Well it's the ending of week four, and after doing my Biggest Loser Couple team check in call to Deb yesterday in which we debated whether or our appearances outside was matching our fabulous new healthy feeling inside, I starting looking at our past pictures.

 

Again, my breath was taken straight out of my chest when I viewed what I am now calling the "Evolution of the New Deb and Kim"

 

 

 

 

         Week 1                              Week 2                             Week 3                                      Week 4 (in pants that didn't fit a year ago!! Way to go!)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I was astonished this evening after finally getting my computer back up to the point where I could start doing things etc. I was transferring all of my pictures from my extra drive to the computer when I didn't recognize this one shall we say "fluffy" chick staring back at me. I was speechless while staring face to face with this chinless wonder, and immediately asked my fiance to take a picture of my face today.

 

I'm half the Kim I used to be!! (Insert cheesy music here)

 

 

I hope all of the audience members can see the fact that I have now noticed that today I have a jawline and an actual chin!!! Also, the luggage bags of darkness that used to call my inflated face home have now been misrouted to some distant country. In general I think I  look a lot happier and healthier.

 

Well only if happier is discounting that whole having to post embarrasing pictures of yourself without make up online thing..

 

I worked out tonight for two hours at the local health club, and honestly thought I was going to die on the eliptical machine tonight. I have made a copy of these two photos together so the next time I go I can tape them in front of the time left indicator on that dreaded machine in order to keep me from trying to talk myself into getting off of it earlier than I had planned.

 

I mean if realizing that I have a chin now doesn't do it for me, then I'm just screwed.

 

I don't know what else to say..........the chin stands alone.

 

 

 

 

 

I'm afraid I may have to quit my job.....

 

No it's not my boss, or the people I work with, rather I fear I have become annoyed by the new scent of perfume that drifts into my office everday.

 

"Eau de Krispy Kreme"

 

That's right I work right next to the Krispy Kreme Donut Plant here in Nashville, I'm serious look!

 

 

I'm actually thinking about writing a letter to their corporate offices asking them to relocate this plant due to my most important diet goal.

 

Who am I kidding, they probably dress in donuts suits,drink donut coffee, and request that their lunch time hamburgers be served between two glazed donuts instead of buns.

 

Note: I only learned that this kind of "burger" is eaten by employees, by an employee from the Nashville plant. Top Secret recipe of something!

 

So,  every morning when I pull into the parking lot we share with them I am keen to notice that their dock doors are always open and anyone can peer easily inside to see thousands of those delicious goodies getting load on a truck in order to make their way to the finer gas stations across this great state of Tennessee. I have also honed my blood hound like sniffing sense to figure out that on Fridays they must make more raspberry filled donuts then anything else due to the sweet smell of jam and flour in the air.

 

That's where I get so mad at them, my favorite used to be the raspberry kind..........

 

I originally thought this may only be a problem in the mornings....but oh was I wrong!! You see this is a 24-7 non-stop donut making facility here, and it is even worse in the afternoon when our warehouse fills with the sticky sweet aroma of what I am now calling "funnel cake" for the next eight hours.

 

At this point, because funnel cake is my second favorite thing ever, I'm beginning to think that since the computer virus didn't shut our progress down, our competition has now turned to local options in order to throw me off the track.

 

Well, I will have everyone know that even though their secret Krispy Kreme employee spys brought over some 30 or so donuts last week, I used my super powers to resist each and every single one!

 

The bad part was, I subsequently had a nightmare that I ate every single one of them that same night. I woke up in a sweat checking for sprinkle residue!

 

I have decided to buy swimmers nose plugs in order to help at certain times during the day, everyone at work thinks I'm crazy, but I think I'm looking pretty good without powdered sugar on my hands!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So Kim has been getting all sorts of email asking....."What is going on with you two, I'm suffering from the fact that your blog hasn't been updated..."

 

Two things:

 

1.) We're sorry about that!

 

2.)Murphy came to visit.

 

Ok, I know your all saying "Who is this murphy guy, and why has he kept you from posting those hilarious pictures?"

 

Well here are all the answers to your questions.......

 

Murphy is "murphy's law" you know that whole when it could go wrong it does go wrong kind of thing. Murphy moved into my house or should I say computer in the form of a very nasty virus coming from an email from a fellow biggest loser couple. With that being said I can only explain that virus away with one theory.

 

"We're making the competition nervous!"

 

I'm talking about nasty here. Had I not been the kind of tech savy gal, I would have lost everything related to this challenge and I believe that could have been a road block that we couldn't over come. On the other hand, I am that tech savy to know to always back up everything that is important to you so to our fellow competitors out there.....

 

I can only say you have motivated us more!!!

 

I have posted our week three and four pictures now, and hopefully by tomorrow all of the tech issues will be resolved which will allow me to post some more hilarious pictures....so stand by, we are only having a few technical difficulties.

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

There was much excitement on the Biggest Loser Scale this week at our team weigh in because...........

 

 

 

 

 

It wasn't easy though! As the new "Sheriff of Treadmill Town" she enforced the law almost everyday this week, and can't help but feeling better than she ever has. Clothes that didn't fit just a week ago, now went on with ease. Even the temptation of having more than one package of her new favorite 100 Calorie pack cheese puffs couldn't keep here down! Now her new challenge is to step up her work out and keep from getting "comfortable" in her routine. Way to go!!

 

Look out all you other challengers out there. Deb might be taking over more than Treadmill Town sooner than later....

 

Stay tuned for updates!

 

 

 

Deb had an experience unlike any other she had before this past Tuesday night.....

 

She was chained to a Treadmill.

 

No Jillian wasn't in Lexington giving Deb a mean last chance workout, rather Deb hit the gym at the exact time that the Biggest Loser Week 2 show began to air.

 

The only way she could hear what was going on the show was to keep her earplugs in their upright and locked position, which just happened to be attached to the most notorious treadmill at the Lexington Athletic Club. Not many people ever get on that treadmill for more than a couple of minutes, and ever return to tell their story!

 

More seriously, how was Deb ever going to justify getting off the darn thing when Biggest Loser was on...you can't miss a minute of the inspiration!

 

After an hour of sweating to the show, Deb got off the treadmill feeling amazing. There was never a time that she could remember where she actually worked out for an hour like that. In fact like most of the people on the show she never thought she could....now feeling empowered she realized:

 

There is a new sheriff in Treadmill Town!

 

As for weighing in, still no loss but on the other hand there was no gain. Seems like week two is always notorious for putting up low numbers for the contestants and the viewers. However, the air is now thick with motivation after Deb's power hour, and hopefully it will show itself on the scale next week!

 

So all you new workout sheriff's out there should make it a point this week to walk up to a piece of excercise equipment you have never tried before or thought you have mastered in the past and ask it one question:

 

"Are you feeling lucky, Punk?"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I'm speechless.....seriously.

 

Now I know I felt lighter all this week as I worked out with Bob, took long hikes, ate a whole lot better etc. However, I managed to wait in order to weigh myself until the beginning of this weeks Biggest Loser show. At first it was a moment of dread, but all of a sudden I felt like screaming....

 

Holy Loss of 10 pounds Batman!!!!

 

I felt like I had won the lottery! I waited anxiously by phone so I could personally talk to the producers of the Today Show. I was so sure that when they got wind of this breaking news story, they would have no choice but to have to interview me.

 

Sadly Matt Lauer never gave me a ring, but it has kept me motivated!!! Which brings me to my next subject.

 

Chinese Food is the Devil.

 

Now I had been eating really well all of last week last with minor distractions. I have become an expert of paying attention to all the important areas on nutrition labels etc. However last night I almost got side tracked by a visit with my fiancée to what we like to call our friendly neighborhood "cheap chinese" place we used to visit a couple of times a week.

 

We strolled into a wonderful aroma of egg rolls, fried rice, mooshu everything you could imagine, and various other temptations. I began to look around for the television cameras that may expose the whole eating episode I had concocted in my head as we drove to the restaurant.

 

Something shocked me though as I realized I had newly acquired this new super power of being able to resist aromas in a single bound. As I came out of the Egg Roll haze I took a couple of very long seconds to look at all the people sitting in the restaurant.

 

It hit me like a ton of bricks as I realized that everyone in this restaurant eating or waiting for take out food was overweight by some means.

 

In my past life my eyes would have never come off the number 5 combo with extra egg roll, Chinese donuts, and of course the fortune cookies that

I always wanted four or five of.

 

My only mission now was to make this a "healthier" visit for me. I chose a vegetable dish with light sauce and one egg roll. Sure, it was not the greatest thing, but I began to remember that after this challenge is finished I may be put in situations like this from time to time. As I imagined future trips out to eat with friends and family, a voice in my head shouted I should teach myself how to deal with these events now.

 

I was also surprised to find out that I was so full after only a couple of bites, "Old Kim" would have wanted more. I didn't take the rest home; I just enjoyed what I could have there. All in all it was a positive experience.  I didn't even want the fortune cookie!

 

Kim 1........Chinese Food Devil 0

 

 

 

And now for our Quote of the Day:

 

"Brick walls are there for a reason: they let us know how badly we want things."

- Dr. Randy Pausch

 

If regular life were a t.v. show, today Deb and Kim would be the next contestants on American Gladiators! Here are their accounts of todays workout adventures!!

 

 

 I did a stupid thing today...I weighed myself!  I weighed a pound more than yesterday and I was so disappointed.  I know it has only been one day since we started our diet, but after such a good workout yesterday somehow I figured I lost about 5#. 

 

I went to the grocery store after church and stocked up on all kinds of healthy food in order to keep me going full speed ahead with the challenge.  Then I drove to the health club to have yet another motivating work out.  On the way my blood sugar dropped and I got all jittery and sweaty, so I had to sit in the parking lot of the gym and dig through my groceries to find something to eat.  I ate turkey and rice cakes and gatorade until I felt better.  Then I worked out for about 30 min.  Now I feel fine, but I see what a challange this is going to be.  I'm ready!!

 

When I got home I checked out Jillian's website to see what my plan was for today...... 

 

I was supposed to rest today.  Oh, well.

 

P.S. to all  our challenger buddies out there......Don't weigh yourself early!!!!

 

 

 

I am a woman possessed.

 

I would have to be in order to have worked out as much as I did today. We're not talking small potatoes here.....More like the whole state of Idaho!

 

Let's recap here by starting with this morning. I felt an incredbile urge to eat three peanut butter and apricot jelly sandwiches. Just as I was about to sit down with Peter Pan and Mr. Smuckers I had a moment of shear strength where I realized if I didn't work out now.....I might not work out at all.

 

So I decided to trade Pan and Smuckers for Bob and Jillian:

 

Now I have been using the new Biggest Loser DVDs to keep me pumped for this challenge, and so far so good. However I will admit that I took Bob up on his offer to punch him while I busted a move to his Cardio Max week 1 routine. Jillian followed with Power Sculpt, and I just can't imagine how any of those moves made me sweat the waterfall that soon followed.

 

After that power hour, you'd think I had already put myself through enough torture, but I was strangely motivated to do more...

 

So I did and hour of ballet today.....and I know what your thinking. A 6ft chubby ballerina!?!? Yeah right....

I assure you that my living room performance recieved a standing ovation by my two English audience members....bulldogs that is. (smile)

 

Ok, so now your sitting there thinking that I should have passed out by now...but just a few hours later my fiance suggested a hike near the lake.

He didn't mention it was 5.5 Miles!!!!

 

I had to keep imagining Bob walking next to me saying " You're almost there, keep moving."

It was a real shame that his offer to punch him was off the table.......but I still love ya Bob!

 

On the way home I no longer wanted all that peanut butter, so I settled for my new healty favorite smoothie instead.

So Icy so cold...unlike the gallon of Icy Hot I'm going to use tomorrow just to make it through the day!

 

So who knows what I might be possessed to do tomorrow, but I hope I will get lucky enough to accidently get a massage.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here is our team quote for the day!!

"Fitness - If it came in a bottle, everybody would have a great body."
- Cher

 

Deb:

 

I went to the gym today and did 30 min of cardio and 10 min of weights. I left feeling that "runner's high"...it was grey and rainy outside but I didn't care. It feels great to finally get started on the Million Pound Match Up!! I can't wait to see the results!

 

Kim:

 

Great Job Mom! I did 20 minutes of BL Cardio Max, and 20 minutes of BL Power Sculpt. I too got the "runner's high!!! Watch out L.A. here we come!!

 

 

That's it, we have had enough...........

 

Although fabulous as we know we already are, we are sick of being fat and tired. We're finally realizing that we have broken through the obstacles in our former lives, loves, and tribulations. Let's put it into four short words.

 

We're ready to rock.

 

That's where the Biggest Loser Million Pound Match Up came crashing into our lives.

 

This challenge is so perfect for us! Even though we live hours away from each other it just seemed natural that this mother and daughter team would be the one to conquer this ultimate challenge, end up healthy, and stay healthy for the rest of our lives.

 

I know some of you skeptical people out there are thinking we're a little crazy....we're not afraid to admit that as well. (smile)

 

The truth is that it's not going to be easy, we are going to sweat, get cravings, maybe slip here and there, and support each other to jump if not catapult ourselves right back onto the wagon. There is electricity in the air for us regarding this challenge, and who knows you might just see us in L.A. at the Biggest Loser Finale! 

 

How Kim is going to become the Biggest Loser in Nashville, TN:

 

With the undying support of Deb (Mom and Partner for this challenge) Kim is going to commit to a healthier eating pattern and lifestyle. She has good reason to! Not only to be healthy for the rest of her life, but she has a wedding dress to squeeze into for her big day this February!! Kim's Plan is going to consist of the following:

 

-Watch Biggest Loser and Weigh In every Tuesday with the Cast then take a picture to post here to show progress!

-Workout 6 days a week with the new Biggest Loser DVD's Cardio and Sculpt (P.S. These DVD's Rock here world already)

-Pay attention to portion control and eliminate Mochachoco latta whatevers and "Pastry Friday at Work" from her diet.

-Turn to Deb for her undying support when she feels the proverbial "weight loss wagon" wheels starting to loose when faced with cravings etc.

-Learn how to cook healthier so after the challenge is done, maintenance won't be a problem!

 

How Deb is going become the Biggest Loser in Lexington, KY:

 

-Watch Biggest Loser and Weigh In every Tuesday with the Cast then take a picture and send to Kim so you can see her progress here!

-Workout as much as she can by going to the gym, walking, and whatever creative ways she can think of.

-Pay attention to portion control and eliminate the things she knows will slow her down from achieving her goals.

-Turn to Kim for her undying support when she feels the proverbial "weight loss wagon" wheels starting to loose when faced with cravings etc.

-Learn how to cook healthier so after the challenge is done, maintenance won't be a problem!

 

Stay tuned to amazed! Our results are going to shock the pounds right off you!

 

Check out our "We never going back to this" Photos taken for Day 1 of the Challenge.

 

You will never see those ladies again!