Still don't know who won, but she looks AMAZING. HOLY FAT CELLS, that dress is crazy hot. And her legs. And her ARMS!!!!! Wow. She looks killer!
(Didn't like the red dress much, hated the pink-n-black "bridesmaid monstrosity" dress...)
Um...okay, Great line-up of ladies who lost a big-big-big number of pounds....So happy to see a woman win the at-home challenge. Yes!
(Note: Olivia won. Two ladies win! Well, she's got a great dress for painting the town in celebration. And the moolah, too. ; ) And isn't that the THIRD woman to win who wore PINK shirts? Is that like the lucky color?)
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Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Thursday, April 7, 2011
QUOTE OF THE DAY: This "not Biggest Loser" Big Loser is RIGHT, so Listen Up!
"America, if there is one message that I want to send, it is that you do not need to be on The Biggest Loser to lose weight. All you have to do is believe in yourself, trust the process and take this journey one day at a time. Don't sit on the couch and watch the show anymore and watch us change our lives. Get up and do something for you. You can do it too."
--Courtney Crozier, eliminated TBL Contestanthat tip to A Daily Dose of Dieting
Thursday, November 25, 2010
Wired from Sudafed, Some Assorted Thoughts on the Biggest Loser Show With Past Contestants/Winners, thoughts on losing and regaining, and on Thanksgiving....
Man, it's 4:40 AM here in Miami and I am not at all sleepy. I finally caved and took Sudafed today, two doses, one mid-afternoon, one at 11 PM. My respiratory passages are clearer, for sure, but I'm not getting Zzzzzzs.
I watched the reunion Biggest Loser show. Hubby watched part with me and said, "Seems like the ones who keep it off are the ones who make diet/exercise a mission, either with charity work or have endorsements that motivate them to stay thinner." Yep. Looks that way. There seems to be something in the ones who manage to mostly maintain that keeps the exercise-diet fire going in their bellies in the months and years after leaving the TBL ranch.
It was a bit disheartening, a bit "yeah, expected it", a bit scary, a bit sad to see the winners of seasons past (except for Michelle A, and wonder why she didn't show up) file in. The heaviest being the one who won the first season, Ryan, who is back up to about 300 lbs. Then Matt Hoover, he's looking quite porky again, though nowhere as big as his first days on the show. And so forth. The most recent losers were the slimmest. Ali Vincent has made a career of fitness post TBL, so I don't understand why she was wearing that ungainly, loose outfit that made her look bigger than she is.
I wonder if the more recent winners were looking at the first two winners and thinking, "Oh-oh, I do not want that to happen to me!"
But the truth is, very few, very very very very very few weight LOSERS become weight loss MAINTAINERS. Regain is a huge, huge issue. Whether it's diet. Whether it's gastric bypass. Whether it's lap band. Whether it's VLCD or Clean Diet or Atkins or South Beach or Weight Watchers or eDiets...regain is far far far more common than maintain. I've seen varying figures, but none are encouraging. Maybe 5 percent keep it off. Some say 2%. I don't know who's right, but saying the 95% who lose then go on to regain is depressing as shit.
I have been following the blog of a person who inspired me, a person who lost more than 100 lbs and looked faboo. That person is way off the wagon now and though weigh-ins are no longer updated, there has already been some recorded regain. It hurts to see it. Hurts cause, well, it could be a snapshot of any of us in the future. Lose....to regain.
Ryan. Matt. Suzy. Erik......you...me? Could we become Big Losers who turn into Big Regainers? The stats say yes.
Which is why I read books NOW on how to maintain. May seem nuts, but I bought two of them, and I read them along with diet cookbooks, diet motivational books, scientific books on causes and treatments of overeating and so forth. I want to look ahead with hope. I want to be one of the 2 or 5 percent who keep it off. So I read about those who maintain and how they do it.
Guess what. It's as hard as losing. In some ways harder, in some easier, but it's still hard. It still requires vigilance and discipline and not caving and not giving up.
Some of you are thinking, "Well, first I gotta lose it. It's a moot point if it's not gone first. Then worry about maintenance."
I don't think so. I think that understanding that the struggle never ends, that there isn't a skinny rainbow waiting with a pot of "always thin" gold and a fairy godmother to boink our disordered eating and cravings away with her wand. Not gonna happen. Some people do have a major switch flipped and lose and never regain and just do it and we marvel. They are not the majority.
For anyone thinking losing it is the battle, I think the TBL reunion show is a wake-up call. No. It's gonna still be hard. This does not end. Which is why Allan's challenges encouraging us to eat at goal weight caloric level are a great help. It shows us what must be, what MUST be, like it or not.
So, this Thanksgiving, I'm not pigging out. And if I do--no, I'm just not gonna. I choose not to. Well, if I make it to the dinner, given I can't sleep and am ill.
I am thankful that I am able to learn new habits and that I have this opportunity. I'm thankful that I can hope to be in the golden minority. I choose to have faith, because if we don't believe we CAN do it, then we won't. So, even if it's blind faith, faith against the numbers, faith against the stark reality, I choose to believe it's possible and I can do it.
I choose to focus on the fact that some folks on TBL kept it off and stayed alert and on top of their eating. Some succeed. SOME MAKE IT. Let's learn from the ones who do it year in and year out. They have something to teach us about discipline, changed habits, and sacrifice.
And that the grind never ends, so find a passion for it.
Be thankful for food, but be thankful for the ability not to have too much of it, not even on holidays.
Blessings on you all this Thanksgiving. God has been gracious and good to this country that brims with so much that is positive even in an economic downturn and time of war. Remember to thank Him for all the blessings on your table, in your heart and mind, around you in your loved ones, and out there in this cosmos. Pray for those who are less blessed.
If you have pretty good health, if you can normally breathe freely or walk unhindered or see and hear without impediment, be thankful. If you have a solid roof over your head and someone in your life who gives a damn about you, be thankful. If you have a job, be thankful. If you have people to help you if you do NOT have a job, be thankful. If you could afford a ham or turkey or tofurkey or whatever it is that is your piece de resistance, be thankful.
Thank you, Lord, for your graces and mercies and blessings.
Gracias....te doy gracias, mi Dios...
I watched the reunion Biggest Loser show. Hubby watched part with me and said, "Seems like the ones who keep it off are the ones who make diet/exercise a mission, either with charity work or have endorsements that motivate them to stay thinner." Yep. Looks that way. There seems to be something in the ones who manage to mostly maintain that keeps the exercise-diet fire going in their bellies in the months and years after leaving the TBL ranch.
It was a bit disheartening, a bit "yeah, expected it", a bit scary, a bit sad to see the winners of seasons past (except for Michelle A, and wonder why she didn't show up) file in. The heaviest being the one who won the first season, Ryan, who is back up to about 300 lbs. Then Matt Hoover, he's looking quite porky again, though nowhere as big as his first days on the show. And so forth. The most recent losers were the slimmest. Ali Vincent has made a career of fitness post TBL, so I don't understand why she was wearing that ungainly, loose outfit that made her look bigger than she is.
I wonder if the more recent winners were looking at the first two winners and thinking, "Oh-oh, I do not want that to happen to me!"
But the truth is, very few, very very very very very few weight LOSERS become weight loss MAINTAINERS. Regain is a huge, huge issue. Whether it's diet. Whether it's gastric bypass. Whether it's lap band. Whether it's VLCD or Clean Diet or Atkins or South Beach or Weight Watchers or eDiets...regain is far far far more common than maintain. I've seen varying figures, but none are encouraging. Maybe 5 percent keep it off. Some say 2%. I don't know who's right, but saying the 95% who lose then go on to regain is depressing as shit.
I have been following the blog of a person who inspired me, a person who lost more than 100 lbs and looked faboo. That person is way off the wagon now and though weigh-ins are no longer updated, there has already been some recorded regain. It hurts to see it. Hurts cause, well, it could be a snapshot of any of us in the future. Lose....to regain.
Ryan. Matt. Suzy. Erik......you...me? Could we become Big Losers who turn into Big Regainers? The stats say yes.
Which is why I read books NOW on how to maintain. May seem nuts, but I bought two of them, and I read them along with diet cookbooks, diet motivational books, scientific books on causes and treatments of overeating and so forth. I want to look ahead with hope. I want to be one of the 2 or 5 percent who keep it off. So I read about those who maintain and how they do it.
Guess what. It's as hard as losing. In some ways harder, in some easier, but it's still hard. It still requires vigilance and discipline and not caving and not giving up.
Some of you are thinking, "Well, first I gotta lose it. It's a moot point if it's not gone first. Then worry about maintenance."
I don't think so. I think that understanding that the struggle never ends, that there isn't a skinny rainbow waiting with a pot of "always thin" gold and a fairy godmother to boink our disordered eating and cravings away with her wand. Not gonna happen. Some people do have a major switch flipped and lose and never regain and just do it and we marvel. They are not the majority.
For anyone thinking losing it is the battle, I think the TBL reunion show is a wake-up call. No. It's gonna still be hard. This does not end. Which is why Allan's challenges encouraging us to eat at goal weight caloric level are a great help. It shows us what must be, what MUST be, like it or not.
So, this Thanksgiving, I'm not pigging out. And if I do--no, I'm just not gonna. I choose not to. Well, if I make it to the dinner, given I can't sleep and am ill.
I am thankful that I am able to learn new habits and that I have this opportunity. I'm thankful that I can hope to be in the golden minority. I choose to have faith, because if we don't believe we CAN do it, then we won't. So, even if it's blind faith, faith against the numbers, faith against the stark reality, I choose to believe it's possible and I can do it.
I choose to focus on the fact that some folks on TBL kept it off and stayed alert and on top of their eating. Some succeed. SOME MAKE IT. Let's learn from the ones who do it year in and year out. They have something to teach us about discipline, changed habits, and sacrifice.
And that the grind never ends, so find a passion for it.
Be thankful for food, but be thankful for the ability not to have too much of it, not even on holidays.
Blessings on you all this Thanksgiving. God has been gracious and good to this country that brims with so much that is positive even in an economic downturn and time of war. Remember to thank Him for all the blessings on your table, in your heart and mind, around you in your loved ones, and out there in this cosmos. Pray for those who are less blessed.
If you have pretty good health, if you can normally breathe freely or walk unhindered or see and hear without impediment, be thankful. If you have a solid roof over your head and someone in your life who gives a damn about you, be thankful. If you have a job, be thankful. If you have people to help you if you do NOT have a job, be thankful. If you could afford a ham or turkey or tofurkey or whatever it is that is your piece de resistance, be thankful.
Thank you, Lord, for your graces and mercies and blessings.
Gracias....te doy gracias, mi Dios...
Friday, September 10, 2010
Face The Truth Fridays: Met Loss Goal, Didn't Meet Activity or Intrinsic Motivation Goals, Hubby noticed shrinkage, and Thoughts after watching THINTERVENTION...
724 days to go...
FACE THE TRUTH FRIDAYS: First Friday
Oh, sorry for not posting for a couple of days. Had a family event Wednesday (brother's post-surgical recovery, sister's "real" birthday day, family visitation) and just felt so hot and miserable Thursday after Pilates (got a heat rash again). I'm not handling heat well since the start of perimenopause and in-menopause. Not at all. I had to get a steroid shot and prescription steroid cream mid-summer, and now as summer is waning (but the heat and humidity is still daunting for my heat-intolerant body), I can only peer into the cooler-weather horizon with great longing.
Okay, FACING UP TO IT:
The scale says; 256.6
For a roller-coaster week (two bad eating days, both when I got together with family, too) and a week with only ONE day of exercise, well, I should just say, THANK GOD I LOST!
Start Weight: 258
Goal Loss: 1 pound
Since I intend to stay goal-oriented, I plan to weigh-in on Fridays and see if I met the goal(s) or not.
I had a goal of 3x a week exercise. I only did one. (Canceled Pilates on Monday as studio was closed for holiday, didn't do anything at home. Nada.)
I have not worked on my intrinsic motivation--well, scratch that, as I did work on it ONE day this past week. Pfft. I need to make sure I set time out every day to work on this, because I need not just to control snacking and plan meals, but to MOVE MOVE MOVE.
Okay, been making some solid choices for dinners. I usually binged at nighttime, and making lower carb dinner choices, or a combo of high-fiber with carbs, has kept me feeling less binge-y in the evenings. I do my WonderSlim puddings or shakes if I get a nosh-need while watching PrimeTime tv. No sugar to make me go into a snack frenzy. So far. Yay.
One nice motivator is that after hubby got home last night, I was taking off my workout top and was walking away in my Danskin bootleg workout pants and my bra, and hubby ways, "Oh, I can really tell you're losing weight. Your middle is smaller." Heh.
Anyone watched THINTERVENTION?
I like Jackie Warner. Well, the JW I saw on episode 1 of THINTERVENTION.
She kind of looks mannish--I don't wanna be that Amazonishly muscled and hipless--but I like how she talks to her clients and how she says stuff to them as they exercise in a very controlled, but emphatic manner. She's not annoying me the way Jillian Michaels does (on TBL she got on my nerve!) I like her a lot better than Bob (who started off as the softie then got super-annoying, too, so I had to stop watching TBL.)
Now, I don't know if Jackie will wear well-I saw a passing remark about her being a b***h, but didn't read the article-- but I just find her really likable in the series debut: serious, tough, even-tempered, not freakishly emotional/nasty/camera-playing/etc. I know she had a previous reality show (didn't watch it, don't know if she's a raging maniac in her personal life), but I dig her as a trainer.
And I like how she told the mommy in the show that you don't show love to your kids by setting them up for obesity, too, with chocolate and candy and junk. JW QUOTE: "If you want to give them love, you give them berries, you give them apples."
Yes. Let's stop getting kids used to junk. We are all to used to using sugary things as ways of showing love or giving rewards. Not such a great idea to connect love emotionally with unhealthful foods.
Let's get them used to reaching for a wedge of cheese, a tbsp of peanut butter on an apple, some high fiber crackers with no-sugar added preserves, some oatmeal with berries some no-sugar added yogurt and nuts. Let's stop poisoning the livers of the little ones.
Okay, nuff sermonizing about kids and junk. :)
Watching the show made me think having someone do the whole shebang--come to your house, tell you where the traps are, assists you in choosing more wisely, then tells you what you need to do exercise-wise, is a basic, good first step--and every fricken health plan should REQUIRE THIS for it's obese (or overweight) clients, even if it's a prerequisite FOR STAYING on the health plan to schedule and accomplish this, even if it requires a copay. (Yeah, I'm a tyrant now, sorry, but if that's what it takes to motivate us, so be it. People sometimes just won't do things, even basic health things, unless carrot-stick methods come into play.)
A home visit a fridge/pantry check, a discussion of good foods and meals according to preferences and medical issues, and ONE introduction to exercise session with a personal trainer. Just one day to do all that would probably do a lot to set people into a better mindset. I suspect many people out there just don't know WHERE TO START soundly, at home or at the gym. (Gyms can be hellaciously intimidating to us fatties.)
I think for health plans to pay for one day with a trainer/nutritionist to do this would probably pave the way to reducing health costs. Maybe a follow-up visit with both. After that introductory set of lessons, send the patients to a website to log intake, exercise, ask questions. Probably charge a minimal amount to let clients do this.
Maybe that's pie in the sky, and I realize it's ultimately up to people--ie ME, YOU--to want to change and follow-through. But still, I really suspect people need a professional nudge in both directions--diet and exercise.
Maybe add a consultation with a behavioral therapist to get some tips, materials.
We have an obesity epidemic. It's past time to really take action and require action be taken.
Okay, so there it is. I met the loss goal. Didn't meet activity and motivation goals. Got a hubby acknowledgement of changing body. And found a weight loss show to check out weekly.
FACE THE TRUTH FRIDAYS: First Friday
Oh, sorry for not posting for a couple of days. Had a family event Wednesday (brother's post-surgical recovery, sister's "real" birthday day, family visitation) and just felt so hot and miserable Thursday after Pilates (got a heat rash again). I'm not handling heat well since the start of perimenopause and in-menopause. Not at all. I had to get a steroid shot and prescription steroid cream mid-summer, and now as summer is waning (but the heat and humidity is still daunting for my heat-intolerant body), I can only peer into the cooler-weather horizon with great longing.
The scale says; 256.6
For a roller-coaster week (two bad eating days, both when I got together with family, too) and a week with only ONE day of exercise, well, I should just say, THANK GOD I LOST!
Start Weight: 258
Goal Loss: 1 pound
Week's Loss: 1.4 lbs
Goal Met
Since I intend to stay goal-oriented, I plan to weigh-in on Fridays and see if I met the goal(s) or not.
I had a goal of 3x a week exercise. I only did one. (Canceled Pilates on Monday as studio was closed for holiday, didn't do anything at home. Nada.)
I have not worked on my intrinsic motivation--well, scratch that, as I did work on it ONE day this past week. Pfft. I need to make sure I set time out every day to work on this, because I need not just to control snacking and plan meals, but to MOVE MOVE MOVE.
Okay, been making some solid choices for dinners. I usually binged at nighttime, and making lower carb dinner choices, or a combo of high-fiber with carbs, has kept me feeling less binge-y in the evenings. I do my WonderSlim puddings or shakes if I get a nosh-need while watching PrimeTime tv. No sugar to make me go into a snack frenzy. So far. Yay.
One nice motivator is that after hubby got home last night, I was taking off my workout top and was walking away in my Danskin bootleg workout pants and my bra, and hubby ways, "Oh, I can really tell you're losing weight. Your middle is smaller." Heh.
Anyone watched THINTERVENTION?
I like Jackie Warner. Well, the JW I saw on episode 1 of THINTERVENTION.
She kind of looks mannish--I don't wanna be that Amazonishly muscled and hipless--but I like how she talks to her clients and how she says stuff to them as they exercise in a very controlled, but emphatic manner. She's not annoying me the way Jillian Michaels does (on TBL she got on my nerve!) I like her a lot better than Bob (who started off as the softie then got super-annoying, too, so I had to stop watching TBL.)
Now, I don't know if Jackie will wear well-I saw a passing remark about her being a b***h, but didn't read the article-- but I just find her really likable in the series debut: serious, tough, even-tempered, not freakishly emotional/nasty/camera-playing/etc. I know she had a previous reality show (didn't watch it, don't know if she's a raging maniac in her personal life), but I dig her as a trainer.
Jackie Quote: "The number one thing working against you is your MIND, so overcome it!"
And I like how she told the mommy in the show that you don't show love to your kids by setting them up for obesity, too, with chocolate and candy and junk. JW QUOTE: "If you want to give them love, you give them berries, you give them apples."
Yes. Let's stop getting kids used to junk. We are all to used to using sugary things as ways of showing love or giving rewards. Not such a great idea to connect love emotionally with unhealthful foods.
Let's get them used to reaching for a wedge of cheese, a tbsp of peanut butter on an apple, some high fiber crackers with no-sugar added preserves, some oatmeal with berries some no-sugar added yogurt and nuts. Let's stop poisoning the livers of the little ones.
Okay, nuff sermonizing about kids and junk. :)
Watching the show made me think having someone do the whole shebang--come to your house, tell you where the traps are, assists you in choosing more wisely, then tells you what you need to do exercise-wise, is a basic, good first step--and every fricken health plan should REQUIRE THIS for it's obese (or overweight) clients, even if it's a prerequisite FOR STAYING on the health plan to schedule and accomplish this, even if it requires a copay. (Yeah, I'm a tyrant now, sorry, but if that's what it takes to motivate us, so be it. People sometimes just won't do things, even basic health things, unless carrot-stick methods come into play.)
A home visit a fridge/pantry check, a discussion of good foods and meals according to preferences and medical issues, and ONE introduction to exercise session with a personal trainer. Just one day to do all that would probably do a lot to set people into a better mindset. I suspect many people out there just don't know WHERE TO START soundly, at home or at the gym. (Gyms can be hellaciously intimidating to us fatties.)
I think for health plans to pay for one day with a trainer/nutritionist to do this would probably pave the way to reducing health costs. Maybe a follow-up visit with both. After that introductory set of lessons, send the patients to a website to log intake, exercise, ask questions. Probably charge a minimal amount to let clients do this.
Maybe that's pie in the sky, and I realize it's ultimately up to people--ie ME, YOU--to want to change and follow-through. But still, I really suspect people need a professional nudge in both directions--diet and exercise.
Maybe add a consultation with a behavioral therapist to get some tips, materials.
We have an obesity epidemic. It's past time to really take action and require action be taken.
Okay, so there it is. I met the loss goal. Didn't meet activity and motivation goals. Got a hubby acknowledgement of changing body. And found a weight loss show to check out weekly.
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