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OK, so my weight is up this morning. I knew it would be. I officially weigh 170. Ok there. Now to get the scales moving in the right direction again. Everyone have a great week!!

OK, I am really gearing up to get back on track with this thing. I have thought of something new I am going to do. I am going to weigh every Monday morning and that's it. Here's the kicker...Each Monday when I weigh I will adjust my ticker to my actual weight, even if it is up. I am 7 or 8 pounds above my ticker weight. I have got to get real with myself, and my ticker needs to reflect where I REALLY am. I think this will help motivate me. Anyone want to join me with a ticker update in the morning. A fresh start we might say. I don't want to have to lose 7 pounds before any of it "counts". ANy takers??

Next time I think we should do a team challenge. All of us against Whosya! LOL Whosya I'm glad you are such a good sport. We just pick on you because you are a man and because you kick butt!! But......you better watch out! Here we come!!!! Man, I'm good at talking trash. Now to back it up!!

I check her blog and she hasn't blogged since the end of October. I am really concerned about her. I hope she is doing ok. I don't have her email to invite her, but I will PM her and see if she wants to join us. Great idea. BTW, Did you really have to show the results of that last challenge. LOL Man, did you ever kick my butt. It won't be so easy this time!!

Jachut, I didn't know that 8km and relaxed could be in the same sentence. LOL Great job!! I did a 5 mile runwalk this morning!!

OK, I am so sorry I have procrastinated setting this up, but the challenge is set up and ready to go. You should receive an email inviting you to the challenge. All you have to do is accept the challenge and then log your runs. You will be able to click on my challenges and see everyones progress. I noticed when I set this up that we can do team challenges as well. That might be fun to do sometime. We could break up into a couple of teams and then work together to reach our goals. Anyway, here is who I have set up for the challenge: Myself Kathybad GeorgiaGirl Whosya eclipse MacMadame, when you get set up PM me and I will try and add you to the challenge. If I missed anyone let me know and I will add you, or if anyone that is on the list doesn't get an invite let me know and i will try and fix it. Happy Running!! BTW, I did a 5 mile walkrun with a friend this morning and survived it. Too bad it wasn't tomorrow morning!!

I'm back!! PS is well over so I can't use that excuse anymore. I am officially getting my butt back in gear. 5 mile run planned for in the morning.

A running buddy of mine called today and asked if I would do a 5 mile run with her in the morning. OMGosh!! She will be at my house at 7:15 in the morning. She said we could walk/run. We are running outside. I hope I can hang!!

I PROMISE I will set up the challenge tonight or tommorow so we can definately start on Monday. I have not been running either so it is going to kick my butt too. Well, at least I am in great company!!

Happy New Year everyone!!!! I haven't set up the Nike+ challenge yet. I am going to set it up to start on Manday the 5th. Macmadame may have hers to start then. BTW, you can go ahead and set up an account and then send me your email and Nike+user id and then I can add you to the challenge and you will just start when you get your Nike+. Anyway, I am going to start it on Monday and it will go for 21 days. Enjoy the weekend everybody!!

Welcome back Leslie!! We missed you! DH and I have done a Jillean Micheal video each of the past 3 mornings. We are both so sore we can hardly move. I am goign to add running to that on the 1st. All of you Nike+ people, I am going to set up a challenge to begin on the first and end on the 21st. Since it takes 21 days to form a habit, I figure that is a good place to start. So...send me you email address and userid for Nike+ and I would love to add you to our challenge. Whosya and Kathy I have yalls. It does feel good to be back on track. The holidays were great, but it is very refreshing to get them behind. It is so ahrd to make good food choices during the holidays. Everyone is doing so well. I can't wait to run outside again either. You guys are the best!!

Kathy, ON the challenge we finished today, Whosya did 43 miles and I did 3. Ok, that is REALLY bad. You will be kickin my butt. I have got to get it in gear. Anyone who has nike plus and wants to do a challenge pm me your email address and I will see if I can figure out how to set one up!! I am soooo excited. Maybe combined we can beat Whosya. LOL!!

What can I say that hasn't already been said! YOU LOOK GREAT!!! Have a great Christmas!!

Very cool Kathy. I love it!! I am already looking at bills thinking, Why why why do we spend so much at Christmas and then have to play catch up. I didn't spend near as much this year, but I am allready feeling the strain of spending more than I had!! I like the idea of making gifts. Maybe that's what we will do next year. Thanks for sharing!!

We are really cutting back on spending this year as well. I got this cool idea from my sister. I usually buy LOTS for dalton at Christmas. It really is ridiculous. Anyway, this year we are getting 3 gifts for each kid and for each other. Why 3?? Because the wise men brought 3 gifts to Baby Jesus. We always read the Christmas story each year, but this year we are going to incorporate more of our gift giving around celebrating the ultimate gift that was given to us. We are really struggling on 1 income right now. There is no overtime and it jsut seems to be a hard time of the year. In a way though, it is really good because it has caused me to put everything in perspective. Less is sometimes more!!

Ok maybe I'm a weirdo, but I would want Jillian. She just looks awesome and so tough. Bob looks too much like a softy and played into the drama a little much.

The Biggest Loser was VERY motivating. I did my jillean Michael video this morning and just didn't have enough left to run. I thought about running tonight, but my legs are really sore. I am trying not to do so much that I burn myself out again. Anyway, Jillian today, runnning tommorow.

WOOOOHOOOO!!!!! I AM SOO PUMPED!!! I loved watching Vicki lose as much as watching Michelle win. Michelle looked beautiful. I am so proud for her. Phil and Amy looked great as well. I was really hoping that Amy(red) would beat Heba because of the way Heba treated Phil. ANyway, Phil and Amy looked really good. The other Amy looked great as well. This finale was so motivating. I can't wait to lose the last 15 stubborn pounds!!

Glad low carb is going well for you Georgia!! You know, I don't think it matters which "plan" we choose, jsut as long as we do something. I have spent too long doing nothing!! I know we can do this. After all, we've done it before!!

I ran on the treadmill today too. I hate it. It seems like it takes twice as long to complete my run. As for deconditioning, I haven't found that to be an issue for me. Just make sure that you push yourself each time. It is easy to get complaicant on the treadmill. Don't get me wrong. I started this whole thing with the treadmill and wouldn't have been as successful without it, but once I got brave enough to carry my runs outdoors I have had a love/hate relationship with my treadmill.

OK Kathy, I am with you!! Today was my aha morning. I woke up and thought, "What the @*^# are you doing." Enough is enough. So, not tomorrow, not next week, not after christmas, I am refocused today. Right now!!! I just did a 5K run. My time was 35 minutes. It felt so good to run. No more crap food for me. I (we) have worked to hard to quite just short of the finish line. How crazy would it have been when we ran our 5K's if we had stopped just shy of finishing because we were tired. I don't think so. Well, we can't do it here either. JOIN ME LADIES!!! IT"S TIME TO PUT ON OUR BIG GIRL PANTIES AND GET IT DONE!!!!!

I have not run today, or more than once in the past 7 weeks. I WILL RUN TOMORROW!!!!! I let you beat me the first time. I have got to get with it!! Good job on the mini tri. That is really cool. I WILL RUN TOMORROW...I WILL RUN TOMORROW...I WILL RUN TOMORROW...I WILL RUN TOMORROW...

I got your challenge and clicked on the link, but it is not showing up under challenges on my nikeplus. I don't know what the deal is. If it doesn't show up tommorow I will see if I can send you a challenge. Don't worry, I have only run once since my surgery and it was only 2.5 miles. I won't be doing any super long runs inititally anyway. I just REALLY need to get motivated to get going again.

LOL Kathy!! Today I decided that I HAVE to have my house clean and I am just not getting it done. I called my mom and asked her to pay her cleaning lady to clean my house for part of my Christmas present. She did it!!! We went to a Christmas party tonight and came home to a clean house!!!!! Maybe I can keep it that way now. I just HATE cleaning house!!

Whosya, Set me up for another Nike+ challenge. I am ready and nothing is stopping me this time. LOL