Mel and Rich's Million Pound Match up

Its been a while since I have updated.  My life has been a little hetic lately.  But hopefully things are back in swing.  Eating has not been that great.  I am changing my weigh in day to mondays for I am also doing a weight loss challenge at work and we will be weighing in on mondays.  This monday Febuary 4, 2008 being the first.  So we will see how that goes.  Besides that everything is ok.  I will update later.  Rich is doing good but his eating is a little off.  He is going to re focus on monday as well and I am going to start walking with him on monday again.  wish me luck.

  Well its day 20 things are going well.  Its been a really busy week so I did not have alot of time to write here.  But I have exciting news for myself.  My mom and I have decided to try out for season 6 of the biggest looser.  We are working hard on our applications and are going to work on our video.  She lives over an hour away from me.  I probley won't get picked but its still exciting to try.    I am thinking of joining curves.  Trying to convince my husband its worth the money.  He thinks I won't go.  But I really want to.  Well I am off to eat my nice healhy salad.    Rich is doing is great and we are both staying focused on our goals.  Tommorrow is weigh in day. wish us luck.

 

Mel and Rich.

 Well its almost the 2 week mark.  Things are going strong.  I weighed in this am with a 3 pound loss.  I was a little surprised for I did not do well on my eating this weekend.  But I did do lots of actvities.  We are remodeling our living room and I stained the new walls.  Looke very nice and yesterday I called in to work because I was slid all over the road on my way to work so I snow blowed and re aranged my kitchen.   So I kept busy.  Rich weighed in for the first time at a 10 pound loss.  So we are on our way.  I went to visit my family on Sunday for my grand parents are celebrating there 62 wedding anniversary today and my grandpa has altimzers so every moment we have with him is precious.  He was so cute.  Here is a picture of them and a picture of my niece kayliegh Marie

 

  Photo of our lilies from last year.  Can't wait till spring.

 

Well its another day and I am feeling great.   Last night was a breeze, no cravings.   I got home and had to move the cars around.  We had the trailer out to get wood and it was tight parking.  So Rich called me on the way home telling me that when he got home from walking the dogs he was going to move it for me so I could park the car and not have to squeeze myself out of the car and asked me to park on the side so he could do so.   So when I got home he wa still out with the dogs so I decided to do it myself.  I got out and moved the cars and then picked up the trailer and moved it out and in to the new spot.  What a work out that was.  It was icy, I could not see and I was wearing a skirt.  So he was a little surprised to see when he got home I did it all by myself and he was proud of me.  I am feeling motivated today and might just go home and do my dancing cardio dvd.  I had a salad for lunch today.   I am still trying to decide what to do about dinner.   I am defrosting ground turkey and trying to think of something beside turkey meat loaf or turkey burgers.  Well see.  Well till later....Have a great day.

  Well I weighed in last night.   I was a little nervous but I stepped on the scale and it was a 5 pound loss   .  I was so happy.  Well see what happens next week.

Well its another day.  Its day 7.  So far so good.  Last night I was really wanting to eat something.  So instead of sitting in front of the tv and thinking about eating something I went upstairs and put away the laundry and then changed the bed sheets and found a book to read to keep my mind away from the food.  I think as I progress I will use that time to exercise but I need to get the energy to do so.  So tonight is weigh in night.  I am going to weigh in every tuesday when the contestants from the biggest looser weigh in.   I put the scale in another room that we dont use this time of year.  I used to keep it in the kitchen but it was  always a reminder to weight myself.  So now I dont see the scale and I have not stepped on it since 1/2/2008 that 7 days ago.  Well thats about it for now.  For anyone who reads this you will find my life is pretty boring.  I pretty much goto work and then come home

 

 

Well we made it through the weekend.   I had a chance to sit down and evulate what our goals are.  My goal is to reach 200 pounds, so that means I have to lose 150 pounds.  Sounds like a lot but I think I can do it.   Rich is goal is too see 190.  His goal seems much more atttainable than mine.  So our total goal wieght is 200 Pounds.  I thought the weekend would be hard but I found it pretty easy.  I made turkey salad and had that for lunch and made a stir fry for dinner.  I ate fruit for snacks.  and only drank a few diet cola's.  I kept myself busy over the weekend by being upstairs at home away from the kitchen.  I was making curtins.  We are remolding our livingroom and I wanted to make some nice curtins to make the room look nice.  Its been awhile since I had sewn anything so it took me a while but 2 days later I came out with one of the panels only 9 more togo.  Yesterday Rich was really sick and throwing up so I took care of him as well as long with bringing in wood and I walked the dogs twice yesterday. 

This is my story.  I am entering this contest with My husband Rich.  We live in Hillsboro NH and have struggled with our weightloss our entire life.  I currenly weigh 350 pounds and he weighs 240 pounds.  We admit we like to eat.  But know we have to change our lifestyle, our we are going to have big health problems later in life.  We would love to have a child.  We have been married for 4 years.  He is a cancer survivor.  I know the reason we are childless is because we are overweight.  We would be great parents.  We have a niece and nephew that we adore and we can provide for a family.  We see lots of people who should not have children that do and feel we could do a great job as parents.  We have a house on the lake and we have 2 dogs and 2 cats.  We have sammy who is a white siberian husky and Ryka who is a black and white husky.  We are animal lovers as well.   Losing our weight would change our lives forever.  We could do all the stuff we dream of doing. 

 

 I started this page because I signed up for the million pound match up from the biggest looser.  I am a huge fan of the biggest looser.  I would love to be on the show.  But I never know when theyare casting.  So I follow every season.  I have struggled with my weight my whole life.  Over the summer I went on a diet and I managed to loose 30 pounds.  But I went off it back in October and have gained back 20 of those pounds.  My husband and I are doing this together.  I have some before pics I will post when I get home.  They are really bad.  I am sick of being this way.  I want to look in the mirror and like what I see.  I currently weigh 350 pounds and it makes me sick.  I am tired all of the time and my body hurts from being overweight.  I know I can do it.  My struggle is the exercise.  By the end of the day I am so tired, I dont want to exercise.  I have a great dancing dvd I bought and I like it but just need to find the time to do it. I am hoping this challenge will motivate me.  I want to be sexy for my husband.  I want him to be proud of the way his wife looks.  He is over weight as well but not as much as I am.  Doing the weight loss together is great because we are there for each other for the good and the bad and support each other when it gets tough.  Well I guess I have written enough for now.  I will keep on posting on my progress.