Ok. I know I havent posted anything in a couple of weeks. Things have been crazy busy and stuffed full of stress. Since I have had 3 weigh ins since posting my initial weigh in, I figure I will post my weigh in results to date.
1/09/10 414.0 starting weight
1/11/10 410.6 -3.4 for the week -3.4 total
1/17/10 406.6 -4 for the week -7.4 total
1/24/10 402.8 -3.8 for the week -11.2 total
So those are my weigh in results since I started on Jan 9th. I will try to post here every week. Also this week I have started adding exercise. I lost 11 pounds in like 15 days just from changing my diet and changing habits. I stopped snacking, made better food choices, stopped drinking pops.
I have struggled alot with making better food choices but Shannon reminds me, "Whats more important? Your health or the food?" When I think about 5 minutes eating of eating food or a lifetim with my family, its a very easy decision! I'll keep you updated on my progress and look forward to many blogs to come. God Bless and happy healthy eating.
-Bobby
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Monday, January 11, 2010
First official weigh in, January 11th, 2010
Good Evening :)
So, today was my first official weigh in of 2010. I am down 2.4 lbs. I am well on my weigh. This week was a good one. I concentrated more on the food aspect than anything else. Starting tomorrow I am going to add in exercise. Bobby and I both greatly decreased the number of times we ate out. Most of our meals were home cooked. I have had only a couple sodas this week which is an awesome thing for me. I am just taking it one day at a time. One thing that has changed is our "weigh in day meal". Before, we would use our weigh in day as a free for all pass. Like calories didn't count or matter. We would eat huge meals which in all reality made it more diificult and contributed to us "failing". We have changed our way of thinking. We did go out to dinner tonight for our "weigh in day meal". We went to Logans Roadhouse. I will admit, I did have a couple rolls. My meal consisted of grilled chicken with a small amount of bbq sauce, baked sweet potato NOT LOADED. it just had a little bit of cinnamon on top, and a side salad with fat free ranch. Oh yea, I had ice water to drink. It may not be the best of meals BUT it is a major improvement compared to my past "weigh in meals". It all starts with little changes. :) Well, I would type more but I am so tired. 6am comes way to early. Thanks for all of your support, encouragement, and most of all friendship. I am here if any of you need me. After all, isn't that what this group is all about?
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.Robert Collier
Love you all, Shannon
So, today was my first official weigh in of 2010. I am down 2.4 lbs. I am well on my weigh. This week was a good one. I concentrated more on the food aspect than anything else. Starting tomorrow I am going to add in exercise. Bobby and I both greatly decreased the number of times we ate out. Most of our meals were home cooked. I have had only a couple sodas this week which is an awesome thing for me. I am just taking it one day at a time. One thing that has changed is our "weigh in day meal". Before, we would use our weigh in day as a free for all pass. Like calories didn't count or matter. We would eat huge meals which in all reality made it more diificult and contributed to us "failing". We have changed our way of thinking. We did go out to dinner tonight for our "weigh in day meal". We went to Logans Roadhouse. I will admit, I did have a couple rolls. My meal consisted of grilled chicken with a small amount of bbq sauce, baked sweet potato NOT LOADED. it just had a little bit of cinnamon on top, and a side salad with fat free ranch. Oh yea, I had ice water to drink. It may not be the best of meals BUT it is a major improvement compared to my past "weigh in meals". It all starts with little changes. :) Well, I would type more but I am so tired. 6am comes way to early. Thanks for all of your support, encouragement, and most of all friendship. I am here if any of you need me. After all, isn't that what this group is all about?
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.Robert Collier
Love you all, Shannon
Initial Weigh In And Then Some....
Ok. Shannon and I had our first weigh ins recently. Hers was last Monday and mine was a couple of days ago on Jan 9th. We went out and bought a new scale and my STARTING weight was 414.0. Thats not a good number to write down for your weight but thats the truth. I quit the eating out and started cooking healthier meals at home and I wanted my weigh in day to be the same as Shannon's so I weighed in 2 days later (today) at 410.6 for a total so far of -3.4 pounds and bringing my total percentage of weight lost to -0.82%. I will be posting a new blog every Monday that includes my weight (starting and current), total pounds lost for the week, total pounds lost TOTAL, and a total of weight loss percentages (starting and for the week). Wish me luck this week and God Bless. Good Night Readers.
-Bobby Phillips
Oklahoma City.....GO THUNDER!!!
-Bobby Phillips
Oklahoma City.....GO THUNDER!!!
Sunday, January 3, 2010
My life as the "girl with the pretty face" by Shannon
I have been overweight for as long as I can remember. I was always the chubby girl. Always the fat friend. The girl who the guys were nice to and friends with but never wanted to date. I was never able to share clothes with my friends because they wouldn't fit. I missed out on so much as I got older because of my weight. I didn't go to any school dances with a date. I always went with friends. I didn't go to my prom and I didn't have a traditional wedding because I didn't want to be the fat bride in a white wedding dress. My best friend is getting married next year and I am scared to death. She is going to want me to be up there with her, all I can think about is not being able to fit in the dress, being an embarrassment because I am the biggest girl there or not even going and supporting her because I am too ashamed of how I look. The last few years I have felt that maybe I am destined to be this way. When I think about losing weight all I can think about is how far I have to go. Also, may sound superficial and unimportant but I fear that if I do lose this weight that I will look worse than I do now. I have so much to lose and there will no doubt be extra skin and flab and I am in no position to afford plastic surgery to correct it. I know that I need to look past the negative and focus on the positive. I need to take it one minute at a time and make short term goals that are attainable.
On January 1st, 2010 I weighed in at 373.2. The heaviest I have EVER been. That is going to change. I CAN'T live this way anymore. I need to change for my family and myself. My first goal is a hard one, but I feel like I can do it. I need the challenge. I need something short term to work towards. My first goal is to lose 25 lbs by February 1st 2010. It will be hard, I may struggle but I am confident I will succeed. This is a life or death decision that I have to make. Consequences of the wrong decision are fatal, however rewards from choosing the right decision will out weigh any struggles that I have faced to get to that point.
This is the beginning of what will be a lifelong journey. I have so much to change... the physical, the mental, and my priorities. Thank you for reading and following me in my journey to a happier, healthier ME!
"Dare to be remarkable."- Jane Gentry
~ Shannon
On January 1st, 2010 I weighed in at 373.2. The heaviest I have EVER been. That is going to change. I CAN'T live this way anymore. I need to change for my family and myself. My first goal is a hard one, but I feel like I can do it. I need the challenge. I need something short term to work towards. My first goal is to lose 25 lbs by February 1st 2010. It will be hard, I may struggle but I am confident I will succeed. This is a life or death decision that I have to make. Consequences of the wrong decision are fatal, however rewards from choosing the right decision will out weigh any struggles that I have faced to get to that point.
This is the beginning of what will be a lifelong journey. I have so much to change... the physical, the mental, and my priorities. Thank you for reading and following me in my journey to a happier, healthier ME!
"Dare to be remarkable."- Jane Gentry
~ Shannon
My Super Sized Past
As its been stated in our original post, Shannon and I will both be posting individual posts on here and I'll start off by telling my life long struggle with obesity.
My name is Bobby Phillips and I'm 26 years old and have struggled with my weight my entire life. As a child, I was chubby. As a teenager I was husky. As an adult I'm fat. At this point I'm in the morbidly obese catagory or something. My current weight is unknown but about a month or 2 ago I was 408 then I stopped registering on our scale. If I had to guess, I'd say my weight was maybe around 420 or so. I'm determined to lose it though.
When I was 17, right before I met Shannon, I was losing weight. I had gotten to 300 pounds and I started taking Stacker 2 and eating at Grandy's twice a day (at 10:30am and then again at 330pm) and walking a mile after both of those meals. In 6 months of doing this, I lost around 80-90 pounds. I was living at home and didnt have a job yet and I ran out of my Stacker 2 pills right before my family and I went on vacation to Las Vegas where the food is bountiful. I came back a week later and realized that I had gained 20 POUNDS in 7 days!!! I was devastated and it went down hill from there.
I met Shannon like a week or 2 after that and I have been yo-yo dieting since then. We got married when we were 18 and in the first year of marriage I gained around 125 pounds. YIKES!!! In 2008, I lost about 40 pounds before gaining it back. I'm so tired of the yo-yo, so I have decided that this is my last chance. Currently, like I said, I believe my weight to be around 420 lbs.
I just bought TBL DVDs Last Chance Workout and 30 Day Jump Start and I have decided to do the 6 day a week workouts for the 6 weeks on the DVD. I'll keep you posted on my journey and my results as I get them.
My first real goal is to register on our scale. Wish me luck and skinny thoughts.
Good Night.
-Bobby
My name is Bobby Phillips and I'm 26 years old and have struggled with my weight my entire life. As a child, I was chubby. As a teenager I was husky. As an adult I'm fat. At this point I'm in the morbidly obese catagory or something. My current weight is unknown but about a month or 2 ago I was 408 then I stopped registering on our scale. If I had to guess, I'd say my weight was maybe around 420 or so. I'm determined to lose it though.
When I was 17, right before I met Shannon, I was losing weight. I had gotten to 300 pounds and I started taking Stacker 2 and eating at Grandy's twice a day (at 10:30am and then again at 330pm) and walking a mile after both of those meals. In 6 months of doing this, I lost around 80-90 pounds. I was living at home and didnt have a job yet and I ran out of my Stacker 2 pills right before my family and I went on vacation to Las Vegas where the food is bountiful. I came back a week later and realized that I had gained 20 POUNDS in 7 days!!! I was devastated and it went down hill from there.
I met Shannon like a week or 2 after that and I have been yo-yo dieting since then. We got married when we were 18 and in the first year of marriage I gained around 125 pounds. YIKES!!! In 2008, I lost about 40 pounds before gaining it back. I'm so tired of the yo-yo, so I have decided that this is my last chance. Currently, like I said, I believe my weight to be around 420 lbs.
I just bought TBL DVDs Last Chance Workout and 30 Day Jump Start and I have decided to do the 6 day a week workouts for the 6 weeks on the DVD. I'll keep you posted on my journey and my results as I get them.
My first real goal is to register on our scale. Wish me luck and skinny thoughts.
Good Night.
-Bobby
New year... new choices... new US!
Hi :) I am Shannon and Bobby is my husband. We will both be posting on this blog. We are from Oklahoma, 26 years old and have been married for 8 years in April 2010. We both work for the same company working with adults with developemental dissabilities. People are all the time asking if we get tired of working together and being around each other all the time and my answer is always no. We have a unique relationship. Even after being together for 9 years we still can't get enough of each other. :) We don't have children yet, but plan too. We do have 2 chihuahua's which we consider to be our kids. We will tell you more about us as this blog progresses.
Now what exactly is this blog about? Well, I will tell you...
We have both been overweight for as long as we can remember. Since we have been together we have tried countless times to lose weight and take control of our lives. Each time we have failed. We will each write a seperate blog going deeper into detail about our individual successes, struggles, and goals. We have decided that 2010 WILL be our year. We will make the changes that we need to and we WILL succeed. This is no longer a light decision this is a life or death decision with dire consequences if we choose the wrong path. It will not be easy, there will be struggles but amidst all those struggles there will successes and we will celebrate those, with something other than food! I decided to start blogging because I have never journalled anything regarding my weightloss and I have always failed. I am trying something new, I am putting myself out there for anyone to read. This is a huge step for me. I was going to have my own blog but Bobby wanted to do it as well so we just decided we will do a couples blog. We are in this thing together so why not be 100% in this together. Even if our writing helps motivate or inspire just one person then it will all be worth it.
Just to let you know, this will be a weightloss blog but there may be times that what we post has nothing to do with our weightloss, just something we would like to share.
Well, there is a brief summary of what the point is of this page.
Thanks for reading and HAPPY NEW YEAR
Shannon & Bobby
Now what exactly is this blog about? Well, I will tell you...
We have both been overweight for as long as we can remember. Since we have been together we have tried countless times to lose weight and take control of our lives. Each time we have failed. We will each write a seperate blog going deeper into detail about our individual successes, struggles, and goals. We have decided that 2010 WILL be our year. We will make the changes that we need to and we WILL succeed. This is no longer a light decision this is a life or death decision with dire consequences if we choose the wrong path. It will not be easy, there will be struggles but amidst all those struggles there will successes and we will celebrate those, with something other than food! I decided to start blogging because I have never journalled anything regarding my weightloss and I have always failed. I am trying something new, I am putting myself out there for anyone to read. This is a huge step for me. I was going to have my own blog but Bobby wanted to do it as well so we just decided we will do a couples blog. We are in this thing together so why not be 100% in this together. Even if our writing helps motivate or inspire just one person then it will all be worth it.
Just to let you know, this will be a weightloss blog but there may be times that what we post has nothing to do with our weightloss, just something we would like to share.
Well, there is a brief summary of what the point is of this page.
Thanks for reading and HAPPY NEW YEAR
Shannon & Bobby
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