The "All I Want For Christmas Crew" 217 days left!!!

[Lisa Rae]

Morning all!!!!

It's been amazingly quite this weekend...so either we are really missing Melly and the others..or they talk so much..none of us can get a word in edgewise

I hope your all doing well and enjoying your weekends. Ok..so since Melly left me in charge for todays thread ( suckaaaaaa!) I thought I'd get it going by introducing a question.

What is your goal for this week?

My goal is to be more consistant with my food intake ( too little one day..too much the next)..and to up the exercise a bit.

Next......????

[gettenthere]

Hi Lisa
got a chance on the computer, waving to all of you. Thank you lisa for starting us up this week. I'm trying to change my avatar again
It works.

[luvdanrs]

hmmm Sounds like Getten got herself an easy goal for the week... gonna change my avitar....hah
My goal for the week... is to get back to walking with me having to have worked 16 hours for 4 days I got NO walking in. That and I want to maybe watch more what I am eating. Maybe do a diary this week and keep track of time and what and amt............ Great Lisa...now ya added extra work to my already hectic schedule
Hope that all of those that went to PG have a safe trip home... and those that were left behind have a great rest of the weekend.

[newsox]

Hi Ladies!

My goal this week is to get the scale moving... in the downward direction! I seem to be stuck For the last couple weeks ::sigh:: At least I haven't gained anything!

[Lisa Rae]

Ok..well Melly and I made contact yesterday while they we're having breakfast ( I had somehow ot seen that she had called me 2x's the night before!) So I got passed around to Pami, Cheri, FC and Melly. I got basically the same conversation.." Yes, there was drama..why aren't you here? youd better show-up next year or were comming to get you!" was so funny..and very sweet! She should be home by now...so I'm sure we will here from her today at some point.

Jen, So glad to see you girl! I was getting a bit worried about you. Did you get my pm? Don't panic on not losing for a few weeks. Look over your food carefully and see if you have added or subtracted anything. If not..then just keep on going.

I had to work a crazy day yesterday..and came home with an upset stomach last night. Stayed with me all night..and still have it today. I'm soooo tired..I have no idea how I'm going to make it through another full week at work. Just to top it off..I'ts raining here today ( In May???!!!) so I'm not going for my run. Hopefully someone will show-up to chat and keep me company.

[Melly]

This is gonna have to be quick guys, as I am at work and trying to catch up all that my boss left me.

Last night was a late night and yesterday a long day and trip. I am home and safe and will make a big post a little later and fill you all in.

For now ......... thanks for starting the thread for me Lisa And thanks to all the wellwishers.......I PROMISE to catch you up later when I can breathe

It's great to be home and back with you guys Loner is on the road today and should be home this evening...... for a safe trip for her and Michelle

[that1redhead]

Welcome back!!!

I am going to have a crazy week - getting ready to leave for the long weekend. More later

[goalinsight]

Latest news....the housing rollercoaster has hit again! The real estate agent thinks she has it all worked out....we shall see if the seller wants to cooperate.
Planning to weigh-in tomorrow and just realized I can use my own scale as I am under 350 pounds. This means I will also have to be careful so I do not become a "scale addict"...could not do that before as I had to drive a minimum of 25 minutes to weigh myself.
BTW - don't y'all go thinking I can weigh myself in all my nekkedness ( UGH!) 'cause I cannot - the scale sits right on the front porch for all to see.
TTFN!
Welcome back - Melly! and all the rest of the tired travelers....

[Pizzamama]

Glad you're back safe and sound Melly ~ can't wait to hear all the "gorey details"

Nothing much new to report from my end ~ except getting thru this week at work and having a LONG HOLIDAY WEEKEND

Oh, and goal for the week Lisa, not to overeat and feel bloated ~ going to a huge pool party cookout Sunday (suppose to be 80's and sunny ! Does that tell the whole story? I need to behave starting today! My new swimsuit is pretty skimpy but really cute ~ it's a two piece mainly black with pink piping and a couple huge white and pink polka dots ~ but Hey, it's what I've worked all winter for RIGHT!!!!!!!!

Well gonna jet since I'm back to time and half this week and need to be in by 5:00am but gonna keep checking in on the news of the pig roast!

Later Girlies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[newsox]

Sorry Lisa, I didn't get your PM

Yeah, I'm doing my best, I'm going to go back to induction levels for a week and see if that kicks things into gear a bit. I know for sure I've been retaining a lot of water lately for some reason. My ankles and feet seem to be swelling up in the evening.

I was working 4 days in a row, and when I get home I'm so exhausted and in pain I just don't feel like doing anything but soaking my tootsies. I'm on my 2nd day of my 4 days off though now

[cindym]

Hello - My name is Cindy My story briefly is that I started Atkins in February 2001 at 280 - slowly got down to 217 in February of 2004. Decided that I needed a change and quit the board in April of 2004 at 238. Well I'm back now. I started last week at 317

My plan is to weigh once a week on Tuesday - so I weigh tomorrow and go to Curves at least 3 times per week, which worked last week.

Christmas is like my favourite time of year and I was just wondering what the challenge is and if I could join?

[newsox]

Cindy! Great to have you!!!

[Loner]

Hi Everyone!

I got back late last night. It was a wonderful 6 days!....we shopped drank shopped drank drank drank shopped and drank.....

I have to say that i only strayed from low carb when we first got there and i had to have a full rack of tennessee ribs! other than that my 'food' diet was really good.....now it may take some time for me to burn off the tequila and brandy!

Fat Cat was supersizing my drinks when i was not looking!

did my exercise ball twice and my watp once and im not weighing in until Sunday. i was back at the gym this am. i only did about a 3rd of the machines and 1/2 hour 2 mph (verryy slow) walk on the treadmill. I have the day off so i have alot of unpacking to do and posting!

Meeting everyone was awesome. it was like i knew them all my life....what a great group of people... Melly ROCKS!

[gettenthere]

Cindy glad to have on board this is a real good thread for support
Melly welcome back did you give each one a hug from me. is loner going to make it back I'm sure you all had a blast back all the TN er's
Any one hear from beaches? wonder how Mandy is doing hear there is going to be some flooding in BC.
Lei the flood does not effect you.

Newsox I've been there and done that just hang in there hun, are you using fit day. Its made a big difference in my life. guessstimating was so wrong, I was so shocked to find out how much I was actually eating not gaining is a big plus you are doing great

Luv did you miss me

waving madly to every one else.

[Melly]

Hey guys sorry it has taken me so long to make a REAL post but it has been crazy since I got home and some of us (glares at Loner) had to work when we got home

Tennessee was AWESOME!!!! Seeing old familiar faces and meeting new ones and seeing all the changes in people, both good and bad. I cannot begin to tell you how inspiring it is to go to this gathering. Alot of people were just like me.....gained......but we own it and are working on it and that is my story and I am sticking to it

First of all you are in the middle of God's country and it is more beautiful than I can possibly tell you. There is an instant bond between you and everyone there......words really cannot express.

Let me tell you a little about some of our girls here. 1st....Tippy looks FABULOUS!!!! She was at the Pig Roast last year and I cannot believe the change in her. She has worked her arse off.....literally. She looks amazing and has a glow!!!!! Sinny looks wonderful as always and is the sweetest girl, despite that she is married to Bob which we do not hold against her She worked her tail off while we were there. Our dishwasher was broken during the entire stay and can you imagine cooking for 5 days for all those people and NO dishwasher? And Loner.....I am in love with that girl. I am seriously almost in tears here as I type. She is everything and more than I thought she would be. And let me tell you girls.....her pictures do NOT do her justice.....she is BEAUTIFUL!!!! She has the prettiest complection......creamey white and glowing. She is a very beautiful woman. Michelle, her cousin that traveled with her, has been recruited to LCF.....like it or not she is one of us now and there is nothing she can do about it

Our cabin was nice BUT there were problems. First of all they have completely built up the mountain that we stay on and our cabin was lower on the mountain and did not have a view which sucked but the lady told us the cabin made up for it....NOT!!!!!! Dishwasher did not worked, phones did not work, exercise equipment did not work, air hockey did not work, surround sound for the screening room did not work (Tommy fixed it later), one sink was backing up, one bathroom stunk because it had PISSSY rugs (which we removed), toilet rocked on the floor in Cheri's room, could not get the door to the deck with hot tub opened until the second day and then the hottub was not full or hot, and we did not have a "party deck" all the way across the cabin like we were used to. We called SEVERAL times and they sent workers over and said "Yep....it's broke" Well NO SHYT SHERLOCK!!!! Never did fix anything.

Now don't get me wrong......the cabin was NICE. But for what we pay to be there it should not have ANYTHING wrong with it.

Loners cabin was KILLER. Her whole bottom floor was a swimming pool. Which I am sad to say I never made it up to get into. Seemed like we just had too much going on ALL the time.......you know......wake up, make coffee, nurse hangover, party, repeat as needed Actually I was a good girl this year. Did not even make it to the hot tub. Did drink a little bit but not alot......I was suffering from a terrible hangover the day we went to meet Tippy for lunch but a few COLD COLD beers with lunch fixed that right up I can handle a hangover but a hangover with no sleep I can't do.....getting old I think

I don't know if any of you know Bobby41 but he is the sweetest thing. He drove 16 hours to be with us and was a sweetheart. So helpful with whatever anyone needed. Cheri and I rode together and Bobby followed us back as far as St. Louis and we had problems on the way back. Somewhere between Lexington and Louisville Kentucky, Bobby had a blowout doing about 80 - 85 and we had to stop. Once he had his spare on we went to buy him another tire. He had to far to go to risk not having a spare should he need one. So that slowed us down a bit but we all felt better knowing that he would be safe the rest of the way home. Poor guy.....we left Pigeon Forge at 7:30am "home time" and he did not get home until 3am

Sinny took me to Gatlinburg to Hard Rock to buy Aliyah a t-shirt and all the while they were "plotting" a wedding shower for me. Well I thought we were just going to run get the shirt and right back. I had just got out of the shower and had wet hair and no makeup and just threw on some shorts and a t-shirt.......SOMEONE COULD HAVE WARNED ME!!!!! Sheesh I get back and they were all outside blowing bubbles on the deck and silly me going "are we having a wedding".........geeze I am REALLY blonde sometimes!!!!!

Guys I could go on and on but I just want you to know that we had alot of fun, the food was great, I ate too much, drank too much, got NO exercise, no sleep, laughed alot, even cried (Fatcat watched my daddy's memorial DVD with me), missed you guys terribly and am glad to be home!!!!

CAN'T WAIT TIL NEXT YEAR!!!!!!!!!! WOO HOO!!!!!!!

[Lisa Rae]

Cindy

Really..there is no rules to this group. We are simply here to suport and laugh together. Any WOE is great...some of us have personal goals..like regular exercise..or no products..but really..we're just here to be crazy together. Your very welcome to join the insane asylum

Melly!!! So glad your back girl. You obviously we're missed..because as soon as you were back..everyone came back to the thread! I simply can't shake my pom-poms as well as you

Ok..I'm not in a posting mood..so will catch-up later or post tomorrow. I'm frankly just exhausted after having to work an extra day this week.

[Loner]

[goalinsight]

Down another 1.5 pounds this morning!
TTFN!

[Melly]

WOO HOO Sherry.........losing again.........always feels great

[Melly]

BTW........here is a link to my pics from Tennessee.......when you open them click on play for a slideshow.........enjoy

http://community.webshots.com/slides...918&key=NpdFWW

[luvdanrs]

The picture show was INCREDIBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AWESOME MELLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Thanks so much for the pic's... now I KNOW I WILL BE THERE NEXT YEAR! You all look sooo good! Healthy! Fit! And like youre having fun.... hey wait I know what was missing in those pics MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Think you can photo chop me in there so it LOOKS like I was there?
Thanks for the report Melly it looks great... I think the exercise equipment worked you guys just didnt... I think thats the story on that!
Anywhoooooo's glad to see you all back safe and sound.... Loner, Melly, Getten, Tippy..... this is for you naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa really

[newsox]

Thanks for the slideshow Melly Looks like you all had a lot of fun, and such beautiful cabins! If I ever find myself in Tennessee, I'll know where to go!

You all look gorgeous. I would also have to say the same thing about you Melly, your avatar doesn't do you justice, you look gorgeous in those photos!

[Melly]

Awwwwwwwww ty Newsox.......photoshop is a wonderful tool

Luv I will work on cutting and splicing you in a pic.......send me a drunk pic of you

[pooticus]

wow so who'da thought this was where all the cool chicks hang out??? i was wonderin where our thread went on the cc and i figured as i've surmised all along that exercise killed everyone and there was no one left on the planet but me and denny and our guns. then i go see what all the pigsquealin is all about and low and behold it's the animal what yall "et" a weekend or so ago sayin yall was havin a good time! then i heard from melly and she told me about this challenge thread and invited me to stop by and say howdy.

so i'm sayin howdy.

howdy.

now...can i just come visit u kids now and again? i am not really good on challenges...whatcha think? (i do need to warn u that i'm often seen as public enemy number 1 here! :bwahahahahahaha: so be careful with ur answer! ur known by the company u keep...)

hugs all around i will now go read ur thread to catch up with everyone!