lessons learned

Well, here we are after week 2. This week was a little less weight loss, total of 13.7 lbs. Bridgette had our best weight loss this week. Still we worked hard. But I did learn a good lesson. Don't wear sweats that are a little big when you plan on running on the treadmill. Yah, not a good idea. I'm sure the man behind me got a good laugh. As a matter of fact, I'm surprised he didn't fall off his machine from laughing so hard. If you didn't figure it out, I about lost my pants. I was walking along at 3.5 mph and doing fine. I decided to crank it up to 6 mph as I had done other days. Suddenly my pants are down under my bum,(it's good I had a long shirt on - but then it made it really hard to get ahold of them without lifting my shirt. So there I was, trying to pull up my pants with one hand and slow down the machine with the other. Didn't work. So I just had to hang on to them until I could get it stopped. I wish I could say I lost so much weight my pants just fell off. Not so, just lesson learned.

Well, we finished our first week of the biggest loser. It didn't go totally smooth for me. I ordered from Whole Sale Foods the last week of Nov. and my order came last Tues. Of course I didn't remember what I ordered that long ago (I am over 50 now). Anyway, one item was a case of Otis Spunkmeyer snicker brownies. 400 calories each. That's all I'll say on the matter. Anyway, our group started the week at 1476.20 lbs. We lost a total of 38.90 lbs. That's a lot of fat. I came in 3rd with a loss of 6.5 lbs. I felt pretty good about that. I really did try hard. Kevin had the biggest percentage loss with his 11.5 lbs. Way to go Kevin. He won a Wal-Mart gift card. Next week's incentive is a movie pass.

New Year/New Me

Well here it is 2010. It's only been 6 months or so since I updated. New Me - I'll do better this year. There's a number of things I want to work on this coming year. One biggy is to lose weight. This is probably one of my favorite pictures of me. Not at when I weighted the least, but probably when I looked the best. I could put in a picture of me at my worst, but why would I do that?

Since a number in our family would like to do the same, we are doing the Biggest Loser competition to help each other. My goal is to look like I did 20 years ago - minus the hair-do.. and with a few more wrinkles...and a little more gray...So here I am now, or at least 3 months ago

Keep up with our blog, give encouragement and see the transformation in me.