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Day 8

  Hi everyone! 

 Well we went to the gym again last night.  Dean ran about 2 miles and worked on the weights and then hit the sauna, and I rode the bike, hit the tread mil, and then worked on legs and did my crunches again then hit the sauna.  That was a treat, I had never been in one before.  I wasn’t sure how long I should stay so I stayed 20 minutes.  The thing that was torture was the sauna over looked the pool so when your sitting there sweating your butt off you can see all the people in the pool.  I have decided that I hate the crunches the most in my exercise routine. Dean says they are the best thing for me which is probably why I hate them the most.  I asked him what was his least favorite and he said none of it.  I guess that is a typical man in the gym.  My whole body is an annoying sore you know the sore that is there when you do something but if your just sitting there you don’t notice it, but no pain no gain.  Food wise I probably could have had a better day yesterday but I was up at the girls school helping with Rodeo Art (Houston has a live stock show and Rodeo every year.  And the schools around the area all have the kids draw pictures, and the are judged by rodeo officials.  If they win their pictures actually get taken to the rodeo which goes on for about 3 weeks and they are on display for everyone to see..)  Well the girls made it past the first round they were two of the 90 pictures choose out of  over 500 kids from Pre-K -1^st grade.  So we are pretty proud of them.  We will find out tomorrow how they did.  Anyways I was up at the school yesterday helping decorate and hang the pictures for the judging today.  So I had a 100 calorie snack pack, and 2 -100 calorie popcorns, but when I went to the gym I burned most of it off.  Dinner was a little healthier, we had chicken, green beans, and salad.  Dean had an 100 calorie snack bar for breakfast and an orange for lunch.  I told him he needs to eat more but he doesn’t listen to me.  We both talked about how proud we are of each other for making it the first eight days.  I hope that the rest of you are doing as well.  We are still looking for people to share recipes with so if you have them share them!    

Days 6 & 7

I missed yesterday so I am going to combine today and yesterday into one.  Yesterday went ok until dinner (see what we are eating blog).  I got tired of trying to work out at home and not having a clue to what I was doing so I talked to Dean and we worked out a deal and joined a fitness center.  So we went last night and took a tour and I was pretty nervous.  Here I am walking in weighing over 300 and you have all these people walking in and out that look like they belong on the cover of magazines.  Well they tell us that when we sign up that we get a free training day with a trainer.  I am thinking oh great I am going to get some little blonde girl who weighs all of 100 pounds to help me.  I know that is there job but they just intimidate me by the way they look.  Well let me tell you I was wrong.  My trainers name is Ty.  He is about 6 ft 5 and weighs some where in the 200’s and it is all muscle.  He walked up to me and introduced himself and asked me while I was here.  So I told him what I was doing, and he tells me not to worry that he is going to work with me and that I am going to look better then the people on the Biggest Loser.  So I tell Dean later on that I am not sure if I want to work with him or not because he scared me. ( I will have to take a pic to show everyone).  So anyway, he and Dean are working out tonight and right before we leave Ty comes up to me and tells me I don’t have to be afraid of him until we do the workout.  I could of killed Dean I was so embarrassed by him.  Oh well what is done is done.  Dean and I both had a good week.  Hopefully we will be able to keep it up.  I like working out but I am so sore now!  Hopefully I will be able to move in the morning.    

 Day 5

Well I am a day behind.  Yesterday was ok day until it came to dinner.  It was late and Dean was working at Pizza Hut again for his mom and the girls and I were not at home and Dean called and asked what was for dinner and I told him that I hadn’t cooked.  He asked if I wanted a pizza and at first I said no.  I said that I would cook, well by the time that he got off I still had not made it home or cooked so we ended up with Pizza, bread sticks and chicken.  I had a little of all of it and I am not going to lie it all tasted so good, but when I was done eating I felt so guilty.  I couldn’t believe what I had done.  That is all that I am going to say about yesterday that it was a bad day and it isn’t going to happen again I hope.  One last thing I can say when I was eating the pizza that I didn’t break my water trend.  I stuck to it instead of having a soda or something. 

Day 4

Well the weight is coming off just not as fast as I wish it would.  I am fighting an up hill battle here.  I don’t want to quit yet.  I just want faster results then what I am getting.  I think that is why I have quit in the past because it’s not fast enough, and I am not one to wait.  I want results now.  Dean says it will come just be patient.  He also says that he can feel and see his results but he doesn’t have as much weight to loose plus he has been working out all along at work running and lifting weights every day and I am still getting into the process of the whole thing.  I have done a little more since I am unemployed right now but, we don't have the money for the gym so I went to Wal-Mart yesterday and bought so of the little exercise balls.  I got the 2 pound ones thinking that it would be nothing to use them boy was I wrong.  I had to tell myself that it has been a while since high school and it isn't going to be as easy as it was back then.  For example I did 50 just 50 sit ups tonight and I was pretty proud of myself because it has been since high school since I have done them.  Anyways when I was done I went to stand up and got a Charlie horse in my stomach.  I thought I was going to die.  It just shows me how out of shape that I really am.  I still like the healthy eating I just wish that I could find more recipes that Dean and I like.  He is too picky of an eater.   I know that this might sound crazy but when I get up in the morning, I am up and ready to do something, not lag around like I used to, and it seems like my body doesn’t require as much sleep as I used to.  I used to sleep 8-10 hours and still be tired sometimes, but now I am going on 6-8 and actually feeling pretty great when I wake up in the morning, so I guess that is a good sign.  Dean has been doing good working this weekend for his mom at Pizza Hut, he says it all smells so good and is so tempted but he says that he hasn’t cheated so I am proud of him.  I know that we can both do it we just have to stick to it.  I asked him this morning what was the one thing that he missed the most and he said that it was his pizza, I guess for me it would be the Cokes, I think that my body is having with drawls, but when we started this we said that we were going to stick to it so he is going to have to live with out pizza and I am going to have to live with out my cokes.     

DAY 3

I LOST 3 LBS AND DEAN LOST 4!!!!  This is going easier then I expected it to go.  Dean did say he had a tough time at Pizza Hut last night smelling and seeing all that good pizza.  I pulled up on line how many calories were in one slice and I think he had a change of heart.  I did have a midnight snack.  I don’t know why I wasn’t hungry but that was all that was on my mind was food and I am never one to eat late.  Dean and I both did exercises on the ball and he also walked a mile.  This weekend is going to be our real test.  We are not ones to sit at home and we are used to going out and eating and doing stuff, so who knows how it is going to go.

Day 2 I LOST 2 POUNDS AND DEAN LOST 3!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   I am so proud of us.  He does have an advantage though because he has a weight room at his work and he can work out when ever he wants.  His real test will be tomorrow when he goes to Pizza Hut.  His mom is the manager of one and he helps deliver when they are short handed so he is working all this weekend.  I have told his mom what we are doing so hopefully she can help him out.  I on the other hand am still trying to figure the out the whole exercise thing.  I didn’t do any on day 1 but I did so sit ups today.  Today was also grocery shopping day.  I knew that this was going to be fun because I am so used to going into the store and picking up what ever sounds or looks good.  So there I was in the grocery store looking around.  Trying to find healthy stuff that we would actually eat.  You know something that doesn’t taste or look like cardboard.  Well after shopping the store I realized that wasn’t going to be as hard as I thought it was going to be.  I got lots of fruit, which I have always bought, and my frozen veggies.  Do you know that they make them now where you can cook them in the bag in the microwave and they actually taste good.  I have always bought frozen veggies but first time I tried them in the microwaveable bag.  We had the green beans last night and they were really good.  I am sure that this going to get harder as time goes by but hopefully we will be able to stick to it.    


Day 1
Well day 1 wasn't as hard as I thought that it was going to be.  I am not a breakfast eater so this is something new for me to get up and make myself eat something in the morning.  We went to the mall yesterday to take the girls to see Alvin and the Chipmunks and we all know what kind of temptations are at the mall, but I thought I was doing good by getting a smoothie but I found out that it wasn't the best choice for me but it was the best out of what I had to choose from.  Didn't have anything at the movies but the popcorn really looked good.  Got home and I got hungry or at least I think I did.  Sometimes I think I eat because I know that it is there.  Anyways I grabbed a 100 cal. pack of cookies and ate them.  For dinner we grilled shrimp, zucchini, and onion it was really good, and we made a small salad , and cooked some brown rice.  I wasn't really fond of the brown rice but it is something that I am going to have to get used too.  Then before bed I had another pack of cookies.  As I was lying down I realized that I didn't do any exercising so that is something that I am going to have to start tomorrow.

Day 8 January 9, 2008

Anastasia

Breakfast –

Snack-

100 calorie pop corn
 
Lunch-

100 calorie pack

Snack-

100 calorie pop corn  

Dinner- Grilled chicken, salad, green beans

66 fl oz water

DEAN

Breakfast-

Special k breakfast bar

Lunch-
  
Orange     
 
Dinner- Grilled chicken, salad, green beans

80 oz water

Day 7 January 8, 2008

Anastasia

Breakfast -
 
Lunch-

Sonic kids meal with a corn dog, tator tots, and a strawberry lime aide  

Dinner- Grilled chicken salad, with ranch dressing

DEAN

Breakfast-

Banana

Snack- Orange

Lunch-
  
  South Beach Diet meal 240 cal     
 
Dinner- Grilled chicken salad with a diet Dr. Pepper 

Day 6 January 7, 2008

Anastasia

Breakfast -

None

Lunch-

6 in subway sandwich ham and turkey with no cheese, or mayo.  Had to have white bread because they were out of wheat. With baked lays and a water.   

Dinner- Wings for KFC, and French fries

DEAN

Breakfast-

None

Lunch- 6 in subway sandwich ham and turkey with no cheese or mayo, Had to have white bread because they were out of wheat. 
  
Dinner -

Double meat sonic cheeseburger with mayo, ff, and a coke. 

Day 5 January 6, 2008

Anastasia

Breakfast -

Special K bar  

Lunch-

Grilled Chicken salad with cheese, bacon, eggs, tomatoes, croutons, and light ranch  

Snack- Reese’s 100 cal pack

Dinner- Pizza, breadsticks, and chicken

DEAN

Breakfast-

1 cup Special K cereal and ½ cup skim milk

Snack- Orange

Lunch-
  
9 mini rice cakes      
 
Dinner- Pizza, breadsticks, and chicken  

Day 4 January 5, 2008

Anastasia

Breakfast -

1 cup of Special K cereal with ½ cup of 2% milk  

Snack-

Banana
 
 
Lunch-

Special K 90 cal bar 

Snack-

100 cal pack of popcorn

Dinner-

Cheeseburger with corn on the cob 93/7 for meat 160 cal 110 for whole wheat bun, fat free cheese for 30 with mustard, pickles and tomato And the corn on the cob had 90 cal.

DEAN

Breakfast-

Special K Breakfast bar

Snack-

Orange

Lunch-
  
100 cal pack      
 
Dinner-

Cheeseburger with corn on the cob 93/7 for meat 160 cal 110 for whole wheat bun, fat free cheese for 30 with mustard, pickles and tomato And the corn on the cob had 90 cal.

Day 3 January 4, 2008

Anastasia

Breakfast -

1 cup of Special K cereal with ½ cup of 2% milk and a whole wheat English Muffin

Snack-

100 Calorie pack
 
 
Lunch-

On the run today so had another 100 calorie pack 

Snack-

I need to find something else.  Had another 90 calorie pack

Dinner-

Grilled Pineapple pork chops, salad with ranch, and corn

 Snack-

1 pkg of Reeses 100 calorie snacksters

Midnight Snack-

1 pkg of 100 calorie cheese it's  

100 fl oz of water

DEAN

Breakfast-

Special K Breakfast bar

Snack-

Banana

Lunch-
  
1 Orange      
 
Dinner-

Grilled Pineapple pork chops, salad with ranch, and corn

Day 2 January 3, 2008

Anastasia

Breakfast -

1 package of Quaker Instant Oatmeal Weight Control Maple & Brown Sugar

Snack-

1 pkg of Reeses 100 calorie snacksters
 
Lunch-

South Beach Diet Meal Santa Fe Chicken Style Kit for 240 calories (yummy and filling)

Snack-

100 Calorie Right Bites Fudge shoppe cookies

Dinner-

Grilled Chicken, and onions,  a small salad with  ranch  dressing  and green beans

Snack-

Special K 90 cal bar

80 fl oz of water



DEAN

Breakfast-

Hamburger Patty
 
Lunch-
                 
12 mini caramel rice cakes

Dinner-

Grilled Chicken,and onions,  a small salad with  ranch  dressing  and green beans

Snack –   Pkg of mini popcorn rice cakes
                    




Day 1 January 2, 2008

Anastasia

Breakfast -

1 package of Quaker Instant Oatmeal Weight Control Maple & Brown Sugar
 
Lunch-
           
1 XL pineapple strawberry smoothie

Snack-

1 Pkg of 100 calorie planters peanut butter cookie crisp

Dinner-

Grilled Shrimp with grilled zucchini and onions,  a small salad with  ranch  dressing  and 1/2 cup brown rice

Snack-

1 Pkg of 100 calorie planters peanut butter cookie crisp

20 oz of water

           


DEAN

No Breakfast
 
Lunch-
                 
1 XL Banana Strawberry smoothie

Dinner-

Grilled Shrimp with grilled zucchini and onions,  a small salad with  ranch  dressing  and 1/2 cup brown rice

                                         We have done it! We signed up for the Million Pound Match-Up contest!

Here's how it works for the contest:

The top 5 entrants who chronicle their weight loss & fitness journey via Windows Live Spaces will be eligible to win an all expenses paid trip to Los Angeles to see "The Biggest Loser: Couples" season finale live!

One winning team will also receive a personal fitness trainer for a year - for each team member!

Then there are the rules... you have to team up with a partner and you must chronicle your weight loss on Windows Live Spaces at least once a week.

They say to be honest, creative and share your journey frequently.

The judging is based on the quality of the content, the visual design, and the frequency of each participants updates.

Here is why we want to do it:

The reason that we want to do the weight loss challenge is because we both realize that we both need to loose weight and lead more healthy lifestyles.   Dean would like to do it to be more fit, and also to help me and be my moral support and to get below the weight that the military requires him to be.  I on the other hand have to do this for my health, if not I realize that I am going to be dead before I am supposed to be.  I have tried every fad diet that is out there and everything else along the way and none of it has worked or I have given up.  I have always been over weight for as long as I can remember.  There is not a certain size that I want to be or a certain outfit that I want to wear, I just for once in my life would like to be the one that everyone looks at because I am skinny, not because I am the one that they point at and whisper about.  I am tired of trying to squeeze into booths when we go to eat, or not even being able to wear my seatbelt in my car when I drive.  Or having to tell my girls that I can’t do something with them because I am too tired or I can’t ride that ride with them because I am to fat.  I am ready to do this.  I want to make myself proud of me.  I need to do this for myself along with my family so that I don’t have to worry about them ever telling me that they are embarrassed to be with me.    That we need to lead a more of a healthy lifestyles for our girls so that we are both around to see them grow up.