!!Health4life team Thread!!!

Ok all here for motivation!!!!  

Cardio minutes

KT-195

chris-160

sheila-45

val-180

Oh yeah, I bring my lunch most days.  Today was no exception.  I couldn't eat my side salad but I did eat my sandwich at my desk.  I'm all good though, I've been munching on 40-cal candy canes and I'm leaving for home early.  I'm outta here in 15 minutes.

sheila, that challenge sounds cool. i'm kinda in the same boat w/ val though. i'm just not losing so I don't want to bring other people down if I'm on their team. so taht starts right after thanksgiving? is there a goal of what to lose or do you just want to lose more than the other teams?

val, i know here in CA if you work over 6 hours an dyou don't get a lunch, they have to pay you an extra hour. couldn't you take a later lunch since you weren't able to take your normal lunch?

well i did good today. i was at about 600 cals or so when I left wrok. had chicken, baked potato, and spinach for dinner. i think the spinach irritated my stomach and had me runnin to the bathroom lol. sorry tmi! I am cooking my litle apple pie to eat w/ ice cream. yummy treat. i did good and resisted buying a burrito for lunch w/ everyone else. don't know what they are buying tomorrow but i won't have it! i'll be good again.

Well that's good, Val!!  At least you didn't have to starve!!  But yeah... they should make it up to you somehow....

KT - it's not a certain amount... they do weekly winners based on the percentage you lose as a team... then there's an overall winner at the end... so that's the basic challenge... but then they do all kinds of fun stuff along the way.  I like that it's starting right after Thanksgiving... lol!!

Good job on eating today!!  I actually did pretty good too!!!  I'm at 1330 right now... so that leaves me enough for popcorn later!!  I think this is the first time in quite a while that I'm in my range!!  I'm going to TRY to exercise tonight too... we'll see....

1330 is really good sheila! i think if i was at 600 after work, dinner probably put me at 1300-1400. of course my apple pie thing probably put me over 2000 lol. I hate that! But your popcorn will keep you right in your range.

gives me a good question for you two. what kind of popcorn do you like? i've found kettle korn to be pretty yummy lately. otherwise it's just light popcorn.

i need to go buy sugar free pudding and jello things. those are yummy!

I absolutely love the new Orville one... it's buttery garlic and is sooooooo good... but it's a snack size so still only 210 calories... which to me is totally worth it!!!  Sometimes I crave that Oke Doke cheese popcorn... which isn't bad either... as long as you watch the serving size!!!  

I'm a popcorn junky... so I can't stand the diet stuff.... not worth it to me... lol!!

I left an hour early Kt...so they made it up that way.  I could've opted to get paid an extra hour but I like getting home earlier.  They're good about all that stuff.

I usually eat the 94%ff popcorn.  I've been eating ActII but I prefer PopSecret.  I haven't found it in the 6-pack or larger boxes yet so haven't bought it.  I don't like the Orville 94%ff stuff that much.  It doesn't have much taste to it.  I tried the kettle corn but didn't know it had a sweetness to it.  If I have a sweet popcorn it has to be really sweet.  Lol  I never heard of the butter garlic one Sheila.  That does sound good.  I went to BB&B the other day and saw they have powder shakers of different flavors to top off your popcorn.  I want to go back and check them out again...you know, calories and stuff.  What does it really add up to???  Hmm...   I've also contemplated on getting a microwave popcorn bowl and start making my own.  Especially so if these powders are all they sound like they're cracked up to be.

And speaking of popcorn...we're going to the Festival of Lights parade tomorrow down State Street.  Whenever I go down there to be all tourist-y I always love picking up some Garret's popcorn.  Kt, this stuff is fat filled, to die for popcorn.  Yep...I'm getting me a bag of it.

Oh yeah... that Buttery Garlic totally satisfies my popcorn cravings... it tastes like a total indulgence, but I think it's still reasonable... for my purposes anyway... I used to get popcorn at the movie theater all the time... like SWIMMING in that butter... OMG!! This stuff is even better than that... but I don't have to feel guilty about it!!

Val - I don't think I've ever actually had Garret's... sounds good though... enjoy!!!  Watch out for those powders... I bet they're loaded in sodium!!

Oh how I love movie popcorn.  I forget how differently I eat now though.  I bought myself some when I took Lil'V to the show last week and I guess I had too much or too much butter or something but after the show I practically ran to the bathroom and puked my brains out.  GROSS!!  I hope you guys aren't eating.  I started feeling queazy when the credits started rolling and I told Lil'V we had to run to the bathroom because I had to go really bad.  I barely made it.  It was either the popcorn or the diet pop I had.  I never drink pop normally.

You never had Garrett's???  Stay away from it, you'll never know what you're missing.

sorry i was mia today!

val, that totally sucks about the movies! ur body was trying to teach you alesson haha. glad you made it though. enjoy that popcorn tomorrow! It sounds like the yummy kettle corn they make at the farmers market in davis that is sooooo good. I try to avoid it though. do they have other good food at the festival?  Is it like an all day thing?

sheila, do you have any plans for the weekend?

my parents want me to come for a bike ride w/ them tomorrow. i todl them i'd have to se ehow i feel. I can't really take deep breathes right now. I think I may have bronchitis. If it doesn't clear up by monday, i'll have to call the doc and hopefully get something for it. i start to cough so bad that my face gets super hot and i feel like i'm going to puke b/c that's how hard i'm coughing. it got a little better, but now I can't tak edeep breathes and that really sucks. I had to sleep on the couch last night b/c i kept coughing. ugh i dont want to spend the weekend like this! no plans other htan the bike ride though. i need rest! :)

Poor KT!!  You better get some rest or all that sick crap is never going to go away!! And especially if you can't breathe!!

Val - I know that probably wasn't fun but I couldn't help laughing... lol!!  That happened to Colin when he practically drank that movie theater butter with his popcorn!!!  That does speak to what your body is used to now though!!

I finally put in one of my videos yesterday!!!  AND I even talked Colin into joining me!!!  I could definitely tell it had been a while!!  But I'm going to try really hard to keep it going... I'm planning on doing another one some time today....

 

good job doing a video sheila. and double good job for getting ur man to do it too!

i just went for a ride. first i told my dad i wasnt going, but then dexided i would rather go than sit home all day. so i went. we got started and he realized his rear tire was rubbing the frame so he couldnt ride. so we moved the firewood from his car into mine, i shut my trunk and immediately realized my keys were in there. so now im locked out of my car. its kinda good in that it forced me to ride for an hour to kill time while i waited for my fiance to get here. im still waiting lol. this sucks!

Oh no!!  You're not stuck outside are you???  Hopefully it's a lot warmer there than it is here!!

I think that it was maybe mid-60s when I was out there. But i was in my bike shorts and a short sleeved shirt so i was pretty cold. I was starving when I got home so we went to panda express. I atea ll my food andw as still hungry. I think they skimped on mine lol. I bought ice cream at rite aid and put caramel topping on it so i'm sure i had at least 500 cals worth of that. i guess i forgot how hungry riding made me. it's probably worse since it was cold. i have to call the doc b/c if i do have bronchitis i'm making it a lot worse. i guess i'll call on monday.

You better rest tomorrow girl!!!  Make that fiance wait on you all day!!!  Hope you get to feeling better!!

Ok... I need to dig up some motivation to do a video today!!!!!

here's a shovel! dig it up! haha

Oh no Kt, are you feeling any better?  You should call the doc today to see if you can get something or to even get in to see him.  If for nothing else to make sure it doesn't turn into pneumonia. 

Great job on getting in your video!  Did you find that motivation yesterday?  I know it wasn't at my house.  D'oh!!

Well, we didn't go to the festival of lights after all.  Hubby wanted to go until he didn't.  Why do I let him ruin my plans all the darn time!?!?!?  Ugh!!!  There are only so many "next year"s happening for Lil'V and her being of the age to best appreciate this stuff.  The same thing happened with trying to get her to the beach over the summer, it never happened.  Or bike riding along the lakefront.  The bike ride through the forest preserve while the colors were changing almost didn't happen.  I had to start a huge fight for that outing to take even place.  He and his family NEVER left the house so he doesn't "get" why I try to do outings like these.  Can you tell it's working my patience??

Well we got to spend another night at the ER!!!  I was making those home made potato chips again and I asked Colin to slice them with the mandolin and of course he decided NOT to use the hand guard like I told him to about 20 times... so he sliced off part of his thumb!!  He was totally freaking out!!

It really wasn't that much of the thumb that got sliced off so the docs said once the skin grows back he might have a little dimple there and he's all like... I'm going to be disfigured!!!  He's so melodramatic... lol!!  

I'm sure it hurt though!!  They gave him vicodin though so he's ok now... has to check in with a doctor in a couple days to check for infection... but he should be good!!  These ER bills are really going to suck though.....

Val - I'm totally with you on the "experience" thing.... I'm all about experiences... particularly first times with kids!!  Colin doesn't really get it though... maybe it's a man thing... stupid men... lol!!

KT - I hope you got some rest yesterday!!  Are you feeling any better??

awww that sucks val. if he doesn't wnat to do it, you should just go w/ lil'v. i'm sure that will make him get off his butt. iff it's important to you, then it should be important to him.

sheila, glad he's ok. I did that one time and boy does it hurt!!! for reassurance, you can tell him my thumb looks totally normal.   Boys do tend to freak out about things like that more.

well, i finally got in with the doc today. He said he thinks it's allergies!!! Luckily the cold is totally gone adn the cough is much better. He gave me a nasal spray and inhaler. So i'll start wth that tomorrow. I'ven ever had allergies, but it doesn't surprise me since i live in the valley. He also checked my abdomen for anything weird and it was pretty tender over my gallbladder/liver. So i'm going in for an ultrasound tomorrow morning to make sure i odn't have gallstones or an inflamed liver. I'm sure it's all fine. My mom had her gallbladder removed adn she said the pain from gallstones was worse than childbirth! so i def hope i don't have them! haha

I did pretty well with food today also. So I'm hoping to keep that going, at least for tomorrow. Wednesday we are doing a little mini-potluck at work w/ a whole bunch of horrible food. but it will be soo good lol. At least I can just have a small dinner that night. Hopefully I can still lose soem weight during the holidays!

ultrasound was fine. no gallstones. everythign seems fine!