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January 16 Kristen, The big day...and i mean bigI only lost a half pound. i'm going to just focus on it being a loss and not a gain...and strive for better this week. i was pretty bummed and i still am. but i'm really trying to be happy about making it through 2 weeks. usually we quit by now. so if i can just stay with it, i'll be very happy.
my goals this week are to keep going and add some workouts. i have to realize i'm not going to get up every morning and workout. I'm not on the show where I get to have the trainers and nothing else going on. But that doesn't mean I can't do anything. so baby steps for me. 3 workouts this week to start off. and I will add one day every week until i'm doing 6 a week.
i do have one thing to be proud of. last night i knew my weigh in was not going to be good. i checked my weight in the morning and just knew it wasn't going to get better in one day. but i didn't give up and i didn't cheat. i ate good all day yesterday and had a lovely fruit plate for a snack last night. i did have some cheese but it was low fat.
now, if i can get through today without fried food of some sort, i'll be really proud... January 15 Kristen, day before weigh in...So tomorrow is weigh in day. We decided to do wednesdays because it's not the day after a weekend but not so far away from the weekend. We used to do fridays which led to the "i can eat bad, it's saturday and i have 6 days to fix it..." mindset. So, middle of the week. But i'm a little worried. i didn't do great this weekend and i haven't been working out. i just can't seem to get that going. I would love to blame the move but i haven't really packed either. talk about lazy. i really need to overhaul my entire life/daily routine in order to get out of this hole...maybe if i start checking back here more, i'll be more motivated! Amanda: The best laid plans...Right, so much for that weekend agenda. We did not stick to it at all, really. Friday night we had wine. We ate fine, but did have a few glasses of wine. Saturday during the day we were totally good and then that night we went for Mexican at a friends house. We both did fairly OK. But I mean, come on, it's Mexican is there anything that doesn't come with cheese?? Then Sunday was birthday brunch at Harrah's casino for my mother. It's amazing, the woman doesn't just try to shove food she's cooked down my throat, but food that someone else has cooked, too! Needless to say, it was a buffet brunch so of course we did terrible. Then we did the usual "well, we already ruined it for today" thing and had pizza for dinner.
BUT....although self proclaimed weekend sabotagers, we picked right up yesterday on the right foot and had a great day.
Now the exercise piece, I have no idea where that has gone. We can't seem to get up in the morning to do it, we're too tired at the end of the day to do it. It's like, without the exercise, you have no energy. Without the energy you can't exercise. It's a viscious cycle that we can't seem to break through.
Ah well, maybe after tomorrow's weigh in isn't so great, that'll motivate us. We shall see. January 11 Amanda: Getting ready for the weekendOK, so it's Friday. On one hand, the most wonderful day of the week....on the other, the dreaded beginning of the hardest two days of a dieters life. So far the plan we have to conquer this weekend is this: Today/tonight: be really good, try and get in a little exercise, eat well, no drinking. Tomorrow: Eat well during the day, avoid the breakfast demons (IHOP corn pancakes) and spend most of the day packing up the house (that's exercise, right?). At night we have dinner at a friend's house (mexican, great.) and I'm going to try and be totally careful and not eat any tortillas, sour cream or anything fried and avoid dessert. Sunday: Sunday brunch buffet at the casino's for my mother's birthday. Her choice. I have designated this meal to be my bad meal of the weekend and even that I'm going to try to keep to a minimum. Then the rest of the day eat well and get in some exercise.
Funnily enough, that plan doesn't scare me or make me feel depressed or anything. I feel pretty good about knowing what we need to do and trying to get us to stick to it. The trick is truly staying busy. The problem with staying busy is having enough energy to stay busy. I feel like it's starting to come together a little, although we are having the HARDEST time waking up in the mornings.
Ok, good luck everyone!!!! If temptation comes to get you, think about Mallory and how she ate just a handful of chocolates and gained 1 lb! It sure didn't seem worth it to her at the weigh-in and it probably won't seem worth it to us at ours either.
January 09 Kristen, weigh in dayI haven’t been writing as much as I should but it looks like Amanda has been keeping it all updated!
Weigh in was great for me this morning. I have never seen such amazing results for myself. Of course I want to downplay it and say it’s because I had been so bad the weekend before but I guess I should be happy about it! I’m just nervous about the second week let down. I know it’s going to be lower but for some reason I can never accept it. I tend to get discouraged after that second week. But not this time, I am determined to make it through.
The show really does help. We watch every season and say we are going to do it with them. And then when it comes on, I say I don’t want to watch it because we are eating or something and it will make me feel bad. Duh! It’s supposed to! So last night Amanda made us a fruit and veggie plate. It was a lovely snack, totally filled me up and it was delish!
The workout piece is not coming together as quickly as I would like but we are working on it. I know we can do it. Amanda and Kristen: Methods to this Madness (300-word essay)OK, so remember in the beginning when I said I was going to follow the rules? Well, I forgot the 300 word essay which included why we were doing this and how we planned on reaching our goals. Here goes: We are in our early 30s and have both been overweight for many many years. Food is a love for both of us. Not just the taste, but the ritual and the ambiance of nice restaurants and the reward factor and the comfort and the release from boredom. But we've both noticed a change in ourselves over the last two years or so. We've gotten... ::drum music:: comfortable.... with each other and really let ourselves stop investing in our outward appearance and focus on just being together. Well, we've gotten the 'us' part down pat. We are a very stable couple who love each other very very much and are absolutely amazing together. So now we have to work on the harder part of getting our physical persons to a place where we can enjoy vacations at the beach, activities with our families and friends and start to think about starting our own family. I have a scary family history riddled with diabetes, high blood pressure and heart disease and don't want my children to live this same story. We both have experienced a decrease in our health in terms of fatigue, stomach sickness and muscle/joint pain. We have decided to do a Weight Watchers type diet with a Body for Life type workout. Both of those programs have worked for each of us and the combo of both seems to be a good way to manage both the food and the exercise part. We're going to motivate each other in positive ways and try to realize that sabotaging ourselves is actually sabotaging each other. Our team goal is 195 lbs to lose total. You get what you give and we're going to give 100%. Amanda: Weigh-in DayOk, so today was the end of week 1. Let me catch you up on what's been going on first. So the weekend was rough. When we were doing WW, Kristen and I were both members of the message board Weekend Sabotagers because that's exactly what we are. We do really well during the week and then with all the errands and hanging out and football...basically we ruin it on the weekends. So this time we tried to keep just Sunday as our 'bad day'. We did fine, but we did go out Saturday night and had a few drinks which I KNOW kills us on the scale. Sunday wasn't great foodwise, but we knew that. Monday we got ourselves right back on track though and have been doing pretty well since.
The working out part is probably the hardest for us. Getting to the gym has proven to be not as easy as we thought. We try to go in the mornings and can't get up. We try to go after work and make excuse after excuse about how it's too crowded or how we're too tired or how we had too hard a day or whatever. Either way, we need to figure that part out or all of this is for nothing.
Last night was Biggest Loser and we watched all 120 mins of it and honestly, it really does motivate me. I mean, I like to say how easy they all have it with the trainers and all and with having nothing to do but exercise, etc. But they work their butts off and it really makes me want to work mine off, too. I mean, suffering for almost 20 years from being overweight for something that one year of really hard work can take care of? It just doesn't make sense to me why I would want to continue to miss out on things and continue to feel disappointed in myself and continue to have my weight affect pretty much all of my relationships for something as stupid as just not wanting to exercise. If I'm gonna suffer, I might as well suffer on a treadmill, skinny and in bike shorts than on a sofa fat and all covered up in sweats.
That being said....here are our losses for this week. Which, if I do say so myself, not too shabby.
Kristen: 13lbs loss
Amanda: 6lbs loss
Team total: 19 LBS LOSS!!!
I couldn't be prouder of Kristen. She's been working so hard and I know she's happy to see those results. We've been in this thing together from day 1 and as hard as it's been, I've really been glad to see her next to me sweating and being all spastic with the aerobics moves right there with me. She doesn't even tell me to shush when I'm cursing at the weight machines in the gym. Up to this point, she and I have been our worst influences. Always wanting to give the other person what they want, especially if it was not working out or bad food or whatever. Now we're motivating each other in the right direction and it's not as hard as I thought it would be.
We took our pictures last night... front, side, together. Wow, was that a wake-up call. I think I'm going to take my picture every morning. I can't believe my size. I always think the clothes I'm wearing cover it up and they just don't. There just is no covering it up at this point. I honestly don't feel on the inside the way I look on the outside and that's so sad. Kristen is so beautiful and when I looked at the picture of us I felt so disappointed in myself. I don't want people to wonder why she's with me.
Ok, enough of that.... bring on week 2!!! January 04 Amanda: My morning workoutOk, so here's my morning... A little history: We live in Philadelphia in a row home. If anyone has ever lived in a city, you know that no matter how clean you are or how many electric thingies you buy or how much poison you put around, 'things' still manage to get in every now and then. More current history: Kristen and I decided last night that we would each take a morning where we were in charge of getting the other person up and exercising. Today was my morning... Just a second ago: I am NOT a morning person. After having snoozed about 42 times, I wake up with about 5 minutes to spare. I get half dressed because my pants are downstairs in my gym bag. (Can you believe I just said gym bag?) So I'm all Risky Business with my shirt, hat and socks on and I go downstairs. The pants-putting-on process is extremely slow because I'm so sore I can hardly move. (How come they never show the contestants being so sore they can't even turn over in bed on BL?) So I'm trying to slide the pants under my foot without lifting it when I hear a noise in the kitchen. Thinking it's Harvey, I continue the process of getting dressed. This time sitting in the chair and trying to throw the waistband of my jeans over my toe, wire hangar ready to do the 'pulling up' part. Harvey lifts his head out from the blankets on the couch. Although two fat girls who love our food, our couch is not in the kitchen. I crane my neck towards the back door and hear the rustling again, this time getting a bit more...desperate. I slide off the chair onto the floor and into my jeans, roll over, get on my knees and then stand up. Voila...Pants! Now, I walk into the kitchen trying my best to channel The Crocodile Hunter and look on our table where we've created the perfect storm for Mickey. Sticky Trap? Check. Dorito placed mid trap? Check. Mickey? Negative. ::rustle rustle:: I climb down off the counter and realize it's either in or near the garbage can. I peer over it from in front of the sink and all of a sudden it's Mickey on a trampoline. He must have fallen into our garbage can and thankfully it's trash day and there's nothing in there, making it just flat plastic all around. (Mind you, trash day didn't always mean that the can would be empty. But now that we have more energy and more motivation, it seems a lot of things are coming together, not just our weight) Well, this mouse was a determined one. He knew he was toast but god love him he just kept jumping. So I ran into the living room and by ran I mean limped slowly and got my laptop lap table. I went back into the kitchen and covered the can, but at this point I don't hear him anymore. Now I'm all worried that all his jumping actually worked and the darn thing got out. So I take the can with the cover and carry it out into the backyard and then come back in and tell kristen "I caught him!". She cheers and I go back into the yard and now she's all South Philly out the upstairs back window watching the whole scene. I take the lid off and kick the can a little and still don't see him. I grab the tiki torch (decorative AND useful) and use it to lift out one of the peices of tissue paper that's in the bottom. I look down and there's his little face. Since I've decided he gets mad props for effort, I pick up the can and dump it into the alley and watch him run like the wind. ::clapping:: Philadelphia 's Famous Jumping Mouse is free!!! January 03 Amanda: IntroOk, so I took a novel approach to this contest and actually read the rules instead of just filling out the forms all willy-nilly like I usually do.
Here are Team HarveysMoms stats:
Combined: We are Kristen and Amanda and we live in Philadelphia, PA. We are a couple that have been together almost 4 years. Why the team name? Well, we have been practicing our child rearing on an 9 year old 11 lb mutt named Harvey who thinks he's a pedigree German Shephard. Honestly, he's so smart and full of personality (and attitude) that when children come into the picture, I think we'll think they're a piece of cake!
Amanda 31 y/o:
* total weight loss goal - 100lbs (although after watching Biggest Loser Australia, I think we're going to start counting in kg's cause it makes me feel skinnier)
* contest weight loss goal - 30lbs
Kristen 33 y/o:
* total weight loss goal - 95 lbs (ditto to the kg's, although the math will probably make me not want to)
* contest weight loss goal - 30lbs
300 word essay to follow... Kristen, day 2So we started our healthy journey yesterday. It went well despite my protests. It still felt like vacation so of course I wanted to eat bad and drink booze. But we didn't. We went to the gym and did a total workout, cardio and weights. it was really nice to be there and not feel pressured to rush through the workout to get to work. then we had a salad from WaWa. who knew they were that good! for dinner we had healthy baked chicken and all kinds of veggies. lots of water thoughout the day...
So today is a work day. that makes it a little easier for food because i'm too busy to think about pigging out. but it makes it harder to get to the gym. we are packed and ready though...going right after work. |
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