On November 9th Mark and I started a "Biggest Loser" with some of his family. We had the weigh-in, nobody wanted to do measurements or pictures! (boo!) and it took some convincing to even write some of the weights down on the same piece of paper. But....we started. We all put in $10.00 to give some motivation....there are 7 people doing it...and Marks dad said he'd throw in $100.00 to whoever wins. I think at the time he was pretty sure that he would win. We all agreed the only "fair" way of measuring would be to do it by percentage of weight lost. Fast forward to week 2 of the bet, only Mark, Jesse, and Myself are giving effort! And now, still only Mark, Jesse, and Myself are giving any effort! Talk about disappointing. (none of them besides Jesse ever read this, so I don't have to worry about making anyone mad, but I'm still holding back on a lot of opinions!) Up until Christmas I was beating Mark....but now he's slipped into the lead! ahhhh....time to step it up for me. If Mark makes his "goal weight" of 170 lbs, then I have to weigh 103 to beat him! What a sucker....but I'm going to beat him! Even if I have to go anorexic for the last week to do it, I'M GOING TO BEAT HIM. He beats me at everything, but not this. I think Mark and I are having success is because we feed off of each other and we're competitive with each other. We are having a lot of fun with it, and are always trying to out-do one another. (in everything) But don't you worry, we LOVE each other & it's all in good spirited fun. I'm doing Insanity & Mark is just running on the treadmill, and weight lifting. We both have changed our dieting, but we give our selves one meal on the weekend that we go all out on and don't hold back. Although, we did just finish the holiday season, and we had three straight weeks of no holding back! I gained 3 pounds, and Mark gained 10! (so maybe I am beating him again, I should figure that out really fast.) But now, with the final weigh-in in just 5 weeks...the game is on! Hopefully more of his family will join in. They all have said that they'll do it starting Jan. 1st. And most of them, if they put forth an effort, still have a chance to win! Of course I want to win, but if somebody else does that's just great too. I just want everyone to have success and see that living a healthier lifestyle isn't as hard as people think it is, and how being healthy truly changes your lifestyle! Wish me luck, because in about 5 pounds I'm hitting my wall and I'm going to have to work my butt off.
This is the only picture that I have of Mark and I from over the holidays. (PLEASE don't
judge our shirts...we were at an ugly sweater party) Mark was down to 9.4 % and I was down 10.55%
