I had a diet rite soda with dinner wich changed too... I got my box of Carbquik in the mail and I wanted to try it out so I made chicken pot pie. It wasn't bad... I also had 3 cheeter crackers http://www.cheetersdiettreats.com/ with Carb option peanut butter.

Hugs to all