Biggest Loser Update

I finally finished the episode of Biggest Loser last night.  And am THRILLED that 1/2 of the green team went home!  Here's rootin for the other have to go home!  The mom of the green team is ridiculous - I'm with Jillian about the whole 'don't cry' thing...I mean, if you need to cry a little, what's so wrong with that?!  I'm excited for the white team, that he lost 15 lbs - that is great for him - and he was in the top 3!  I still hate the Red team - they are surprisingly so good at the challenges though - the other teams need to step it up if they are going to beat them.  I'm glad to see that the woman put some effort in and lost some weight this week.  It irritates me that she would 'game' the show.  I know they are there to win the money, but c'mon - 2 weeks of no weight-loss?  Ridiculous.

So my favorites are: white team, brown team, and orange team.  I think I even threw out a "YES!" when Brown had a good weigh in.  The preview for next week looks FANTASTIC.  I can't wait.

Turkey time!

My baby has been eating solids for a little while now, we've gone through the yellow vegetables, green vegetables (peas and greenbeans), fruits, and are now on to meat!  She has done a GREAT job so far with everything, and of course LOVED her fruits.  I've never seen her little mouth so big when eating her bananas.  And the sugar rush afterwards.  She gets so she can hardly sit still in her high chair.  It's good fun.

So, last night, we opened up the jar of turkey with turkey gravy, which I looked at the ingredients and it actually only contains pureed turkey breast, water and corn starch...I guess one uses cornstarch to make gravy.  Beings that I never make gravy, that was news to me.   Anyways, I opened it up, warmed it up a little, and I took a little taste.  I figured, if she's going to eat it then I might as well try it out too.  Well, it was NAASSTTY.  Bleh.  Talk about the driest turkey breast you've ever had, with NO SALT and pureed.  Yeckkk.  So, little baby, thinking it was FRUIT, opens her sweet little mouth WIDE open, only to have the punch in the face that was the turkey.  HA!  She gave the BIGGEST shiver more than once, and gave us a big gag.  As a side note, we have hardly gotten ANY shivers from her since we've been feeding her food.  She has been a food superstar.  She may have given a little shiver when we first gave her pears...but that's it.  So Matt and I were LOVING all of these shivers and gags...made us giggle, all the while feeling pretty sorry for the sweetie pie.  She stopped trusting me though, and wouldn't open her mouth after a while, so we got out some yummy pears and some yummy cereal for her, reassured her that we wouldn't trick her anymore, and all was well.  We'll just keep trying...although as the hubby said, "it'll take us a month to get through a jar of turkey at this rate".  He he he.

Survivability

I'm working on something at work today that cracks me up.  How to survive:  Don't be killed.  No kidding?

Here I am starting week 4 of the Jenny Craig diet.  Weight update:  I've lost another 1.5 lbs this week!  I was worried that I wasn't going to lose anything this week - I weighed Sunday morning with my jammies still on, and there was 0 loss!  Talk about panic!  My jammies must weigh more than I think!  Ha ha!  I have to do another food order tonight - that's the bad part...is the $$ - I'm worth it though, right?  At least our Safeway bill has been less this past month.

I started watching Biggest Loser last night but haven't finished last night's episode yet.  All I can say is I hate the red team.  And I hate the green team.  The green team is SO negative, and the red team is SO conniving!  Ugh!  I don't have a favorite yet, but I'd really like to see what's left of the white team to go all the way - although the guy (I can't think of his name right now) is SO big, that he has to lose SO much weight to get good numbers.  He needs to though - 500 lbs is way too big.  Hopefully I can finish it up tonight on the treadmill.

Oh, and baby update:  we've been teaching my baby the sign for 'all done', and we think she was doing it last night!  I'd hand her off to my hubby, Matt, she'd give the 'all done' and want to come back to me!!  We're not entirely sure that she means 'all done', but we think it's hilarious!!  And it makes us BEAM and talk about how smart and gifted she is...but aren't they all??

Hello 130s...it's nice to see you again.

I watch the Biggest Loser on TV, and I have to say that I'm addicted - I love watching Jillian and Bob scream at the contestants, I am often reduced to tears hearing their stories...  It was on last night, if I can remember it, maybe I'll do a little review of episode after I watch it tonight.  Although it sometimes takes me more than one day to watch it - they're 2 hour episodes!  Anyhoo, last week, I was watching as I was walking on the treadmill, and was SHOCKED that some of the contestants can lose 26 pounds in 1 WEEK!  Granted - they are like 300 lbs, but STILL. And others are disappointed when they lose "only" 8.  Only 8...ugh!  I wish I would lose only 8 in one week.  I mean, granted, they are working out 5 days a week.  If only I had a personal trainer for 5 days a week, and the TIME to work out 5 days a week for 8 hours a day.  HA!  Anyhoo, as my title suggests, I have broken the barrier of the 130s, and am happy to report that I'm back in them!!!  Wee!!  Only down 1.5 lbs this week - so only 3.5 total, but I'm sitting happy at 138.5.   Yay!

Week 1 Progress

So the diet is going well, I got the food, after a slight delay, but it arrived, got it put away and got to work!  Well, not really, I started the next morning.  So far the diet has taught me to eat a lot of salad - it's filling and takes up a lot of space.  My weight difference from today and last Wednesday is...drum roll please...-2 pounds!  I'm thrilled! I hope it keeps going and keeps up, and it's not just all 'water weight' like they told me on the phone.  What is water weight anyways???