Amanda & Chris Biggest Loser Million Pound Challenge

Ok so yesterday I started with my personal trainer finally. And I have a body bugg! I have to admit this thing will make you keep active, it beeps at you if you are not and that is quite annoying!

Dana (my trainer)kicked my butt yesterday! Which is a great thing and a sore thing today =) She warmed me up with the treadmill for 15 then stretches. Then we used a 6lb medicine ball to do 4 different exercises that I thought would be simple but ended up being really strenuous in a good way.

Next we did cross cables for twist, lat pull down and row. Finally she made me work my side abs and lower back and core area. All in 30 minutes!

Needless to say I'm sore today but it's a good sore! It's one that will help me get my BMI under 30 again and weight back under 200 by the end of the year. That's my goal - that's my plan. One pund a week. Now I have to get my diet under control.

Well we fell off track and fell hard for the most part of February. Today we are beginning again. I gained 7 lbs in just 3 weeks! So I am posting new pictures (they are HORRID!!!) and being real with myself in my goals. We are going to Disney in June for the kids B-day's and I want to be able to look decent in a swimsuit for the first time in ages!

The twist as well is Chris in now making this a competition between us. I dont know what the prize is yet - but I'm sure it's going to be worth it. My new routine has begun and it includes:

Sat/M/F: Workout with Biggest Loser DVD 1 - Bob be kicking my behind! Damn lunges... then 30 minutes of Pilates and home weight circuit.
T/W/Th: YMCA workout circuit training and cardio.
Thursday: WOW: Woman on Weights at the Y for an hour.

Sunday is my rest day - but probably yoga with Kayla or Taebo.

Wish me luck!

Ok so here it is week 3 and I've been NON-MOTIVATED!! The only workout I got this week is from walking back and forth from the kitchen to the couch watching Biggest Loser. Sad right? This week was Chris' 35th B-day and I made him a German Chocolate Cake and yes we two of us - mostly me ate the whole thing! Then there is this thing called Valentine's Day or 'Valentimes' as my kids call it.  Do you know how hard it is to resist all the bags of candy they bring home??!!! The final stress of the week if (beyond money and stupid people I work with) is that I have to work ALL day today - since I've been part time it's been easy to not smoke or drink pepsi at work. Today I've broken both those rules. I have to get back on track. I'm not happy - the scale laughed at me this morning. I did , on a positive note, make my new work out schedule; I will begin that this weekend and have found that the kids love doing Taebo with me. Kayla loves Yoga especially since she's in Ballet now and Kallel likes doing weight training with me. Right now I need PRAYER, WATER, A NON STRESS DAY and FOCUS!<

I finally eat breakfast now - it was one of the things I always DID NOT do! Since using the Biggest Loser Cookbook I found it quick and easy to make Toast and then Banana with peanut butter and yogurt.  

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How the hell did I get to be 200 lbs?  I'm 5'6"--I'm not a big guy...how did I get 200 pounds on my frame?  I know it's a rhetorical question, I know how it happened:  2 years of traveling meant 2 years of eating out, 2 years of airport and hotel living, 2 years of watching my body deteriorate.  I know how it happened.  I just can't believe it did.

So I'm trying to do more than get it back, more than recapture some former glory or ideal of myself.  Now it's about doing the things I never knew I could do.  3 years ago, I quit my job, left my wife, moved across country and wrote a book.  3 years ago I reinvented myself into someone that could do anything, that would do anything.  Now, I'm living in the city I dreamed about living in for 25 years--I see Mount Rainier and Puget Sound and Qwest Field everyday.  I love that part of my life.  Whether I made them or not, I love fatherhood...I love being someone people depend on, can look up to, can model themselves after.  I love that part of my life.

But I hate the person I see in the mirror...I hate feeling like my true self is hidden beneath a layer of fat.  And I hate knowing that I sat and watched it happen.

So enough of the depression.  I have a heavy bag, gloves, a jump rope and Rocky music.  The best part is that when I go outside to workout, I have company.  I have a little girl who wants to jump rope with me, count when I do sit ups, sit on my back when I do push ups (which is incredibly hard by the way!)  I have a boy who wants to punch the bag with me, wants to lift weights.  I have a reason.