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Thanks, Greg. Whether you get a chart or just a list of stats, it will be great. Congratulations on the news about becoming a grandpa! When will that be? That is awesome. :Bunny

We are freezing up in No. CA too, Lisa. It got down to 48 degrees. Brrrr.... That ocean breeze feels real cold. My friends are loving the hats. :D I think we might have to wait for the spring thaw for that nude photo. :D

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Lisa g, Nancy, Nana...welcome to the challenge.

I still need e-mail addresses. Don't make me name you here that your not co-operating LOL LOL Send them to me at above listed e-mail

I have a participant list ready and will e-mail it to everyone so you can see who's as interested in you to stay focused for the up coming Holidays.

DeLarla..."Full Monte" Lol. God didn't give me a Full Monte LOL...Although I have lost 8 1/2 inches off hips so rear view might be looking better LOL. Butt I can't see it. When I see your picture riding thru the dessert I'll post mine.

Also get rid of that snow before Dec. 6th.

Thanks Becky... I am very excited about being grandpa. Kids stopped by after church for a while and I was already try to schedule myself in for babysitting time. LOL Daughter in law says she's worried about me LOL. Afraid I'll show up and steal the kid. LOL hmmmmmmm where could I hide???

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Oops, was today the day we were supposed to start something? Hmm, I looked outside at the rain and made a cup of xtra sweet cappucino. How does that convert to calories burned? I did get angry at husband's clothes all over the house so that's gotta burn something (prolly brain cells with my luck.)

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1:05 walking the dog, fast. . . I am so ready for this, I really need extra motivation over the holidays. Last year I gained 10 lbs. in the last six weeks of the year. I'd love to LOSE 10 lbs., but I'd be happy if I simply didn't gain anything this time around. I'm starting weight-training today, just a little bit at a time, hoping to lose my bingo arms by next summer.

Greg, at the rate you're going, it won't be long before you'll be able to hide behind a birch tree, grandchild and all.

DeLarla, we Upper Midwesterners do not want to hear how cold 42 degrees is. In November, that's warm to us. And by the end of the challenge in January, it will seem absolutely tropical. Put on a sweater and suck it up!

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Well, I just volunteered to help walk a disabled man's dog four days a week. So that should help keep me going.

Lisa, um. . .I'm going to send you the definition of exercise. Now, exercising your options may have actually added brain cells, but getting mad at your husband burned them, so you're back to square one! Love your "Science experiment" label. You are so funny. But truly with this band and a few other bionic parts I sometimes feel like a science experiement, too.

Nancy

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It got down to 29 degrees in my part of Oregon last night so no more whining from the Desert rat direction. LOL. Glad to see everyone join this challenge! Teresa

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You guys just don't understand how the air is different in DeLarla's part of the country -- and mine. Or maybe just how smart we are not to live in the frozen wastelands. :D

Off I go to exercise, options and all. :D

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Y'all are use to that cold weather though. When I lived up in the cold it didn't bother me as much, but since I moved down here, I can't take any cold at all. It gets 40 degrees and I freeze to death!

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Yeah, Betty and Teresa are cold, too! Really, I do feel sorry for you peeps who are in the icy regions. It must be hard to exercise when your nasal passage freeze over. Ouch! Be sure to wear your hats!

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Let me modify my excuse: I love the cold, and I love the rain. But I'm NOT allowed to walk without my dogs (they won't stand for that.) And they'd be soaking wet when we got home and would stink up my house and furniture worse than it already is. If that excuse doesn't work, then I'll go with old-fashioned laziness. Off to a bad start on this challenge, plus I'm going on another road-trip to California Wednesday. How am I gonna drive 10 hours without all the good junk food munching?

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That cold stuff isn't fit fer humans! That's meant for moose!

That's why I haven't posted an avatar photo -- a drawing of Bullwinkle is close enough!

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OK, OK, I'll do it. My three-month bandiversary is the day after Thanksgiving; I'll post my horrid before picture, along with a current one I'll get taken over the next few days (not, however, while I'm draped over a recliner suffering from tryptophan overdose). Consider yourselves warned.

Back on topic, it's not too late to join the exercise challenge. See how much you can move between now and Jan. 3! Check Greg's recent post for details.

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