Still Here

Hi out there! I'm still alive and still drinkin'. Some days are just plain harder than others!

NO MORE WATER!!!!!!!

Who the HELL thought it was ok to drink 13 cups of water a day!! After day one i woke up with a terrible gut ache. I think i got water poisoning!!!!

Hard day and rest of week!

I have already used my meal off and day off for eating. Today and the rest of the week should be interesting! I CAN DO IT!

snack ideas!

I am doing the kinetix program which requires 3 healthy snacks a day that are 40/40/20 balanced with a k2 count. I have one of the really good recipes. There are just too many good ones to chose from so you need to go look at all of them on: www.kinetixcommunity.com/ You will see a section on the left side of the screen that says recipes. If you click on that you can find snacks, desserts, mains meals etc each K count is like that many calories. K2 around 200, k3 around 300 etc. Great tried and true ideas and yummy! Fruit plate: 2 c. 1% cottage cheese, 1/2 c. low fat sour cream 1 t. vanilla, 1 t. cinnamon, served with 1 portion of one of these: 1/2 banana, or 1 peach, or 1/2 c. bluberries, or 1 c. strawberries, or 3/4 c. grapes or 1 orange or 3/4 c. raspberries. Blend all but the fruit in a blender add stevia or splenda to taste. separate into 8 servings (about 1/2 cup each. ENJOY!

Water, Water, & More Water

Hey everyone, thank you for letting us join your game. I am jealous of you veterans who are used to drowning yourself. The water does have some benefits. I haven't felt very hungry because my stomach is always full of water! The rest of the game has not been too bad. I just need to pace myself and get things done earlier in the day. I hope everyone's second day was good. I am going to go back to drinking my water now...only a liter to go and yes it is almost 10:00 here. Maybe I will just sleep in the bathroom!

Great Day

It's sure been a great day. Women's Conference this morning that was very good (I even skipped the muffins and juice) and then to the temple this afternoon. My only problem was the chinese buffet where we stopped to eat after not eating all day. I think I'm still within my food plan but feeling miserable just the same. It's going to be a waterlogged night since I still have 6 cups to go. . . I've decided that it sure would be nice to have a full-time cook!

this shouldn't be hard..

i have been doing this for a while now, including time in between games, but all the sudden today, i am having to think really hard to get everything right. remembering to exercise, drinking enough water and remembering my new habits. it's good though...real good. i am with you, stacy, i am ready to kick some bootae - while shrinking ours.

Back to the grind

Day 2 and I actually feel good getting back into the "game". I lost 3 pounds in one day! That is a good way to start the game, I only hope it is not downhill from here. Sara and Mommy- we are going to kick some ashby-delaney-rasmussen bootae! Good luck everyone! I would love to see some posts from the newbies (gotta love that "drowning" feeling when you first start the 3 liters-it will get better in a couple of days-hang in there!).

Day One

Yum!!

Oh! So very delicious!

I wish every day was this easy and satisfying.

I just had the best dinner and I am including a picture and recipe of course.

Lettuce Wraps

grilled chicken

zucchini

carrots

mushrooms

sweet bell pepper

Teriyaki sauce (low-sodium would be best)

Butter lettuce (or your choice of lettuce)

Grilled chicken on my George Foreman. Let it marinate in the fridge for 2-3 hours in a cup or so of teriyaki sauce. While that was grilling, I diced up all my veggies, very small! Place veggies in a bowl and sprinkled them with garlic powder and salt and pepper and a bit more teriyaki sauce, to coat. Stirred it up, put lid on it and put it in the fridge for a couple of hours also. When we were ready to eat, I heated up about 1/2 Tbs of canola oil in saute pan and then poured in the veggies. Let them cook while I diced up the chicken. The chicken was already grilled, so it just needed to go in for a few minutes to warm and get friendly with the veggies. Wash the butter lettuce and prepare the peanut sauce.

Peanut Sauce

1/4 cup lime juice

3 Tbs peanut butter

3 Tbs honey

3 Tbs soy sauce

1 Tbs chili paste with garlic (I substituted garlic powder, just a sprinkle)

4 garlic cloves (didn't use this, just the above garlic powder)

Combine all ingredients in a small bowl and stir well with wire whisk. Can be used as dipping sauce, or poured over the contents of your wrap. I just used a few little well-placed dots and I totally loved it!

Luke was having none of the healthy stuff!

Day one update

instructions...
1) go to google.com
2) type "where is chuck norris"
3) click on "im feeling lucky"

done and done.

So Far, So Good

I hope everyone has had a good first day. Thanks for the recipes and for the reminder of my 100 liters of water from your co-worker, Tyler. . . I swear I have no brain cells left after raising children. Talk tomorrow . . .

WHAT ARE WE DOING FOR A PRIZE?

My vote is that we do cash again or a gift card to costco or wal-mart. What do you all think? We need to know and vote someone the treasurer.

I could be the treasurer if you all agree..

No "Muffin-Top" Muffins

(I made up the name for you, Kimmie!)

1 1/4 cups whole wheat flour

2 teas baking powder

2 teas pumpkin pie spice (or 1 tsp cinnamon + 1/2 tsp ginger + 1/4 teas nutmeg)

1/4 teas baking soda

1/4 teas salt

1 1/2 cups bran buds (kellogs all bran cereal is preferred)

1 1/4 cups boiling water

1/2 cup brown sugar (packed) *I used scant 1/2 cup splenda brown sugar

3/4 cup skim milk

1/4 cup oil *I substituted 1/4 cup applesauce instead of oil

1 egg *could do 2 egg whites

1/2 cup raisins *I omitted these

Preheat oven to 400 deg. Lightly spray muffin pans or line with cupcake papers.

Stir together flour, baking powder and soda, pumpkin pie spices and salt; set aside.

In large mixing bowl, stir together cereal and boiling water; let stand 2 minutes OR until water is absorbed.

Mix sugar into softened cereal until well-combined.

Stir in milk and oil. Add egg; beat well.

Add flour mixture, stirring until combined.

Pour batter evenly into muffin cups.

Bake about 20 minutes or until top of muffins are light golden and spring back when lightly touched.

THESE ARE THE BEST BRAN MUFFINS I HAVE EVER HAD!!

first recipes

i tried the following 2 recipes from hungry-girl.com (i get her weekly emails) and they were both really good. i will be making these again. the only thing that i would change is not adding any splenda.

http://www.hungry-girl.com/week/weeklydetails.php?isid=1252

yum! yum! bring on the oatmeal. who wants bacon, sausage and hashbrowns!?!

I don't know if I am ready

On your mark, get set, WAIT!!

Hold up.  Do I really want to do this again?  OK, I guess I do.  I just don't feel quite as prepared as I did on our first game.  

Bring on the waterboarding and goodbye, my fantastic carbs.  

For Pete's Sake!

Oh crap, 100 liters of water a day is going to kill me on day one. However, if I eat a cup of salt for breakfast, I may need it! I meant to say 100 ounces of water daily, Tyler!

Diana's Goals

Mom are you really planning on drinking 100 liters of water everyday....LOL? Oh BTW, when I first saw your profile picture I thought it was Aunt Ellen.

oops

i made a mistake and put that scores have to be in by saturday at noon, i should have put friday at noon. i have corrected the mistake above, but if you read it previously, disregard the errant information....

Just a heads up to all you newbies!

I just wanted to offer some veteran advice to all of you newbies out there....just a few helpful hints.

First....how to handle the "water boarding"....I have found that if you spoon feed yourself at least a cup of table salt with breakfast each day you will find that getting the 12 cups of water into your oral orifice will be much easier.

Second....keep spinach leaves handy. Spinach leaves are surprisingly tasty when are starving yourself to death to win a silly dieting competition. They are kind of like marshmallows - you would be amazed how many you can fit in your mouth at one time (my personal best is 62 leaves).

Third....use Maalox (you can substitute 2 cups of jalapenos if you dont have Maalox)to shed those last few lingering pounds before weigh in. This is a dirty trick that my celestial sister (Sara) taught me. Thanks Sara, it came in very handy on that last week when we sealed our victory over the spineless "Dos Mas Porfavor" team.

Fourth.....avoid any advice you receive from other team members (except me, but especially Stacy). For instance, I am sure you will here things like..."you are not eating enough calories", or "you need to add some peanut butter to that for protein", or "try your In N Out Burger animal style Ty, its great". Which by the way, I now know what that means - and yes Todd, I agree, it was very tasty! Just to emphasize - not even "Mothers" can be trusted.

Anyways, now you guys know all the "secret combinations" that may give you a chance against seasoned dieting veterans like the Thighmaster team. Good luck!

PRIVELEDGES

You all now have the ability to post, add, or change anything on this blog as we go. Do what you will with it right now cuz' I don't necessarily know everything about blogging yet. Hope what I've done so far is okay with everyone.
Oh yeah....if anyone has any prize ideas for the winning team, please post them cuz' that hasn't been decided yet!

I'm So Ready

I'm excited for our new game -- it's so much easier to stay on track. Welcome to all our new players, as well as our old (healthier than last year) ones! I think the competition is going to be fierce with so many determined and committed folks playing. I'm ready -- are you?

Administration privileges needed

Kimmie (or Ty)-

could you please grant us administration privileges so I can invite jodi and lori and braedon to be authors and also so we can post our goals on the side bar??

Ty, I know you know how to do it!! Git 'er done!

excited!

thanks kimmie for getting us started on a new blog! this week, i have been pretending that i am still doing the game, but it isn't the same without you guys and the communication, oh the heavenly communication. i can't wait to get started again.
i will be adding the points information on this blog. anything else you want me to add? for all you new competitors, we are so happy to have you! please check out our other blog: gutbegonechronicles.blogspot.com for all the particulars. check the very beginning of the blog for scans from the game-on book that gives you all the details. read them, they really help. also, the scans include score sheets (they are called scoreboards) print these out so that can keep track of your score each day. for a while, it is a little hard to remember everything that you need to do.
another thing, it would be fun to hear everyone's goals (i.e. transformation goals). that is something that she says (in the book) that we need to do. we kind of missed that last game.
anything else??? game on!

ARE YOU READY FOR THIS KIDS?

I'm so excited to start again and welcome all new players to the game. May the biggest loser win!