From: Miranda

Today is one of those days when I'm ready to be skinny and healthy now! I know it's only been two days but I'm the kind of person who would like to see immediate results! I like to know all my hard work is going towards something! Like losing weight, but I'm afraid to get on the scale!

It's like saying a prayer for patience
"Please bless me with patience and please bless me with it NOW!"
That's how I feel, do you guys ever feel like that?

From Miranda:

Day 2:
ME vs. THE TREADMILL
I will win! Today it kinda kicked my bum! I did it though, 2 miles. I did 40 minutes on the treadmill then 10 doing crunches. But I'm feeling it now. I am so tired! haha-I had a whole post in my head, but honestly now I can't remember a thing I wanted to say! Hopefully I will later tonight!
Hope everyone had a GREAT day!
OH, i just remembered something I was going to say! Does anyone have some good core exercises? I need something for my "body". Like for my chest and tummy and hips. Any suggestions?

From Miranda:

Good Morning!! It is such a beautiful day here!! I LOVE FALL!! I thought I'd share some words of encouragement:make a good healthy choice today!
I want to take care of my body to be a better mother and just to feel better. Today I woke up and got Abby to the dentist then off to school and then worked out for 45 mins and did 2 miles on the treadmill today! (that's right! I'm bringing it!) Mind you, it was not running but "fast walking" ;) Then had a good breakfast! "Breakfast is the most important meal of the day!"
I was having a hard weekend but Saturday night at the RS broadcast and on Sunday at fast and testimony meeting, I was reminded of the most important thing! I am a child of God! He loves me! He gave me the responsibility to take care of my body, so I will!
I hope everyone has a beautiful day! Don't forget to SMILE today!!

Thank you, thank you, thank you...

Just kidding. I'm excited to see how everyone else did. Morgan, I don't have your e-mail address to invite you to be an author on this blog. If you'll e-mail it to me (or leave it in the comments) I'll get that out to you so you can post on here too. My e-mail is sarahharward@hotmail.com. And anyone else who is wanting to join in and needing to be added as an author, let me know.

Anyway, I am re-committed to writing everything down this weekend. It worked well for me this past week, but yesterday I haven't done quite as well. But I'm letting you all know now, so I'm responsible to someone. So, good luck everyone! Do great!!!

Oh yeah, and I made Mexican Beef Skillet this week, and it's only 4 points for one sixth of the whole thing. (I do realize that not everyone is doing weight watchers, and so you might get sick of hearing about points, but since that's what I'm doing, that's all I know! But just so you know, 1 point is about 50 calories)

Okay, so here's the recipe:

MEXICAN BEEF SKILLET:

1 pound ground turkey
1 green pepper
1 onion

Brown the turkey with the pepper and onion. Drain.

ADD:
1 can of diced tomatoes (I just used 2 fresh tomatoes)
3/4 cup dried minute rice
3/4 cup water
1/2 tsp chili powder
1/2 tsp garlic salt
1/2 tsp salt

Cover and simmer about 13 minutes (if I remember right) pretty much just until the rice is done.

Then I ate it with about a cup or so of shredded lettuce and a tablespoon of sour cream. Adding lots of lettuce makes it seem like you're eating a TON of stuff. And it was good. I think I'll make some tomorrow to have in the fridge to eat all week for lunch. Good luck everyone!

From Miranda:

WAY TO GO SARAH!!! I'm gonna have to kick it up a notch!!! I hope everyone had a good week last week and an even better one this week!! I think the writing down what you eat is a great idea!! I've done that and it works for me as well. It really helps you see what I'm eating and what I'm wasting calories on, all the empty food I'm eating. I found this blog, don't know if it will help but I found a few good things on it.
http://www.theenlightndwoman.com/
Check it out and see if you find anything!! Good luck and hope everyone has a great week!! Let's go be losers!! ;)

FIRST WEEK

The first week is under our belt (that could be funny). There are still some wanting to join and some that haven't emailed me their starting weight (kathyporter5@hotmail.com). I am out of town so I can't post results this week but I do want to say that SARAH LOST 4 POUNDS! That's great. I know one of the Weight Watcher tricks is writing down EVERYTHING you eat and I know Sarah was doing that this week. This week, if you are serious about losing weight, try writing down what you eat. Put a piece of paper on the fridge and:
IF YOU NIBBLE IT,
SCRIBBLE IT.
IF YOU BITE IT,
WRITE IT!

A blog that might be helpful...

I was checking my facebook page (which is a joke, because I really don't ever do anything on there!) but one of my 'friends' put a link to this blog. www.faithprecedessize10.blogspot.com She has three types of posts. Food for thought. Food for the body. Food for the Spirit. I'm guessing she might be doing weight watchers, because all of her recipies have point values assigned to them. But it might be a good thing to check out. Lots of gospel inspired quotes and thing that can help us in more than just getting skinny!

By the way, WHY ISN'T ANYONE ELSE POSTING ON HERE?!?! How's everyone doing this week? I feel like I've been doing pretty good this week, but I can't wait to finish nursing, because I'm ALWAYS HUNGRY!! I've just been trying to drink a lot! And chew gum. My jaw is getting sore though...

This is how it works...

So, I talked with mom today and I think we decided that we'll make everyone an author of this blog (and you should have the invite in your e-mail. If not, post a comment to this post with your e-mail address and I'll send you an invite), so when you get on to post something, just sign into your blog like normal, and you'll be able to post to this blog.

Every Saturday our percentage of weight loss and rank will be posted. So be sure to get your weights e-mailed into Kathy by Saturday morning at the latest!! And to be consistent, try to weigh yourself on at the same time with the same scale.

Also, if you have any recipes you've found or love, POST THEM! We're all wanting tips on good, healthy food!!

Now, go get skinny!!

From Sarah:

LETS GET THIS PARTY STARTED!!! I'm excited about this, and I'm with Miranda, lets be a support system. I'll think about lunch idea's Miranda. One thing you can do to save calories is to use lettuce leafs instead of bread for your sandwich. Bread is a lot of points (if doing weight watchers) so you could make it kind of like a lettuce wrap with turkey, low-fat cheese and lots of veggies. And for those who are always wanting a sweet snack, I've found that tootsie roll pop suckers are good. They're not very many calories and take a long time to eat, and once you're done sucking on all that sugar, it pretty much cured your craving. Just an idea!

Let The Race Begin

Get on your mark....
Get set.......
On Friday, September 18 we begin another round of Biggest Loser. I need to know who is in. Invite friends, family, anyone and everyone.

I'm thinking the gift cards didn't work so well (many did not send them). I have a couple of ideas but I want to hear what you think. Let's post some ideas of creative rewards for those of us who stick with it and finish lighter than we started.