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9/17/2008 We're BAaaaaaack! Okay, it looks like we're back! Right now we are watching the Biggest Loser Families on DVR from last night. With the start of a new Biggest Loser, it looks like we might get motivated to get going again. I've lost a few lbs, nothing major, but I haven't gained. Unfortunately, Tim can't say that. He says he's going to give me an official weight tomorrow. I haven't been here in quite a while so it will be interesting to see who's still around, who's losing weight and who comes back with the new show. I hope some of you will stop by and leave us some messages of encouragement! You'll be seeing less of me! Which reminds me I need to change my profile picture, I can't believe I thought that was good at one time. I've lost quite a bit since then so I need to change it! Follow me on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/rtungett Robbin 6/23/2008 I'm STILL at it... I just wanted to take a moment and let anyone that might be checking up on me know that I am still at it! Since last posting, I have lost 13 more pounds! Which thankfully has put me back in the 200's where I should have never let myself get out of in the first place! Tim is trying to get back on track and I am hoping he'll get motivated soon. He was doing so well for so long.... I just have to think of a way to make him want to get busy again. Thanks for checking in! Robbin 4/9/2008 It's been a few weeks since we've reported... It's been quite some time since I've actually posted and given our weight losses. The important thing is, even though we haven't been reporting, we are both still right on track and very happy with our progress. Slow but steady... and after years and years of being fat and Yo-Yo dieting, losing lots of weight and then gaining lots of weight, it's time to lose it slowly and keep it off. Here are our losses from the last 4 weeks... TIM ====================== Week 11 231.8 -1.2 Week 12 230.8 -1.0 Week 13 232.3 +1.5 Week 14 229.2 -3.1 ====================== -3.8 Lbs ROBBIN ====================== Week 11 314.8 -1.6 Week 12 314.4 -0.4 Week 13 314.0 -0.4 Week 14 310.4 -3.6 ====================== -6.0 Lbs I think the most important thing we have BOTH done is we have changed our outlook towards food and the choices we freely make. We aren't following any "plan", we are counting calories. We choose where to spend those calories and nothing is off limits. Funny thing is, we are making choices we never would have made before... good choices. I think we are both happier because of it and we are definitely getting healthier because of it. Tim looks AWESOME! His stomach has gone down so much and he is sporting all his smaller sized clothing and looking sharp all the time. His weight loss gets noticed alot because he has lost a larger percentage than I have. He's lost around 12%, I've lost around 9%. I have alot more to lose than him, so I expect it to take awhile before people really notice any loss on me. At 30 lbs, it's starting to show a little, but I still have a long way to go. I don't focus on the total though - I focus on today... "One choice, one day, one pound at a time!" On another note we have discovered a new family activity.... game... sport... whatever you want to call it. Read all about it on our other blog at http://t2x3.blogspot.com I hope everyone is still out there, doing their thing and not giving up just because Biggest Loser challenge is over. We still have lots of weight to lose and we can do it! I'd love to hear from any of you who are still out there plugging along... Be blessed! ~ Robbin 4/2/2008 A Week for Gains Well this week wasn't so good. Like Mark and Jay of the biggest loser, I posted a gain this week and I was not happy. It's the first time since Robbin and I started the challenge together that I haven't lost weight. Let's just say, I celebrated the weight gain the whole day and night long. I'm still waiting for Robbin to say April fools, I moved the scale (Wished I would have thought about that yesterday before she weighed, now that would have been funny). Last couple of weeks I have been getting of track a little bit, but didn't think what I had been doing would cause a gain, hoping it was more of a water weight gain than anything. We camped this weekend in the Okefenokee Swamp, and were able to get in some walking exercise which is good, we both need to work on this a little more as we still aren't exercising much. Monday was also our last night of First Place (The class we have both been taking together at the church). Don't know yet if either of us will continue on to the next class or not, so check back on that decision. This week I intend to work a little harder and get back on track like when I first started the diet/life style change in January and see if I can get back into the plus column or is it the negative column? Which ever means dropping the weight. Robbin's still doing very good, she didn't lose a lot of weight this week (1/2#), but a loss is a loss and I'm proud of her for sticking to it. Hope everyone else's week was better than ours (And Mark and Jay's) and you had some significant weight lose. Till next time, keep on keeping on... Tim 3/25/2008 Never though a pound would make me happy... A one pound weight loss! Never thought I would be happy with that, but I am. It was an extremely poor week of eating. Had three days in the office that birthday's were celebrated, and one baby shower. This week was also the week that one night I volunteer with the CSX caring hands team at the Ronald McDonald House and we prepared my favorite meal... Beef Tenderloin, Mashed Potatoes (with a truck load of butter in them), Fresh Snapped Green Beans with mushrooms and Onions stir fried in a second truck load of butter, Ann's famous Anti Pasta Salad (really good), desserts galore (Am I making anyone hungry yet), and other things. Then there was Easter, got to have Easter dinner with the family right? Put all that together and how I managed a pound this week is a miracle in itself, so really happy with just a pound. Bought some new shirts and ties this week (have to give Robbin credit here, she found the ties) and have started to wear my much dressier looking slacks. Just those two things have really helped, because I think I look good in them and that makes me feel really good about myself. Ok so this week I learned something new, desserts don't have to be 10,000 calories a slice to be really good. For Easter Robbin made a WW pineapple Angel food cake for dessert, think she said it was 140 a slice and have to say it was outstanding (She keeps making desserts like that, and I just might have to keep her). But at the same time, I also learned that not all healthier alternatives taste good either. Last night in the class that Robbin and I are taking together the facilitator made some healthier alternative bran muffins. Let's just say, I'm pretty certain had my dog been there, he wouldn't have eaten it either. I took one bite and tossed the rest. But to be fair, it may not have been the recipe. I'm not sure baking is our facilitator's forte. Til next time, keep on keeping on. Tim 3/14/2008 The Shadow Knows... Hey everyone, another week down. Robbin as you can see is doing great, and I lost a little over a pound. The week prior we had a Blue and Gold banquet for the cub scouts, at which I had cake and ice cream. As you can see, some how I still managed a whooping 4.4 pound los s . This past week, we had two birthdays at work so had cake one day and pie on another and managed a 1.2 pound weight loss. At this rate, I'm seriously thinking about going on the cake, pie and ice cream diet. I can't necessarily say I feel better, but I can say that I feel better about myself. I mentioned just this morning to my wife that when I was walking between buildings at work and noticing the shadow that I'm casting that it's now noticeably smaller. So much so that I recently went through my closet and moved my larger slacks out and my smaller slacks in. And the fact that I can now get my collars buttoned again have started to wear ties at work again. Ties aren't required where I work, in fact of the almost 5,000 employees on campus can't think of but two people I've seen wear them. But I'm kind of weird; I actually like to wear ties. How many of you were as shocked as Robbin and I to hear on this week's biggest loser that the contestants have a cheat day? In the several years that BL has been on, that's never been mentioned that I can remember. I don't do the work hard for 6 days and earn a cheat day or anything like that. Tried that kind of diet in the past, lost the weight but because I had that cheat day my body was still conditioned for those big meals. For me I already eat whatever I want (as evidence by the cakes, pie, and ice cream) I'm just choosing to try to eat healthier all the other times so that when I have those cakes and stuff I don't worry about it. Course if I did have a cheat day, it would be Pizza (The whole pie) and a gallon of beer. Be hurting the whole night, but to me it would be worth it. That's all for now...Keep on Keeping on... Tim 3/11/2008 Week 10 Weigh In This week's results: Tim - Lost 1.2 lbs Robbin - Lost 2.0 lbs I have to admit, I am very surprised... and proud! I have never stuck to a diet this long without it being an "official weigh-in in front of someone and pay them to tell me what to eat" diet. And you know what? It feels good! I like the fact that I think about everything I eat before I eat it. I like the fact that I'd rather make a healthy choice now than an unhealthy one. I like counting calories and keeping track of them on mydailyplate.com. I like the fact that I'm trying to take better care of myself. Mostly, I love the fact that my husband and I are doing this together! It has been a blessing doing this with each other and supporting rather than sabotaging each other. We both still have a long way to go. Me way more than him, but we are trying to make this a new lifestyle rather than just a short term thing. I have to admit, it's hard not to get a little discouraged when I see the numbers being dropped on the Biggest Loser. But, I remind myself that they are exercising 6 hours a day like crazy and they have personal trainers to help them. Although, I was blown away by those that returned from home with big losses. Impressive! I hope everyone else is having a good week. I'm very pleased with my 2 lbs.... slow and steady... nothing to complain about! ~ Robbin 3/4/2008 Week 9 Weigh In Here we are, 9 weeks into our new eating program and I don't think either of us could be anymore committed than we are right now. I am really proud of both of us! This week's results: Tim - Lost 4.4 lbs Robbin - Lost 2.6 lbs That puts us right at 50 lbs total since we began. I'm excited about that! Here's to the next 50 lbs! ~ Robbin 2/26/2008 Weigh In - Week 8 How in the world can someone weigh less at night than they do in the morning?! That's what I want to know. I weighed last night - don't ask me why - if you're a chronic weigher, you understand. Anyway, last night I was .6 less than I was this morning... go figure! My husband on the other hand was like 3 lbs lighter this morning. I'm not going to complain though. I'm happy enough with this week's weight loss. Although - I wouldn't mind a steady 5 lb a week loss. :) Tim on the other hand isn't too happy with his, but it is a loss and he realizes that's a good thing. He went camping with the Cub Scouts this weekend and ate pretty good all things considered. He was there 2 nights, I was only there for 1 night. But we did get some walking in - about a 3 mile hike according to my pedometer. So, here are this week's results: Tim - Lost 1.0 Robbin - Lost 2.4 I am however a 100 calorie popcorn addict now and find myself having 2-3 bags a day. The calories are worth it to me and having something to snack on is good. But I'm not forming a good habit by still relying on my carbs. I just traded high calorie carbs for lower calorie carbs. Tim has an addiction he hasn't told you about too. He's addicted to Sugar Free popsicles and has them every night without fail. Of course, they are like 15 calories a piece so they don't really count. I hope everyone is doing well. We definitely need to step up and exercise. Once a week is not good enough and we both know we'd do better if we did. Until next time - Remember... One choice, one day, one pound at a time! ~ Robbin 2/25/2008 Tim just checking in...Hello
again everyone, just wanted to report in again. Robbin and I are both doing
pretty well, and keeping each other on our toes. She’s much more dedicated to
logging her foods in mydailyplate.com then I am. By that I mean she gets down
to the specific brands and everything. I’m more of a if I have last weeks brand
of wheat bread in my list, rather than go search for the new brand of bread I
just use it. I don’t really concern myself that there might be a 1 calorie
difference in brands. This weekend wasn’t a really good weekend for food, we
went camping with the cub scouts, I’m not one of those that stress out about
looking over the menu being served and saying can’t have that or that or that
and end up with nothing you can eat. As the cub master/kitchen coordinator I
try to plan decent meals, but we also indulge in the rice krispy cakes for
lunches, and smores, hot chocolate and stuff like that. On the plus side,
exercise for a cub scouting weekend is always up, so maybe my extra calories
will off set. Tomorrow is the official weigh in for us, so tomorrow will tell
the tale. I’m hopeful that it won’t be a gain. Check tomorrow to see if we’ve
lost or not. Until next time keep on keeping on. Tim 2/19/2008 Weigh In - Week 7 Okay, so I haven't done so well blogging and keeping our blog updated. Bad me! It's not because we're not doing well, it's just because I've been lazy I guess. So, anyway, let's see where we are. The last time I actually recorded a loss was 4 weeks ago. Dang - it has been a long time! So, let's see.... in the last 4 weeks here is what we have lost: Tim - Lost 10.4 Robbin - Lost 5.6 That's a total of 16 lbs for both of us together since the last time I recorded our weight in here. That's 39.2 lbs total since we started on Jan 2, 2008... Tim - Total lost = 21.6 Robbin - Total lost = 17.6 I am very proud of Tim, he's doing great! I am also proud of me, not because I've had a huge weight loss, but because I AM staying on plan, I AM making great choices and I AM doing well. Most importantly, we are encouraging each other and holding each other accountable. We started logging everything we eat every day at http://mydailyplate.com. This is the first time I have EVER logged my food honestly. It's actually been very enlightening for me and has really helped me see exactly what I'm eating. I have set my daily calorie intake to be between 1200 - 1400 and haven't been having any trouble staying within the range I've set for myself. This online diary also allows Tim and me to keep up with each other. Plus a couple of my friends are now using it and it helps us hold each other accountable. Our pages are at http://www.thedailyplate.com/diary/who/rtungett and http://www.thedailyplate.com/diary/who/ttungett. If you have an account there and want to hook up with us, just let us know and we'll give you the access key to see our stuff. We are in this for the long haul and are both doing well. The one thing we really need to do is exercise. That's the one place I am really not very disciplined in. I wish Jillian or Bob were here to kick my butt in gear... although they'd probably make me cry! I hope we can both stay motivated and on track. I wish the same thing for you! Thanks for stopping by and checking in on us! Leave me a note so I'll know you were here and I'll come visit you too! Blessings, ~ Robbin \o/ 2/14/2008 Super Bowl & Valentines Day... Hey again everyone, we'll made it through super bowl with out too much problem. Though I have to admit I really wanted to pig out with hot dogs, pizza, chips, and all the other yummy super bowl goodies. But I did have a bad day this week, and paid the price for that one. Tuesday was report card day and our son JT brought home very good grades (No really surprise to us, he's a very bright boy), and for reward after karate I allowed him to choose whatever he wanted for dinner (Fully expecting McDonalds, 99.9% of the time thats where he chooses and I at least know how to be pretty good there). To my surprise he wanted to go home and order Pizza Hut meat lovers pizza and bread sticks. Pizza is my Achilles heel, it's like the potato chip commercial a few years back "Bet you can't eat just one!" Well for me it might work for one pie, but certainly not one slice. Stupid thing is I have really bad reflux (I literally take a whole drugstore to keep it under control) and pizza is one of those foods that sets it off really bad, and even knowing this and knowing I'll be up the whole night I still eat it to excess go figure. Since then I've been eating pretty decently and staying on my calorie count. Well we're on to Valentines, can you say chocolate. We had a chocolate fondue fountain at work today, I dipped two cookies but should still be within my calorie limit for today by not having an evening snack tonight and no afternoon snack. Being the nice guy I am I didn't even get Robbin any candy or take her out to a nice dinner for valentines, didn't want to tempt her. That's my story and I'm sticking to it. Keep on keeping on... Tim P.S. (From Robbin) Tim failed to tell you what a wonderful basket I gave him for Valentines Day. It had an apple, a pear, a nectarine, 2 packs of 100 calorie popcorn, 4 packs of instant oatmeal, some Extra sugar free gum, Altoids and a cute stuffed dog with a heart in his mouth. Oh yeah, he did buy me a box of granola bars. :) What a change for both of us and what we would normally do on Valentines Day! 1/28/2008 Surprise...!Surprise! Hello everyone, well here’s my first post. I’m not much one for blogging so my posts will be pretty sparse, though I’ll try to do one in a little more frequent manner. Robbin is the poet and writer of the family. I’m a reader, so I’ll be reading our stuff and everyone else’s. I’m having some pretty good weeks, with the exception of the week with the .2 pound loss. Dieting is one of those things that when I put my mind to it, I have no problem doing it and dropping the weight. Be it Atkins or some kind of low calorie thing. But therein lies my problem, I begin a diet and drop all the weight but go back to eating like normal and gain it all back. This time with Robbin's help we are making a life style change. I now eat smaller more frequent meals, beginning with breakfast and try to make better choices. The only time I used to eat breakfast was on the weekend, when we would head out to the restaurant for some eggs, bacon and pancakes. Last night, I had something of an epiphany moment. We went to celebrate my mother-in-law's birthday at a Japanese steakhouse. I ordered my meal and where I normally would have eaten everything on my plate, and started on Robbin's leftovers and had a very miserable night trying to sleep. I split my food into two, ate half and took half home with me which I had for lunch today. And yes I ordered white rice over fried. The epiphany part was that by doing so I actually left the table content and not miserable. Where I thought by not cleaning my plate I was going to by hungry I wasn’t. Robbin got me started last week, with logging my food. I’m glad she did, I thought I was being really good eating small meals/snacks every couple of hours instead of the two huge meals and huge snacks I used to eat. But I wasn’t, I had actually swung too far to the other side, and wasn’t eating near enough calories. I would have never thought it and I’ve actually had to increase my calorie intake some. It’s just a matter of increasing with the right foods and not with pizza.
Robbin mentioned in one of her posts that were taking a class at church “First Place” together. This past week, was actually the first week of the course. So that means daily homework for now on. Unfortunately I’m off to a very bad start, and did not complete any of my homework until this afternoon at lunch. But confession time, that’s not the only area I’m not doing well at. So far, I haven’t done any exercising at all despite having a nice free gym at work. Robbin and I also both wear pedometers, and so far I average only 5-6000 steps a day, so need to work a little harder in that area as well to even get that number up to the 10,000 steps or more.
But lets not end on a negative note, tomorrow is our official weigh in for the week for the biggest loser challenge. I weighed on Saturday just to see how I was doing and the number looked pretty good, so I’m hoping it will carry over until tomorrow.
Tip for the day: For that sweet tooth craving, sugar free jell-o (I like cherry and black cherry the best) and my favorite sugar free popsicles, it’s not ice cream but it still taste good.
Tim 1/23/2008 Week 3 Weigh-In Hey Everyone!
Today (1/22) was our week 3 weigh in. I felt pretty good this week and
have found myself, if anything, not eating enough. Imagine that! Of
course, I know that's not good either. I'm sort of an all or nothing
person when it comes to food. I'm afraid if I eat the wrong thing I'll
go crazy, so I'm pretty particular about what or where I'll eat. We
went to a covered dish dinner at church last week and I didn't eat
anything there. I waited until I got home because I knew I could be
good. The desserts looked great though!! Anyway - the results for this week:
I don't know if Tim's set a goal date or not yet. I'll have to remember to ask him. I keep trying to get him to post something, but I guess that isn't going to happen. But at least we're doing this diet together and supporting each other and that's what means the most to me. I hope you all have great weeks! God Bless! ~ Robbin 1/19/2008 Went to the Movie todayI took my son to the movie today since he had no school. It was right around my lunch time and I just knew I had to be smart so I didn't mess up. I am proud to say that I packed a tuna sandwich and a bag of 100 calorie Smart Pop popcorn and smuggled them into the theater in my purse. Since I ate the tuna sandwich first, I was satisfied with the small helping of popcorn. Had I not prepared myself, I would have had at least a medium butter popcorn and a big box of chocolate candy. So, if I do say so myself.... I done good! Oh yeah! We went to see The Water Horse. Both my 9 year old son and his 45 year old mother enjoyed it so I give it 2 thumbs up! 1/15/2008 Week 2 Weigh In This morning was weigh in time and ... drum roll please.... we are down 7.2 lbs this week as a team! Bringing our 2 week total to 18.8 lbs!
I have a tendency to want to reward myself when I have a good weigh in week. I remember when I went to Weight Watchers with my Mom and cousin we would always go pig out on weigh in night. Afterall, it didn't count because the week was over and the new week didn't begin until the next morning! No wonder we never succeeded for very long! So today, I thought perhaps I'd eat a lunch that was a little more than I should. I managed to stick to ordering something decent though when I ate out with a friend. Then I had to go to the drug store. I thought, surely I deserve some candy, cookies, some chips or something! But, I'm proud to say, I thought about it and made a choice not to eat something like that... no matter how good it sounded! I came home and popped myself a 100 calorie bag of popcorn instead. A MUCH better choice! I know I can do this.... ONE choice, ONE day, ONE pound at a time! I hope you had a successful week too! God Bless! ~ Robbin First Place Tonight my husband and I added another aspect to our weight loss effort. A new class just started at our church called "First Place" so we decided to go to it. It's a Christ-centered health program for men and women of all ages. Using a support system that incorporates Bible study, Scripture, prayer and balanced eating and exercise plans First Place provides the opportunity to change your life, not only physically but spiritually and emotionally. Being Christians, it only makes sense to look to God for help in this area of our life too. I look forward to sharing this study with my husband and adding another way for us to support and encourage each other. Plus, there are several other women in the class that I know and we can encourage each other as well. I chose not to get on the scale there though. I figured with my husband and I weighing at home and sharing that with each other, there was no reason for me to get on the scale there too. Also, I just didn't want anyone there to know how much I weighed. Besides, that would be a night time weigh fully clothed and my "official" weigh in is on Tuesday mornings as bare as I can get! 1/13/2008 To Be Fat Like Me.... So here it is Sunday, and if I do say so myself, I am pretty happy with myself this week. I've made good choices for the most part and although I've been tempted many times, I have avoided giving in to it. Well, except for last night.... when I remembered the chocolate chip cookie in a tin that Santa had left me in my stocking. I ate it. I'm not going to lie. It was good! I counted the calories in my day though and although it wasn't a good choice, it didn't kill my calorie intake for the day. Although today isn't the "official" weigh in day, I did step on the scales and I was happy with what I saw. We'll see what carries through to Tuesday and I'll let you know then. I find that watching the food network isn't a good idea right now so I've tried not to watch too much of that. I do get inspiration from watching shows like Biggest Loser reruns, National Body Challenge, etc... so I watch those when I can. Last night I also was up real late and I watched 2 fat movies on Lifetime; "To Be Fat Like Me" and "Queen Sized". Both dealt with issues that I relate to because I grew up the fat kid in school and grew up into the fat adult. Although I've had a couple of times that I've lost weight and not been obese.... and it was in those times that I truly realized how differently I was treated as a fat person. I hate that more than I hate the fat. Do you know it's possible to be 300+ lbs and be invisible? I've noticed that when I'm fat, salespeople, bartenders, etc. can't see me standing there waiting to be waited on. If they do see me and actually acknowledge me, it's not with a smile. However, if you're not fat, they actually smile at you and jump at the chance to help you. What's up with that? Why can I stand at a counter and no one "see" me until someone else walks up beside me and then I get waited on after they are acknowledged? Do you know that adapting to the change of how people treat you after you've lost weight is a huge issue? Something you might want to start thinking about and preparing yourself for now. Anyway, let's not close with that downer! I've had a great week as far as my eating goes. But, I've been so sedentary and tired... not a good thing. I have a doctor's appointment tomorrow and I"ll be talking to her about how I've been and what I might do to help my tiredness. I hope everyone had a great week and I look forward to reporting my weight on Tuesday. I'm trying to get my husband to actually write something for this blog but I haven't had any luck so far. Maybe soon!? 1/9/2008 Official Weigh-In Day Since we started our Biggest Loser Challenge on Jan 2nd, today (the 8th) was official weigh-in day for us. The results....
PLUS - we did better than most of the teams this week! Were those some low weight losses or WHAT?! I hope you had a great week too! Share your losses as comments below! Walking Yesterday was a good day food & exercise wise. I was proud of all the choices I made. When my son was at Karate, instead of sitting there on my big fat butt just watching, I decided I'd do some walking. So, I'm at a little strip mall area and the Karate place is near one end. Looking at the strip mall, I'm thinking it's at least 1/4 mile from one end to the other so I take off walking the sidewalk in front of all the businesses. There are TWO things I discovered while I walked:
So, I was thinking - why do gyms have to charge so darn much for memberships? What about those of us that just want to hop on a treadmill for 30 mins or so a few times a week? So, after having that conversation with my friend over breakfast this morning (1 egg & 1 pc dry wheat toast) I got home and found a special offer in my mailbox that a local gym is offering. It was just the deal I was looking for so I couldn't pass it up - so, I joined the gym with a full 2 year membership for only $200! The only stipulation is that I can't come on Mondays or Tuesdays. I can handle that! Plus, it's women only - and I like that too. So things are looking good right now. I'm feeling good about what I'm doing and where I'm heading and even though my husband and I don't work out together (he has free gym at work), I fully intend to get busy at the gym. (Now, ask me next month how that's going!!) |
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