who's in..

So i found some "sprint distance triathlons" that look like a lot of fun... you can split them with 1 or 2 other people.. i think we could do some.. whos in..

these ones are female only

http://www.sheroxtri.com/event-series.html


and i think this one is too...

http://www.danskintriathlon.net/

but really each leg of the race is short, so i think we could do them!

Did it!

1 lb down is not a huge accomplishment, especially when illness had more to do with it than will power, but still I dropped a pound over the holidays which is a step in the right direction.

Something weighing me down...

So I have a confession. I gained it all back. Yeah baby! I guess I just felt that there was something missing my life and now I am whole again. hahaha

Actually, it was just that with the move, getting sick and blah blah blah I ate too much and moved too little.

But NO MORE. I am back on the band wagon and I am going to start to lose again. And, since Christmas usually adds a few, I am going to lose DURING Christmas. I figure if I can lose during I will keep losing after.

So here I am: 0 lbs lost but soon some more!
-Mark

how is everybody doing?

...this fine week after Halloween?.. all I know is my teeth hurt, that must be a sign that I gained weight this weekend.... how are you all doing?

Pictures from the 5k...

Wardle / Tatton 5k September 5, 2009 7:30 am

Here we are after the race...

Catherine as she gets he chip cut off her shoe...

Waiting for the race to start....

When is this thing gonna start?...

The chip on Amy's shoe...

This is what we looked like the whole 3.1 miles!

Showing off our consecutive numbers, 559, 560, and 561!

(these are the times we saw as we crossed the line)
Mark and Amy: 32 min 40 sec
Catherine: 33 min 11 sec

ok so I just checked the websites and these are the official times*
Mark 32 min 41 sec (10 min 30 sec mile pace)
Amy 32 min 42 sec ( 10 min 31 sec mile pace)
Catherine 33 min 16 sec (10 min 42 sec mile pace)

Quick side note... I would have placed second if I had signed up as a "Filly"... HAHA!

This week...

Ty and I maintained... It's a work in progress...

It took me a month...

But I am back to my starting point... with all the traveling, and bad eating that is entailed... I am here, and feeling much better, plus I am getting back to my workout routine... how is everybody else doing?

new goal..

So last year I made 17.5 lbs of my 22 lb goal, so I now have a new goal, to get to the "normal" BMI on the BMI scale, which is a total of 11 lbs... I pretty sure these 11 lbs are gonna be tough to loose, but I sure am gonna try... Good luck!

Tylers new goal is 40lbs. He says he wants to know what the motivation is?...lol... we never did cash in on the whole dollar a pound thing, are we going to try that again?

Mark's Total...

12 lbs. Not quite my goal of 15 but close. Now if I can only avoid gaining it all back during the reunion!

Radio Silence...

Now that we are just weeks away I need to get under the radar as to not alert my competition...
See you all at the reunion!

Stealth Mode On.

I have a new goal...

Ok so I had lost weight last week and then we drove to Washington to pick up the kids, needless to say I gained it all back. SO, because it seems I don't have a chance at Biggest Loser this year, I have a new goal. I am going to run (ok, jog) a 5k. And I don't have much time left to train, in fact you guys are all gonna have to help me. The 5k is July the 25th, so that means I am going to have to train while we are at the Wardle reunion. I started jogging on top of my nighly walk a couple of weeks ago, and have gotton up to joggin over 20 min (5 songs!.. that's how I count) without stopping, so I know I can walk the 3.1 miles, but I would really like to jog it! So I have three weeks to get there. So, add to your packing list, jogging shoes! Plus I have a new weight loss goal for Wardle Weightloss 2010! New goals all around!

Tyler maintained.

yeah!

I lost that pound from last week so I am back to where I should be. and I can feel that I will lose more this week. I can feel it in my bones!

Tyler Maintained.

No dice...that's twice!

Too bad, so sad!

GRRR..

I gained a lb... I would like to blame, my hair, it is growing at an unusually fast rate, just puttin on the pounds you know... if you don't buy that excuse then I would like to propose, that I ate way to many smores on our camping trip this weekend, and if for some odd reason you don't believe it was only the smores I propose it was the potoato chips, and other junk that happened to make it to the trip, I would like to excuse the watermelon from the list though, I am sure it wasn't the watermelon....

Tyler maintained.

A weightloss riddle for you...it's true!

Who loses weight with a day at the lake,
When Hotdogs and Snacks and Smores all attack?
Who, oh who could it be?





...NOT ME!
Better luck next week I hope!

Help!

Ok so I have maintained again... does anyone know how to loose the last 5 lbs to get to a goal? Apparently eating most of Tylers homemade cheesecake with ice cream and Carmel is not the way to do it... so I think I am missing something (and no unfortunatly I am not able to try Mark's jumpstart diet, I would cheat on day one...) I've got a month and a few days and I am feeling pretty helpless...but I sure am excited about going camping this weekend!

The Wierd Weight Changes of Marathon Week

Yep, this was marathon week. I ran 26.2 miles yesterday and finished just under 5 hours (4:50:53) which is a lot faster than I thought I was going to run it. I ran the first half of the marathon in 2:20 and thought I ran the last half sooo much slower (The last 4 miles I would walk 1-2 minutes and then run the rest of that mile - a strategy I was taught by a 70 y/o marathoner I met at the beginning of the race) but I only added 10 more minutes to that last half so I was pretty excited about that!

Anyway, this is a weight loss blog not a "go-on-and-on-about-my-marathon" blog so I will get back to the weight issue...

I carb loaded this week (lots of pancakes, french toast, spaghetti, lasagna, and ravioli...yummy!) with the goal of maintaining my weight within a half pound. Sure enough I weighed in at 4am Saturday AM at a 1/2lb gain and then left for the marathon. I thought it would be fun to weigh in after the marathon too. Despite drinking a LOT of water and a medium sized berry julius in the hour between the marathon and when I weighed in at home, I had lost 3 lbs. Of course I was probably still quite dehydrated and had no food bulk in me at all!

And now, after a cheese stick, a Six-dollar Western Bacon Cheeseburger, several brownies, and 3 slices of pizza (not the wheat kind), I ended up this morning completely even with last week.

That's right, this was a VERY long post to essentially say...I maintained! But it sure was a fun way to do it!

Wheat Pizza to the Rescue!

Yesterday was a busy day so we thought we'd order pizza so we could keep working while we waited for it. Papa John's has a whole wheat pizza that is actually pretty good. We tried it a few weeks ago and then again yesterday.
Usually with pizza I can easily eat half a large and sometimes more (in fact I find it hard to NOT eat half a pizza!!!). Luckily the Wheat stuff, while yummy, fills me up after only one or two slices. So, thanks to chosing the wheat last night, I can still report a pound weight loss this week. Yeah Wheat!

HA!

Love the new background and I have to say the whole month of May came and went and I missed it and all of a sudden we have a little over a month to get the weight off?.. EEK! Somebody give me some Hollywood secret to get these pounds off!

Who would have thought...

I pulled a muscle (at least I hope that is all it was) on Monday so I didn't run the rest of the week in order to recover. I was fully expecting some bad news when I mounted the scales today but was pleasantly surprised. Down 2 lbs. It was probably from the week before when I forgot to weigh myself but I'll take it.
My foot still hurts a bit today but I hope it will be okay as I try to do my training runs this week...I need it to heal for my marathon! Otherwise it's $60 down the drain!