NEW CHALLENGE JUST STARTED!!!

Ok Everybody, I'm back!!!  And 1/24 started a whole new weight loss challenge.  These challenges are offered worldwide through Herbalife distributors, and I joined again for my 2nd round.

I managed to maintain through the holidays, I'm in the middle of getting divorced and still sat at the just under 400 mark.  I was 398 last week at the registration and due to current circumstances, have been eating a shitload of chicken and seafood salad, I went up 1 for the start.  Yeah!!! NOT!  

Both packed w/ mayo, both made somewhere else, both have added sugar, pretty high on the list of ingredients. Chicken Salad scored better, with 24 g's of protein for your 300+ calories, the seafood salad only provided 5 g's of protein for almost the same calories.  However both proved to be very bad.

That being said I now have chicken breast filets and a ginormous bag of broccoli in the freezer. Great for that meal after having my shakes during the day. And more water than I ever imagined.  I hate water and I drink anywhere from 4 .5 liter bottles to 12 .5 liter bottles a day. Yeah 6 liters, 200 something ounces.  I have a hard time getting that in every day but I try and get in as much as I can.  So I get on the scale @ home and the number is down from the other day.  I will only use the scale at the challenge as a grade for my up and downedness.  The scale here is about 5 pounds off of that one.

So here we go another 12 weeks of nutrition info that I will gladly put up here on this site to help educate anyone who wants to hear it...

Want to Scream, then some good news...

So last week seamed rough for some reason, money's tight, ran out of shake mix, and then having a rough night at work, I devoured no less than 3 items off the grill. CheeseyBrats made by the same co. that makes them for the New England Patriots. Then lots of grazing, then the day we decorated the tree, we had tons of appetizers, pulled pork sliders, Brie in Bread bowl dip, spinach dip, scallops in bacon, chicken fajitas, tons of litle finger food, christmas music, a beautiful tree, family and fun... BAD for diet... so up to 403 time to get back in the saddle, so I made Sat after weigh in my cheat day, I had some cheese cake, and just some crap I shouldn't have had.

Then this AM (Sunday) I got up and had a meeting in RI with a Million Club Herbalife Distributor. Who went over the business plan with me and Noreen my coach and Judy who was the other coach in the last Challenge. In some ways I've become their model student, and showboat for Herbalife, 60 pounds in 8 weeks doing just Herbalife, My coach wants me on the weight loss challenge site, the herbalife site and their catalogs and books, pays money. I'm going to be an official distributor for Herbalife as of tomorrow, and I'm going to be one of the Coach's in training for the next challenge, as well as a participant. I've learned I can make quite a bit of bank as a distributor and coach so I think this will work for me. And I'm helping the world get a little healthier a few people at a time.

Not under 4 but so close...

Official weigh in weight was 401. So I lost 7 from last week. Mad cuz if I hadn't gained I'd be so much lower. However I'm still trending downaward. Also figured out my BMI had been 59.4 and is now 51.5

Today my daughter went with me, got measured, weighed etc. She is average on the BMI scale, but she wants to lose 30 pounds and be all around more healthy.

So here's to the two of us being fit and healthy and reaching our goal weights!!!

See ya through the week..

and if I can't see you through the week, I'll see you through the window... (badump bump)

Dean

My Favorite Poem...

[IF]

If you can keep your head when all about you

Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you

But make allowance for their doubting too,

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,

Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,

Or being hated, don't give way to hating,

And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream--and not make dreams your master,

If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim;

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster

And treat those two impostors just the same;

If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken

Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,

Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,

And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings

And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,

And lose, and start again at your beginnings

And never breath a word about your loss;

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew

To serve your turn long after they are gone,

And so hold on when there is nothing in you

Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,

Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch,

If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;

If all men count with you, but none too much,

If you can fill the unforgiving minute

With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,

Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,

And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son!

--Rudyard Kipling

More Great News...

I think I'm back... Got on my scale this am and I was 398.5, woohoo under 400. That of course is unofficial, but barring any disaster, I should be ok for Saturday.

Guess what else I did for the first time in who knows how long...

I walked, not far but, I walked probably a quarter mile, I'll drive it tomorrow to see how far it was. So if I start doing that more often, the rest of the weight should just fall off.

In addition to my weight loss, my beautiful daughter Amanda wants to join in. She's only 14 so most of her baby fat left when she shot up to 5'9" but she's got a little pudge she wants to get rid of and also wants try to be healthier. So Noreen my coach told me I could bring her Sat and we'll do a measure and starting weight with her too.

So I'll let you know how it all works out on Saturday.

Dean

Dammit!!

My son was born 11/23 3 years ago. This week he had a bday, followed by Thanksgiving. We had Lasagna, cake, breadsticks and salad, then I tried to do good the rest of the week...

Then Thanksgiving, Turkey, Paula Dean's Sweet Potatoes, stuffing, Chris Meyer's (bro-in-law), texas corn caserole bread, veggies (not enuff) and sour cream apple pie, (killer). That was at my Dad's house, then we got home at 9:00 pm and ate some more, turkey, stuffing and Potatoes au Gratin, YUM!!! I'm an eater from wayyyy back and a dieter for almost 3 months, the diet lost.

I weighed in saturday and had gained 6 pounds in a week. DISAPOINTED!!!!!!!!!!

I am back on track.

2nd Biggest Loser, but still a winner...

Saturday, November 22, 2008

OK So it's been a couple weeks. eh 3 maybe. anyway... here are the last 3 weeks summed up, up to and including today. 2 weeks ago I had a 0 gain / loss, something came up in my family and I decided food was a great soother of the pain... Still eating from family issues the following and final week of the challenge, when I should have been my best, I actually gained a pound and came in 2nd in the whole challenge. I placed 2nd to my stepdad who beat me by 1/10th of a percentage point. To be fair to everyone they used % of total weight lost. I still took home $105 which I was happy about and I got it the day before my Bday, very cool! Here's where the real winner came in... This Loser lost a total of 50.3 pounds, 10.864 % of my total body weight, and 19.75 inches off of my body. That was the end of the PYC Weight Loss Challenge '08.

However, Noreen my coach during the challenge has stayed on as my coach and has made a personal project out of me.

Todays weigh in was amazing, joy and a few tears shed... I got on two scales as I've done every saturday since I started. 400 + is too much for most any scale. I haven't weighed in in at least 3 years before this challenge. So imagine my surprise to learn I was 37 pounds away from 500. HOLY SHIT, out of control. So here I am a week after the challenge ended, and I had a surprise for everyone. I got on both scales and one read 200 the other 202, add em up folks, that's 402 pounds. A. that's 61 pounds from the start, that's 13% of my total starting body weight and as I found out because I tried it the day before... It's enough to be weighed on 1 SCALE!!!!!

Their was a huge parade in town today in our Wind chill factor / feels like 9 degrees town of Plymouth, America's home town, where Thanksgiving started man... I missed it, too damn cold and had to babysit my son who wll be 3 tomorrow YEAH Logan... Anyway point is, there's no parking in Plymouth, so my mom showed up at Plymouth Yacht Club, where she is a member with Martin my Stepdad who brought me into this program. She heard what happened and started crying for her little (ha) boy getting healthier (finally). I happened to glance over at Noreen (my amazing coach), and she'd welled up so this is actually touching people.

When I had weighed myself @ home the day before and the scale went from ERR to showing a number, I cried a bit. I sent out a text to everyone and got some great support comments back from brother and sister.

My brother called me his hero, and my sis high fived her Hubs, for my joy and Mandie, one of my daughters thought it was awesome.

My next big goal is 100 lost which I'm now only 40 pounds away from which I find unbelievable. When I do that I end up on the Weight Loss Challenge website 100 pound club WLC 100 Club.
Stick with me and see how it goes...

Dean