Challenge Ideas

Play with kids for 20 minutes
Go for a walk with your spouse/family
Give yourself 20 minutes of quiet and rest during the day.
Share a healthy recipe daily
Share a favorite (treats, breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks)

Mary Ann - Week Eight

I have gained weight.  I have to admit I am a little discouraged, but I also have not been very focused on weight loss right now.  I am sad to admit that I use food as a coping mechanism.  I can't say that it comforts me, it's more of an impulse, when I am stressed I eat a lot of food.  Most days it is food on my plan.  I did have one day this past week where I steadily ate garbage.  I felt terrible--I had a headache, my guts hurt--it was awful, but I just kept on consuming.  If I do not lose this week, I will adapt my portions and total calories as well as eat paleoish. My goal is to lose 1 stinking pound.

Week 8

Week 8 is here!  Scott has officially lost 15 lbs!!!  So proud of him.  His will power has been a sight to behold!  He did not like my weekly challenge of wall sits.  He pretty much cursed me daily.  So, if anyone has a challenge they would like us to do, please post.  Otherwise, everyone make a personal weekly challenge and stick to it everyday!  Keep working hard.  4 weeks is still a long time to accomplish great things!

Mary Ann - Week Seven

This fat is wicked! I have carried it for so many years and tried to lose it soooo many times and I get to this place ALWAYS and end up deciding the timing is wrong for the effort and commitment it would take to get it to budge. I hope I can stay motivated.
So obviously, I did not make my goal weight! I did lose weight, just not enough. My goal this week will be to lose 1 pound.

WEEK SEVEN CHALLENGE!!

Half way there everybody!  At the start, 12 weeks didn't sound that long...some days it feels longer than others and then you wake up at you're already at week seven. 

Week Seven Challenge:  1 min. plank hold daily, longer if you can,  1 min. wall sit daily and 64 oz water daily. (sorry Mary, it's for our own good!)

If anyone has any ideas they would like to throw out for the weekly challenge, you're welcome to do so.


Scott and Leslie's goal will remain the same.  It will be a tougher challenge this week as we are traveling to Rexburg and there's always lots of delicious treats and eating out.  We will do our best! 

Scott lost another lb. this week and is down in the 170s which has evaded him for years.  Good job Scotty!!

Good luck everyone!

Scott and Leslie week six

More of the same for this week for both of us.  And Scott lost another pound!  He's in the same boat Mary's in where his body has never been below this weight since his mullet wearing, country dancing glory days, i.e., high school.  So these last few lbs might be a challenge.  Keep up the great work everyone!!

Jen Jessop

So I weighed myself mid week and had lost 1.5 lbs....and then on Sunday it was back to where it started...oh well! I will keep doing the 1200 cal diet and work out 5 days a week however I have been going 6 days a week!

Mary Ann week six

Gained 2 pounds this week! Damn it! Goal this week will be to lose those 2! I'll keep on with what I'm doing with food.

So I have totally sucked at this weight challenge as far as recording everything so that is part of my goal along with 20 pushups a day and 1200 cal diet with one cheat day.

WILL POWER!

I have spent the last two days listening to back to back episodes of Cake Boss.  Ellie is sick and it is her absolute favorite show.  I LOVE CAKE!! It is torture.  I can't stop thinking about it! It doesn't help that I know I have a stack of cake mixes begging to be made and a freezer full of chocolate.
It is toxic, it is toxic, it is toxic, it is toxic....maybe I can drive the thoughts out!?!

Jen Jessop

I know that I am not strong enough to EVER give up sugar and I don't eat that much. Way to go sticking with it for a whole week! It seems that if I can't have something, I want it even more! So no sugar would not work for me!

This week I am going to stick with the 1200 cal diet, exercise 5 days a week and drink 64 oz of water (not going to lie...I like my water in the form of diet coke....this is very hard for me!)

I lost .4 on the scale, not sure if that is oz? My goal is to maintain my current weight and see more muscle definition...I should have measured at the beginning......

I am an Emotional Eater...SHOCKING I know

Replacing old bad habits with new good ones IS really HARD for me!!!

I made my goal!!!! 2.4 lbs weight lose and I am down 10.3 lbs from the start. Only many more lbs to go.

Mary, I am going to get that number like you I may just be months behind. Mine has been haunting me for years.

Yes, Leslie sugar has been hard for me but I binged last night and payed for it this morning.

Scott, those cookies looked YUMMY!!!! Impressive that you walked away.

My goal this week is 2 lbs
I will continue to do my no sugar and I am starting to cut carbs out this week. (I am making my Drs. very nervous. I told them no pain no gain!)
I will enjoy Gary's birthday cake on Friday and a little ice-cream to go with it
I am struggling to add more then 20 minutes of exercise to my diet. This may have to be my goal next week.

I realized this last 48 hours how much I am triggered by emotional eating. Candy is the first thing I crave (cadbury eggs, peanut butter eggs) easter candy when things are thrown at me that I have no control of.

Everyone have a good week!!!






I am struggling to make old BAD habits into GOOD habits. I guess years of perfection haven't helped.

Scott I am impressed

MARY ANN - Week FIVE

My weight loss has surprised me...I lost this week AGAIN.  I was VERY EXTREMELY nervous about my goal, but I lost 2.6 lbs., making my total weight loss from the beginning 11.8 lbs.
The trouble is that my goal this week will play a mental game with me.  MY GOAL IS TO LOSE ONE POUND by eating when I FEEL hungry and sticking to my paleo plan.  I will cheat on Friday and have cake for Maggie's Birthday.
My goal weight at the end of this week will be a weight I have only blipped to ONCE in the past five years (that's weighing myself daily people!).  I am now to the fat cells that have alluded me for years.  I will beat them this time!
And the weekly challenge SUCKS! Seriously! SUCKS!
PS...I think we need a place on the blog for the weekly WEINER, I mean winner.  Go Scott!

Leslie and Scott's goals week 5

Leslie's goal this week is to follow diet/exercise plan and to do the daily challenges. I am ABSOLUTELY not going off sugar again. (Shelly, don't know how you've been doing it!) I will only eat what sugar I can incorporate into my diet plan, but going completely off sugar really messed with my pysche. Like I said before, Momma needs her chocolate.

Scott's goal is to continue with 1500 calories along with the daily challenges. He also will be incoporating sugar back into his diet. At least we know we tried no sugar and we did it for a whole week! Pretty amazing.

Good luck to everyone and here's to a great week!!

Week #5 Challenge is...

This is from Scott... "let's do all the challenges!" So, that means, 64 oz. water, 100 abdominals and no eating after 8:30pm everyday this week. We can do it!