The Bachelor

Well, as a relative bachelor, I guess it's my job to actually post
for myself now! I don't really have any weight loss to report, but hey, I blame the CANCER! Why you might ask. It's not my fault I'm alone with no wife, and a Walmart full of frozen pizzas. Seriously, I think I've eaten more frozen pizza in the last 2 1/2 weeks than I did when I was single in college. So, pizza and cancer, those are my enemies!

Death by Candy Corn

Let's just say I am a few candy corn heavier than I was previously. We'll update this week. We have Fast Sunday on our side!

Thousand Pounds

I just heard a little saying that I felt fit me to a tee. This old guy said that his wife had lost a thousand pounds. It just happend to be the same 5 lbs over and over again. If we are counting those 5 lbs, then I think I may have won! I just can't get over the 230 mark. Adam, Brett, Braydon, Jace and I hiked over 30 miles this last week and still nothing. We even carried a gun for extra weight. Mabey if we had something to run after I could have lost some weight. Just so you know where I am Kat, still at the 230 mark.

Troy

Where is everybody?

So I weighed my self this morning.. and I have maintained! How about every body else.. it has been a while sine anyone has updated!.. HELLO OUT THERE!.. (echo, echo, echo?...)

Amy and Brett

I talked to both at the party tonight. Amy says they are just coasting along at the same place: Maintenance City. I hear the view of that city is better from their place then it is from mine! Just a few more pounds and I'll buy a lot next to theirs...I hope. -Mark

ooops!

We forgot to weigh this morning and me and the boys leave for Califonia tomorow.. so next week I will have to weigh in on their scale... we will have to update then... sorry didn'y have time to call Saunya and Roy... Hopefully we will see all the Utahins Wednesday or so.. laterz!

Feeling down...

And DOWN never felt so good!
Tammy is down 2.5 lbs from last week and I lost the 2 lbs I had gained back the week before.
Of course with the birthday party tonight...

Plateau City?

No, that's not it, it's more like a roller coaster ride. This past month has been filled with ups and downs. Fortunately, the ups have not outnumbered the downs. Unfortunately, the downs barely outnumbered the ups. I only lost 1/2 a pound this month so I'm at 13.5. Pretty sad, huh? I'll try to get back on track. As for Troy, that strep throat really didn't help. He gained those four pounds right back. So, his total is back to 6 pounds. I know, we're not doing too well and the scary thing is we're heading into the bad months. Scary!

The Water Diet!

So Roy's secret made me remember when we had to drink a certain amount of water per day for a "Healthy Challenge" we had at work a few years ago. It was such a memorable time that I decided to put my thoughts to a poem:

The Water Diet

We are 60% water already
But why not add some more.
It’s the fad, the latest diet -
Water, water, water galore!

I’d like to take a little time
And spell out all that’s great
About our friend, Mr. H2O,
There’s much to celebrate!

A little water before you eat
And you should fill up fast.
Then after dinner, to stay feeling full
Just down another glass.

And when that cheeseburger stares at you,
A very tasty temptation,
Just drink a gallon of our pal water -
You’ll lose that craving sensation!

And then perhaps, if your stomach’s small,
That is not all you will lose.
Eating will then be the last on your mind -
Oh what glorious news!

And let’s not forget all the exercise!
Yes water will make you go ZOOM.
At work, at play and even at night -
ZOOM! ZOOM! ZOOM to the bathroom!

So you can see how water can be
A great way to lose some weight.
So drink it right up, and have some to spare
Doesn’t the water diet sound great!

Update..

So we are behind on our weight loss... for us to hit our 427 lbs weight loss goal.. we need to be losing 106.5 lbs every three months. From July 5th(the day we got back from vacation) it has been three months today.. and we have only lost 83 lbs!... we are behind! lets kick it up a notch!.. believe me I realize that I was the one that gained last week! (don't think I am not talking to myself!) So.. in the next three months lets hit our goal! Good luck everybody.. and keep reporting... it really does motivate! (Tyler would like to point out that we are only behind by less than 2 lbs each!.. We can all loose 2 more lbs!)

Roy and Saunya

Roy is happy to report 2lb weight loss.. and Saunya would like to report maintaining.. Roy secret is water and lots of it!!!...

OWL's..

Cat amazingly lost .5 lb so I am almost back to where I should be, Tyler maintained... He says he blames Mom's cooking.. I don't know why my cooking doesn't get blamed for putting on the lbs like Mom's roast beef and double stuff potatoes but he blames her! :)... ( ok so maybe I do know why)

Poll Results...Not too shabby!

There were 8 votes total:
4 of you voted that Tammy and I would gain 0 lbs and possibly even lose more (very kind...but misguided. Yes even Tammy was one of you optimistic dreamers!)
2 votes for 1-3 lbs
2 votes for 4-7 lbs (one of those was me!)
and (thankfully) no one voted that we would gain more than 8 of the lbs back!

So what really happened... we gained 3 of the lbs back!
Tammy only gained 1 lb back (for a net of 4lbs loss since starting the kick start)
I gained 2lbs back (net of 6 lbs loss)

It actually was pretty good since both of us gained those pounds back the very next day so we really maintained the rest of the week!

Hopefully we will now not gain anymore back and will start losing again!

Uh Oh, GC talks have started again...better go and listen!

Time to Vote!

Just for fun, I added a poll to our blog (see Left side panel). We want to see how many pounds everyone thinks we will add back on this week? Hopefully it will motivate us to keep it off! Either way it will be fun.
So cast your vote before Sunday night!

Saunya and Roy

Saunya maintained and I have made it Roy's job to email me his results because he doesn't weight in until Monday morning.. So we will all have to weight(haha) for that update! (I would like to add Saunya's comment when she heard that Mark and Tammy had lost 13 lbs this week- "Did they eat anything this week!?!"... I would like to second that motion).. great job guys! keep it up.

6 out of 7 = 13!

So Tammy and I both started my "7 day kick start to a healthy diet" on Monday so we have only done 6 of the 7 days (today is the last day) but...
Tammy lost 5 lbs and I lost 8 for a combined 13 lbs this week!

I did not track Tammy's progress but here was how my week went:

Monday (veggie day): 2lbs ...and a bit grumpy.
Tuesday (another veggie day): 2 more lbs and quite grumpy indead!
Wednesday (ahhh finally some carbs and more protein): 1 lbs and feeling good.
Thursday (kicking in the exercise!): 1.5 lb and addicted to losing weight.
Friday (still feeling the burn!): I went to Mt Pleasant so I didn't track my weight Sat AM but I did enjoy my Chicken Salad from Wendy's.
Saturday (surprised at how quickly I feel full): 1.5 lbs for the total of 8 lbs!

Let me just say I am excited to have an unrestricted diet starting tomorrow! I do hope that I can keep my portion size and diet habits that I worked on this week.

We will see at next week's reporting if we can maintain the loss and continue to lose (for which purpose the kick start is intended) or if it will all just come back. Wish us luck!

P.S. Click on the Link to see the 7 Day Kick Start

Oklahoma..

I gained a lb this week and Tyler put on 2 lbs... its been a semi stressful week so we both ate out a few too many times and Tyler says he blames the Relief Society General Session for way to many slices of pizza with the boys last night. Cameron's birthday cake staring me in the face hasn't helped any. We will start a new and report weight loss next week. Wish us luck!

Life after almost death

After being sick and feeling like I was going to die I lost 4lbs. Now that I don't have a fever of 103 and I can eat againg I went back to 229lbs. Great to be alive though. Still excited I have finally broke the 230 mark. I've been there since I took over he A&W concept. Those burgers and rootbeer ice cream are pretty good not to mention the freshly made golden A&W Rootbeer. Hungry yet? Now you can see my problem. We just added origninal strips too. I am learning a lot of self control. I'm still 6lbs down for the record. Strips are pretty good as far as health food. Not as much breading and no skin. One of my favorite meals is crooked neck squash, red pepers, onions, jalepeno, tender roast breast, and a little butter substitute and pepper. I have really enjoyed all of this out of my garden. I also made salsa for the first time Sunday. It was pretty good for a first attempt. I kind of took a little bit from everybodies ideas and put something together. After I blended 10 small tomatoes and 5 jalepenos,from my garden, I was looking at Jackee's anunt's recepie. It said 40 tomatoes with 4 to 5 jalepenos seeded. Well, what was done was done, to little information to late. I didn't seed them either. I think I found a cure for the stuffy nose. Adam and I were the only brave souls to try it at my house so we took some to Mark's house for a second opinion. I think Mark is giving the receipe out to patients with stuffy noses now.
Write you later, just waiting for my raqetball partner. I think he went back to sleep. Mark are you there?

Wrights' "Tracking" Better

Okay, here goes, my second blog. I am going to get the hang of this and try harder to do it more often. I still LOVE reading all of YOURS, especially Mark's, with his "broken scales" and "less wear on the carpet"comments. Anyway, the last couple weeks have been busy, a little TOO busy, but I can't use that as an excuse since Roy still finds the time to exercise anyway. (However, 5:30 am is honestly just a little too early for me.) Last week my friend and I put up over 120 quarts of applesauce and still have apples coming out our ears. I wish I had a food drier. Roy and I have finally got the neighbors on board to build the fences (we almost have the posts in). That is some good exercise I must say. Between the 2-man post hole digger, our hand-held one, lifting, bending and moving all the posts, neither one of us could move much the next day. David had his birthday party on Friday night and his "Salmon" cake is gone finally. I am not much of a cake person (unless it's Mom's strawberry shortcake) but I agree with Mark, it's just nice not to have it around. I didn't get much "scheduled" exercise in but still lost a pound yeah! I think that was really due to the lack of time to actually sit down to eat. Whatever - it worked.

The really good news is our better "Tracking" now. Our scale was well, let's just say not that exact. Either that or the little lines on it by our feet were soooo small we had a hard time reading them. Anyway, we have been trying to find a better one at a garage sale or something but Roy actually found one in another city he was in at a GoodWill place. (Everybody probably knows that roaming these places is really what my husband LOVES to do while eating his lunch.) Anyway, at $9.99 it was like Christmas morning for both of us. The only down side is we had to rearrange the bathroom because it is a little large but who cares - it's GREAT! It's that dreaded tall scale you have to stand on at the doc's office that can check you height and weight right down to the quarter pound. The one that you have to move over the weights as you gain OR slide it back down as you lose - oh yeah - that's what were going for. We'll let you know - see you next week.

Starting fresh...

So I have maintained for the last 2 weeks, unfortunately the week my "scale broke" I had gained 4 lbs (the week Tammy's sister was here). So I finally just bit the bullet and took my 7lb weight loss down to 3 lbs and am starting fresh.
Tammy has done well and maintained despite my cravings for cholcolate chip cookies and such.

I am working on adapting some diets to create a "7 day kick start to a healthy diet". The goal is to use 1 week to change the way you eat - the when and the what! Almost anyone can stick with a diet for a week right??? Well, I guess we will see. If it works out I'll post it...and then make millions when I right a book about it...Ha Ha Ha.