Chunky Dunker’s Night!

Good evening!

Chunky Dunkers is a weekly weight loss/get fit support group that meet here online every Wednesday evening to get the opportunity to comment, and cheer each other as you each go through your journey to get fit and healthy!!! We will discuss hints, tips, and ideas on losing weight, staying motivated, and achieving your fitness goals, whether that is to lose 5 pounds, to do 10 sit-ups, or just incorporate some healthy habits into your daily life!!

As always, everyone and anyone is welcome to join us, or you may feel free to just quietly follow along. I look forward to hearing about all of your successes!

This week I have had my proverbial ear to the railroad tracks all week looking for some creative hints, tips and ideas to help us in our weight loss/get fit journey this week, and I think I found 4 really JUICY ones, that I just couldn’t WAIT to share with you tonight!!!

  1. When you get to your first 5 pound loss, or even 10 pound for that matter, and you feel like you still have SOOOOO MUCH to lose, go purchase a 5 or a 10 pound bag of potatoes and carry them around in a backpack all day. You will realize, soon enough, what great progress you are making!! Those 5 pound increments really add up!!
  2. Too embarrased to work out in front of anyone else, or more like my current complaint “It’s too hot!” Try jogging in place! That counts toward burning those calories too! and if that is too much try marching in place, or just stand instead of sit to watch the tele!!
  3. I stumbled across someone’s idea of charting a destination on a map, and seeing if you could “walk” to that location in a certain time-frame. For example could I walk to, say..Portland, Oregon (45 miles) in a month, and start tracking your progress on a map. Once you get to your first destination, choose the next, and so forth. How long do you think it would take to walk across the US??
  4. and finally, my Sweetie did this tonight at dinner, take a chicken breast and slice it in half horizontally, so it looks like you are eating two small chicken breast instead of one cut in half ! TOTALLY FOOLED ME!! That man is a genius!!! 😉

Do you have any ideas you would like to share?? Please do so in the comment section above.

Now, before I join you in the comments section for our weekly get-together, I wanted to make sure that I share my 5 Gratitudes with you for the day!

  1. I am thankful to have a husband who is happy in his new job – that is so REFRESHING to come home to!! 😉
  2. I am thankful for Kelly Rae Robert’s online class, “Flying Lessons” – it is re-awakening my sense of hope!
  3. I am still so thankful for my girlfriends at work!! Seriously, they can make ANYTHING fun!!
  4. I am thankful for my daddy! I have been thinking about him a lot lately, and I have to confess just the thought of him makes me smile with giddyness!! I love you, Daddy!! 😉
  5. I am thankful that God is helping me find work/life balance! Life is waaaay  more fun when you aren’t swimming in the mire of trying to please the whole-wide-world!! 😉

Have a FABULOUS evening!! ;-)

230 thoughts on “Chunky Dunker’s Night!”

      1. Christina Post author

        I know that is a hard one! You know it’s not good for you, but it has 0 calories!! I just try not to keep soda around, but that is not always sooo easy!! 😉

  6. Christina Post author

    I have been walking more, and watching what I am eating, which is good! I am down one pound from last week, I will take it!! 😉 I will back in belly dancing tomorrow evening! I am stressing about it, because it is just SO DANG hot, and there is NOOOO AIR CONDITIONING there!! I don’t know, I may chicken out AGAIN!! 😉 I just HATE heat!! 😉

  7. Christina Post author

    I have been walking more, and watching what I am eating, which is good! I am down one pound from last week, I will take it!! 😉 I will back in belly dancing tomorrow evening! I am stressing about it, because it is just SO DANG hot, and there is NOOOO AIR CONDITIONING there!! I don’t know, I may chicken out AGAIN!! 😉 I just HATE heat!! 😉

  8. Jason E. Lenz

    I hear ya there on the heat. I got no A/C in my truck, no fan at work, and no shade most of the time. I do get to stand in the storage rooms and melt while I work at removing the doors. I sweat like a pig, did I ever tell you that.

    1. Christina Post author

      I have been around when you first get home – pee-ew!! I wish there was something we could do to fix that for you – like a portable fan or something!!

  9. Jason E. Lenz

    I hear ya there on the heat. I got no A/C in my truck, no fan at work, and no shade most of the time. I do get to stand in the storage rooms and melt while I work at removing the doors. I sweat like a pig, did I ever tell you that.

      1. Jennifer Basso-Benson

        I asked for ten inches cut off. She didnt wet my hair down before cutting the ponytail. So I went home to measure my hair. It was fourteen inches plus another two inches to even my hair out.

      2. Christina Post author

        Holy Moly, Sis! Is it to your shoulders? Chin?? Ear?? Do you have a buzz cut??

        No matter what – it will grow back so fast and you did do it for a good cause!!

        I’m proud of you!!

  16. Jason E. Lenz

    Oh man, yeah that’s definitely something to be grateful for. However we can’t cook eggs on the sidewalk…but then who needs eggs and gum-from-some-guys-shoe for breakfast. lol

  17. Jason E. Lenz

    Oh man, yeah that’s definitely something to be grateful for. However we can’t cook eggs on the sidewalk…but then who needs eggs and gum-from-some-guys-shoe for breakfast. lol

      1. Alexa Moody

        It was Taco Hell for us tonight. I want a salad so bad, but tapped my resources. But our boss is buying us all lunches in both offices on Friday. I get to have a BBQ Salmon salad! I chose that over a Salmon BLT with fries. I was being good!

  28. Alexa Moody

    I haven’t heard anymore…so someone is messing around. We are in the middle of our monsoon season. You get some killer sand/dust storms rolling in, thunder and lightening, rain sometimes. It is so cool to see a wall of sand coming your way. It’s like the MUMMY

    1. Christina Post author

      That is when you would see me curled in the fetal position, sucking my thumb, and crying for my mommy! Have I ever told you, I really hate storms???

  29. Alexa Moody

    I haven’t heard anymore…so someone is messing around. We are in the middle of our monsoon season. You get some killer sand/dust storms rolling in, thunder and lightening, rain sometimes. It is so cool to see a wall of sand coming your way. It’s like the MUMMY

    1. Christina Post author

      That is when you would see me curled in the fetal position, sucking my thumb, and crying for my mommy! Have I ever told you, I really hate storms???

      3. Alexa Moody

        OH don’t be so hard on yourself. I like storms as long as I am inside. BUT I HATE HATE HATE waking up to thunder. It scares the shizzle out of me.

    1. Alexa Moody

      Chris and I are living at a hotel that also does extend a stay type deals. I pay 21.99 plus taxes daily. So I spent 683.00 for a month. That’s good considering maid service once a week, and all the A/C I want and some cable tv.

      2. Alexa Moody

        Only thing is …the queen bed sucks! Next payday I am going to get an air mattress to put on top of the bed. My co-worker lent me her air mattress yesterday.. only I didn’t know it was 2 feet tall! I could not climb up on the bed. So we deflated it. LOL

  33. Jason E. Lenz

    That’s cool Sis. But does it have a kitchen? It’s really hard to eat right when you have to eat out all the time. BTW tell Chris I miss him. I can’t wait for winter Break so we can see him again. You wouldn’t believe the Room addition at Nette’s. Its getting close.

    1. Alexa Moody

      Yes there is a small kitchen with a fridge, two burner stove and a microwave. No oven…that is a bit hard. So I cannot make baked chicken or anything. It’s so damned hot though that I just want salads right now anyways.
      WOW! I cannot wait to see pics!
      Chris really misses you all up there too. He actually would prefer to move back up there. He wants to be with Nette and her family and school up there. I think he misses his church functions too.

    2. Christina Post author

      Yes, I haven’t been over since everything was still plywood. It sounds like they have done a lot of work on that place so far!!

  34. Jason E. Lenz

    That’s cool Sis. But does it have a kitchen? It’s really hard to eat right when you have to eat out all the time. BTW tell Chris I miss him. I can’t wait for winter Break so we can see him again. You wouldn’t believe the Room addition at Nette’s. Its getting close.

    1. Alexa Moody

      Yes there is a small kitchen with a fridge, two burner stove and a microwave. No oven…that is a bit hard. So I cannot make baked chicken or anything. It’s so damned hot though that I just want salads right now anyways.
      WOW! I cannot wait to see pics!
      Chris really misses you all up there too. He actually would prefer to move back up there. He wants to be with Nette and her family and school up there. I think he misses his church functions too.

    1. Alexa Moody

      WORK IS FANTASTIC!!! My title is not only loan officer assist, team coordinator, but add marketing manager too now. I have to learn about his blog type and style so that I can master how to work his blog. I am in charge of it. He has a webdesigner to finish up his website and I just set him up on Twitter and a fan page on FB too. He and I will be going to some social media conferences and I am going to have him pay for a class me to learn some more. WE ARE READY TO ROCK THE MORTGAGE WORLD!

    1. Christina Post author

      Yes, that would be nice! Oh, and two twin beds would be fine, if I get to choose my firmness – I thought you wanted two air mattresses!

    1. Christina Post author

      I don’t know what the Genesis framework is, but I do have a WordPress blog! as you well know! So if you have questions that I can answer, I would be happy to help!

      1. Alexa Moody

        He chose the design/framework thru the wordpress. The title on top of our blog says AGENTPRESS. Driving us nuts trying to figure out how to change it.
        Now I did post on my blog yesterday. I need to sit down and do some more on it because I am missing it.

    1. Christina Post author

      I don’t know what the Genesis framework is, but I do have a WordPress blog! as you well know! So if you have questions that I can answer, I would be happy to help!

      1. Alexa Moody

        He chose the design/framework thru the wordpress. The title on top of our blog says AGENTPRESS. Driving us nuts trying to figure out how to change it.
        Now I did post on my blog yesterday. I need to sit down and do some more on it because I am missing it.

  47. Katrina Basso

    So I didn’t do that well this week. I have had more water, which is what I should have, but I didn’t do much walking, other than what I do at work. And I also had soda this week.

    1. Christina Post author

      That is ok, sis! just don’t let it kick your booty, so you don’t do anything more!! Keep going – especially when it is tough!

      2. Christina Post author

        It should really be a national holiday on my birthday!! I may have to start a petition!!

        Ok, so maybe it will only be a holiday on Christinaville!! But isn’t that all that matters???

    1. Katrina Basso

      I wish I could do that. I am mostly up front helping customers. We did have one night that we worked late and we played music really loud for a few hours while we worked. We all started dancing around the store. It was so much fun.

    1. Christina Post author

      Oh, Jennifer seemed to have left earlier because whenever she was refreshing her screen to see the new comments – they weren’t refreshing. She is saying that Trina is having that problem now too!

  81. Nette

    Great Wolfe lodge, 5 floors of magicval wand game, where mommy followed Morgan up and down, up and down…no wait it was upp 2 more flights….for hours yesterday and today. Then to get on teh fun rides….slides… yuo had to go up….so can we say my thighs are screaming

  82. Nette

    Great Wolfe lodge, 5 floors of magicval wand game, where mommy followed Morgan up and down, up and down…no wait it was upp 2 more flights….for hours yesterday and today. Then to get on teh fun rides….slides… yuo had to go up….so can we say my thighs are screaming

  86. Christina Post author

    Well, Ladies, and gent who has already actually left! I have some homework I have to do for an online class I am taking, soooo I am going to say good night until next week!!!

    Keep up the good work, and don’t give up! We can do it!! GO CHUNKY DUNKERS!!! 😉

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