WORK IT!: The 2007 Labor Day Challenge Thread, Sign-up and Reporting

[annRN]

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Michelle, you already look great! I'll second Cher about your arms and I would kill for your curves! Just think how you're gonna look 2 months from now!

Me,too! Soooooo jealous of your arms!

[harmony3098]

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hi everyone! i just got my internet back!
ok, my beginning weight is 180 pounds.
my measurements are:
bust - 39.5
waist - 36 inches
tummy - 41 inches
hips - 43 inches
right thigh - 26.5 inches
left thigh - 26.5 inches
right arm - 13.5 inches
left arm - 13 inches
neck - 13.5 inches
i want to lose 12 pounds by the end of this challenge.

and, oh my goodness...the dreaded pics...

[harmony3098]

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whew...i just finished reading everything i've missed...this forum rocks...i am so motivated and feel such support...it's just awesome. julie, you are so inspiring. i am really grateful and appreciative of you and your willingness to be such a strong leader and cheerleader for all of us...your enthusiasm is contagious.

three things i love about myself...
my sense of humor - music to my soul...laughing, enjoying the process and the journey...being able to relax and be real...these are some of the things my sense of humor does for me
my warm personality - being able to talk with people...not being afraid of emotion, whether it be mine or someone else's...being able to ask the tough questions, and face the difficult answers, both of myself and others...my father always tells me that this characteristic is a gift from my mother...i'll take it...these are some of the things my personality allows me
my intellect - i am proud that i am a ph.d. i love that i think and have opinions...i like being self-sufficient...

i would love to join any discussion about the dandr. i am putting the scale away now and will weigh again when the challenge ends. i am going to continue to measure weekly and i am going to post my exercise.

hope i'm caught up now. thanks for posting pics everyone. that's the only reason i posted mine. and doing that was very motivating. i'm really, really glad i did.

[Outback Jess]

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So much positive energy here on this challenge....
Well it's Saturday morning here on the east coast and our choices make us! That's the word of my day, "MY CHOICES MAKE ME"...I choose to be up very early and get a bike ride in before the traffic clogs up the road and flirts with me....
I am so completely fired up about loosing 5lbs this month and inching closer to goal that I have no problem getting up and making this happen. yesterday I jogged 5.5 miles practicing a new method of run-walk-run, because I am about to make the executive decision on signing up for a half marathon in Feb down in florida....Adena has done it, and I want to do it!
I choose to loose this month, and I am upping the exercise to help get there!

[BLAZING IN FL]

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whew...i just finished reading everything i've missed...this forum rocks...i am so motivated and feel such support...it's just awesome. julie, you are so inspiring. i am really grateful and appreciative of you and your willingness to be such a strong leader and cheerleader for all of us...your enthusiasm is contagious.

three things i love about myself...
my sense of humor - music to my soul...laughing, enjoying the process and the journey...being able to relax and be real...these are some of the things my sense of humor does for me
my warm personality - being able to talk with people...not being afraid of emotion, whether it be mine or someone else's...being able to ask the tough questions, and face the difficult answers, both of myself and others...my father always tells me that this characteristic is a gift from my mother...i'll take it...these are some of the things my personality allows me
my intellect - i am proud that i am a ph.d. i love that i think and have opinions...i like being self-sufficient...

i would love to join any discussion about the dandr. i am putting the scale away now and will weigh again when the challenge ends. i am going to continue to measure weekly and i am going to post my exercise.

hope i'm caught up now. thanks for posting pics everyone. that's the only reason i posted mine. and doing that was very motivating. i'm really, really glad i did.

You look great, and i'm so glad you posted close enough to me with pics, that i don't feel too bad now...wasn't it hard to click on the "post reply" button? it took me about 15 minutes to get the nerve up to do it...hee hee By the way, I love your hair, i have curly hair, but it more like a birds nest friz curl, so i staighten it every day, and it still frizzy!!!

[BLAZING IN FL]

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Michelle, there is no flipping way you can be a size 14!!!!! I'm flabbergasted! I wore a 14 two sizes ago and I assure you, there is no way in blue bleeding **** I looked like that in a bikini!

As for your question: NO! My Friday night partying days are long behind me. <sigh>

It's true, that's my size, just a few days ago i could squeeze into a 12, but they were tight and it cut off my breathing....i have 4 pairs, tried them all, all too tight....maybe i'm shopping in the wrong stores...hee hee

[julirama723]

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Blazing and harmony--you ladies are GORGEOUS! I am so proud of you for posting those pics. I know what you mean about hitting the post reply button...I agonized over it for about 15 minutes the first time I posted, but it gets easier. I think both of you look great now, and I can't wait to see your labor day pics!

I hope everyone has a great weekend. I'll be refreshing my DANDR knowledge and thinking of some conversation topics. I hope you do the same! There are so many bits of knowledge in the book, it's easy to miss them. Good thing 46 heads are better than one!

[cutecourters]

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OK all, I'm back from my trip so I'm ready to go!
Start weight: 189.6
Measurements:
Chest: 38
Bust: 40.5
Ribs: 36
Waist: 35
Hip: 44.25
Thigh: 25.75
Arm: 13
Calf: 17.25

And I took pics last night but still not feeling confident enough to share those. Hopefully in 2 months I'll look so great that I will share them then.

[tmn]

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I hope everyone has a great weekend. I'll be refreshing my DANDR knowledge and thinking of some conversation topics. I hope you do the same! There are so many bits of knowledge in the book, it's easy to miss them. Good thing 46 heads are better than one!

LOL!!! Well, that just tickled my funny bone!

I read chapter one last night, then skipped way ahead to see what Dr. Atkins said about thyroids. He has an interesting body temperature test to determine if your thyroid may be underactive. Mine was low last night just before bed, even when I thought I was warm. So I'll be checking it the four times today, before meals and bed, just to get a good idea of what things look like before next Monday.

ANYway, about Chapter One... It always amazes me how so many health issues can be reversed eating this way. Why in the bleeding he** more of the medical community doesn't take this more seriously, I can only think the same as others here earlier - the industries making all the Frankenfoods are losing business. (And guess what, according to something I heard the other day, they still are because more and more people are choosing to eat healthier...) On another site I hang out at (non-diet), so many who have done Atkins have had serious problems like diabetes, cholesterol, high blood pressure, and more, turn around after low-carbing and working out. They get to the point of no longer needing expensive medicines just to get or keep things under control. All by simply eating differently!

I sat out there thinking what it would have been like to not even have the choices of frankenfoods throughout my life, especially the last 30 years when it was "low-fat"... Eating this way would be so "every day", "normal"... (Don't get me wrong - I do NOT advocate the government or any of its thousand meddling agencies dictating what we can and cannot eat!) I definitely want this to be normal, without second-thought. That fast-food restaurants and vending machines don't exist at all (let alone offer good foods) so I have to have my foods ready and with me, I suppose like they would have had in the 1800's, off to work but bring your meals with you if you want something to eat later. We've really become a society of quick meals when taking the "extra" time to make healthy foods is such "work". This was all probably normal as all get out decades ago.

I have some older recipe books. It amazes me how basic so many common recipes are. And undoubtedly cheaper, too. Yet, instead of making chicken stock and eventually chicken soup at home, we grab a can of it at the store. Well, the time I take to make foods is going to become the new "normal" from here on in. I want to know what's going in the foods as best as I can, although I still have to place some faith in others when it comes to fresh meats and all. (Quite suspicious of seafoods that may be coming from China...I look at EVERYTHING to determine if China had anything to do with the food...) Since I do have a decent freezer, I would like to be able to buy meats locally...

blah blah blah... How she carries on... LOL!!

I'll start reading Chapter Two today...

[sillygirl]

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BTW, I don't even own a bathing suit so no pics of me will be posted!

[julirama723]

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Terry, I know what you mean. Everything we've done to make our lives more "convenient" has actually made them more difficult.

Years and years ago, nobody went to the gym! There were no gyms. People were hard workers and did lots of manual work, like producing their own grain, raising stock, weaving, tailoring, blacksmithing, etc. People walked to town. People were in constant motion. Today's jobs leave us fat and flabby. We sit at a desk. We type. We take the elevator. We sit in traffic on our 2-hour drive to work. So now we have to work out everyday just to get our bodies to be as healthy as they used to be historically, when we had tough jobs.

And the food! Fast food was the chicken you had to catch after you cut off its head. Either you milked your own cow, or the milkman brought you your milk from the local dairy. People made their own bread and raised their own beef.

I loved reading Laura Ingalls Wilder's books. It was always so fascinating to me how simple life was, and how hard they worked. All their food was produced on-site, and rarely did they go to the store. And back then, people had common sense and skills that are lacking today. How many women have baked their own bread? How many men actually know how to split logs?

So here we sit in this technologically-advanced and super-unhealthy society. Everything is done for us, and we are helpless if the power goes out, or if a computer system malfunctions. Yet, we feed the fire by creating more brainless technology, and we become lazier each day.

Now, I'm not saying that we all need to stop shaving our armpits and go live in a commune somewhere, I'm just saying that people need to get back to basics at some point, and I think that eating healthy foods could be the first step.

[tmn]

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And the food! Fast food was the chicken you had to catch after you cut off its head. .

LOL!!!

Hey, I don't think I told anyone this - what happened the other day. I'll share this and then I have to scram and get busy here...

I had bought the stuff for Dom's Cheesecake, including the heavy cream. It sat out with the other stuff on the counter because I got distracted and didn't get it in the fridge right away. So later on, I'm getting ready to make the cheesecake, finally found the cream on the counter, and figured, nyeh!, it'll be ok. So I pour a cup into the mixing bowl and start whipping it with the electric beater. It's thickening up nicely, and I turn to look at something else while it's whipping. Suddenly, things got "bumpy", I look at it, and it's separating into a thicker mass that's stuck on the blades and a milky substance at the bottom of the bowl. No matter how hard I tried to get the two to mix, they just separated more and making a mess from splattering all over.

I FINALLY stopped and thought it through... What a knucklehead! Now I know why they say to make sure your cream is COLD before you whip it.

I had just made butter and milk out of my warm heavy cream...

[Discolemonade]

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Today is my normal weigh and measure day so here they are for the record:

Since 7/2- 5.9 inches lost
Since last weigh day 6/30 - 3 lbs lost and hopefully to never be found again

Shoulders-42.5- 42.5
Under arms-38.5-38
Across breast- 42-41.5
Under Breast- 34.5-34
Waist-32.5-32
Upper Hips-41-40.7
Lower Hips-44.5 -44
Upper thigh-26-25
Lower thigh-18-18
Knee-14-13.7
Calf-14.5-14.2
Upper bicep-14 -13.5
lower bicep-11.5-11
Forearm-9.5-9

[*Emma*]

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geez, i cant keep up in here!!

Just poppin in to say hello!! well done girls for posting piccies!! tisnt easy i know!! you all look great already!!

[julirama723]

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Disco, congrats on the 3 pounds and all those inches lost! WOW, 5.9 in ONE WEEK! That's excellent! I hope we can all follow your example.