Wednesday Weigh In Number 7

Happy New Year!!

Here we are, standing at the precipice of the day which more than eight zillion people will make a resolution to lose weight (the number eight zillion based on crack Wikipedia research). We will make promises to ourselves, to our families and our friends – this year will be different!

Yes, this year will be different for those of us here at Blog To Fit!

We won’t be among the 7.99 zillion who retract our vows. We’ve got a plan in place. We’ve got a head start on our brethren.  We’ve got a support network, our in some cases, several in place. There are no more excuses.

This is the year!

Here’s an update on our Blog To Fitters and how they did in the last week of 2008, with at least one of them (we won’t call anyone out, cough – David Wright - cough, slipping off the wagon big time last week) and at least two of them posting weight gains!

Tara Cain

I am not weighing myself today. Ok, Ok, top throwing cabbages and rotten tomatoes at me. I KNOW!

I need to start 2009 on a positive note and I know that if I weigh myself I will get all depressed and curl up in a ball and rock myself gently in a corner. Then I’ll eat. And that’s a slipperly slope I don’t want to get on.
I’m having one of those days where I am hating myself and feel all bleugh and need to regroup. I feel that I have failed myself and my self esteem is through the floor.

I know I’m copping out, but I am determined to succeed in the New Year and this is my way of doing it.
I need a couple of days to recover and then I promise I will weigh in and stop being such a wuss.

And you may even get some photos of me in the 2009 (although they will NEVER be in a similar vein to Dave F’s).

Let’s all make 2009 our year. Let’s all really get behind each other and hold hands across that finish line.
Let’s not make empty fitness/weight loss resolutions. Let’s just promise to change our lives for the better and resolve to take those baby steps and suceed.

David Fowler

What a blast! I’ve spent the whole week entertaining family and friends – in a social setting, rather than with a bright orange wig a red nose and a button hole flower that sprays water.

With good company, great food and cheep booze I took a relaxed approach to my diet and fitness…. and it paid off! I’ve been handsomely rewarded with a gain of nearly 2lbs and a quarter inch gain round my middle.Woo Hoooo!

I’m not the slightest bit concerned though. That’s right… I’m going to brazen it out.

The increase in weight was wholly expected. I mean, I ate more and exercised less. What the hell, it was Christmas after all!

With the New Year bearing down upon me in a semi-oppressive kind of way, I’m getting back to the eating plan and I’ll resume running just as soon as I can get rid of this damned lingering cold.

I survived with minimal damage. Yay!

The stats: David Fowler

Starting weight Wed. Nov.19: 200 lbs.
Goal weight 173 lbs.

Format: Start / Last Week / This Week

• Weight: 200 / 196.3 / 198
• Amount lost this week: GAINED 1.7 lbs
• Hips: 40 / 39.75 / 39.75
• Waist: 38.5 / 38.25 / 38.25
• Belly: 40.25 / 39.75 / 40
• Chest: 41.5 / 41 / 41

(Weight is in lbs and measurements in inches)

David Wright

Well, since I missed last week’s weigh-in, I stumbled, pigged out and am paying the consequences. I gained weight! What a way to end the year, eh?

Fortunately, my health-related mindset is better as we go into 2009 and I’ve got some new foods to try in the month of January (yeah, I pushed it to January what with all the pigging out). So, here’s to a fitter 2009!

The stats: David Wright

• Starting weight Wed. Nov.19: 350 lbs.
• Goal weight: 250 lbs.
• Weight two weeks ago: 345 lbs.
• Weight today: 347 lbs.
• Amount GAINED this week: 2 lbs.

So, how will this year be different for your fitness goals? What will you do differently than last year?

Now it’s your turn.

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