Biggest Loser 4 Week 1

[acourtwdw2]

To the Biggest Loser 4 and Happy New Year

Here are my answers about myself.

First Name: Amanda

Nickname: Mana

Birthday: 6/22/68 (40 this year)

Home State: Michigan

Marital Status: Single

Number of Siblings: 1 sister and 2 brother

Number of Children (include names and ages): Furry only

Pets: 3 Dogs and 3 Cats

Occupation: Aflac Agent

Favorite Part of your Job: Helping People

Favorite Season: Summer

Favorite Color: Pink

Favorite Food: My Sisters Cheescake

Favorite Movie(s): How Stella got her grove back

Favorite TV Show(s): Biggest Loser

Favorite Bands and/or Singers: Not Sure

Favorite Song(s): Not Sure

Favorite Sports Team(s): Yankees

Favorite Holiday: Christmas

What are your health/weight loss goals?: I want to lose 150-200lbs

Who is your biggest supporter?: My Sister

How do you gain motivation?: Talking to others and my sister


Who are your heroes and why?: People who meet challenges with a positive attitude.

What people, past or present, would you like to meet?: Oprah

What is a random fact about you?:I love to watch lifetime movies while snuggled on the couch with my 4 legged babies

 

[acourtwdw]

To the Biggest Loser 4 and Happy New Year

Yes I am Dona the early bird. I just came home from a NYE party and I thought since I was up I would start the thread. I haven't weighed in yet but will after I get home from church this morning.

I guess I was pretty successful at the party tonight but I also felt sick most of the evening so after the New Year rang in my family left. I didn't eat much since I was sick to my stomache most of the evening.

I will be back later and tell you about myself.

Here are some questions that we should answer about ourseslves.

First Name: Annette

Nickname: Nettie

Birthday: Feb 3

Home State: MI

Marital Status: Single

Number of Siblings: 3
Number of Children (include names and ages): none

Pets: 3 dogs (Spencer, Shelby & Remi) 3 cats (Holly, Walter & Harvey)
Occupation: Retail Supervisor

Favorite Part of your Job: Customers (also be the least favorite part)
Favorite Season: summer

Favorite Color: pink
Favorite Food: chocolate covered potato chips

Favorite Movie(s): Too many

Favorite TV Show(s): Grey's Antomy and most reality shows

Favorite Bands and/or Singers: Too many

Favorite Song(s): right now- Stronger by Kayne West

Favorite Sports Team(s):

Favorite Holiday: Thanksgiving

What are your health/weight loss goals?: To get down to 148

Who is your biggest supporter?: Amanda my sister

How do you gain motivation?: By getting off my butt and just doing it rather than talking about it. Compliments are always helpful too.


Who are your heroes and why?:

What people, past or present, would you like to meet?: Walt Disney, Coco Chanel, Walter Cronkite and Oprah Winfrey
What is a random fact about you?:I want to live on the ocean but I don't like to swim[/QUOTE]

 

[ekball]

Great idea!!!

First Name: Erin

Nickname: None that I am aware of

Birthday: Oct., 1972

Home State: Connecticut

Marital Status: Married

Number of Siblings: 1 (lives in Orlando, so we get to meet up at WDW with our kiddos...fun!!!!)

Number of Children (include names and ages): 2 - ages 4 & 2

Pets: none

Occupation: Health Educator (ironic isn't it...I know all the right things to do, but lack the motivation to do it!!)

Favorite Part of your Job: the variety - every day is something different

Favorite Season: Summer

Favorite Color: Yellow

Favorite Food: Seafood

Favorite Movie(s): Oh gosh....that's a tough one.

Favorite TV Show(s): Grey's Anatomy

Favorite Bands and/or Singers: The Police (anyone else catch one of their reunion tour shows?!? ) and U2.

Favorite Song(s): Every Little Thing She Does is Magic

Favorite Sports Team(s): Florida Gators

Favorite Holiday: Probably Thanksgiving....or the 4th of July

What are your health/weight loss goals?: Lose ~15 lbs & get back on track with the exercise and STICK TO IT this time!!

Who is your biggest supporter?: Hubby

How do you gain motivation?: Try on clothes that should fit and don't! Look at pix when I was at a better weight.

Who are your heroes and why?: My parents - all around great people & phenomenal parents. My husband - one of the kindest, honest, most loyal people one could ever meet. My kiddos - their pure joy for life.

What people, past or present, would you like to meet?:

What is a random fact about you?: I walked in the 2007 Breast Cancer 3-Day in early October - 60 miles in 3 days to raise money for Komen for the Cure. It was without a doubt one of the most phenomenal experiences of my life! (unfortunately I burned out with all of the training and have just stopped exercising altogether!! 2 times on the treadmill since that weekend and up about 5-7 lbs )

 

[ReAnSt]

Here are some questions that we should answer about ourselves.

First Name: Becky

Nickname: ReAnSt

Birthday: 6-11-1982

Home State: PA

Marital Status: Single

Number of Siblings: 1

Number of Children (include names and ages): 0

Pets: Cat-Penny and Fish- Dragon

Occupation: Membership Manager for Girl Scouts

Favorite Part of your Job: Working with my enthusiastic volunteers. Their enthusiasm energizes me.

Favorite Season: Summer

Favorite Color: Green

Favorite Food: Sushi

Favorite Movie(s): Pirates, Finding Nemo, Evita

Favorite TV Show(s): Biggest Loser; Desperate Housewives; Grey's Anatomy; Private Practice

Favorite Bands and/or Singers: I listen to any and all music types

Favorite Song(s): Too many

Favorite Sports Team(s):

Favorite Holiday: Halloween

What are your health/weight loss goals?: To eat healthy, drink water and exercise daily. I want to lose 100 pounds, I have lost about 60 pounds and have another 40 to lose. To be in shape and healthy.

Who is your biggest supporter?: Myself

How do you gain motivation?: Seeing others succeed


Who are your heroes and why?: Those who have succeeded and reached goals.

What people, past or present, would you like to meet?: Walt Disney; Milton Hershey; Harriet Tubman

What is a random fact about you?:I worked at Walt Disney World and went to college in Orlando, FL

Here is a before my weight loss at about 250 pounds

More recent on my cruise in September about 60-70 pound loss

 

[Desiree]

You can never fail when your heart is in the right place. There may be times when success and results are more positive than others but it's those others we grow from and define our character.

For my career we had to develop 12 rules to live by and they were each personal to ourselves. ( If anyone really cares I can share them)

This for me ended up with me condensing the most important into this little mantra and I hope it helps you know you are valued.

My life will not be measured by my reflection in a mirror...my bank account balance...my list of who I know and where I traveled...

At the end of my life I want to see my friends and family at my funeral and hear them say...she was a good person...not perfect...not without flaws...but she loved without expectation and forgave without reservation.

That is beautiful. Thank you for posting this!

 

[rkandmjsmommy]

Here are some questions that we should answer about ourseslves.

First Name: Denise

Nickname: Babes by hubby

Birthday: 03/09

Home State: PA

Marital Status: Married, 10 years this April

Number of Siblings: 0

Number of Children (include names and ages): Rachel will be 9 Jan 11, Mattew will be 6 June 19

Pets: 4 month old Boxer named Murphy, he is part of my new years resolutin to walk him 3 x's a week

Occupation: RN on a med surg floor, work nights 7p-7a, makes eating and sleeping difficult, need to get healthy, being an overweight nurse is not good

Favorite Part of your Job: taking care of people

Favorite Season: Fall

Favorite Color: Black, makes ya look thinner

Favorite Food: French Fries

Favorite Movie(s): Dirty Dancing, Stealing Home, anything from the 80's and anything disney OF COURSE

Favorite TV Show(s): ER, Grey's Anatomy and General Hosptial been watching since 1985

Favorite Bands and/or Singers: Billy Joel and again antying 80's

Favorite Song(s): too many to count

Favorite Sports Team(s): WE bleed Green... PHILADELPHIA EAGLES

Favorite Holiday: Birthdays and then Christmas

What are your health/weight loss goals?: drink at least 64 oz water a day, cut down on Diet coke, pick healthier choices and smaller portions, increase exercise

Who is your biggest supporter?: Hubby

How do you gain motivation?: HMMMM, I am hoping our cruise in Sept 2008 (disney of course) will be motivation, I dont want to look back at pictures and HATE the way I look


Who are your heroes and why?:

What people, past or present, would you like to meet?:

What is a random fact about you?: I know the words to most songs, girls at work think I should be on Singing Bee LOL

 

[donac]

It has been fun looking at all the profiles. y

Don't forget to email Brenda (daretodream) your starting weight. Brenda asks that you email her since she is traveling and she doesn't want to fill up her mailbox on the Dis. The email is in my first posting this morning.

Starting Thursday we would like to post a question of the day. I can come up with some questions but I am just a lowly math teacher and if it doesn't have numbers I sometimes get stuck. You can help me by pm some questions you would like to ask the group. Please include your name so that you can get credit for the question.

Have a good evening and I will be back tomorrow morning.

 

[PRINCESS VIJA]

Starting Thursday we would like to post a question of the day. I can come up with some questions but I am just a lowly math teacher and if it doesn't have numbers I sometimes get stuck. You can help me by pm some questions you would like to ask the group. Please include your name so that you can get credit for the question.

This is a great way for anyone who wanted to help with this challenge to help out!

 

[MercoBear]

Here are some questions that we should answer about ourseslves.

First Name: Gretchen

Nickname: G (if anything)

Birthday: Oct. 16

Home State: PA

Marital Status: Married

Number of Siblings: 1 brother

Number of Children (include names and ages): none yet

Pets: 2 cats (Ally and Einstein) and my golden retriever Darwin

Occupation: I work in a lab

Favorite Part of your Job: The great people that I work with

Favorite Season: Fall - includes my birthday and Halloween

Favorite Color: green

Favorite Food: Mexican and Thai food, chocolate

Favorite Movie(s): Just about any Disney animated film, Grease

Favorite TV Show(s): Grey's Anatomy, Heroes

Favorite Bands and/or Singers: Josh Groban

Favorite Song(s): Anything from Rent

Favorite Holiday: Halloween

What are your health/weight loss goals?: I would really like to see myself 45 lb thinner, but my goal is to lose 20 lb.

Who is your biggest supporter?: We'll have to see...

How do you gain motivation?: Looking at old vacation photos to see how things have changed

Who are your heroes and why?: I admire people who volunteer

What people, past or present, would you like to meet?: I would like to re-meet my grandfather. He pasted away so long ago, and I was so young, that I don't remember him anymore.

What is a random fact about you?: My high school choir sang backup for Barry Manilow one evening

 

[UrsulasShadow]

First Name: Mindy

Nickname: Mindy

Birthday: Tomorrow!

Home State: Massachusetts

Marital Status: Married

Number of Siblings: 3 brothers

Number of Children (include names and ages): Emily - 19 and Mikey - 17

Pets: Rosie and Xerox (really fat cats)

Occupation: Garden center manager

Favorite Part of your Job: All parts, except the lazy butt owner

Favorite Season: Fall

Favorite Color: Mood related...I like deep tones in blue, purple, red

Favorite Food: ALL

Favorite Movie(s): Princess Bride

Favorite TV Show(s): Twilight Zone, Grey's Anatomy, Boston Legal, ER

Favorite Bands and/or Singers: Aerosmith, Led Zeppelin, Annie Lennox, Indigo Girls, Boston Camerata, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Queen

Favorite Song(s): Bohemian Rhapsody

Favorite Sports Team(s): Oh, c'mon...I'm from MA!

Favorite Holiday: None, hate 'em all.

What are your health/weight loss goals?: To stay away from the candy, the booze, the really unhealthy stuff, and drop 45 lbs.

Who is your biggest supporter?: Me, myself, and I.

How do you gain motivation?: Go to the gym...the more I exercise, the more motivated I get.


Who are your heroes and why?: See below.

What people, past or present, would you like to meet?: I'd love to meet all the women who came across an ocean to an unknown land in order to make a better life for their children.

What is a random fact about you?: I flew to L.A. for a blind date once, long, long ago...that was my first time on an airplane.

 

[luvmyfam444]

My parents named all us kids with D names including the dogs - Hello!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Donny, Danny, Dougie, Diane, Deneen, Dudley and Dixie - last 2 are the dogs

OH my goodness I had friends named like this too! And then the middle names were all with R (for the girls & D's for the boys!) Don't know about the animals though.

They are Damon, Darrin, Daryl, Deann and Dana!

Who knew there were so many D names out there?

 

[rluey29]

First Name: Rick

Nickname: N/A

Birthday: 10/14/1973

Home State: AR

Marital Status: Married

Number of Siblings: 3

Number of Children (include names and ages): 2, Michael 7, Jace 8 months

Pets: N/a

Occupation: Teacher/coach

Favorite Part of your Job: working with kids

Favorite Season: summer

Favorite Color: blue

Favorite Food: Pizza

Favorite Movie(s): any comedy

Favorite TV Show(s): greys anatomy

Favorite Bands and/or Singers: Too many to list

Favorite Song(s): See last answer

Favorite Sports Team(s): Florida Gators, St. Louis cardinals.

Favorite Holiday: Christmas

What are your health/weight loss goals?:

Who is your biggest supporter?: Wife

How do you gain motivation?: Pictures of myself overweight


Who are your heroes and why?: My wife because she does so much for our family

What people, past or present, would you like to meet?: My grandfather, he died shortly after I was born.

What is a random fact about you?: I am an obsessive overeater.

 

[Geekerbell]

I love these! Hopefully I can keep up with who is who!


First Name: Laura

Nickname: none

Birthday: 1/8/1975 (DH is taking me to WDW for my b-day this year!)

Home State: Texas! Lived in Fort Worth, college in Huntsville at Sam Houston State, and currently live in Round Rock (just north of Austin)

Marital Status: married for 12.5 wonderful years!

Number of Siblings: 1 younger brother

Number of Children (include names and ages): 3 awesome litle boys! - Logan Xander-8, Camden Giles-6, Brendan Riley-2

Pets: Starbuck (Battlestar Galactica - not the coffee shop) , Bama , Rocket (cute little Beagle)

Occupation: home daycare/preschool

Favorite Part of your Job: watching the kids grow and learn new things -love their curiosity!

Favorite Season: Fall (reminds me of high school football), Spring (love the concept of "new life')

Favorite Color: greens and blues

Favorite Food: chocolate cake and Tex-Mex

Favorite Movie(s): "Mr. Holland's Opus", "Dead Poet's Society" (love the concept of teachers having a profound impact on their students)


Favorite TV Show(s): Buffy The Vampire Slayer (all my kids have been named after Buffy characters...sad huh?), Angel, Torchwood, Doctor Who, ER, CSI: Las Vegas, CSI: New York, Heroes, Bones, Ace of Cakes, Food Network Cake Challenges, How I Met Your Mother, Biggest Loser
Wow, I'm really a TV junkie, aren't I?

Favorite Bands and/or Singers: The Beatles, Casting Crowns, Third Day, Nicole Nordeman, Barenaked Ladies

Favorite Song(s): Oh my, too many to list!

Favorite Sports Team(s): Not very much sports programming watched at our house, but collegiate events are favored over pro. I especially love my Texas Longhorn football and baseball!

Favorite Holiday: Christmas! - without a doubt, hands down! The birth of my Lord and the chance to shower gifts on others - what could be better?!

What are your health/weight loss goals?: I need to lose over a hundred pounds. Also, I had gestational diabetes with 2 of my 3 pregnancies, so my DR tells me I am virtually guaranteed to develop Type 2 diabetes at some point in my life. I refuse to accept this! I want to be healthy and fit for my children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren!

Who is your biggest supporter?: I have received tons of support from my fellow WISHers and also receive support from my DH.

How do you gain motivation?: I love reading success stories, have grown to love TV show such as "Biggest Loser", and I want my boys, who are currently healthy and thin, to remain that way. I would love to take dance classes with my DS.


Who are your heroes and why?: I'll have to think on this.

What people, past or present, would you like to meet?: Jesus Christ, Walt Disney, Mozart, Beethoven, Joss Whedon

What is a random fact about you?: I spent 2 years as a director of a child care center, and I am currently working on my teaching certification.
I love to scrapbook, but am behind by 2-3 years.

 

[donac]

Good Wednesday MOrning Being the day after New Years Day a lot of people are going back to work, don't forget to plan for your day and the best way to do that is to pack your lunch. I know what a pain it is but it has to be done. I do it because I eat the last lunch of the day and by the time I make it to the cafeteria the food does not look too appetizing. They also don't have much of a selection so I have been packing my lunch since Sept.

I hope everyone has a great day. I woke up this morning with one eye stuck shut. I really don't want to look because I may have to call in sick with pink eye and have to get a doctor's appointment. With the office being closed yesterday it will probably be impossible so I will probably have to go to the clinic. NOt my favorite place.

Be back later.

If you haven't filled out the application then please do so. YOu will find it on the 1st thread. If you haven't emailed your weight to Brenda please do so.

 

[MercoBear]

OH my goodness I had friends named like this too! And then the middle names were all with R (for the girls & D's for the boys!) Don't know about the animals though.

They are Damon, Darrin, Daryl, Deann and Dana!

Who knew there were so many D names out there?

Maybe it is a "D" thing. DH's family does the same thing with Deb, Darrin, Dustin, Destiny, and Denny.

 

[WDWLVR]

Good morning everyone!

Dona - sorry to hear about the pink eye. Yucky way to start the new year.
Back to work for me today. Thanks for the reminder of packing a lunch. I always do better when I bring my lunch but I'm also lazy so many mornings and don't do it. Have to get back into the habit.

Mindy!

 

[flafan]

Good Morning All

Happy New Year everyone

Who knew how popular D names are

Is anyone out there counting points?

The Thomas Eng Muffin - Cranberry are my new favorite breakfast 3 points
and it is filling add a banana 2 points and coffee blk 0 points. I will be good to go for a while

Have a good day everyone - I'll check in later

 

[mikamah]

Good morning everyone. It was great to read all about you all.

I discovered my Comcast cable on demand has exercise videos, and I did 2 yesterday and 2 today, and will do one more before I go to work. Two of them were Walk away the Pounds, and one was a weigh training for beginners. I now have no excuse not to exercise when the weather is bad.

I'm counting points too, and like to have egg beaters with salsa on toast, 1/2 cup with 2 pieces of light toast is only 2 points, and I'll have a banana or yogurt too.
I always pack my lunch, but today don't have to go in til 12, so I'll eat before I go, and bring a fiberone bar for a snack later.

Good luck with the eye Dona.

Have a fabulous, losing day everyone!!

 

[PRINCESS VIJA]

Good morning everyone! I woke up and exercised now 2 days in a row! I will be taking many baby steps and I am excited about the workouts. My foot is a little sore I have plantar fascitis and I have to be careful of my feet.

I am doing something different and counting calories instead of points. It is going to take some time to get used to it, but I signed up for Spark People and it seems pretty easy to use. Thanks for the suggestions to join spark people. Have a great day everyone!

First Name: Mindy

Nickname: Mindy

Birthday: Tomorrow!

Hope you have a fantastic birthday!!!

I hope everyone has a great day. I woke up this morning with one eye stuck shut. I really don't want to look because I may have to call in sick with pink eye and have to get a doctor's appointment. With the office being closed yesterday it will probably be impossible so I will probably have to go to the clinic. NOt my favorite place.

Be back later.

I hope you feel better and your eye is ok. That sounds yucky!

 

[rkandmjsmommy]

I am counting points and hope to begin to exercise next Monday when kids go back to school, i got on the scale today for my official weigh in and I was almost 5 lbs less than I thought, WOOOOHOOOOO. My goals for this week are:

at least 64oz of H2o and increase my fruits and veggies!

Happy Wednesday