Yeah, I'm still here

Sorry it's kind of been a crazy week.  But, I'm still here, yes, I am!  Actually, 1 pound more of me is here.  Yikes! I better kick it into high gear today and tomorrow!  How are you all doing this week??  (Please leave me a comment! Look at me, begging you!!)

My gain is tradition's fault. (I surely can't blame myself here!)  Yesterday, I worked near Louisville, but only in the afternoon.  So, we took advantage of my company paying for the mileage and went to Huber Farms in the morning.  It was great.  Let me tell all of you Huber lovers out there a word of advice. NEVER go to Huber farms over the weekend again. It is so worth it to take a day off and head over there during a weekday.  I mean, besides a few field trips, there was no one there!  We had the whole patch practically to ourselves.  And, there were so many pumpkins!!  All varieties, all sizes, all colors.  Pumpkin heaven.  Anyway, be prepare to be inundated with pictures.  Here we go!

  

  Doesn't get any cuter than this, folks!  Wyatt's favorite thing to do, get on any and every truck or tractor!

Tried to get a picture of Wyatt with the pumpkins, this is what I got.  After the 4th one I decided he was trying to tell me somthing!! 

 Here's Katelyn with our choice pumpkins.  Look at that stemage!  And then notice all of the pumpkins in this patch!  So many to choose from!  Katelyn is apparently partial to the white one there...just like her momma!

Enough of that.  One can only handle so much cuteness on one page! :-) 

So, I've decided since Dana was the biggest loser last week she gets to be the next Meet Me Monday guest!  Send me some pictures and a few words, if you will! 

Still need some checks from some of you.  I haven't cashed any of them yet.  I was planning on cashing them when the winner is announced.  But, if you'd like me to cash one sooner, let me know. I know that I'm not fond of having a check out there in limbo when it comes time to balance the old check book.  So far, I have checks from Dana, Leah, Lesa, Heather, and Betty.  Honestly, I haven't even put my $14 in yet either.  So, we're half way there!  Let me know if you need my address again!

Don't forget to weigh in on Saturday!!  Good luck!

Meet Me Monday - Raenetta

Good morning!  It's time for another exciting installment of Meet Me Monday!!  This morning you'll be learning a little bit more about Raenetta.

I've known Raenetta all of my life, you know, since she is my Mom's, Brother's, Daughter.  Also known as, my cousin.  While we didn't grow up in the same town, I fondly remember playing many games of baseball, beauty salon, and pool at our Grandma's house during the holidays!

Here is what Raenetta has to say!

"Mamma and wife!! That about sums it up. LOL!! I  live in Cloverdale, IN with my handsome husband 

and 4 wondeful and unique children (David 9, Kaydence 6, Logan 3 and Marley 10 M).

Doing this to give myself a little bit of much needed attention to be more healthy and loose the baby weight that has well been around for about 6 years ;0). best wishes to everyone!! God bless each of you in your journey and together as women and with God by our sides each of us can accomplish anything."


Thank you Raenetta!  And lots of luck to you to get rid of that baby weight!  I know a thing, or two, about that!!  

And the week's winner is...

DANA!!  Good job, girl!  She lost 2.1% of her weight!  Rock steady!!  Keep it up with that boot camp and great food skillz!!

Let me tell you that I was a bit worried this week about my own weigh-in.  I started out great losing 3.5 lbs by Tuesday.  But, a Wednesday night trip to Red Lobster, a gift from my in-laws, did not go so well for me.  I passed up three of those buttery, garlic rolls.  And, then ordered fish and chips on top of that.  Hello, fried food.  I was good the rest of the week until the bloating started.  We're all girls here, so I'm just going to say Aunt Flo is-a knocking.  Also, I had a long week of driving for work this week-15 hours total.  That's a lot of butt time, girls.   It was a good thing I started out losing the 3.5 lbs because I gained one back and weighed in at 212 this morning at 3 am.  Yes, that's right.  I had to get up that early for work.  Yes, that's right, it's Saturday.  I'm not bitter.  You can tell, right?  Right.

Well, check out the results from week one below to see how everyone's doing.  We have a little bit of everything this week.  It's listed from this week's biggest loser:

Dana - 2.13%
Holly - 1.94%
Betty - 1.77%
Lesa - 1.33%
Jenny - 1.17%
Raenetta - 0.49%
Amanda - 0.28%
Heather - 0%
Jessie - -0.54%
Leah - -.99% (edited due to a mistake! Sorry, Leah!!!)

All righty.  There it is!

I also need to say Happy Belated Birthday to Jessie!  Sorry we missed it!  And, Leah's birthday is tomorrow!  Happy Birthday, Minnies!!!

Tune in for Meet Me Monday, Raenetta style!

My Fitness Pal

Tippity tap tap...is this mic on??  I'm glad to know that Dana and I are doing good so far!  Way to go, D!!How about everyone else?  I know, we all lead busy lives, don't we!?!  Just a few words though, would be nice to know how it's going! (and to know that you are reading along!)

Anyway, I promised a post on this awesome app/website.  You should really check it out.  I know some of you already use it.  In fact, Betty and Holly showed it to me!

Nothing drives me further away from a diet program than when I have to keep a food journal or counting my calories!  Let me tell you, this takes all of the pain away!  If you have a smart phone, (droid or iphone) you can get the app My Fitness Pal or you can check out their website here.  I haven't actually spent anytime on the website but I use my app ALL of the time!

First, you put in your height, weight, and your goal weight and it keeps it in a chart for your viewing pleasure.  It's so satisfying to watch that line go down, down, down!  Then it computes for you the amount of calories you should be intaking daily.  Then throughout the day you add what you've put down your trap.  They have a place for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks.  They have almost any type of food and its nutritional information that you can think of.  I've never not been able to find what I ate on there, even restaraunts.  There is also a place to log your exercise which it then subtracts the calories burned from the calories consumed.  I mean rocket science people! 

One more cool thing you can do on the phone app is if you have a product wrapper you can scan the barcode and it enters it in for you!!  Ah, technology!

I'm sure it does a million other things but this is the part I use it for.  It's amazing!  Check it out!

Don't forget to email me Saturday with your first weigh-in!!

Checking In

Hey Minnies!

Just checking in with you!  How's the first week going?  Everyone staying on track??  Leave us a comment on here and tell us all how you're doing!

As for me, so far so good! No soda, plenty of water, reading The Word, and I cleaned my house for 2 hours on Sunday-that counts for exercise, right?!?!

Funny story, I was being so good yesterday and brought one of those bagged salad kits for lunch at work.  I was actually pretty excited about it because it was a Pear Gorgonzola kit.  Yum!  I checked the back, because that's what you do when you're on the "D" word, and it was 240 calories for the bag-SCORE!  So, I cut it open and...no kit.  Bummer!  It was just a bag of lettuce!  Where was the pear vinaigrette, the sliced pears, and candied almonds!!  What a disappointment.  Good thing I had a Fiber One bar in my arsenal!  Now, I understand how these things can happen.  I mean, imagine being the QC person in the Fresh Express warehouse, blink and you could miss the bag with no kit in it, too!  To right their name, I did call the company and they are sending me a coupon for a free bag! No harm, no foul.  Somebody please explain that to my stomach though!!

Hope you all enjoyed meeting me yesterday!  Next week, we will all be meeting Raenetta!  You're up girl!  I already have your info, but if you'd like to send me a few pictures I'd love to post them for you!  Shoot me an email.

Stay strong, ladies!!  Power to you!  And, all of those other encouraging words!

Meet Me Monday-Jenny

Well, sorry about not posting Sunday.  Time got away from me.  Can't promise that won't happen again! Anyway, before I get started on Meet Me Monday, I would like to point out that I added a 'Follow me by email button' over there on the right side.  So, now when I add a new post it will show up in your email if you opt for that.  And, I will write the post that I eluded to Saturday later on this week.  Now for your reading pleasure.  All about me follows.

This kind of reminds me of a 7th grade, first day of school English assignment.  You know, write a 2-page paper all about yourself.  Don't worry, this won't be 2 pages.  I loved writing those papers.  I mean, really, how hard is it to write all about yourself!?  What I didn't love was middle school-and if you're normal-you didn't either.  It's such an awkward stage in everyone's life.  I look at middle schoolers today and feel embarrassed for myself all over again knowing that I acted how they do.  Ok, moving on...

I am a mother of 2 beautiful children,

Wyatt -3

                                                                         Katelyn -1
I love how I chose pictures of them both looking sideways in different directions!  Totally on accident.  I am married, of course, for 6 years to a wonderful, caring husband who just asked if I wanted some of his Mt. Dew!  Sabatoger!! And, here we are...awwww!

I work full-time as a PET/CT technologist for Alliance Imaging, which is a mobile company.  Meaning, I work at a different hospital or clinic site everyday.  It definitely keeps me busy and driving a lot!  In my spare time, I enjoy baking, cooking, reading, knitting, crafting in general, and long walks on the beach-of course.  I'm looking forward to this competition and being able to get out all of my clothes I've been hoarding just knowing that some day soon I will fit in them again!

Let's hash this out!

Ok, as promised no weights will be shared on here.  Except mine.  I decided that since you all were brave and told me your weight, I feel that I need to be accountable for mine, too.  And here it is...214.5!  Yikes! Glad we're doing this!  I've seen this number on the scale twice before.  But, I had an excuse both times.  I was pregnant with Wyatt the first time and with Katelyn the 2nd time.  Unfortunately, I haven't been able to drop that second baby weight, hardly at all!  I thought breast feeding was supposed to help with that.  Not true for me!  As I mentioned before I'd like to lose 28 pounds, which would put me at my pre-baby weight-when I thought I was fat! HA!

So, I have received everyone's initial weigh-in!   We have 10 players instead of the 11 originally posted.  I don't believe my cousin, Missy, is playing.  (Although, I don't think it's too late yet if you still want to join!)  As a group, we weigh 1,804.1 pounds!  If we all hit our goals, we'll lose a total of 201 pounds!!!!  That's a whole person, people!!  We can do it!  I am so excited for this adventure!

Check back tomorrow to learn about a cool website that I use!!