And the winner is . . . .

CHRISTINE!!!

This is christine posting this . . . I didn't want to be the one to declare my own victory if I was the winner, but it turns out Jana is a) really bad at math and b) too busy. SO, I'd just like to say,

BOO-yah!

Iwin I win I win! I am so proud of myself, I have NEVER wanted something so bad or worked so hard at it. I'm especially proud that I won despite gaining 10 pounds on my cruise! Thank you guys so much for doing this and motivating me, I never would have lost this much by this point if it weren't for the biggest loser! Speaking of which, as of today I have passed the 50 lb mark! Woohoo!

Here are the final points for the top 3 people:

Christine: Today's weight: 178.2, Total loss: 15.6 lbs. Percentage lost: 8.05%
Weight loss points: 468 Exercise/challenge points: 664 Percentage bonus: 250 Total points: 1382

Mom: Today's weight: 172, Total loss: 14 lbs. Percentage: 7.52%
Weight loss points: 420 Exercise/challenge points: 466.5 Total points: 886.5

Mer: Today's weight: 158.1, Total loss: 13.1 lbs. Percentage: 7.65%
Weight loss points: 393 Exercise/challenge points: 303 Total points: 696


Oh and MOM is this week's challenge winner! You're the only one who did it, go mom!

Poor Fools

I'm really sorry that some of you (Christine, Mer, Mom) seem to have the impression that you actually have a chance of winning this competition. I guess you haven't noticed my dedication and motivation, my competitive nature kicking in....

Well, what I'm really trying to say is, sorry, but I'm going to WIN by a MILE!!!!

MWAHAHAHAHAHA

Week 12 points

(for those who weighed in anyway . . . )

I figured these with our weight loss points from last week, so I'm just putting up grand totals.

Christine- 931

Mom- 747

Mer- 678

Jason- 493


And this week's challenge winner is . . . . . . . . MEREDITH!

Week 12 Non-Weigh-In!

This week's challenge was the most getting up to 7 gallons of water (not who could drink the most), and we are not weighing in today; the final weigh-in will be Saturday!!! But I'm leaving in last weeks weight results just for fun. And remember...no desserts/treats/sweets this week!!!


Christine - 3.75 gallons, 585 minutes of exercise

Annette - 123.4

Jana - 128.5 total 1.5 lb gain.

Don - 153.3

Mom -4 gallons (meredith can definately drink us under to table...) 300 minutes Exercise 175.5 total 10.5

Jason - 250 minutes of exercise

Meredith - 7.12 gallons 200 minutes exercise 158.5 12.7 lb total loss

No Tuesday Weigh-In?

Since we will be finishing this round this Saturday (because of the reunions), How about if we do not Weigh-In tomorrow, but only post our Water challenge number? Then we weigh -In and answer the last No Dessert challenge for the last time on Saturday?

Week 11 Points

Only 10 days left!!

exercise&challenge+weight loss=total

Christine- 556.5+306=862.5

Mom- 402+315=717

Mer- 267+381=648

Jason- 468+0=468

Dad- 273.5+0=273.5

Jana- 155.5+0=155.5

Annette- 54+0=54


See Mer??? If the contest ended today, you would win!


And this week's challenge winner is . . . . . . ME! Christine. And I guess I won last week too.

Week 11 Totals

Don - 153.5 lbs (in bouncing mode ) 1.5 hrs movies, 270 min Exercise

Karen - 175.5 lbs up .5. 2 hrs TV 95 min Exercise.....I don't think I won.... But Water, here I come!!!

Christine- 183.6 1.4 gain total 10.2 lb loss 205 minutes of exercise zero TV!

Mer- 158.5 2.7 loss, total 12.7 loss 210 minutes of exercise 1 hour TV

Annette - 123.4. Does walking around for hours in my relatively high shoes count as excersize? I didn't think so. Yeah, jana, I'm wondering the same thing about myself. Ah well, it's fun to be involved.

Jana-128.5 2.5 lb gain, total 1.5 lb gain. Why am I even still doing this? lol

Jason- 188.8 total 8 lb gain 385 minutes of exercise didn't count tv

Week 10 Points

exercise&challenge+weight loss=total

Christine- 536.5+342=858.5

Mom- 392.5+330=722.5

Meredith- 246+300=546

Jason- 429.5+0=429.5

Dad- 246.5+0=246.5

Jana- 155.5+30=185.5

Annette- 54+0=54

Not sure on the challenge winner. Everybody did the exercise challenge this week right?

Week 10 Weigh-In!!!!

This week's challenge was the most minutes of exercise, unless you did the tv thing, then the minutes will be next week for you!


Christine - 182.2 2.6 lb loss, total 11.4 loss 425 minutes of exercise I did the tv thing this week, but we can just count my exercise minutes for the challenge this week too. I'll put my tv hours up next week.

Annette - 124 And once again, when I posted this morning, it didn't save it. Annoying.

Jana - 126 1.5 lb gain, total 1 lb loss. Exercise: No Comment.

Don - 154 again.

Mom - 175 1 lb loss, total 11 155 min exercise Karen, you were 176 last week, so it's only a 1 pound loss, not 1.5. :)

Jason - 187.4 2 lb loss 300 minutes of exercise

Meredith - 161.2 10lb total loss 370 minutes exercise It wasn't a very good week for me, but at least I rounded out to 10lbs down! :)

Christine, please enter for me.
From Mom ...My weight is
175 lbs. 1.5 loss. ONLY about 155 mins exercize . I'm a slug. But I'm still losing!

New Challenge Suggestions?

I think Meredith's idea of No Sugar as in No treats or added sugar to replace No Chocolate is excellent. I know I am needing it now! And I want to OPEN THE FLOOR for suggestions for some NEW CHALLENGES if you have a good idea and would like to change any others in these last few weeks. Or is there one challenge we would really like to take on again instead of what is listed?

The Powers The BE

Mix it up?

OK, so I was just thinking about the challenges and how since we're starting to repeat some of them, I thought it might be fun to mix it up a little bit. So there were a couple of things I wanted to put out there....

1. For the "no chocolate"....can we switch that to "no sugar"? I think it would be a lot more difficult, and it's definitely something that I wanted to try and do. It would include chocolate, candy, cookies, cake, ice cream....any dessert with sugar, whether it had chocolate or not.

2. When I was telling the girls at work about our challenges and about the water one as an example, they reminded me that someone here in KC just died from drinking too much water (on a dare) and it kind of weirded me out a little bit. I drank a ton of water that week, and I just don't want anyone, including myself, to go overboard and get sick. So I was thinking of making it a goal, like "7 gallons of water" instead of "the most".

What do you think?

Week 9 points (only 3 1/2 weeks left!)

E&C+WL=TP

Christine- 484+270=754

Mom- 377+300=677

Mer- 209+294=503

Jason- 399.5+0=399.5

Dad- 246.5+0=246.5

Jana- 155.5+75=230.5

Annette- 54+0=54

And the winner of this week's challenge is . . . . . . . . . . . . CHRISTINE!

Kendrick Peak Hike

I'm the skinny one on the left in case you don't recognize me......
On Saturday Dad and I hiked up Kendrick peak. It was a 2,000 foot, 4 mile climb. I didn't even consider goiing with dad and the friends until the night before when he said the Fox family was going and maybe I should try it since we want to do some big hikes in the future months. So I finally thought, Well, I have been exercising hard for 5 months, gained lots of muscle and lost more than 40 lbs, I SHOULD be able to DO IT! So I said Yes. But we took our own car just in case I was going to die anyway and then we could turn around and come down. But I didn't die! It wasn't any harder for me than most of the others! I am really proud of this accomplishment and I deserve a trophy for it. I just may go get myself one... The view from the Ranger station on top was SO AWESOME! You can see all the way around for miles and miles. Such a beautiful sight! It was well worth the effort. Here we are with our fellow hikers in front of the old ranger cabin from about 90 years ago. The new one is 400 ft higher straight up the mt. And we went up there!

Week 9 Weigh-In!!!!

This past week's challenge was to get the most miles. Post that in BLUE.


Christine - 184.8 2.4 loss, total 9 lb loss 720 minutes of exercise 40.83 miles Mer- I granted you admin privileges, so you should be good to go. I've written down everything every week, so no problems there. Your points last week were 184 exercise, 294 weight loss, total 478.

Annette - 123.4 2.2 Lb gain, Total 2 lb gain. 100 minutes excercise. 4.2 Miles

Jana-124.5 4 lb loss, (yeah right my scale must be on crack) total 2.5 lb loss? 60 min exercise, didn't do the challenge

Dad - 154 again. 605 min exercise. Undisclosed miles (but probably not more than 40!)

Mom - 176 1 lb loss total 10. 620 exercise 24.5 miles

Jason - 189.2 1 lb loss 365 minutes of exercise 16.1 miles

Meredith - 161.4 9.8lb total loss 250 minutes exercise 6 miles Christine, let me know if you need my other minutes of exercise, because I have them written down on that chart you made. I don't remember all of my weights from every week, but I do know my starting weight was 171.2. Also, I want to put my picture back up on there, but it looks like I don't have "enough" permission on this blog to do so.