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.

HORRIBLE WEEK

I sadly got only 625 this week:( However, I am grateful for the weight I have lost & for all your help. My friends tease me that not only is my phone stuck to me all the time but my water bottle is as well. I have developed some habits that are going to be life long. Thanks for letting me play everyone.

Final Score

Week 8 - 688 pts.
Total weight loss - 2.2 lb.

Yeah. I'm the biggest loser. :)
I attribute my fabulous success to:
Great week day habits.
Terrible weekend habits.
Emotional weakness.

Thank you for your amazing blogs. Best of luck to the Ashby/Goudie/Egan group. I have learned so much from being allowed into your contests this year - while it doesn't show yet, I am a changed person. I plan to make Game On habits lifetime habits, one day at a time. Love you guys.

Final score 585

I don't think I'm ready mentally for another contest. I have loved your blogs. This is a great group of people. Let me know if you start another round after Christmas. I'm going to go solo for a while and see if I can do something with myself. This round of game on was really hard on me mentally. It's probably because of all the stress in my life right now. This contest just turned into something else for me to fail at. So I will miss you all terribly. I'm not giving up! Love you guys!

Final Post

Hi Everyone -

Last day. Last Score. Last Post. As Jerry Garcia (Greatful Dead) would say: "What a great trip it's been." Thank you all for your competitive and emotional spirits. Even though it was just through the blog, I felt like I got to know each of you. Your inspirational accounts sure helped me along. I can only wish each of you the best in the future. I can tell you that what I have learned through this process will stay with me and help be in my future. The key for me will be to fully accept and adopt the lifestyle change this contest engendered. No going back.

My final score is 684 pts. Total weight loss = 14.5 lbs.

Au Revoir

score

Well, like I said yesterday, my score is pretty low, but I have had success in this contest! my score is 548. Thanks for your support and your great posts! Congrats to all of us, for we all won!

To Crush, Dan and Jane.......

It sounds like you all might want to start the new game. We would love to have you! Just let Lori know if you would still like to by tomorrow. I don't quite know why i am doing it again considering my giving up attitude I have had now for several weeks. I guess it's good to know i still have the desire to be able to change my life for the better. It is so fun to read all of your blogs and see the success that many of you had. You are an inspiration to me.
Score for the final week
590

can't believe its over!

Started reading everyones blog and it donned on me that it is over....WOW already!  But I'm not down enough yet!!  Oh well.  Thanks so much for allowing me to participate.  It is the first time I have ever blogged!  And now I am not cussing and I am taking vitamins regularly.  That is a good positive switch.  Just wish I could have done better with the food.  Still my weakness....I'll keep trying!

last day

Well, this has been amazing. It has been hard and I am glad we did it together. Well it was a victory for me because I am fitting comfortably in all my clothes and some are too big now... I have lost the weight gained from my mission and now I can keep going down. :-) I feel I have gained better control and better habits. My scores are pretty lame and tomorrow's score is going to be pretty low, BUT I am glad I was able to do this. It got me going again on eating healthy with a bit of sweets here and there. I am really grateful for your blogs and posts and your victories and falls. Good luck everyone on the next contest!

O.K. here is the deal!

I just got off the phone with Jodi and we were going to just do this next one with family but if any of you are interested here are the rules we are going with. If you want to do it starting tomorrow YOU MUST, MUST MUST be able to weigh in with all of us Saturday morning at 9:00 a.m at my house and you MUST MUST MUST be able to weigh in with everyone on the last weigh in on the same scale, at the same time and together. The last weigh in falls on New Years Eve. What a great way to end the year eh, seeing what a huge accomplishment we have made :) The pot is $50.00 there are no teams. The same rules of GAME ON apply with the weekly scores, even the 10 points for the 1% weight loss. At the end we are awarding 300 points for the person that has lost the most % of weight loss and 200 pts for the 2nd place and 100 pts for the 3rd place. Let me know if any of you are interested. I realize this is not for everyone and I hope if you are not doing it with us you can continue on with your own GAME ON with your friends or family and make the rules that you feel with be best for you and your teammates.I hope you know I am not trying to exclude anyone or get rid of anyone. I love you all. This is just what my family needs to be more accountable and we all need to lose weight so we want it to be about the weight. Let me know by tonight or tomorrow morning if you want to join us! Thanks.

ONE MORE DAY!

Hey Everyone,

Just got back from a camping trip with my 5th grader son. It was way out in Scofield, almost to Price. It was a blast! Beautiful weather, fun with a whole bunch of 10 and 11 yr. old boys, and meeting some great people.

Anyway, the eating was SUPER hard. Treats, snacks, movie candy and all sorts of stuff. Even a king sized snickers to thank the parents with. But, that is in my bag and I"m saving it for free day.

Also, I'm in for the next contest. Lori, dad and I were talking about not publicly posting everyone's scores. That way, no one knows (except you) who is winning or loosing and you really have to push it all the way to the end because you might be winning!!! What do you all think?

Thanks to everyone for all your support, posts and insights. I think we should try to meet, too.

Its almost over!

I can't believe 8 weeks have gone by already. It sure flies when your having fun. I can't believe I am going to do this again with my son and his wife. Hopefully kelly, jodi and kristin will join in. we are also going to up the pot to 50.00 .We are going to make it really tough though and have weight a part of it again. It really helps me stay the course. We are starting tomorrow so there will not even be a break! (which is great for me!) I think it will help me through the holidays and vacation and all the parties. at the end we are having huge bonus points for the individual who lost the most percentage of weight. this will be an individual game not a team game. interesting twist :) I hope this has been great for everyone. thanks for playin!

The best and the worst

The best- I quit drinking diet coke. The worst- aparently I'm only capable of doing one thing at a time. One of these games maybe I'll stay on the wagon. Love ya'll.

5 pts.

Last 5 pts. Think I can stay the course for 6 more hours?

THANK YOU

Since I've never done this contest before- can someone please tell me how the ending goes? Do we report tomorrow & that's it? Is there a last meeting? I would love to meet to get faces with you all. You all have helped me so much & I have really appreciated everyone & my great partner KELLY.

I made a Real Estate audition video for a National cable show on the Home & Garden Channel (I haven't heard yet whether I made it or not). So many people that have seen it said that I looked thin (even my kids said that, which is near miraculous). You all have helped me to lose the weight I have & your words have inspired me to keep going. THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!

Life Changing

I know it's about over...this round of our contest that is. It has been just what I needed to make some changes in my life to get a grip on how I was self destructing. Now the challenge for me is to carry on. I like this quote from Joe Vitale: "What can you do right now to begin to turn your life around? The very first thing is to start making a list of the things to be grateful for."

And what I want to say is that I am grateful for all of you. The blog was inspiring and motivating. I feel like we are all friends. I am grateful to Disneyland Mama for starting and running the contest. And to Laureen for inviting me to be her teammate and for pushing me to perform at a high level. And I could name a little something regarding just about all of you for helping me in some little, but worthwhile way. The power of accountability really proved itself out. Thanks again and I hope we do this again - very soon.

JUST STUFF

Alright people! I am feeling give up in the air. Are we all so burned out we can't speak? I'm such a hypocrite- I think I forgot to blog yesterday.

I ended up not going out of town & have had the worst 3 days this week, but I have gotten back on the wagon (it is really a treadmill) and I am determined to finish strong.

I want to keep going with this program. Are we going to meet & continue? I also have at least 3 other people who want to join the gang. KRISTIN- I want to be like you when I grow up... & clean everything in my house. Do you give lessons?

CHECK..

I love my fibro swim class!! Did I already mention that?
I just got back from it, and I feel so much better. Yesterday
I ached ALL over and felt awful. Today is a better day.
If any of you are interested in doing a great cardio workout
in the water where you are weightless, let me know.
It is led by an instructor, and we do pilates, bicycling, running,
stretching and have lots of fun.
I do the class at TOSH, and it lasts an hour on monday
and wednesday evenings from 5 to 6.
Hope all is well with you all!

off to play tennis!

Telecommute day!  Love them!  Get so much done and time to do stuff I want to!  Had to run up to the Capitol for a HR meeting.  Havent been up there in years.  Lots of renovations and I think it was money well spent.  The Capitol should be a showcase for the State of Utah.  We really have a great State!!  and a great Capitol!

Checking in

My computar is on the fritz. I have to restart it everytime I use it. Then it takes 15-20 minutes for me to finally get to this point. I haven't had the patience to bother with it this week. Then my husband called from Denver to tell me I have a whole bunch of e-mails so here I am. I finally finished cleaning my house today. Yes, a whole month later. It's finished I have literally cleaned everything ceiling's, walls, Light switches, baseboards, every piece of furniture every closet. You name it, I cleaned it. The only thing left is carpets and that happens next wednesday. I wish it would stay. House work is like excersise your never done. Really!

Hangin' On...

I pretty much got nothin. 5 pts.

What's Up?

I've noticed that our blogging efforts have kinda run out of gas. I guess it is the last few days of our contest. I hope everyone is doing all right. This has helped me tremendously. Thanks for all your inspiration. Tomorrow will be our last day. Be well.

have a great day!

5 points

here is to a great day!

Hello and Good bye

Had a super busy day today.

Ran all over but still got my food/water in-- with good choices.

It's all about choice. It really is.

check

good day, bowled great, feel tired

todays blog

headache - will blog later!

5 pts.

check

On the road again

Off to sunny (and hot) southern California for work. The contest will help me to eat well. The main thing I'm gonna miss is riding my bike with CRush. I have to settle for an exercise machine in my little hotel. At least there's that. See you all at the finish line - smiling!

checkin in

unbelievable....

this blog has nothing to do with eating or exercising....I am currently watching CNN.  There is a news talked show with believe it or not Elliot Spitzer!  Really now.  Wasnt he the guy who was with the prositute back in New York?!  He was the DA for the state of NY - making rules against prostitution and yet lets say promoting the business at the same time.  What a hypocrit!  How can CNN actually think he is credible?  They are discussing tomorrow's election and all I can think about is how he hurt his family and children...
  Dont forget to vote tomorrow!!

check

Dilemma

This morning I was faced with a very hard dilemma:

My husband had to be to work by 6:30 this morning. A new hospital, a new rotation.

So, he got ready to leave and his car wouldn't start.

He had to take the van.

This would be fine, but on Monday's I usually go to they gym after the kids go to school. This is my weight lifting day, which I love. He's going to take the car. I have no way of getting there. What am I going to do? How am I going to get my points? How am I going to get to they gym.

I thought of all sorts of ideas: borrowing a neighbor's car, riding my bike there (but then working out in my bike shoes wouldn't really work), and then I started thinking about my long list of things to do today..........and I thought, "Do I really need to work out today?"

I was telling my sister in law about the whole car situation and not being able to get to the gym and she said, "Why don't you just run on the treadmill?"

I usually have a hard time 'changing the plan' or doing something different, so this thought pattern did not occur to me. I sometimes have that thing people call "tunnel vision" or a hard time seeing outside the box. I like to stick to the schedule. If I can't lift weights, then I can't work out.

Right?

Wrong!!!

I said to myself, "You know what, it's 20 minutes of exercise and I am the only one who is putting the boundaries of "lifting weights on Monday's" on myself. I am going to go for an outside run.

I did.

It felt great!

Got through Halloween!

All is well.
Check

5 pts.

check.

I am probably going out of town tommorrow & I won't be back til Fri or Sat. Very hard last 3 days. Oh well.... stand up...brush off...Keep Movin! Have a great week everybody!

Apples

Have you ever had the pleasure of eating a carmel apple from the Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory? Oh Baby! I tell you what...there's no better way to eat a Granny Smith apple. We made them last night and we made too many. My system couldn't quite process all that carmel and white chocolate and, well, I've got enough simple sugars stored up to ride my bike 100 miles! But apples are good for you, right?

Have a GREAT week everyone. 4 days to finish strong - finish being the key word. What a great experience this has been. Your blogs have blessed and inspired me.