Amanda and Kristen: Biggest Loser Million Pound contest winners!!!!

I 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...

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!

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.

OK, 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.

 

 

I 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.