Week 11 report

Week 10 Report

Travis hosted our pre-surgery pizza party last night.  I'm glad we were able to go see Mom before her big day and I'm also super happy about the new surgery techniques they have since her last operation.

On a side note the Holidays are here and if you think you can't get through them we should all remember last year at this time is when Laura began her weight loss quest.  I thought she was crazy, I mean who starts a diet just as the holidays begin.  Anyway part of changing our habits is dealing with Holidays.  It makes no sense to work so hard for 2 months then toss it all away in a matter of weeks.  We don't have to be perfect, just eat a little less.  We can get through this together.

Keep up the good work.  And what is up with the slackers not posting.  The only reason why some of you aren't kicking trash is because you aren't reporting.  If you wan't the $$$ and bragging rights at the end of the challenge you better start reporting even if you gained.

But for now there seems to be a new Sheriff in Town!!

Week 9: 11/10

Week 8 Report

Sluggish Days

So how many of you have noticed that one day at the gym you are like super woman or man? You are running 3 miles at a time and doing weights and find you have spent over an hour there and yet you still feel AMAZING!?!??!?!


Then a couple days later you are struggling to run/sometimes even walk a mile! Today was definitely one of those sluggish days. I can't explain it. I woke up right before my alarm went off at 4:57am, and yet felt totally alert and ready to go. I am thinking it must have been the rain that wore down my SUPER powers...as I walked from my car to the gym (it was only a drizzle though)!



Any thoughts? Research is always welcome!!!

Week 7 Report

Week 6: 10/20

Another week in the books.  Time is going by way to fast.  I hope no on is loosing focus of their goals!!

Breaking news: Pumpkin Cheesecake is make from a vegie!!

Well I really suck. On the way to the airport today, we decided to go to the cheesecake factory... Mistake!!!..

I chose a really good "weight watchers chicken with brown rice and all for under 560 calories. Yes is was still to many calories and yes I could have not eaten it all, but I chose to eat the whole thing...

then....Pumpkin Cheese cake..... Can I say it was almost worth the calories.. but I feel really gross right now.

I guess that offsets the exercise, 3% loss from last week.

sittin in the Mineapolis airport waiting to go home....

Travis

percentage lost for 10/11

I am making a posting so I can show my percentange. I am surprised it is not up as I am usually the last one to post!

Standings update!

So according to my calculations as a family we have lost about 3.3% of our combined weight.  That is freakin awesome.  I hope everyone is seeing the payoffs to their efforts.

It looks like we are all chasing the Idahoans!!  Good work up there!!

Remember you are never out of the running!  With our point system anyone can make a comeback since our points only accrue according to your weekly standings.  So regardless of how you stand now don't quit.  Don't exercise, eat a dozen doughnuts, drink that 44 ounce soda, but whatever you do don't quit!!

Maybe I am a marathoner!

So I got a pedometer the other day because we are doing a county wide weight loss activity challenge and our team is trying to cross Africa first! Anyway, I put the pedometer on and guess how many miles I had walked in one day....just at school....any guesses? yep..4 miles! Isn't that disgusting...back and forth to specials, lunch, recess, outside to dismissal...plus we have a nice flight of stairs to climb! Add those 4 to the 3 I did before work and I had already walked 7 before 6pm.

So I guess when you add it all up it will take me just about 3.5-4 days to do a marathon! (of course I wouldn't be crazy enough to actually do all in one day...that's just insane!)

Love you all...keep working...you better watch out because I am a member of team El Fluego and I am feeling the heat! Jill

Week 4 Report

Post it here!  Let's keep going!!

Week 3 Report

So we are getting to the "I'm getting sick of this" phase, but remember don't worry if you haven't been perfect.  The idea is to change habits that we've had for a life time so regardless of how well or bad you've done DON'T QUIT!!!!

To Zumba or not to Zumba

I decided I needed to try something different for for my workout. They offered a new Zumba class at the gym. Totally excited, I signed up. I know I'm not the best dancer in the world but I didn't think I was that uncoordinated. Wrong! Doing the shimmying and shaking (and flapping for me) just makes things jiggle that I don't know I want jiggled. So I tried Zumba again willing to give it another try. Still uncoordinated, still flapping and still jiggling but it is fun (If I don't look at myself in the mirror as I'm doing it - that's just disturbing!).
So, is it Zumba or not? We'll see.

Week 1 breakdown/ Week 2 Report

Here are the first set of Standings. You can see how much competition there will be. If you find yourself at the bottom on the list don't worry, you always have next week!!

The only way to get 0 points is if you don't report.  Good first week everybody.  Now click on the comments to post your percentage for your second week!!

I'm on.

I can finally Post! I am participating. It just took me a while to figure out how to sign up. Last week, I remained the same.

I also signed up at the gym to do the biggest loser groups again so we will see if that motivates me to exercise!

V-I-C-T-O-R-Y

I want you to know I had 2 victories today. First one is that I ran for 15 min. straight for the first time!!! My personal best before was only 3 min. (I know that's sad). My other victory is that I went to the store and they had these cream cheese brownies that were to die for. My mouth was just salavating just looking at them. I picked them up to put in my cart and I said , "NO" (it was really out loud) and I put them back. I call these big VICTORIES!

Spin class...is it working?

So I know you have been wondering, "How do I know if spin class is working for me?" Well here are a few clues to help you know if spin class has been successful (in no particular order).

---you continually curse out the instructor (in your mind of course) and wonder 'what kind of crazy person actually enjoys this!'
---you no longer care where your massive sweatdroplets land (if they hit the towel....great)
---speaking of towels, you start debating about whether you should bring a bath towel next time (instead of the cute daintly little face towel)
---you find yourself wishing you could just sit down and ride for a while!
---your gluts, hamstrings, calfs, quads, forearms, biceps, neck, back, and of course your feet are screaming 'what are you doing to me!'

There you have it, just a few clues to let you know if your spin class has been effective.

PS Barbara I know you can't wait for your wound to heal so you can get back in that spin saddle again!!!! ;)

love you all!!!

A Healthy Snack???

You know manufacturers are getting the idea that we consumers want more healthy choices when Hostess comes out with this

 

Don't forget to report first week's percentage!   Click here to Report! !

Elevated calcium levels anyone?

So I have this parathyroid problem which is resulting in high calcium levels (or maybe not). The doctors (and I mean plural) all want to know if any of my family has also experience with the high calcium levels.

I told them that Dad had 3 of the 4 parathyroids removed and they all thought that was very, very interesting. Of course they also think all his other problems were very interesting also.

So if any of you have the high calcium let me know. That would lead them to believe that we just normally have higher calcium levels than other people and that it isn't really anything to be concerned about and that the parathyroids are not malfunctioning. Apparently something about Vitamin D levels as well, but I'm so confused at this point I can only remember the calcium part!

First Week Report Here!

Hey good job everyone, we've worked through one week. If you have already weighed in for the week and you have your percentage click on "comments" below this post and leave your percentage lost there. Some people won't weigh in until Wednesday, so I won't have everyone's totals until then.  So below is how you calculate your percentage for the week:

(lbs lost)/(Weight of previous week)x100=Percentage lost

For Example:  If I weighed 200lbs the week before and I lost 5lbs  my percentage lost would be
5/200 x 100 = 2.500% (report to 3 decimal places for more accuracy)
 (note: so for the following week I would be using 195 (200-5) as my weight)

The thing good about this is it doesn't matter how bad you did the week before, everyone starts with a clean slate every week!  That also mean there is never a reason not to report your percentage.  The only way to not get points is if you don't report!  So if you did great and lost a ton or if you gained weight report it anyway!  The point is to keep us all motivated and ACCOUNTABLE.

Remember changing eating habits and lifestyles is not a one week process!  Don't worry if you didn't do so good this week, just keep plugging along.  As long as you make tiny improvements you will be doing great.  Long term sustainable weight loss rarely happens much faster than a pound or two a week, so if you only lost that you should be happy!

Just Run!

Have you ever walked into the kitchen and the fridge just talks to you saying, "Open me, I have something you need to eat in here"? I need to wear ear plugs just to walk from my bedroom to the laundry room. I'm thinking of getting extra exercise by running through the kitchen and not lingering just in case the fridge or the cupboard has the siren call for the weak. Wish me luck to resist the call of the all powerful fridge!

The Farr West Hess'

Travis and I went exercising at 5:30 this morning together. Trying to keep each other motivated. I just need not to eat back all the calories I burned by lunch!

Getting Started

To start things off right I decided to start cooking low carb. I have made a menu for 2 weeks and chose some pretty simple things to make so Ry can cook them when I am in Utah. I have also planed to double the recipe (most of the time depending on how many servings it makes.) and send the left overs with Matt for lunch. That way he doesn't have a choice on what he eats. There are no fast food places in Gooding. Parker and Makeny think I am going to starve them to death and have decided not to eat what I have been cooking. Dinner for them now consists of a P&J or a bowl of cereal. I hope that they will get tired of that and return to eating regular meals soon.
The kids finally went back to school on the 7th and Ry has a women's fitness class. She says the class is really fun and enjoys riding the bikes. She says that the coach makes you do all these different moves on the bike. She also says some of the moves frighten her because when she leans the bike moves or shakes. When she said that I had visions of being in the ER and Ry saying mom I was only doing what my coach said I didn't know the bike was going to tip over and crush my foot. Only time will tell and I hope that won't happen...
We have done our weigh in and are off to a good start. I couldn't go walking today because it was raining (hard). Does chasing the kids around the house count as exercise or fun?

Good luck to all catcha next week.

Dawn and Ry
Still working on Matt

Keeping up

So there I was working hard on the eliptical when who arrives but a very large and muscular African American gentleman. Now this presented me with a challenge. I couldn't very well slow down, I had to keep up with him! So I kept the pace I was going (3 miles in 20 minutes) the entire 20 min (I walked to the gym..add another 10 min.). When I got off the elicptical and was cleaning it up the gentleman said, 'wow..you were really moving, I could barely keep up with you!' my reply "oh...I was trying to keep up with you!'

Moral of the story...there is competition in everything, and it's not always bad!! ;)


p.s. do I get some extra bonus point for being the first to post? ;)

Welcome to the Challenge!!

  right we are nearing our first weigh in on Wednesday September 8.  Remember use the same scale, weigh-in at the same time, and wear roughly the same clothing.  Below are some basic ground rules I propose.

   1.  Buy in (to enter the challenge) is $10 a person.
   2.  Points accrue depending on your weekly weigh in
 For example  If you come in first of 10 people you get 10 points,2nd = 9 points 3rd=8pts. . .
last=1points.

   3.  Weigh in's must be finished by every Wednesday, with the initial weigh-in starting Tuesday Sept 7th

   4.  Mom has the right to determine any additional prizes she wishes.

   5.  After the 6 months the entrance money will be split up accordingly, with the last person getting their money back as consolation.  

   6.  As part of the challenge everyone should take before pictures.

   7.  Remember this is bigger than just winning some money or being the best "loser" it is about changing habits and life styles!

Click on the Comments below and leave your ideas about the rules.