Now THAT'S what I call dedication!!! YOU GO GIRL!! Thanks for supporting all of us!!

Hey Jess! Hope you had a GREAT BIRTHDAY yesterday!

JESSSS....I HAVE to wish YOU a "BELATED BIRTHDAY"!!!!...I HOPE that you had the BESTTTT time ever!!! AND that you continue it.....for at LEAST a week!!!

LOVE yourself, because you are a BEAUTIFUL soul, and I can SMELL the GOOD STUFF in ya woman!!! .....I LOVE how you are soooo motivated, to KEEP GOING, don't stop, and reflect, and learn from yourself, and others!

....you are truly a BEAUUUUTIFUL person inside and out, and ANYONE in your mere presence is a LUCKY INDIVIDUAL!!!....meeee included


...LUV u JESS....thank you for the SUPPORT and LOVE you shoot my WAY!!!
...I took TONNNNNNS of shots for you this weekend too just in case you didn't get enough yourself!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR JESS!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!!

Hope you had a great one!!! Mwuah!

I hope you had a great birthday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm sure you're sleeping off some wild party!!!! Good luck this week!!!

Hey Jess, stoppin' in to say hi! How's it going this week?

Hey girl! Hope you are doing well!!!

Sooo I AM still here, just been a really busy week, and altho I've been posting in the club forum, I haven't had a ton of time to get over here..

Thanks everyone for the birthday wishes! Had a lot of fun, really didn't drink as much as I thought I would, ate at Red Lobster(NOT the healthy stuff either, lol) but it was good. Besides, I'm getting old, so I can't drink the way I used to

Its bout 230am, so I'm gonna make this a quicker post, just to update this weeks workouts:
Sunday- 30min cardio(15eliptical, 15treadmill) and back
Monday- 15min elip, 15min tread., and legs(bleh!! my legs always feel like jello for days after the leg day)
Tuesday- 15min elip, 15min tread, and chest
Wednesday- 20min eliptical, 15min treadmill, and shoulders.

Food has been pretty friggin good this week- with the exception of nachos at Fuddruckers on Monday- but I haven't gone to Dairy Queen for a blizzard at ALL this week, which for me is amazing cuz well, when its hot I use ice cream as an excuse, lol, but the truth is, I just love ice cream but I've been eating yogurt if I really need something sweet, and I'm not a yogurt fan, the texture makes me wanna gag, bleh! but I HAVE found a few low fat flavors that will work for the now and then type craving.

So since we've started this competition, I have worked pretty hard- going to the gym five nights a week, eating healthier, taking my vitamins, etc., and I've lost a total of five pounds Its so frustrating to see nothing happening when someone as big as me should be losing it a lot faster! But I keep going, because I'm not gonna let a big goose egg shut me down, even if it IS depressing as hell... So anyway, this girl comes into my store today, wants to buy diet pills(shes bout 5ft, 130ish?) and she says shes miserable, because she use to be size ZERO(psh. must be nice) and 100 lbs, which is fairly healthy for her, and then one day, her weight starts going crazy, just gains and gains, even with exercise and diet, and her dr. tells her its her thyroid. She's telling me this stuff and its freakin me out cuz I've never had a problem with losing weight before, and now I get five lbs in like seven weeks?? I'm thinking maybe I'm gonna do some research on thyroid probs, see if I'm crazy or if I might have a problem, cuz nothings happening. And I wanna lose like 30 lbs before Vegas.... Sooo we'll see I guess!

Sorry I missed your birthday Jess! I apologize.

Do you track your food on fitday? That helps a lot with droping the pounds I think. I read that people who record their food intake daily lose twice as much weight as people who don't. Going to the Dr and making sure things are ok wouldn't hurt either though.

I'm sure I'd be SHOCKED at what I'm consuming fat and calorie wise if I did this!!!!

Jess hun, I feel your frustration! You are a hard worker no doubt! I would definitely check into the thyroid thing...

I would be interested to see what you are eating too cuz you're killin' it in the gym! Keep your chin up... you'll figure it out (and we're here to help)!

I bring my trusty palm pilot with me EVERYWHERE! I track everything- no joke, we have these chewable fish oils at work(sound creepy, but they are sooo good!!) and each one has 25cals, and I track down to the last chewy fish oil. Fat intake is never really high, calories are between 1500 and 1750 consistently(other than the few screw ups that I have here and there) and I try to eat lots of lean protein and fiber... its just bizarre! I'm just gonna hafta step it up I guess..

So yesterday I DID cheat a bit- went to the China Buffet with my sister, ohhh man! I had like seven crab puffs. And then afterwards, i went to the gym and worked my ass off!! I weigh in tomorrow morning "officially", so we'll see if my one cheat day killed me.

I'm probably going to go out tonight, but I won't be drinking, mostly cuz I can't afford it, but I also don't need it. Ya know how some times you just FEEL like having a few drinks? Eh. Not this weekend... I'm so desperate to see some loss that I'm willing to sacrifice the boozin

Work is killin me right now to. One of my employees is leaving next week for college, and I've had exactly TWO people apply- one is an absolute NO, not a chance, see ya later, and the other one is a football player for Rocky, so he has this crazy ass schedule that would be harder than hell to work around.. I had another guy come in today to get an app and hes BUILT, very personable, think he would be a great sales person, the only thing that bothers me, lol, and this is JUST me being a freaktard, is he shaves his head and he has an uncanny resemblance to a cross between Mr. T and Mr. Clean. Hmm. But if it covers the shifts, I'm willing!

Anyway, gonna go dig my little stairstepper outta the closet for this weeks bonus- I have three steps, and I don't think thats gonna work to well, lol.

That's awesome. I wish you were my boss. Hahahahaha Seriously. Good job with the bonus workout this week, you're going to GET IT this week! We all are. Crunch time!!!!!!!!! Not like doing crunches...it's really late. haha Good luck!

So the other night when I went out, I DID drink half of a red beer. So overall, not horrible. When I did my weigh in on Saturday, I was down 1lb, yay! Its moving slower than I'd like, but its moving at least.

Yesterday it was high 90s here, and I sat in my backyeard for about six hours sanding baseboard moldings, lol. I know I've said it before, but I weigh myself alllll the time, can't help it, and last night it said I was down four lbs... I know its just water and that at the end of the week I'll be lucky to drop two lbs, but that four really excited me!
The gym was 30min on the elliptical, 1.87miles, and legs. bleh.

Congrats on the loss! Any movement in the downward direction is good movement in my book.

Happy belated birthday!

Your gym drive makes me jealous! I'm going to try to be as dedicated as you to going, since I just started back...