30 Day Challenge Profile

Name: AnnG

Age: 44

Hometown: Dallas, Texas suburbs

Family: DH, That Kid (19 a Freshman at DBU) and That Other Kid (5 1/2 starting homeschool kindergarten next week!)

1) Complete the following sentence – “When I look in the mirror I see… someone who needs to lose weight and get back into shape.

2) What exercise do you take? What’s your current level of fitness? I'm working out with my WiiFit, workout DVD's with Jillian Michaels, and now Wii Active. I also occasionally go to the gym and use the eliptical machines or treadmill. I would say that over the past 5 months my level of fitness has gone from "couch potato to pretty stinkin' good!"

3) How do you relax? read blogs and play with my little boy

4) Do you watch your weight? Very closely NOW! Before March 25 I watched it continually climb upward all the while, sucking down cokes and eating junk food without getting any exercise!

5) What’s your favorite body part? thighs (when they are in shape)

6) What’s your least favorite body part? stomach

7) What’s your favorite way to workout? I love to bike, but don't have a bike right now, so my favorite way to workout right now is with the WiiFit and Active.

8) Its time to work out, we’re most likely to find you decked out in? hubby's old shorts, and ratty t-shirt

9) You’re due to workout, but it’s pouring rain. What do you do? open the blinds and watch the rain come down while I work out with my Wii!

10) What’s the one item you wouldn’t be without when working out? Water and Fan (well that's 2 but they are both equally important to me)

11) What do you hope to get from the 30 Day Challenge? continue to increase my level of fitness and lose more weight

12) What are you apprehensive about going in? making sure I can continue do some WiiFit occasionally so I don't lose all the momentum from the Hula Spins that I have gained.

13) How will you reward yourself after the challenge? Hopefully by then I will be able to wear a smaller size of pants so I will get to have new clothes!

14) Complete the following sentence – “I’m Active for …”
my health!

New Challenge -- Shrink For Good

This new challenge is different cuz the Sisters are teaming up with WeightWatchers to do this one. The premise is to lose weight for good and help people that don't have money for food. For every pound of "excess flab and blubber" I lose I will donate that many pounds of food to the local food bank. Sounds like a great motivator to me! I can help those people out there that are less fortunate than me and lose weight that can cause me to be unhealthy!

Want to join in this challenge with us?? Go here and you can find out more about it and sign up to "Lose For Good"/"Shrink For Good"!!


Edited*** I went to the gym and weighed myself and I had the most pleasant surprise! I now weigh in at (drum roll please!!) 199.9 !!
I no longer am in the 200's and I couldn't be happier!! I was beginning to think this day would never happen.

Yay for me!

So Ya'll Know.....

that for the past 5 months I have been working extremely hard at losing all this excess flab and blubber that I have been carrying around for WAY too long, right?!
Well if you read my blog, you can't help but know it...it's about all I talk about these days. I have lost 25 pounds!! I'm so excited that I have to wear a belt with my "skinny pants"! They aren't really skinny jeans, but 5 months ago they were so tight on me I couldn't even pull them up to my knees, so I'm calling them "skinny jeans"! But it has been a struggle to find a pair of shorts to wear while I work out. I finally resorted to wearing a pair of dh's shorts that were too little for him, but too big for me. They work, not great, but they are doable. But they are starting to get really hard to work out in, cuz I can't draw the waist in enough...but I deal with it.

Anywho...I was over at the Sisterhood this morning and ChristieO was telling me about these awesome shorts she discovered! And the wonderful people at Sports Basement are going to give away a pair of these shorts!! All I have to do is enter and tell everyone about them. So that's what I'm doing!! Go check out these shorts! You can enter for the giveaway, but don't cuz I want to win....and I'll have a better chance if you don't enter, ok?!

But even you can go buy stuff from the Sports Basement site and get a discount by entering "ShrinkingJeans" in the coupon area. They have awesome stuff!!

More Humor

You have got to watch this

But don't be having a snack while you watch -- you might spit the food out of your mouth!

A Funny YouTube!

I just saw this posted on one of my friends "status reports" on Facebook and laughed to the point of almost needing to go the bathroom. If you don't enjoy Tim Hawkins kind of humor or you support President Obama's political agenda, don't bother watching it, you'll be offended and I don't really need "ugly" comments!

YAY!! Weigh In Day!!

I get to collect a new button today! The 25 pounds down button! I'm so happy I could shout it from the roof tops! Since March 25 I have lost 25 pounds. I went to the endocronologist today and of course they weighed me. This time I wasn't dreading it as much as previous times. I knew I would be close to the 200 mark which was my goal for today, but it wasn't there, but pretty stinkin' close -- 201!! (I went to the gym to check my weight according to their scale and it showed 201.6, so that is my official weight for the Shrinking Jeans Challenge I was really hoping for 200 pounds but 201 is all right, considering the stuff happening around here the past couple of weeks.

Stuff happening around here -- Buying a new car for That Kid, buying all the stuff he needed for school, getting him moved into the dorms, cleaning out his bedroom at home, moving dh's office into the bedroom, starting the process of cleaning and organizing the rest of the house. I'm also looking for stuff to sell and gathering it up, so I can list it on Craig's List. All this "stuff" has kept me from being real consistent with the exercise the past 2 weeks.

Anyway, I feel that I have done pretty well and I am thrilled that I am down 25 pounds since March 25th. The doctor was happy, too!

The 21 Day Challenge is over day and I did ok, considering all the "stuff" happening, but I need to work on the bible reading and the getting outside more. These will be continual goals for the next month or so. It's all a process, right?!

What I Did Today....

I got up at 7:45 a.m.. and went to the living room and laid down on the couch till 9:30 when I got up and started my morning routine, breakfast, shower, PRAYER (did you see that?). I didn't get the Bible reading in, though, which upsets me. Why can't I get this done?

After the morning routine was complete, I started working to clean out That Kid's room. DH is planning to move his office into the bedroom where That Kid has spent nearly the past 6 years. Since he is living in the dorms he was not able to take MOST of his stuff. He left behind his tv, queen size bed, desk, desk chair, bookcase, and all of his trophies, and hockey players collection. That's a lot of stuff!

My goal was to get the entire room cleaned out and cleaned! DH wants to start moving in this weekend, a little at a time. So this is what I did today!!




ALL THIS AND MORE came out of his room --



After I finally got done clearing out and cleaning the bedroom, I decided that I really needed to exercise tonight. I haven't been able to exercise much this week because of the move and last night I really needed a night out with my friend to "let it all out". The stress of life is starting to really get to me. That Kid moving away, dh not having any work (therefore no money coming in), college tuition to pay, bills to pay, etc., etc. So even though I was tired tonight from all the physical work of moving and cleaning everything out I did my WiiFit Hula! It felt good and I really worked it....see for yourself!




In case you can't see this it says 3410 !! New RECORD!! Yay for me!!