Does anyone want to play "Biggest Loser" with me? I sound like a little kid trying to rally friends to play Red Rover or something. ("Come play at my house!!!") But I need my competitive streak to pull me through this stagnation I keep wallowing in.
The goal would be for us to track our calories (a minimum of 1200/day) and do some sort of daily exercise (aerobic and strength training combination). Then, each week we'll post our percentages lost.
So, here's the deal:
1. We start Sunday, so get yourself prepared.
2. Please let me know if you're interested so I don't feel like no one's playing with me (I hate being the loner kid on the playground). If you really aren't into it, that's cool. You can tell me that too.
3. We need to figure out what the Biggest Loser gets. The winner needs something. Right?
4. How long should we compete? Three months? More?
5. Take a before picture and at the end we'll do after pics. (You won't have to show them, but it will help us track our progress.)
Wanna do this??? Please???
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I WILL be taking a BEFORE picture in the privacy of my own home--on my digital Camera--where it will stay!
ONLY when I am happy with the END picture will I post it.
I have never been too shy about my weight (except to my husband)--so all you virtual real people out there......
this is my before picture--True Aprons make anyone look a little chubbier, but I thougth this one was a good show of how wide I have before.
According to my Wii as of 15 minutes ago....
23.18 is my BMI
and I weigh 139 (I actually fluctuate about 5 pounds through out the month!)--so I normally weigh closer to 142.
GOALS: By the End of the Body Challenge---I want--
+To weigh about 127 at my heaviest times of the month (remember my body changes alot through out the month).
+Fit into size six clothes (and squeeze into size 4's maybe!) and have my "skinny clothes" box out of the closet.
+Loose inches from my body---Arms, tummy, hips, thighs, neck (double chin).
+Have a BMI of about 22
How will I accomplish this goal?
+eat health meals---Get the reciepes and ingrediance each week so I don't have to think about it!
+work out---I have an OLD spinning bike---I need to clean it up and drag it in from the garage and use it. I have the elipicale sitting in my bedroom (yes with one shirt hanging on it). and I have my workout video's and the Wii...plus I learned if I find songs that have a fun dance to them ---Singles Ladies, Thriller, and so on---If I put them on Youtube and dance for 1/2 hour I am sweating and having fun! I have the opportunity to work out, I just need to do it! If I pay for classes, or if I am getting a grade I work out regularly---maybe I will keep a jar (with the lid glued on--and every time I work out I pay the jar ($2.00)--then when I reach my goal I can use that money to buy new clothes/or a spa day---would that motivate me? I don't know---it is worth a try!
A history of Me and My Body
In high school I had all the normal body issues, but didn't know I had a great body. I had a four pack stomach (thanks to weight/areobic class) and though I was quite chest-less---I was slender and mostly toned. My eatting habits were horrible. Mostly I think I was a binge eater. I wouldn't eat for a day or two and then sit down and eat and eat and eat! I loved fast food and had it at least once a day (but Sundays). My mom made us great dinners, but I would always stop for fast food somewhere. The amount of money I wasted of food is sad!
In college I did gain about 5 pounds. I eat better, since I didn't have money for fast food, but I still didn't make good food choices. When Lucas was on his mission I gained a little weight, but not alot. Right before Lucas came home from his mission I was in a spinning class, which was the PERFECT exercize for my body---it focused on aerobics, but it was mainly done with the lower body---which thanks to my Itailian heritage--I gain all my weight in tummy, butt, and hips! Lucas said I had the best legs at that time.
My real body problems started when....suprise....I got married! I was on depro-vera (sp?)---which was so bad for me. Not only did I have emotional/mental problems when I was on it, I gain 25 pounds in 3 months. That was a ton for me! I lost all energy and hated to even try to work out in Phoenix. That was a difficult time for me in life in general. Lucas and I kind of just ignor our 1st year of marrage. It was that bad!
When Sedona came along I didn't loose weight fast, but in about 2 years I was almost down to 130...then I got prego with Pepper....and I have stayed at 140 since--which is about 2 years. now.
My eatting habits still are horrible. I eat all the wrong kinds of food, and large emounts of it! I often out eat Lucas--I know!
Some of the hardest things about my weight is (um hum..my excuses--which I will have to kick in the bottom--) I am kind of a single mom during the week--so if I work out it has to be with my girls, or after they go to bed, and I am beat by that time. AND working out outside doesn't really work where I live---we have seasons--they are as follows...
1. Winter (which is most of the year)
2. Wind
3. Misquotes
4. 2 weeks of beautiful weather
5. Winter
Those 2 weeks of beatiful weather is during harvesting time for the garden---
I don't mind so much running in the wind or with the bugs, but the girls--it just doesn't work with them! They are either complaining the whole time or getting eatten alive!
PLUS---I dislike working out. I was raised in a household where my mom bad mouthed working out---she hates it too--and even would bad mouth people who took time to work out.
So it wasn't the best enviroment to learn to enjoy taking care of ones body by workign out.
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Eatting is hard for me. I LOVE to eat--that isn't hard, but eatting healthy is hard for me. I love my cream of mushroom/chicken and cheese, and pasta, and breads, and gooy foods--mostly all that stuff which isn't that great for you!
One of the problems we have in our house is the difference in Lucas and I eatting styles. Lucas has IBS--irritable Bowel syndrome--but instead of constipation his body gets ride of food too fast. His body doesn't have time to absorb the energy before the food is gone. He struggles with keeping weight, and gain weight (totally opposite of me). He was raised on milk from the cow--cream and all---and finds 2% milk drinkable, but not good.
So I try to cook high caleriey, high fat foods for him, and since I am not all that keen on cooking, I normally just eat right along with him. Yeah! Extra calories, extra fat---just what I need!!
So either I am going to have to start making two different meals---Which actually wouldn't be too often since he isn't home a ton---or just add stuff to his meal after I take my portion out.
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I tried weigh watchers, but I am just not good at counting calories---Annie if you are still reading this will you tell me that website you use to count calories?
Anyone have any tips/tricks/websites on keeping track of calories?
Are you going to join me? If YES--do you mind if I include us with Shelly's group, or do you want to be seperate?
happy healthy body coming soon!!
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