!!Health4life team Thread!!!

Ok all here for motivation!!!!  

Cardio minutes

KT-195

chris-160

sheila-45

val-180

MEMO: Oh, and next week's challenge (June 4- June 9) will be the water challenge. Keep track of the ounces of water you drink a day. I will make a few exceptions for water though. Any beverage that contains less than 5 carbs and NO fat per serving can be counted, NO MATTER HOW MUCH OR LITTLE YOU DRINK!

e.g. Fruit2O, Sparkling Water, Diet Arizona Tea, Diet Lipton Tea, Coffee (with splenda no cream or milk, miles well forget it I say lol), Diet Snapple, and so on.  

Gatorade or Powerade Does Not Count

And please do not sit there and chug a whole bunch of water... I would hate to lose someone in this challenge lol. It is possible to drink too much water. The "trick" is, the more exercise you do, the more water you will need. So getting moving and drinking!

Water in food does not count, only water that you drink and the few (or many) exceptions.

ALSO DON'T FORGET TO GIVE ME ALL OF YOUR TEAM'S CALORIC GOALS BY next SUNDAY (I extended it)  If you've already given them to me thank you, if not, please get them to me as soon as possible. Individuals who do not have their calorie goals recorded will be eliminated from the June 11-16 challenge week.

Questions? Please email me.

hey guys. looks like we did pretty well this week again. I think we can do awesome on the water drinking challenge. I know I chug water all day so that's some extra motivation. if anyone has trouble drinking enough, just carry around a water bottle and tell yourself to drink half/third or whatever by a certain time of the day. i aim for at least 72 ounces a day adn i feel so much better when i do drink it. well good luck everyone!
o and the wedding was good. we ahd a lot of fun. I put up a picture of me and my b/f from last night. I came home and crashed!

I love the picture u are looking hot HoT HOT!!

well WATER CHALLENGE IT IS!!!!   ok ill do the best i can with this.....i only drink about 4 or 5 bottles of 16.9 oz a day......thats a good day, otherwise i only manage 2........ ill try to push it!!!

MEMO: I will be back Saturday instead of Sunday (darn) so I will post this week's winners on Sunday as usual.

All of the info in the commentary thread has now been updated to reflect this week's results.

Congragulations to DonVito and RainFoot for hitting the 10 lbs mark! Quite impressive!

Hey KT...your picture looks great!  I'm glad you had fun. 

I drink quite a bit of water too team...I try to average 3-4 2liters a day....comes to ohh... 192 to 256 ounces a day.  Lately I've been drinking even more because of the hotter weather and the exercising.  I sweat like there's no tomorrow...or as my mom puts it...I sweat like a Champ!  :)

Oh and Don...congrats on those extra 10!!!

awww thanks guys! I was very surprised thatI actually was happy w/ how I looked in a lot of them since I'm usually disgusted by my pics!

vk- how on earth can you get that much water in?

yesssss good question KT i have to force 4  lil bottles??????

I don't drink anything else but water (besides my am coffee).  At work, we have filtered water and an ice machine.  I have several glasses there (about 16oz ea.), and then at home I carry a 2-liter bottle with me everywhere and always drink a min. of 2 bottles.  The past couple weeks I've been drinking 3 (just at home)!!!

gooooooooood morning fellow H4L ers!! 

today is day one in our WATER DRINKING CHALLENGE so everyone keep ur water with ya!!! 

Did everyone have a good weekend??  I did, we fished on saturday(again i watch) and sunday we just had a relaxing day with my cousin and his wife who is candian, her dad flew in to see his favorite guy sing Alan Jackson, it was cool he was so excited, however i really dont know country but it was fun to see them so excited!!

ok well my house is a wreck, to say the least.....so imma go clean wish me luck lol

       &nb sp;               &nb sp;          ~HaPpY mOnDaY~

Team, I have to confess, I'm up 2 pounds from Saturday's weigh in.  I'm really bummed about it and have to assess what happened and figure how to fix it.  I still have confidence I'll be a decent loser for the team overall and have to look at this as a just a minor setback.  It really took a blow to my ego though.  **looks around for a big enough band aid to cover my ego**

awwwwwwwww vk, its ok happens to all of us!!!  Do u do measurements??  cause it could even be muscle weight!!

Happy Monday to my H4L team !!!

Congrats to all our losers !!  Don ... BIG APPLAUSE for you .. WTG !!!

Katie .... GREAT pic ... you ARE doing awesome (it shows !!)

VK - don't worry honey ..... it DOES happen to us all !!  You WILL be a BIG Loser for the team AND YOURSELF !!!

The challenge this week will be a breeze for me .... I pretty much only drink water also ...... not 2-3 pints (I don't think) :-)   So I can CONTRIBUTE for the team !!!

Also down ANOTHER 3 lbs from Friday !!! 

woooooooooohoooooooo wtg judi!!!  nice 3 pounds!!

man i love our team we are consistently taying in third place which i think is good for overall points right?????

alot of teams have been up and down but we are staying consistantly STRONG!!!! 

im very proud of everyone here, now that we dont have an excersise challenge lets keep moving though!!!  it feels so good doesnt it??  i will be doing my walking this week i hope, it is TTOM and i am lazy then but gotta keep moving otherwise ill show a gain!!

ok back to cleaning house, well i havent even started to be honest!!

did everyone see the top of this post we have lost 39.4 pounds.....woah that is awesome keep up the great work!!!

woooooooo freakin wooooooo??  is that what it was?

HAHAHA!!!

Woo Freakin Hoo!!  But you were close.  It is a new start for me, now that the holiday and my birthday are out of the way.  The weight will start falling off of me (I hope).  Ok well I am going to a start a water chart.

1. amaxpo - 40 oz (I will be adding to this all day)

Way to go everyone!!  Talk to you all soon!

Happy belated B-DAY Amaxpo!!! 

1. amaxpo - 40 oz (I will be adding to this all day)
2. vk-32oz (I'll be adding more too)

Hey team .... looking for some info ...

I had a Apple Walnut Chicken Salad (sm portion) for lunch today at Applebees. I've been trying to find the nutritional information and cannot locate it? Any suggestions ?? I have gone directly to Applebees website and it's not there either. I could probably 'build' the meal, but have NO clue about the dressing (know it was some kind of balsanic dressing) ...

Happy belated B'day Amaxpo!! Right after my daughters' 15th!! :-)

Judi-I found this...hope it helps.

www.thedailyplate.com/food-nutrition/food/gen eric/apple-walnut-chicken-salad?PHPSESSID=7a7 187734fb59ebd6d8eb157db371f62

I can't seem to get this link to work but I googled the apple walnut chicken salad nutrition and it gave me this website.  It also has both the salad info and a calorie info on the dressing.

Thanks for the B-day wishes....next year is a big one!!!  The big 30...YIKES.  HAHAHA!!!

1. amaxpo - 72 oz (I will be adding to this all day)
2. vk-32oz (I'll be adding more too)

Lets keep that H20 flowing....

Hey guys! Thank you everyone! It feels so good to feel good about those pics! I can't wait to see what I'll look like in two more months and even later!

I've been chuggin my water today. I'm at 38ounces so far but it's only 1:45pm here so I have a lot of day left. I'll be downing caffeine later while I write my paper though!

Happy belated b-day Amaxpo! Did you do anything special? I never really do anything for my b-day cuz i don't want to plan a party for myself and then not have anyone show up lol.

I've got 2 more weeks til graduation so I"m hoping to lose at least 4 pounds by then. That would put me 25 pounds down this year!

Don't worry VK..I've been holding us back this whole challenge so far. I know you'll get it right off!