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Amanda & Chris Biggest Loser Million Pound ChallengeFighting our way through laziness!
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March 08 Starting All OverWell 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! February 14 Week 3 - Valentine and Birthday CakeOk 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!< January 30 Talking about Favorite Recipes (or Menus) to LoseI 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. Quote Favorite Recipes (or Menus) to Lose And so it begins...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. January 28 Have you had snow ball fight lately?Today it snowed 2" in Seattle and apparently they think that's enough to shut the city down. I laugh at that considering the 24" of snow a week we got for 2 months last winter in Colorado! So last night I was having trouble sleeping, I've found myself to be really hungry since I've started the diet in the middle of night.. and if I am hungry then I can't sleep. So once the kids were up I decided instead of being lazy all day, having them drive me nuts, eat from stressing out because I yelled at them, that we were going to get up and do something! First we all bundeled up - thanks to our Colorado gear The kids got a little to rowdy and while they were on time outs I started my weight routine for my arms and then did 50 crunches. Kallel came down and started to use the other set of weights and do his push up/crunch challenge for school. The school has challenged the kids to do 5 push ups and crunches a day and add one on a day. They have been very dedicated about it - that helps too when they motivate me. Finally Kayla came down and begged to do her exercise. Thanks to Comcast we put on Fitness TV ON Demand and did Kids Tae Bo and Denise Austins Fit Kids. Totaling a 60 minute Cardio workout. I am so impressed with all of us! Tonight I'll do the Biggest Loser workout (we bought the DVD's) it always kicks my butt, but I think it would be great to try and work out 2 times a day in small increments. Wheeeeewwww! I feel inspired now.
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- and set out to build a Snowman. While it did not end up being the "best" Snowman ever, we did have an awesome Snow Ball fight. Let me tell you! I didn't realize how much that could get your heart rate up. Running, Laughing, Falling, Throwing. It was great! I never thought of it as a workout. 
I took some photos and posted them for our Snow Day - enjoy!
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