Hello!

I woke up early enough to post this morning. thanks braedon and katie for posting my score for me. wow has this been hard on vacation. going to the parks all day it is almost impossible to eat 5 snacks/meals a day. we are lucky to get three! We went to the beach yesterday and thankfully dawn and henry packed a cooler for us with healthy stuff like apples, oranges, water and snacks. i think yesterday was my only day will all 5 meals. the water has been really tough too. we dont have a stroller so i just have my one water bottle that is for all 5 of us and we have to keep finding places to refill it. plus if you drink a lot you have to always find the bathroom. i feel really swollen and my ring doesn't fit so i know i am not drinking enough. we are having a blast though and i am trying to make good decisions on my food. sorry you are all in the snow and we are in nice 70-80 degree weather and getting sunburned. LOL sorry to hear kelly's sad news. hang in there dear, it will get better. hope you all have a great week. love you all!

What a slacker i am!!

The first part of last week i was absolutely perfect but thanksgiving put an end to that in a hurry. My one day slip ups turn into at least a couple of days of being out of control. Unfortunately, i could have used that extra 10 point to blog on time. So i guess that brings my total down to 670.

"I'm a day late and a dollar short"

Hi guys, yes I did find thanksgiving to be a little hard.
It was yummy food, and luckily my tummy didn't
tolerate much of it.

my score: 678

Katie's, Braedon's, & Lori's Scores

Hey all! First of all I want to thank you Kelly for posting your struggles - and also you positive attitude. We all love you! Let us know if you need anything.

Now for the scores:

Lori's: 678

Braedon's: 708

Katie's: 708

Anyone else thought it was hard this week to be good with Thanksgiving!?

count your blessings, name them one by one...

Today I feel depressed and frustrated with my physical limitations
and the thought that I might need to go back into surgery,
 but then to boost my spirits I remembered that I need to be thankful for
my blessings... family, friends and the gospel are at the top of
the list! Thanks to you I am truly blessed!! What a support you
have been in my life. I love each of you so much!!
With being bedridden, I am also able to focus more on my
diet and have already lost 6 pounds!! I just hope it stays off
with all the meds that I am taking.
Things could be so much worse in life, and we need to be
grateful for what we have, and remember our blessings.

Week 2 already?!

Boy am I a slacker!!  Sorry I haven't been good at bloggin so far.
Week 1 was good and I felt like I could keep on track pretty good,
but this week..... not.  I have to say I feel like I have a good reason though.
It looks like you are all doing well. :)
I have not had any problem with portion control, sleeping,
H2O intake, or even keeping my goals this week,
but the exercise, and variety of foods have been awful!!

Last week score: 680
This week score: 700

Thankyou all for being so encouraging, supportive, and helpful!!

Katie's Score

Agreed - thanks Jodi! I'm certainly trying to get control of my life again. :) It's really hard though when all I want to eat is candy and funyuns. Haha. But like I said last week it will be worth it in the end.

Sadly I think my body didn't like the amount of weight I lost last week (or something...) and am somehow up a pound this week - even though I feel like I exercised better this week. Kind of frustrating... but I'm just hoping it will all even out in the end.

My score is: 710

Here's to another week!

Braedon's Score

Jodi - Thank you for the advice. I am quickly learning that even at my age already it is hard. Over the last 3 years I have allowed myself to be way too lax. I remember before my mission I actually felt good about myself, was a good weight, exercised daily...what the hell happened?!? In any case, this feels good to be accountable to someone else to kick me in the butt. My score for this week is 700. My dang habit of biting my fingers is taking advantage of me unfortunately. Oh well. Another week.

Another Friday

I can't believe how fast this 2 weeks have gone by. I also realize that just because I start new games doesn't mean that this time will be different. Am I too old for change? Am i afraid of success? Braedon and Katie.... get control of your life now. It just gets harder the older you get. You both are doing so well. Keep it up!

Lucky for me i barely made my 1% by the skin of my teeth. Too bad that only makes up 10 points.
2 for 2 Yeah! Now if i can work on my extreme eating habits. Here's to a new week and a better score.

690

score 680

the exercise killed me this week. two days without and you are down 40 points. tough first week home from work. hopefully it will get easier. off to cook dinner for 60 people at hale theatre. it will be a busy day! I am so excited though, i made my 1% again so i am down 5 lbs. yahoo!

score for the week is 690.

score 690

I missed a day of exercise and I thought I had to have a candybar one day :(

Katie's Score

My final score for week 1 is 720 and never in my life have I wanted Candy so much... But, I lost 5.6 pounds this week, so it's worth it. :)

Hope all of you are doing good!

Weekly Scores

My scores for the week of 11/5-11/11: 710. 

Also, I have just been adding in the 5 points per day for communication since we decided that we weren't doing that. I would rather have 100 points a day than 95. I figure most of you are probably doing that, but if you want another way, let me know. Thanks. 

my score for the last week was 600

New Look!

We've given the blog a little sprucing! Let me know what you think - and if you don't like something or have any other suggestions, send them my way and we'll see what we can do.

I hope you are all having a most wonderful, healthy, habit free and spiritual Sunday. :)

whoops!

forgot to send in my score for the week!  Realized yesterday was Friday when I got up and knew today was Saturday!!  Does that make sense!!  Maybe next contest we could work on our memories!!!  Thanks so much to everyone.  Didnt quite make my goal of losing 16 pounds (just 4)  but better than gaining!  And I have change some bad habits for some good.  Thanks again!!  points were 695

THE WINNERS!!!!! LAUREEN AND DAN!

I think it is safe to say that Laureen and Dan are our winners again! Congratulations! I will get the money to you this weekend Laureen and hopefully you can get it to Dan. Way to be! Thanks everyone for playing and for all the fun posts and positive writings!

So long, farewell!!!

Final score: 695

Total weight loss: 12 lbs.

Thank you to ALL OF YOU for letting me do this with your group! It has been uplifting and inspiring and thought provoking and habit changing. Through everyone's up's and down's I have learned something.

Good luck to all of you. Thank you again.

Cami

Final post, final score

But not so final day of working on healthy eating
and weight loss. It is important to me to continue
on with this!!  THANK YOU LORI for organizing and
planning and following through for us with this
game on.  YOU are awesome!!
It has helped me, and I look forward
to continuing on..
Final score not so good,  670 :(
Weight loss= 5.2 lbs.
Best of luck to you all, and keep up the great
WORK.