Where's that Motivation?!

I have struggled with weight my entire life, so I am looking for anything that could possibly help me get healthy. I read about this in my mother's (yeah, my mom gets Glamour!) magazine and decided to give it a try. Since we are just starting a new session of Skinny Jeans, or for those trying it for the first time, I thought I would share this article with you.

http://www.glamour.com/health-fitness/blogs/vitamin-g/2009/05/the-secret-to-staying-motivati.html

If you'd like to sign up for Body By Glamour, it's totally free. There are some really interesting recipes that I am looking forward to trying, and I just printed out some great workouts. Plus, you can sign up to get beauty tip emails - I mixed my own nail polish color last week; so much fun!

New to this!

Hi everyone. I'm Lonni Young. I am a mother of 5 super cute kids. My last two are only 15 months apart and I feel like I've been preg forever! I am still wearing my maternity clothes because I keep telling myself I don't need to buy new clothes, I will one day fit into my skinny clothes again! I'm ready to feel normal again. I NEED my body back! I love this blog... it feels very motivating to me. I'm looking forward to getting to know all of you and being skinny!!!

SKINNIES FOR REAL!!

Ok Ladies Here is so serious incentive. I sell Jeans and I am willing to at the end of this competition give anyone who reaches a goal for themself of fitting in their 'skinny's' any pair of super cute jeans for super cheap. So lets do this. That way we can order our jeans. I know that I am a person who has to have some kind of incentive (not that being in shape isn't enough...but it isn't) whats loosing weight if I can't get some super cute outfit to show it off :)

Newby

Hi all! My name is Kasey Turner and I'm new to Skinny Jeans. I have been married 8 1/2 years and have 2 kids. I just finished my Bachelors in Elm education and will be student teaching in the spring. My husband works for U of P and I'm a SAHM. I enjoying reading, going to the lake, camping, GNO's, quading and hanging out with my family. I am a member of another health blog and I know that it does work! My story is much like everyone elses. I'm up and down all the time. I struggle each and everyday, but since my daughter was born 4 1/2 years ago I made it my goal to workout, get fit and eat healthier. For me, life happens and with that my weight goes up. I have never given up on exercise though and I think that has helped me a lot, even when my eating habits were in the toilet. Last summer events in my life pushed me to an all time high. I gained 25 pounds. I was 174, which was what I weighed after I had my daughter. It took me 9 months to gain it, and 5 months to lose it. As of today I have lost 28 pounds. It is my goal to not allow my health to go to the wayside just because I'm sad or mad that things aren't working out the way I want them to. My kids need to see a healthy mom that can keep up with them. It was hard when I was heavy. I still have some pounds to shed and being a part of another Biggest Loser I know I can do it! If we all share our ups and downs, daily tricks, and exercise triumphs each week I know we can all achieve our ultimate health goals!

Weigh-in Day!

Hey everyone! Please comment and leave your starting weight for me! People doing points...there is nothing to do for you today. Next week you can leave your total points as a comment. Thanks!

Carrie

I got down to 139 sometime last year and am now up to 145.5 (maybe I will start a blog called FAT JEANS and see who can be the biggest gainer! Then we can all eat whatever we want and be really happy friends. Any takers?.... Carrie would dis-own me, nevermind) Okay, so try, try again. I will stop the soda TODAY. Good luck everyone. Just think? Cool weather is just around the corner.....

Ok so I reached my goal of breaking 160 over the summer, but I've creeped back up to 162. So that's my starting weight for this round. Let's hope that it doesn't take me 2 months just to break it again!

Weigh-Ins

I TOTALLY just had a revelation this week!! If everyone is ok with weight being shown, then there is no secrets involved with weigh-in day! How about if you weigh-in or point-in as a comment on a post instead of emailing me?!? I think it would make Thursdays as exciting for you guys as it is for me to see the weights/points trickle in. What do you all think? I can create a new post each Thursday as a reminder and you can all comment on it. Then once they're all in (or once Friday hits) I can post the info formally to declare the winner. I'm so excited about this!

Carrie

p.s. For those of you who have not yet "subscribed" to the blog, please do so either in your reader (if you use one for blogs) or on the sidebar (which will send new posts to your email.) This will ensure you always know when there are new posts! Thanks!

Pictures

Pictures are starting to filter in. Thanks to those who have sent them! I'm going to start posting them on the sidebar. You can email me your "before" pictures or create a post with your picture and I will copy it and add it to the sidebar. If you want to mortify yourself fully to motivate yourself, put your pic in a post where people can click on it and blow it up. :) Keep spreading the word! We start Thursday and I want everyone involved who would want to be!

Carrie

New Round info

I hope everyone has had their fill of summertime snacks and soda, because times are changing! It's time to start the next round of skinny jeans competitions. We are scheduled to start the next round on Thursday, August 13th which is one week from today! (**edited to add: We will go for 8 weeks, ending on Thursday, October 8th.**) If there are enough people interested in the "Great in Eight" program, we will still do both competitions at once. Remember, you will mostly likely lose weight when participating in that portion, but winners are declared based off the point system, not weight loss. We had a few people participating in both, and I'd love to see some comments from you on how you liked doing both to help others decide what will work best for them.

Here is what you need to do:

First~If you are not familiar with the rules, or need to brush up, go to the right panel and under "POST TYPES" click on "rules". Read the rules from Biggest Loser Round 3 and Great in Eight.

Second~Leave a comment or send me an email with the following information:
1. Are you participating?
2. Which Team(s) are you interested in (Team A: Great in Eight and/or Team B: Biggest Loser)?
3. Are you going to put money in the winner's pot?
4. If you are doing Team B: Biggest Loser, are you ok with your weight being posted on the weekly post?

Third~ Tell all your friends and family who may be interested about this great opportunity to kick start their healthy living and weight loss goals!! They can leave a comment here if they are interested or email me.

Let me know if you have any questions. Also, new this round I would like to return to the blog atmosphere we had our first round. If you have a question, comment, or concern that is not of a personal nature, PLEASE post on the blog! Don't email me. Although I welcome emails, be aware that I may respond and tell you to post what you emailed me. :) We are a team, not 2 leaders and a bunch of strangers. I think I speak for others when I say I would feel more connected if I knew the struggles or triumphs everyone else is having. SO participation on the blog is almost mandatory! While I obviously am not going to kick anyone out I think it will be even better than before if we have that communication.

Ok! Everyone get back to me ASAP and lets get this ball rolling! Yay! I'm so exited!!

Carrie
carriericks@gmail.com

Season 3 - Final Results

Some of you may be able to predict our final winners, since they did AWESOME the whole time! Here are your final results...

Team A:


Congratulations Ali! You have been such an example to me on how to live and eat healthy. Like I said before, I would love to come spend a day at your house and learn from your example. Great job!

Team B:


Congratulations to Gayla! That is awesome! I am so proud of you and others who worked the whole 8 weeks to make a difference in your lives! Very impressive!

I will contact each of you and others who won weekly by email to settle up on your winnings from the pot. Thank you everyone for a great round and hope to see most of you back for the next one (more info to follow on that). As a group we lost 66.2 lbs and that doesn't include those who only did the point system since I didn't keep track of weight for them. That is a great number and I hope everyone can continue to work toward their goals.

Carrie

p.s. If any of you have an after picture that shows your progress, we'd love to see it! You can all create posts since you are all authors on the blog. So create a new post, then add your images. A before and after side-by-side would be way fun!

Season 3 - Week 8

I know, I'm a bad bad moderator. I apologize for the delay in results. Were some of you thinking I would never post results and keep all the winnings for myself?? I was. haha, just kidding. Thanks for not sending me nasty emails as I totally deserved them. Ok, without further ado, here are your results for the last week...

Team A:
Great job Ali! Way to finish out the last week. I hope everything goes well with the birth of your new addition and I appreciate your participation in this as it kept the rest of us working hard to compete.

Team B:

Yay Christal! Good job! You probably didn't even know you had a chance of winning that week, did you?

Season 3 - Week 7

Here are your results for...

Team A:


Great job again to Ali!


Team B:


Good job Gayla! Way to keep up the momentum.

We lost a lot of people this week...what's up with that? I hope I get final weights for everyone Thursday! I'm not sure when/if we'll start back up again. I'll try to get a survey of some kind out this week to get everyone's opinion. Good luck for your last 2 days!

Season 3 - Week 6

Thanks again to everyone for weighing in promptly! It was a really crazy week for me finishing up finals, so I apologize that this is so late! Here are your results for week 6...

Team A:


Yay Jocey! Congratulations!


Team B:



Congratulations Gayla! Very impressive. I see some really high total weight loss numbers for a few of you and I'm really excited to see the final results in a week and a half!

Daily Calendar 5/8-5/16

Ug, I forgot to post this again! I'll try to be good next week, I promise.

I have had a hard time getting all my vegetable servings, so I made that a calendar item this week. If any of you think of something you'd like extra points for, just let me know!

Today, Friday May 8
FREE day! 1 free item from the bad-food list

Saturday, May 9
get an extra 5 points if you workout

Sunday, May 10
FREE day! 1 free item from the bad-food list!
HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!

Monday, May 11
eat dinner together as a family...at the table

Tuesday, May 12
Eat three vegetable servings (this is a 5 point bonus in addition to your 15 veggie points)

Wednesday, May 13
write a journal entry or a journal-type blog post

And for next week...
Thursday, May 14
drink 60-64 oz of water (this is a 5 point bonus in addition to the 5 points you already get)