offical weigh in #2

gosh darn it! i have been working out EVERYDAY for 3 weeks. yesterday was my official 2nd weigh in. start 220, last week 211, this week, 214! A gain of 3! i am hoping that it is muscle mass. i have been lifting lots of weights. but i guess i need more cardio. man. that was a lot
of work for no, no, no pay offs! glad to see kam is in the mix. 173 days left. if that's the case losing 1/4 a pound a day would be great! see you next week. my goal: under 200! yup! do or die chubbies! -kipp

mom stays the same

Well so far I weigh myself in the mornings. I have stayed the same 134 all week. I guess i need to exercise more. Congratulations all those who have lost some pounds, Kipp and Lisa. I have been watching my chososteral. Hopefully I can get that down. Good luck to us all Mom

The Scale is tipping in the wrong direction

Kipp has been wondering where I have been. Law school and parenting has kept me from waging an all out war on my own personal buddha belly. Last night the scale tipped close to 200 which is 5lbs or so in the wrong direction. I hope it was because it was at the end of the day and the massive amount of soup I ate that night. I have been using weights on a daily basis and walking around with the baby. I have also half heartedly tried working out with Lisa and her workout videos. I cannot tell if I have effectively curbed my eating. I hope the weight is muscle gain and then some pounds will come off.
I have also fixed the voting because it was set to close on the first day of this new year. I changed it to close about 6 months from now closing on Lisa's birthday. We can change it anytime if you want to do it for longer we can. So now we should vote often. However, we should probably have some personal ethics in not stacking the vote.
Well hopefully next blog I write will show a marked difference in which way the scale tolls.

offical weigh in #1-kipp

ok-
one week ago i weighed in at 220
as of tuesday, the 15th 211
a loss of -9 lbs. this week!
it was a lot of work, lots of gym time, but i'm gonna stick
with it. hey, any one seen kam?
see you next tueday.
kipp

My progress so far...

I am following Kipp's idea on weighing myself, however, I plan on doing it every Sunday rather than Tuesday. I have done pretty well this week as far as exercise goes. Tomorrow I plan on taking the baby for a walk after church. I also exercised for about 45 minutes today and then cleaned the house for an hour. I am hoping all these things helps this baby weight come off!

Time and the plan

well, lisa's plan sounds great, and her brother married! wow ryan!
so i am following the biggest loser show, and so i will be weighing myself in every tuesday
after the last competitor. i have a goal of my first week of 5 pounds +, so i will let you know how that goes. and the time, flies. it's already the tenth (10th), and that means christmas was two weeks ago and more. that is alot of time to do a lot of things. what are you doing?
good luck.
ps.
KAM! where are you tubby? law school getting your goat?
kipp

Lisa's "Plan"

Okay, so I have FINALLY started trying to lose this baby weight (who would have thought a diet rich in ice cream wouldn't help) and the results are as follow.

Tues: 30 minutes of cardio following an 8 hour workday
Wed: Weight training x30 minutes, 2o minute walk following an 8 hour workday

The rest of the week I plan on alternating cardio with weight training (light walk following) and trying to change some of the unhealthy eating habits I got into when I was pregnant. I will post any changes (good or bad) by next Tues.

My goal is to lose at least 10-15 lbs. by my little brother's wedding on May 17th.

the addict

it seems that thus far, i am the only one blogging, so i'll have to make things more interesting.
obviously, my (our) family will be the predominate ones to view this site, but anyway, let's continue.

my life has been nothing really more than drama, mostly over love, being fat, and love and being fat. there are some school, church, and money issues in there, but my problems are mostly love, fat, and being fat. really shallow huh? life has so much more to offer, i'm sure. anyway,
so as my family knows, i have spent pretty much my entire life on planet earth (now 30 years, yuck!) worrying about how i look and how fat i am ( "this sucks, because i'm fat!") and how depressed i feel. the truth is, i know that these things are very vain and shallow, but if they bother you, that is how real they are. so here i go.

i have abused my body more than i care to admit, and i can only hope that i can recover. not only have i scarred my body with ups and downs of weight loss and gain, i have sabataged my future. i am clinically obese now, and feel it everywhere, mixed with depression and worry, i am a target for a short life span. but that is not what frightens me most. is it the sheer horror of losing all my great gifts, talents, and the love of life. this weight issue must go.

the other side of this truth is that i don't know how to look after myself, clean and cook and work, and so on. this makes it difficult for every time i try, i fail even more. so here it goes:
in many aspects, i consider this my last chance, my final attempt at finding a balance in this life.
i know my family loves me and doesn't want me to worry or suffer, but this has to go. as my dad says, you only get one body, how true is that?
so my mission this semester during school is not only to draw and write my master piece, but to make my body a beautiful master piece, and capitalize on my good genes. so here is the "plan" mom.

mon-fri
attend the gym every day before class. this will help wake me up and get my mind clear.
on mon- wed- fri- i am doing weights, with at least 30 mins of cardio.

tues-thurs-sat- at least 1 hour of cardio.

i am also taking a yoga class, mon, wed, sat, and sunday nights. this will help relax me and strech my muscles.
i have signed up at the gym for a 100 mile completion marathon by valnetines day. i have already done 8, but i need to step it up. 4 miles a day and bingo!

ok, now the big thing, the eating!
i am an OINKER! a bad one! i have sloshed down slop all my life ("I'm not a garbage desposal mom!" well maybe i am afterall ), this one will be hurting me. i can't really cook, so in between classes i eat chips and donuts and chocolate bars and milk and JUNK; it's really, really bad. i have no self control.
so, as an embarassing techinec, i am posting my weeking eating -for the most part. that will include every chip, every candy bar, soda, milk dud, popcorn, apple, banana, ect. i'll keep it short and clear. but this should help. something i always ask my brothers is: "i wonder what it would look like if we could see all the food we've ever eaten?" Gross huh?

well, that's it. i hope this is interesting enough, and quite frankly, it's realy just for me. Kam needs to lose the most next to me for obvious health reasons (bum ticker) and he has a kid now, "bunches" or "Elli". so that should be his strict motivation. ( although i hear he can run like a jack rabbit when the need arises). I hope my mom works out for her high blood pressure. Lisa just has baby fat, but if she's not careful that stuff can stick on you for a life time. Kallee, she actually looks really good for a mother of four, but as you get older and your kids get off to school, chips turn into wide hips. so that's it. i'll be posting my weekly eats and excercises, and post my weight loss every month or two months. have fun and happy eating.
oh, mom and dad are coming into town today and want to take me out to eat. there is always something.
chow, baby.

greeting fellow oinkers!

well, well, well. its 2008 and it's been a week since Christmas. i am offically posting this in the site to show my miserable self loathing. i don't know how or what started it, but 15 months ago, i was weighing in at about 160-170. now, i am 220! what a loaf! i would like to blame it on president Bush, or maybe the pope, or hell, even my mom's fancy cooking, but i can't. only a year of depression, worry, stress, and lame days of bad jobs, and an obese future. yes, i am clinically obese

so, here's the deal. i am not a happy guy, well i am, can be, but my boobs are getting so big, i have to lift them to clean under them, yuck! i thought of killing myself as the fastest way to lose the weight, but then i realized i would only be leaving a fat corpse that would be heavier to carry into the ground, and i know my fat brother couldn't carry me there, since he can't even do 5 push ups! (yeah, that's you kammy boy!)

i wish i could say more, but my goal is to be back to my "ideal" weight, 160 ish, by May. that's a [ ] load of weight, i. know. It used to be for looks, but now its for health reasons. i kind of want to out live my parent, but at my rate, good gooooeeeeeeww! i don't think so.

By next week i will post here my workout schedule and eating menu. so that when May comes, it's one of 4 things: i will be realtively heavier. realitvely the same. realtively dead. or in damn good shape! maybe i can even be a model for a wash board company! see you next week my fellow couch potato's!!!!

KIPP

ps- nothing is more inspiring to losing weight as in watching the biggest loser TV show. Who in the hell would want to go on that show? i am overweight, but if i got morbidly obese, yes, you would fine me dead. happy eating and all that stuff. eat to live , not live to eat.
triple ho's!!!!