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January 18 another day down!well looks like we are on a roll! another day down and we managed to stay within calories again!! I also managed to work out to bl cardio blast today for 40 min.
I am also happy to say that my sister-n-law joined my gym today so now I have even more motivation to workout everyday!!! We already have a list of classes we are going to start trying out to find which ones we like the best. Kickboxing is still my fav :)
Its so amazing the way everyone in our family has started making healthier changes in their lives since we started this journey, which in return makes us more motivated because we dont want to let any of them down.
I have been writing in my journal for a couple of days now and I am loving it. It is so amazing how much of a diffrence it makes writing things down and getting them out instead of turning to food!
This is so changing the way I think about my weight and myself. I am gaining more and more self- esteem everyday. January 17 on a roll!!!once again we managed to stay within calorie range. No walking for mom today because it snowed, but I manged to get my cardio in and I also cleaned all day. It was a tough day for me but I am so proud of myself because instead of eating like I normally would do,I made myself find other things to fill my time.
It is so true that making a lifestyle change is so much diffrent from being on a diet, this is stuff I am going to have to deal with everyday and I am learning so much about myself and that I am a much stronger person than I used to give myself credit for.
I am making good choices without having to think twice about it. for example tonight my husband and daughter wanted dinner from cracker barrel but I knew if I ate there with them I would make bad choices so instead I had subway!!!
Each day is a new challange and I am loving it!!! I am loving the fact that my mom is finally proud of herself for once. She has been a much happier person since we started this journey and like I have said many many times I think this challange has been an anwered prayer for us!!!!!
I am loving this!!! This is finally gonna work this time!!!!! January 16 yeah!!Well I didn't post yesterday but we both stayed within calories yesterday and today. We also both got in our exercise for both days. I found my new favorite hobby....I loved my kickboxing class yesterday. Im addicted!!!!!
I also loved the biggest loser last night. Betty-sue and Allie really touched us last night. We have never been able to tell each other how we feel and I so could relate to allie last night. It was a huge eye opening experience and a huge light bulb moment!!! My mom and I actually cried.
On another note I bought Jillian's book "winning by losing" I have already read the whole thing and I just got it last night!! It is so not like all the other weightloss books I have bought(and I have bought hundreds!) I love her triple threat approach of SELF, SCIENCE & SWEAT. These three things are what mom and I are going to start living by. I bought a journal and I have started writing in it and I am going to make it a priority to write in it everyday. I think it is going to be a huge wake up call for why I am the size I am and why I eat when Im upset.
I am very proud of myself today though, My hubby made me very angry and instead of eating like I normally would I found myself rearranging my office until the urge to eat was gone!! Normally I would have pigged out and then felt guilty afterwards!!! That was a major major stepping stone for me, you have no idea what a confindence booster that was to know that I have come that far in the process to change my life!
     January 14 frustrated We now know how the contestants from biggest loser felt last week! mom only lost 2 lbs this week and I stayed the same! Which I guess I should be thankful I didnt gain. I am very proud of us though for not getting down about it. instead we came up with ideas to change a few things and try some new things. We both stayed within calories today and I worked out to biggest loser cardio blast. I love that dvd!!
Tomorrow I am starting a kickboxing class at my gym. I cant wait!
We will find the right path eventually. we just have to find the path that works for us!
I still have my postive attitude that we are going to win this battle together no matter how long it takes!! off to bed to rest up for my class tomorrow. I am so excited tomorrow night is the BIGGEST LOSER I wish it was on every night. Im sure there are others who feel the same way. i hate having to wait a whole week to see more. I am so addicted.
January 13 on a rollWell we are on a roll! another awesome day for calories and exercise. we both stayed within range for calories and I worked out for 40 minutes to bl cardio blast. Mom walked 1 1/2 miles. I saw her today and I can already see a change in her. I love seeing a smile on her face when some one compliments her and notices she is losing weight. It is so awesome. We weigh in tomorrow night at weight watchers. I cant wait.
I think we have finally found the road to a healthy lifestyle. I am so excited about summer!! it will be the first time in 10 years that I will be wearing shorts and a swim suit!!! I CAN'T WAIT.......stay tuned for the new teresa and shirley!
January 12 back on track!Well I think I am finally back on the right track! I worked out for 40 min today and I also did 20 min of strength training and as soon as mom got off work we went to lake and walked 1 1/2 mile.We both also stayed within calorie range. for once in our lives we look forward to our weigh-ins. lol
I am so happy that we are going on week 3 and still going strong! I normally would have given up by now. But like I keep saying this time feels diffrent and I know this time its gonna work and I am finally gonna be the skinny girl that is stuck inside me!!!
January 11 not so good well it was one of those days!! i went over with calories and I didnt exercise. I let my stress get the best of me. the good thing is I didnt let it blow my progress. I realized what I was doing and I put myself back on the right path. This is such a challange trying to reprogram yourself to be healthier. I didnt get the way I am overnight and I know its gonna take time to learn new habits. I just get so frustrated with myself when I slip up. Mom did great on her calories. she did get in 10,000 steps today though. thats awesome. she is so motivated and determined to do this right this time. I need to pay more attention to what shes doing and start following in her footsteps.
I had a bad day but tomorrow is a new day right! back on the right path.
wish everyone the best! January 10 Great day!Another wonderful day! Mom and I both stayed in our calorie range today and mom walked 1 1/2 miles again today. I worked out to biggest loser cardio blast for 30 min and I also did 30 min of strength training! I am loving how motivated we are.
I hope all the other teams are doing as great as we are. Like I have said many many times this challange has been such a blessing! We have realized that together we can accomplish anything that is placed before us.
2008 is our year to shine and to show everyone what we are made of. January 09 back on trackWell I am back on track with my exercising. I worked out to the bl power sculpt and cardio blast dvds today. I am feeling so much better!!! Mom and I also stayed within calorie range and she even walked 1 1/2 miles today. I am so proud of her, she is really taking this serious and doing such a great job.
My husband has even joined in and is making much better food choices when he has to eat out. Its amazing how many postive changes we have made in just a short amount of time. I really and truely believe that we will succeed this time because we have a whole new approach to the way we are doing things. I must say that ww is a pretty great thing and it also teaches you about healthy weightloss and not about how fast you can lose weight. I think that with ww and the biggest loser workout dvds we are on the path to victory!!! January 08 Couldnt believe my eyesWe are sitting here in total shock at the results of tonights weigh-in on our favorite show the biggest loser!!! It goes to show that no matter how hard you work there will be weeks that you will show little or no results. It only means that you have to work even harder the next week, I love the mother daughter team we are so cheering for Betty-Sue and Allie. I felt so bad for brown team. Its gotta be hard to have to go home after only 2 weeks.Well as for our results, mom and I did a great job on calories today but we did no exercise today. My neck was hurting really bad(which should be no excuse!) We both know that we have to work past all of our excuses and push thru no matter what. This is still a learning process for us both. We are still doing great in my opinion but we still have so much more to learn. I cant believe we have to wait another whole week for the biggest loser!! I am addicted to the show. I tivo it and when I need a little extra motivation during the week I just watch! LOVE LOVE LOVE IT! I just hope we get to see the finale live! I wouldn't even be upset if we didnt win the grand prize I would just love to be one of the 5 teams to get to go to LA and meet Jillian. She so rocks! I would love to have one hour with her training me. I do believe that one hour would change my life forever!
Well off to bed, tomorrow is a new day and Im sure that will be filled with all new challenges for us. But we are taking this one step and one pound at a time and we will work thru whatever comes our way TOGETHER! This is biggest loser couples right????? I will not leave my mom to deal with a weakness on her own and she will in return do the same for me.
Its amazing how much closer we have gotten in only a week and a half! This challange has been such a blessing.
mortified!!!I had a huge "wake up" call today and It may not be significant to some people but to me it made my reasons for doing this challange that much clearer. My lovely and outspoken 4 year old and I were at target and we were looking at all the cute summer clothes for mommy and she came out and said "mommy thats pretty but i dont think you could wear it, its not made to fit fat people." I wanted to break down and cry right there in target. My response to my daughter was," Your right but mommy is changing that so that i can wear all the clothes that i want." I guess its true that little ears are always listening and Im sure shes heard me complain a thousand times about being fat. I know want this even more than I did before. My daughter has already realized that mommy is fat!!! January 07 What an awesome day!!! What a wonderful day!!!! we had our weigh in at ww tonight and mom lost an awesome 7.4lbs and I lost 2.4. I was so excited for her and I know it gave her such a confidence boost. We also went to the lake and walked 3 miles before our meeting. It is so nice to see great results after we have been working so hard. It gives you that extra little push to get things done. I am so proud of my mom she is giving this 100% as am I. My mom says that me calling her everynite and checking in with her to make sure she stayed within points range has helped her so much. And like I said before I dont think either of us want to let the other down so we are working extra hard!!! I so feel this is our time to shine! January 06 I am so loving this! I am so loving my many changes that are occuring in my life right now. I wake up every morning excited about what new things I am going to learn about my new lifestyle. Mom and I are doing so great. I just got off the phone with her and she had a great day and how again she stayed within her calorie range. I love the fact that she has this little sound of pride in her voice and I hope that it continues to grow louder and louder as she progresses on this journey.As for me I am doing awesome! stayed within calorie range today and its so funny that I actually caught my husband reading the label on something to make sure it was healthy enough for him to eat! I guess when you start setting a good example everyone joins in. My 4 year old has even asked a few times today if something was healthy for her or not. I am soooo loving this. I have such a diffrent outlook on things this time. I guess all these years I was letting the word "diet" mentally mess me up, but since I decided this time that its a lifestyle change that I am so much more postive and I dont even think about the number on the scale. I am more focused on the whole picture and not just one aspect of it.
I found out some really awesome news today from my gym, when I am ready and think I can actually pass, my gym holds personal training certification classes every 8 weeks!!! So I am hoping by April or 1st of May that I will be able to finally fulfill my new dream of becoming a personal trainer and sharing my success story with others who feel they cant succeed with weightloss.
I know I keep saying this but this contest has been such a blessing. It has opened my mind and heart to all these options that I never thought would be possible for us.
we go tomorrow night to weigh in at weight watchers and I cant wait to see our results!!! stay tuned and I will let you know as soon as we get home tomorrow night!!
January 05 getting rid of temptations!What a great day!! I managed to stay within calorie range, no more quarter pounders for me. lol. I decided today to clean out our cubbards and refrigerator!!! I thought my husband was going to die. I was sick and tired of all of the temptations taunting me on a daily basis so I got rid of them. But then after cleaning and throwing out everything I had to go to the dreaded grocery store. It took me twice as long to shop because I was reading labels on everything. I think it took me about an hour and a half. But I am very proud of myself for taking the initiative to take control of my environment!
I didnt get any exercise in today and I can tell. I am so starting to love to exercise! I even have decided that Jillian has motivated me so much to change my life that I want to be a personal trainer. Once I reach my goal I plan on becoming a certified trainer so that I may have the same postive influence on someone else. I believe with all my heart it is something I can and will accomplish. Wow, I never thought I would want to be a personal trainer. stay tuned to see if I reach my goal!!!!
As for mom, I am so proud of her and I am so glad she is my partner on this journey! she is doing so great. I cant wait for us to weigh in on Monday. She has stayed within her calorie range since day one! This has been such a great thing for the both of us.
She was also able to start walking again today.
I love the fact that we are actually communicating about other things besides my daughter. We are acutally giving each other snack and meal ideas and talking about ways to reach our goals. I am so loving this!!! I love my mom so much and I want her to reach her goal and be proud of herself! January 04 well........... Well I had my first slip up today!!! It is so true that if you are not prepared you will make bad choices. I have not been to the store this week and My daughter and I went to Mcdonalds and instead of getting a salad or something reasonable, what do I do?? You got it, a quater pounder with cheese and fries. I am so disappointed and mad at myself. But no one said this was going to be an easy journey did they? It is a learning process and I guess I am one of those people who learn by trial and error method. Normally if I had a slip up like tonight I would just continue to binge and eat whatever I wanted but I am making progress in that department. Instead I came home and worked out for 30 minutes.
This journey is not going to be as easy as everyone makes it look but I can tell I am slowly changing for the good.
As for mom, she had a good day as far as her calories. No walking again today. She just started a new job and its gonna take her a few days to get a schedule going to where she can get her walking in. She is still doing great though and I am so proud of her.
January 03 another day down :)well another day down and we both did awesome. Again we both stayed within calorie range and I even worked out with the bl powersculpt dvd I just love Jilllian!! Mom hasn't been able to walk the past couple of days because it has been so cold here so hopefully tomorrow she will be back at it. Its really hard for her to do any strength training because she has a torn rotator cuff and arthritis really bad. But at least she's shes not letting it get her down. She is actually trying really hard and I am so proud of her. She even has my dad out walking with her which is good for him since he has high blood pressure. As I have said before this challenge has been such a blessing because its actually getting everyone in my family moving. Hubby didnt work out with me tonight but thats ok i didnt let him be my excuse for not working out. I will no longer let ppl bring me down or keep me from reaching my goal. I wish I could send my enablers to the moon til I reach my goal but we know that isn't possible so I just have to block them out and do what I need to do for me!
I cant believe how motivated I am this time. I have a whole new outlook and I really and truely think this is our time to shine. Like I said before I am taking this "one pound at a time" I think that will be my new motto!!
updateok this is an update on the very first blog. I posted that Shirley wanted to lose 60lbs and I meant 80lbs. Sorry mom for adding 20 lbs to that! lol
We are so motivated and this challange has been a God send! This gives us so much more motivation to know that there is a prize at the end and even a bigger prize of a whole new Teresa & Shirley!!!!
This has also given us a reason to communicate on a daily basis which is also a wonderful thing.
We are so excited to be on this journey together!
I love the biggest loser shows and this is actually the first season my mom has started watching(where has she been???lol jk) and i think now she is as hooked as I have been! our goal!So sorry that it has taken several blogs to get all the needed information down.
Teresa - 211 lbs - Goal weight 150 for a total weightloss of 61 lbs.
Shirley - 230 lbs - Goal weight 150 for a total weightloss of 80 lbs.
So our combined total weight is 441 lbs. and we plan on losing 141 lbs.
Wow!!!! those are some pretty scary numbers but together we will succeed!!! January 02 great day!!! Well mom and I had an awesome day today!!! We both stayed with calorie range and I also managed to talk my hubby into working out with me. We did amped taebo for 35 minutes, my 4 year old even joined in!I am so excited about this journey this time, normally I start a "diet" and get discouraged by the huge number that is my goal and so i feel like its impossible to reach and I just give up. This time I am not on a "diet" I am CHOOSING to change my lifestyle and I am CHOOSING to make good choices on a daily basis.
I am not looking at my goal number and I am doing this "one pound at a time" and each pound I lose takes me closer to my goal.
I have mentioned before that my mom and I have never been really close but this challange is changing that and I couldnt be happier. We are going to do this together no matter how long it takes us. I am so proud to have my mom as my teammate and I will do everything in my power to make her proud of me and I know she is doing the same because neither of us want to let the other down!
This is our time to shine and we are going to shine together.
I wish everyone that is on this same journey with us the best of luck! our goalsok as for Teresa where do I start? my goals for this contest are to change my lifestyle and become a healthier person for my family. I have always been the bigger girl in the group and I have always been depressed about my weight! My ulitmate goal is to lose 60lbs and to be able to renew my vows to my husband in the dress he bought me for christmas this year. I cried because the dress is 2 sizes smaller. I knew he was just trying to be romantic and help me achieve my goal by giving me something to work toward. so I will do this whether i win this contest or not.
As for shirley her goals are to lose 60lbs and live a healthy lifestyle so that she can be around for her kids and grandkids and she also wants to just plan 'ole fill better about herself and have the energy to do the things she couldnt before.
we will succeed in this together! so we can be proud of what we accomplish together! |
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