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Ta-dah! The first one is Oct 2005, before I got preg with mandie, 15 lbs below my all-time high weight. And the second one is today!

Round 3 Final Weigh-in!

Christine- 174.2 total 7 lb loss There, I'm official!

Mom ~ 176.5 Total (gain 3 lbs). There, I'm official too ! Good Bye sweet contest, You have been good to all of us and we thank you for our much more beautiful bodies. AND we will continue to make them Beautifuler! Now we need to take the skinniest picture we can and post it.

Wednesday

Christine- 171.6 Okay! I'm back down to my previous plateau! This time I will break it! I'm doing very well on my 2 carb thing again. If I could just stick with it I totally think I could meet my goal by thanksgiving. I'm trying to get more core/ab work in. I have 2 different 20 minute ab videos, so my plan is to do one of them twice a week and the other once. Makes a good morning workout.

Tuesday

MoM ~ Another day another pound not lost!!!! yea! I'm doing pretty crappy at this but I am STILL writing on this blog! Still at 176 or something like that. You girls keep up the great work! I am in awe that you have kept it up so fabulously! Only a couple more days and the official stuff is over. And WE WILL NOT GAIN! We are tuff!!!

Monday

christine- 172.0 Phew! I was up to 174.6 yesterday, it was very bad. I'm back on my 2 carb per day plan for this week at least-- hopefully more. I was totally good yesterday and today, eating-wise. Just gotta make sure I keep exercising! I only did one (long) workout yesterday and today it'll just be one again. Tomorrow, two!

MoM~ 176 hmmmm. I'm making SUCH EXCELLENT progress. Well at least I'm not really going up! I went to the gym and did 30 minutes on the bike this morning. And raked pine needles this evening for an hour. I hope to start walking in the afternoon again. need a good book on tape for that.
Meredith, maybe all the exercising you have done is really kicking in and your body is happily adjusting you your excellent eating system.

Sunday Oct 19

MoM ~ Today I woke up at 175. Yea! Go figure. Yesterday we went to the temple then took a hike in West Fork and then had a bbq with the Packards. I guess we did have a pretty good hike ~ 6 miles ~ so maybe that is worth the pound. Hope So!

Meredith - 158.0 Sweet! But I can't figure out for the life of me what I've changed to keep going down! I don't know, but it's awesome.

Saturday

Meredith - 158.8 Woo hoo! And that was after eating breakfast and after the Halloween party last night! :) Oh and I'm wearing my new jeans today; I bought them a couple of weeks ago...last week they got big on me, so I actually dried them in the dryer last night (instead ff line drying) and they are still big! Hopefully I'll be going down another size sometime soon!

Christine- 172.6 I didn't really exercise yesterday, but we took the kids swimming and I think that burned a lot of calories. I was up to 173.8 yesterday! And I swear I wan't being that bad! Sheesh I can't believe how hard it is to get to 170! I've been trying to get myself recommitted to this whole thing-- I'm pretty happy with the way I look right now. I've basically lost all the baby/being a mommy weight that I've ever gained. But I really need to get to at least 160, because that's where I officially won't be overweight anymore. I want to get rid of these last 12.6 pounds before thanksgiving!

Thursday

Meredith - 159.2 Well at least I'm still in the 50s. Only 4 pounds to get to pre-pregnant-with-Wyatt weight! C'mon, Mer, let's DO THIS!!!! Hey, how do you guys weigh? I weigh in the morning, before I eat, and with no clothes on. What about you guys?

MoM ~ I am 176 today. I weigh in the morning because I can be up to 5 lbs more at night! My best time is a little while after waking up. I seem to make the scale go a little higher when I first wake up , it's wierd. So I wait a little while till after my shower.

Christine- 172.8. Guh! I'm up! I think this means my carb rebellion has to come to an end. I need to start a list of non-carb things that I like. There ain't many, but I know there are more than I can usually think of.
I weigh myself in the morning. It's usually lowest after exercising but before eating.

Wednesday

Christine- 171.6 again today, and that's fine with me! I was a little worried about what I ate yesterday. Today I'm trying to be extra extra good though, I want to see it go down again! And I really want to get down to 170 so I can have a dessert again. Yesterday I ran a couple of laps around the church while teaching josh to ride a bike (he caught on fast!) and I did my 40 min. turbo sculpt in the evening. This morning I allllmost let myself skip my morning workout, but then I didn't! I got up and did it. Go me.

Tuesday

Christine- I was really weirdly sick yesterday, so I didn't post. I was 171.6, which I am again today. I'm really proud of myself because I didn't let my sickness be an excuse for eating too much. Although that's not actually saying much because I was pretty nauseous all day. And I even exercised. I did 20 serious minutes in the morning (before the nausea descended) and 45 moderate minutes on the treadmill in the evening. Today I'm still not feeling great and I definitely it's going to work in my favor.

Meredith - 159.2. Ahhhh, that's better. South Beach seems to be working already.... Christine, maybe you're prego!

MoM ~ 175.5 this morning but not this evening. THAT one was yukky.

Monday Morning

Meredith - 161.4. Dangit! I'm back up. Stupid weekends. I'm back on South Beach as of RIGHT NOW. My birthday is next week, and that was the final goal. But now I'm making my goal to get down to 145, if not 140, by our anniversary. That's 6 months. I'm going to do it!!!!! And I have decided to not allow myself to get pregnant again until I'm down to that weight. (Not that we're trying any time soon.)

MoM - I am at 176 again today. will anything really happen before the end next week??? I just seem to be a sluggggggggg.

Sunday

Christine- woohoo! I was 171.8 today! Not sure how I managed that. I was pretty good today. Fasted of course. Mom I agree fasting is so nice for dieting! Gives me a little jump in weight loss, shrinks my stomach and re-adjusts my attitude. Anyway today's only indiscretion was a bowl of honey grahams after dinner. Really didn't need that, it totally made me sick. My dinner was nice and healthy though! I have a great recipe for crock pot chicken that you put in soft tacos. It even has beans in it!

MoM - Congratulations Christine!!!!!!! That is SOOOOOOOOOOOOO AWESOME!!!!
Now me... I should have weighed before eating dinner because it's not even a lower number so I won't put it down. I'll for sure weigh in tomorrow morning and post then.

MoM - Today i am 176. I did a jenny Craig tape exercise this morning. Kind of a toning one. I'm scared to do anytyhing like "turbo". I still fear my knee even though it is quite good. I don't want to reinjure anything or twist it. when I do lots of walking or biking then it gets stiff again so i still kind of take it easy.
Tomorrow is fast sunday . That is always good for dieting IF I can only eat sparingly when I finally eat my meal. So no Roast beast for us .

Saturday

Christine- 173.4, yay I'm down! Today I ate a really big lunch at applebee's. But then I didn't eat anything else for the rest of the day, so hopefully that evens it out. I did a long workout this morning instead of a short one, since it's saturday and I had time. It is so much harder in the morning! The question is, if it's harder does that mean I'm burning more calories??

I'm here.

MoM - 176.5 I'm still here! Just not doing well stillllll...... I was at 175.5 on Wednesday I think and was so excited but now..... aaaarrrrgggghhhhhhh. But I know why. I keep snacking on chocolate jr. mints and peanuts. Pretty stupid I know. but I have been doing more exercising especially at the P.T. for about an hour and I have gone to the gym to do the bike a couple of times. Maybe I will pull out one of my exercise dvds. wonder where they are......

Christine, You are doing so great! I'm so proud of you for keeping it up. I'm really still trying.

Meredith - I'm so jealous that you are in the 150's YOU ROCK!!!! I long to be in the 160's and thought for sure I would be now. I want my belly to disapear so much. I'm just greatful that I am at least down those 35 lbs from before. It's good to not feel like I look obese anymore. That's such a yukky word.

Friday

Christine- 174.2
I feel pretty dorky posting here by myself every day, somebody come do it with me! I'm going to keep doing it either way though, it helps!
So I'm kinda frustrated that I'm up a bit again. I felt like I was really good yesterday! I'm going to stick with the way I've been eating and hope that it'll still work, because if I try to eat fewer carbs or less in general than I am right now, I don't think I'll be able to keep it up.
I decided I need to go find some more turbo jam dvd's. They're my faves, they're fun and they really make me work hard.

Thursday

christine- 174.0, up a teeny bit, which I think means I'm not quite eating well enough. So I'm trying to adjust my eating accordingly. My big thing is dinners. I need to eat small, early dinners.
exercise yesterday- we went on a long walk in the afternoon, then I did a 20 minute turbo jam in the evening. I had a freaky amount of energy for those 20 minutes.
mer, i have never figured out how to eat right while visiting relatives. Or even while relatives are here! It's so so hard.

Wednesday

Christine- 173.8 today! Phew. I was worried that I ate a bit too much yesterday so I worked out really hard! Good news, I fixed my treadmill! I'm so glad, I LOVE my treadmill. Already did 10 minutes on it this morning along with my neck strengthening exercises (i found the article if you want to know those mom). My new eating plan is to work on really listening to my tummy. Only eat if I'm really hungry, not if I'm just craving something or wanting to fill up time or entertain myself or have something to do while I read or watch tv.

Meredith - Didn't weigh, because I'm not at home.  My mother makes too much crap when we come to visit, so it's probably a good thing that I didn't weigh.  I need to get back on South Beach or something.  I did decide, hands down, to do the Trash the Dress this coming summer, so wedding dress....here I come!

Tuesday

Christine- 174.4! I'm going down! Must keep it up! I finally got myself to get up early and exercise today! I did 20 minutes on the bike, and we're going for a walk again today, and then I'll do my 40 minute 'turbo sculpt' tonight.
I don't have a specific eating plan right now, just trying for few carbs, more produce and protein, and small portions. And mostly just trying to get down to the elusive 170 so I can make the double chocolate brownie mix in the cupboard!

MoM - I was 177 today. That trip to Utah with all the food and chocolate destroyed me. But I am back to exercising. We walked aout 2 miles last night and this morning I went to the gym for 45 minutes and then to physical therapy in the afternoon and did lots of stuff and got sweaty and tired more. yea me.

Monday

Christine- 175.6, I was good today! And we went on a walk and I'll do 50 minutes tonight.

Friday

Christine- I'm really trying to stick with this! Didn't get to weigh myself today. Yesterday I managed to be pretty good even though I was stressed. I've made a new commitment-- NO desserts until I hit my wedding weight-- 170 Tonight's exercise goal is 50 minutes, and tomorrow I'm doing 2 carbs again. Oh and today I basically did 2 carbs, but I did cheat a little. One of my carb servings was too big, and I snuck some of mandie's pop tart.

Mer - I'm trying! I actually broke down and bought some new jeans today...before I did I had a pair that was way to big and a pair that had a hole in the crotch and was a little snug. Now I've got some comfy ones...that I hope will be big on me in a few weeks!

Thursday Check-In

Meredith - 159.2 7.2lb total loss. I'm still trying! And I'm finally in the 50s baby! I may not check in every day, but I wanted you all to know that I'm lurking in the shadows.....

Christine- 175.2 again Mer you're doing really good! Go 50's!

Jana--Today I had two cups of hot chocolate and lots of chocolate chips. I've eaten half a bag of chocolate chips, half a cake, and a few chocolate chip cookies this week. I eat carbs constantly and it's still too hot to exercise because I'm a big baby. My fat is coming back. MAN I'm glad I'm not in this competition anymore!

Wendesday Check-in

Christine- 175.2 today, and I made my goals! Same thing for tonight and tomorrow. 2 carbs, 40 minutes.

MoM - 177 today. rats. But I drank 7 glasses of water and exercised (at the phisycal therapist)45 minutes. Only 2 jr. mints.

Meredith did you get this?

So I feel completely weird posting here every day when it's being emailed to people. Mer did this get emailed to you or is it fixed?
And Bonnie are you okay with getting emailed? Want to post every day with us?

Christine