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June 23 Family left me with 1.6 poundsWeighed in today and I gained an additional 1.6 pounds that makes 2.6 pounds in two weeks......you would think I was pregnant in my last trimester with the way I am eating. However that cannot be my excuse, I am eating for one :oO I read my weight watchers magazine and I loved how a lady wrote laugh about the gained weight instead of dwelling on it. Once I start dwelling that is when I eat more. So I am laughing at the big oops and moving on to my goals. I am preparing to go to NC to visit my family so there are lots of things I need to accomplish. So my goals are to wake up at 6:45 this week and get some of the heavy chemical cleaning of the house done before Cole wakes up. Continue drinking my water, workout 3 times at least (which I need to start doing my back is starting to hurt from not working out) , and to eat healthy meals. Thursday is going to be my eat out with hubby day and hopefully I will be able to make healthy choices on that day! Also, I am planning on packing my snacks for the plane ride instead of relying on fast food to get me to NC. I will lose that 1.6 pounds before I go home. :o) Also I am giving myself a dollar every time I make a good decision about eating and working out. Then after two months I will spend that money on me :o) (I got that idea from Weight Watchers magazine too!) We will see how this week turns out! June 16 Family coming....Today has been productive believe it or not. :o) Lost a pound which is great considering what I have eaten this week. I got my appetite back ...... I also fixed my husband a ho ho cake for Father's Day. Yep 17 points! So everything about eating because I have to went out the window. Two pieces of cake and lots of food. This week, my mom and step father is coming to visit. I am thinking I will do good since I am finally lower in my weight than my mom but we will see. We are going to Dallas for a couple of days. I am still out of funk with my working out. I worked out only once and went walking once with Craig. So this week I will work out 3 times and I will keep up with my water. I am working on it Melissa!!!!! :o) She is super motivated right now and working out like a wild woman! June 10 woo hooSo just busted my butt for 12 mins... up from 10 mins.... on my elliptical that I am so fortunate to have in my house so no excuses and I only burned 100calories!!! That is half of the pieces of chocolate that I had today. Well, that puts food in perspective. Now I will look at food like "how many minutes on the elliptical will it take to burn this off?". But I feel good for exercising today. I also lifted weights so I'm doing good. I've been reading the Biggest Loser Book that lays out the plan for you with the calories and exercises. I also made a list of weekly rewards that I'm going to give myself each week when I reach my goal. This weeks goal is to only eat out lunch less than twice.... then I get to buy a pretty bra! So far so good.... only once and that was yesterday... wait, husband brought home chinese food on Sunday so I guess that's twice. Still doing good though. I might be working out of my funk Tammy!! June 09 Still in a little funkStill in a funk but after getting on the scales I find being in a funk is not all that bad. I lost 2.2 pounds....It pays to be on medication that requires you to drink lots and lots of water. I probably lost some muscle with that 2.2 pounds :o( This week is going to be interesting. My hubby is working all week and my family is coming on Monday for a visit. I am going to have to do some juggling to get everything done. This week is still portion control (which I am improving daily) also try to workout at least three times this week! June 06 Blah BLogOh boy am I in a funk! My head is sooo stuffy, eyes watery, throat killing me!!! This week has definately been a lazy one and I am suffering from it! (My back is killing me from not working out) The eating has gone through the roof....I am going to hate to see what the scales hold for me. Also Saturday we are going to measure ourselves. (Which I hope you forget :o) I hope to get out of my funk soon! May 28 Good Attitude!Way to go Tammy!! I love the positive attitude and your realization! So true... we are just working on forming our healthy habits and it will take a while and some hard work to do it! I didn't throw out the cookies yesterday, I ate the rest. While doing the dishes I saw my double chin in the faucet and Randy took a picture of me working on the floor in the office and I couldn't believe that was me because I'm so huge... so... today is Day 1 of my WW program. I will write everything down and get my healthy eating in BEFORE I eat stuff that's not so great and my goal this week is to finish my water each day. I'm going to print off pictures of myself and put them all over the place because my perception is different from reality. I don't perceive myself as being that bad but then reality gives me a picture or a video and I am stunned at how huge I've let myself get and STAY at!!! So... the journey STARTS today! May 27 Tammy's blogWhat can I say! I have lots of work to do when it comes to portions....so that is my goal again this week. Actually today I did good. :o) Tomorrow I hope to do better. I was thinking about it trying to put all this in perspective. (My weight).....Here is my conclusion :o) We never recycled.....at least at home (so sad to say) Always wanted to but never put the initiative to put a program together at home. Melissa comes in and teaches us.....I would love to say it was easy at first.....yeah right! But now it is just a normal part of life. Throw things in our 3 bins....yep we have 3 not 2!!! Melissa you would be sooo proud. Same goes with the healthy part of my diet. It is soooo hard to do at first but hopefully like recycling it will become a part of everyday life. .....Now saying that I need to go and feed my baby and sleep! Coley Moley had shots today but you wouldn't know it by looking at him. He was soooo wanting to be on the go when I planned on having a day at home. Have a great week Melissa! I will call you tomorrow! DRINK THAT WATER! May 22 Tammy's blog Portion controlSo I am starting back walking :o) Which I am soooo happy about. I am figuring a big problem of mine is portion control. Yep I am probably eating for 3 people instead of one. Excuse....well pregnancy for one. I followed the eating for two. Now I am stuffing my face while watching my child. That and I love the taste of food. Who cares if it gives me nutrients I eat because I want to eat! This week will be portion control starting today (I did good today)
This week has had many ups and downs. I am a little depressed because Coley Moley is having an issue. I of course being the mom that I am......well I am blaming myself. Thinking well I should have done this and I should have done that.....
Well I am going to go and enjoy my aniversary. We went out to eat and walked around. Now it is back to getting ready for Coley Moley's bedtime. (Which will be fun because he had a power nap on the way home!) May 18 Keep on Truckin'Weekly blog time!! Up one pound this week... blah.... I even walked every day AND home cooked meals for lunch and dinner... I did have blended iced coffees often. Maybe that's what did it.... but it's ok becuase I'm going to keep on truckin'. I have the menu planned for the week and one day this week I will reread my WW stuff to get remotivated. That's about it for now :) Keep up the good work Tammy.. you think you're doing bad but at least you're not going up! May 11 BlogWow two weeks in a row! Way to go Melissa! Let's see what this past week had in store for me. I worked out once (better than nothing). Did o.k. on the eating! Did have a bowl of ice cream..I believe it was the same day that Melissa had her milkshake. I really need to get on the ball of things. My mom is down to 143....and I am a steady 146. I definately need to get down a couple of pounds before we go down for a visit! This week i will workout at least 3 times. It should be easier because I have new motivation! Beat my Mama! Off to spend more time with family on Mother's Day. May 10 I remembered!!!It's Saturday and I'm back in a routine. It was funny, I told husband I was going to go blog and he said "Oh.... I thought you had given up on that?!" HA!!! I said NO! I do it for Tammy... and me of course because it does help. Well, I missed weighing in at Weight Watchers because of extranuous circumstances but I think I'd be up anyway so oh well. But I wrote down all my food today and despite the homemade milkshake to shake the blues away, not too shabby with the eating. I have the whole week planned out, breakfast lunch and dinner so I will be back on track! We found a 1.5 mile walk around our streets and started that last night. I even did some abs after the walk tonight. Yay me!!! More positivity right Tammy! What would Ali do? GO PINK! May 05 Guess Who's Back!! Whew! I'm here Tammy!!! Boy do I miss you terribly. But, we will do great on our own in different states. Should we update our website since the competition is over? Ok... down and dirty. I suck!! Lots of stress and crap going on as Tammy has wonderfully kept track of for me. But today is a new day to keep track of my calories and work on my goals. My goals for the week: 1) 15min of abs each day, 2) drink my water 3)record my food. So far for 2 days I've not done anything for those 3 but again... today is a new day! No more excuses because I'm tired of looking at my fat butt in the mirror. And not having any clothes to wear. My sick child is finally asleep so even though I don't want to do anything but read my book (Valerie Bertinelli's "Losing It") I will go do my abs after I drink 2 glasses of water! Oh.. my new thing is thinking PINK!! What would Ali do? I gravitate towards pink things now to remind me that I can do it because Ali did it! Thank you Tammy for being there for me. Even though I know you don't think you do anything for me, just talking to me about this stuff helps to keep me motivated. :) May 03 UpdateWell I am hoping one day for my long lost friend will find her way back to blogging. :o) Melissa has been so busy. She received her household goods on Monday. Her family came in for a visit and then off to Georgia for the pinning ceremony for her sister. Hopefully she will be able to relax once she is settled. I do know that she is still losing her weight little by little. (Same as me) I am stuck at 146. There are things I could do to help out but of course I have not gotten off my lazy wazoo to do anything about the weight. I am watching what I eat especially the M&M's :o) I am doing o.k. with the eating I am just in a rut about working out. It isn't like I have an excuse....it is beautiful here in OK. I just find better things to do with my time. (Boy what an excuse) so now for some praises....I am drinking plenty of water which was one of my goals a couple of months ago. :o) (Yep a little behind) Now this week....Goal 1: I am going to workout 3 times Goal 2: Continue with the water Goal 3: Coffee intake one half of a cup daily Goal 4: Throw the M&M's away! April 19 Wow has it been a monthWow! has it been a month! It has been a very long month for the me and Melissa. Melissa and family lived with us for two weeks.....their orders were all messed up! So they sold their house....house in florida waiting for them but were stuck here for almost 2 weeks. Melissa was post op and still hurting from her surgery. I was not a good comfort support system for her. We ate out everyday.....I could go on and on about how much I messed up but why start the feeling for myself over again. Today is a new day :o) I promise that I will write once a week.....to keep myself on track. The good news is that i have not gained or lost anything for the past month. Now it is time to get to the 130's. I have 6 more pounds to go and I think I can do within the month. So that is my goal. I am doing better with the water and staying away from the soda. Hopefully with the summer around the corner I can give up my pick me up cup of coffee in the morning. :o) Well i am off to enjoy some more time outside. My hubby and his parents (who are in town) are going to his aunt's house today in Dallas. He gave me a day off from my baby....which is killing me but I am enjoying relaxing out in the son with my MP3 player! Hopefully Melissa will get in the habit of blogging once all of her household goods come in....:o) I miss my mommy friend and my little Mason! March 17 Tammy's weekly blogHere is the start of the weekly blogs..... I am doing o.k. I have worked out but not as much as I should. I did lose one pound so now I am 146.8. But I am thinking that might have been all muscle that I lost. Coley Moley is doing great. I think he is cutting 2 more teeth....or that is my excuse on why he is so fussy now! :o) I am hoping things will start going back to normal. Being gone for 3 weeks, coming home to company...it has been nice to be able to just sit and enjoy being at home. This week's goal is to drink that great OK water, and to start writing down what I eat. This week should be better since Craig is going to fly. (No more going out to lunch) March 11 Melissa Day 60!! Last one!!Day 59.... went to bed and felt like I forgot something and then at 3 this morning realized it was my blog! Yesterday was fine though, nothing major.
Day 60
Final day of the challenge is here. We did our final measurements and interview. I am proud of our results and am grateful for this challenge. Tammy has been a wonderful and inspiring partner. It definitely helped to have her to workout with and there was a difference in my motivation when she was gone. I feel as though I let her and myself down occassionaly (sp?), as well as my son, when I would cheat or not workout. This weight loss journey of mine has been LONG and I have the tools to continue I just need to STICK WITH IT! Being introduced to this website and seeing all of the other people on the same path as me has been inspiring.
Thank you NBC and The Biggest Loser for giving me another shot of motivation to help with my weight loss goals through this competition. It has been fun! Thanks to all of you folks who read our blog and comment on our ups and downs. And a BIG thank you to Tammy for being a wonderful friend and not letting me be my worst enemy. I look forward to losing more weight with you as my partner! March 10 Tammy's 59Sorry I haven't written in awhile. It has been crazy. We got home on Saturday and I totally collapsed in bed. Sunday Craig's family came over for a visit. Soooo no time to ourselves until Monday. :o( We did finally see Mason and Melissa! I can't believe in a couple of weeks we will be going through our journey living on different coasts :o( We went for a long walk. Melissa is such a trooper! She was hobbling for the last lap and did not complain at all. I did not do well with the eating today partly my fault. I made a cake and it was soooo good. Don't you worry Melissa I am cutting you and Randy a piece tomorrow. Off to sleep.....long day tomorrow! Hubby will be flying until 10:00. March 09 Melissa Day 58Nothing much to say here... did pretty good today, feeling pretty good. Getting ready to move is exciting and helps burn calories. It was a BEAUTIFUL day outside and my family had a wonderful walk at the park. The rest of the week looks nice and I'm excited about that too. I can't believe this competition is over the day after tomorrow! I'm excited to find out that we won ;) And to see how many inches we lost this past month. Only two more blogging days! March 08 Melissa Day 57Day 56
.... can't remember what happened yesterday but I didn't blog or write down my calories or truly exercise for that matter... I did go shopping though. That should count!
Day 57
Weighed in this morning and lost 2 pounds! That, to be honest, seemed like a miracle to me considering the lack of tracking and exercising last week but hey.... I'll take it! Today was pretty good since I was on my weight-loss-high and had a shot of motivation. That always feels good! I moved lots of boxes, walked around the mall and went for a 1mile walk with the dog. Not too shabby! OHHH! I almost forgot what made me proud today... I went to mindlessly snack on ChexMix at the computer and realized what I was doing and put it away!!! THAT IS HUGE FOR ME... to be aware of my eating. And now Tammy is home and all is right in the world :) March 07 Day56Worked out yesterday and today but not as good as I did yesterday. :o) Tomorrow is going to be a long day. We have to leave at 6 am to make it to the airport poor COLEY MOLEY! Thankfully it is a non stop flight so I do not have to worry about lay overs! Eating was not so well today. We had dip made with cream cheese and it was soooo good I try to limit myself to 5 chips unfortunately I had the bag of chips sitting beside me so I couldn't just stop! It was raining today and all we have felt like doing is sitting watching tv and playing with Cole. Tomorrow is another day and hopefully I will not do so bad since I will be in a plane and car all day! Melissa I hope you did better today! |
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