I dare ya! I double dare ya!

Is there anyone who's roughly at the same place I am (70-100 lbs. to go, 1-6 months after banding, 35-55 yrs. old) who'll take up a challenge from me? Oh, hell, I'll challenge anybody!

Weigh in on Nov. 22 (the 41st anniversary of the JFK assassination), check in again on Jan. 3 (first Monday of the new year). Only rule is: no fasting or other insane food deprivation. Or, if you want, we can have a straight exercise challenge on the honor system; you set the terms, whether it's miles, steps, minutes, etc. One-on-one, in the street, you vs. me. Come on, you competitive bandsters, just try to kick my ass! (Mind you, that's a big target.)

Michelle, consider your ass officially kicked by a pair of size 11 combat boots! That goes for you, too, Penni. Shopping can count as exercise if you're doing a lot of walking and weight-lifting. Just walk around the block so you can tell yourself you did something.

Walked fast (without the dog) for 45 mins. this morning; hope to do more this afternoon, since our office is closing early. Eat my dust!

ZOE OUCH that HURT!!!!!!! OK I got up this morning and did a 60 min walk (3 miles). Happy now??? I know I feel much better for having done that. WHOO HOO!!

Come on Michelle you gotta get in the groove for the 5K walk in March. Get it in gear.

Penni - Glad to see you are feeling better!

Way to go, Penni! I'm satisfied . . . for the moment. No lollygagging, maggots!

I'm signing off for Thanksgiving; hope everyone has a safe, sane, and fun weekend. I started off with a big food bang when I went to a carnitas (roast pig) restaurant for lunch with some co-workers and had three small tortillas. Almost PBd on the last one -- luckily everyone else was doing shots of tequila so they didn't notice.

Teresa, that chocolate dessert sounds heavenly -- sometimes "too rich" can be just right. Isn't it great to have things like that as a special treat and not a staple? I made a chocolate cake last night and was amazed to find I only wanted one tiny section of the bittersweet bar that went in it. Who is this person? I used to buy double whatever the recipe called for so I could OD on chocolate.

I promise to keep exercising over the weekend, pumpkin pie and all; I know that a working body, however flawed, is one of the greatest gifts I have among the many many things for which I'm thankful. Let's knock each other out with our post-holiday reports! Happy Thanksgiving.

To everyone who is traveling this Holiday I wish you a safe and enjoyable trip. To the ones staying home and doing the entertaining Have a good holiday.

Watch those calories. Have a feeling not many are going to be happy sending me their readings this coming Monday but remember. Face the facts lol and send the results.

God bless all be good and eat lite

My dogs took me for a 2 mile walk tonight. Boy, bicycling sure is easier!

No official exercise today, but it's 1 a.m. and I'm still putting the house back together after painting and laying a new floor. I'm pooped!

Everyone have a very lovely holiday.

MAY YOUR STUFFING BE TASTY, MAY YOUR TURKEY BE PLUMP.

MAY YOUR POTATOES 'N GRAVY HAVE NARY A LUMP,

MAY YOUR YAMS BE DELICIOUS,

MAY YOUR PIES TAKE THE PRIZE,

MAY YOUR THANKSGIVING DINNER

STAY OFF OF YOUR THIGHS.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Boy what a battle.

Started out with the turkey being stuffed in the morning and me being stuffed at nite.

BUT I won...I'm still here...poor turkey.

I refuse to peek at the scale. Afriad it may put me in a tailspin. Plus it takes a few days for food to sometime register on that darn scale anyway. SO its intense time on treadmill for the weekend. If I can come out of this with no weight gain on Monday it will a miracle.

(Becky is snickering lol)

Me too! I must say I enjoyed my dinner! My weight doesn't show for a few day either, I think I would prefer it show up right away instead of letting me think I got away with something!

Hey,

In case you haven't already seen this site go to www.fitday.com.

Great way to track your dialy food and exercise. And its free. There is a downloadable version for $19.00 and it provides more for you but so far the free site works good. Just opened up my account there and got breakfast oloaded in LOL. Glad I didn't start yesterday.

I went up to Walmart this morning, I thought I would beat the crowd, I thought they would all go to the good stores for their specials. WRONG! You couldn't move, you couldn't get up and down an isle, people were rude and I couldn't stand it! I thought, where is the holiday mood? I can guarantee you it wasn't at Walmart today! I only had a couple of things in my basket, I almost put it back, but went to the check out and got through fairly fast since I could go into a speedy one. I left there and went to Sam's, which was almost empty, and I loved it! I decided then that the best thing I can do is go home! lol

Anyway, I think I should extra exercise in just for fighting the crowds! Especially since they were so nasty!

I feel like I have a hangover! And I don't. It is definitely the day after. I am not snickering one little bit, Greg. I ate too much. I did too much and none of it was exercise, and I really don't feel like moving off the couch.

We had a lovely day with the family and I WILL exercise today. I lost 5 pounds in the last month, which is my lowest yet. I am determined to lose that much this month, regardless of the holidays. Heaven help me when it is time to make fudge. :rolleyes

Figs stuffed with chocolate, pumpkin pie, chocolate cheesecake. . . OK, I didn't each huge slabs of the stuff, but eat it I did, and not just itsy-bitsy morsels either. Nary a complaint from the band, which instead graced me with a multiple PB at noon, hours before the real dinner started, for not chewing enough on a teeny piece of roast beef. Oh well. I walked the dog for an hour today, and over an hour through the Indiana dunes with friends yesterday... I'm not looking forward to the Monday weigh-in (especially since I'm going to yet another dinner tonight, and tomorrow), but I can say -- like a lot of us, I bet -- that I'm not eating as much as I used to. At least we're having fun over Thanksgiving, instead of trying to stay on an insane diet or else gorging ourselves beyond full. So let's hold our heads high on Monday morning and look at that nasty scale. We're living, not dieting, and we'll get through the holidays no matter what.

I cooked the whole Thanksgiving meal by myself over the last two days. Yesterday I was inside cooking all day, so no exercise. I splurged a bit at the Thanksgiving meal, but not much. I gave away all of the dangerous food to my relatives. But nobody would take the pies (3). I threw two away this morning, but the third one is still sitting in the fridge. And it's calling me. I feel as though with all that giving away and throwing away, I've just run out of discipline. And I didn't exercise today either, which is what worries me the most. Because I've been into exercising before and I've learned that all it takes is a few days of not exercising and I'm out of the habit again. Tomorrow is a new day, I know. I'm determined to get back on track, but I'm also a little concerned.

Nancy