Yesterday I got to do interpreting at the high school! It was a good experience. I worked in a math class which was hard at first to figure out the specific signs for Y axis and X axis and intercept etc but it turned out ok because they only had 1/2 hour of instruction and then took a test. Easy for me! Then in the cooking class I just did explanations and then the students ate left over turkey dinner (yes, I had some!) and then played games. It was a good day for the regular interpreter to be out. A good starting point for me in the 'big leagues'. I don't like the high school too much though. Too many weirdo teenagers.....
But Mrs. Izbell remembered Kimi and Mrs. Burris remembered Eric and the cooking teacher Can't remember her name, remembered Eric too. Hmmmmm. he graduated in 1998. Why would she remember him??? Eric?

I'm a slug.....

OK, so I decided it was time NOW! I NEED to do this diet think for just 8 weeks because that's how long untill I go to Hawaii! But I still cheat on myself! How can I do this? Yummy stuff or just something to snack on will get me. DOn't know if I wll be able to do it even for 8 - no almost just 7 now - weeks. aaarrrrggghhhhh............................................................neraK

It's monday again!

Christine- grades CCABACA, 3.0 average. I need to behave this week! My goal this week is to make sure I exercise every single day.

(March 2) on March 5th

Karen - This week i am down to 181 which is 2 entire pounds from my start weight. Yesssss. But today i ate jr. mints with hersheys plain milk chocolate. It is perfect. sorry for telling you that. And YOU CANNOT GO GET SOME!!!!! I am a sinner. my name is Nerak. But i am down 2 pounds. I really am trying! See that picture of me down there to the right? I am in the pink on the end. That is my present goal. Look at that non- existent giant stomach! Here I come again!!!

Christine- Good job with the posting mom, I keep forgetting. I had a weird week. Stomach flu and recovery. Took me a few days to get back in the exercise groove. My grades this week: BABABAC, 3.2 GPA.
It's so WEIRD not weighing myself! I keep worrying that I'm not losing. But then I realize that if I'm working this hard and not losing much, I would get discouraged and stop trying. And I'm sure that even if I haven't lost a lot by now, I'll start losing soon. So it's good.





























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Weekly Weigh-IN

February 23 Weigh-In

Karen - Wahoo!!! I'm down 1/2 a pound! E-i-e-i-o!!!! Yes, a blessed 182 .5/ sickening isn't it. I just am not being faithfull . I know. I still snack and I KNOW that is a no-no. Ugh. but I'm still excercising. yea me.

Bonnie-I am finally down from my 220 to 218 BUT I have been going up down so I am not holding my breath to stay here. However comma I did run 1/4 mile for the first time and I plan to do that twice a week now so I am stepping it up. Karen, snacking is not a no-no! It is what you snack on that makes or breaks you.

Christine- Since I'm not weighing myself I decided to give myself a grade every day, and I will post my weekly GPA. So this last week my grades were A F B B A A A, and my GPA is 3.14. I'm sure next week it'll be MUCH better. I hope I'm losing something! I realized that 3 lbs a week doesn't make sense after all, if I lost that much I'd be losing muscle as well as fat. But if I can just do 2 lbs a week for 8 weeks, that would put me at 170, which is my wedding weight!!

Karen - Christine, that is so clever to think of giving yourself a GPA ; I love it! I am afraid I would fail too often but maybe I will try that anyway. Maybe it would help me look at this differently.

Monday Feb. 16

Bonnie: Don't ask!

Christine- I have no idea! I was gettting into a bad cycle of trying hard for a couple days, getting frustrated because the scale didn't reflect my efforts, and losing all my motivation and slacking off. So now I've vowed to stay away from the scale for the next 8 weeks! I'll still come and "weigh in" as to whether I'm sticking to my plan though.

Karen: I am still at 183. But still trying, Hey, I thought I was getting e0-mail updates that Sarah was on here. Isn't she???

Feb. 9 Weigh-In

So I keep forgetting to post even though I did weigh-in on Monday.
Bonbon: No gain, no loss. Last week I did a good job of reducing my sugar intake and of course I'm walking 2 miles most days.

Christine- I went down a pound, then back up. I'm pretty frustrated. It's so hard to keep caring when I eat perfectly and exercise TONS and nothing HAPPENS! Gah!

Let's get started!

Welcome to the Biggest Loser, Rowley style: The Extended Family Version!

Let's post all of our goals on this post (click the little pencil or go to the dashboard and click edit posts) I suggest putting down your goal, how much time you plan to do it in, your plan of action, and what you're going to do with your reward money!

Then from now on every monday we'll do a weigh-in post. Post your weight if you want, or just the change for that week. And you can post whatever else your goal might be (exercise time, etc.)

Just so you know, this blog is pretty private. It's not officially private (like sarah's blog) but it's not in the blog listings and it's not searchable with search engines, so the only way to get here is to know the address.

Feel free to start a new post any time to ask questions, give advice, or just prattle on.



GOALS:

Christine: Get to 160 in 8 weeks, by March 30. Today's weight: 181.2. I plan to eat CRAZY healthy, very little carbs and practically no sweets, tons of produce and protein, and less than 1200 calories per day. Also I'll be exercising twice a day, about 40 minutes in the morning and 50-60 at night. I don't have a plan for my $20 quite yet, but I do plan on going on a huge shopping spree (for clothes of course!) in St. George as soon as the weight is off.

Bonnie: To get below 200. Right now I'm at 220 and I don't play football. I plan to continue walking 2 miles 5 days/week and I will add some isolated exercises too (sit ups, push-ups, etc.). I will begin to lower my sugar intake by having it only once per day for now. I love vegetables and yet I have been delinquent with them. So, a huge jump in veggie intake everyday (4 cups) and no red meat (my fave!).

Karen: OK, here I am. I'm so glad to see that Bonnie has joined us! Welcome! As fo Me, I have been from 173 last summer up to 186 and down to 179.5 last saturday. BUt now the evil scale says 183 again which it has been for a couple of weeks. So I guess I will start at 183. I am exercising regularly at the gym four or five times weekly, walking at least 45 minutes or using the weight training machines. I really like them. they help me feel 'stwong"! I will keep up on this but try to increase it too. I will cut back on the carbs - i love them. And focus on more veggies and fruits and high protiens. My goal is to be at 172 by March 16 because that is when Don and I leave for HAWAII!! I already bought a new swimming suit which I really must not let anyone see me in now (ick) and I can't find my old one. So it's either lose the weight or go naked. We'll just have to seee what happens!

Check it OUT!

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.