Well, Stac  made it back from her teaching thing and she read my blog. She was angry with my lack of control but in the same sence, understood. She then confessed , "when nobody is around, I just want to cheat!" We decided I would make a trip to K-Zoo and visit for 4 days.  We went through her fridge and emptied the "bad" stuff out and filled it with veggies, fruit and healthy apetizing items. We then cooked alot of frozen chicken by boiling it; shredded it up and placed it into ziploc bags. Some were put back in the freezer and some conviently in the fridge. Now when she is wanting to grab and go, she can, and it will still be healthy. This is what I have been doing and I have found that I am changing my eating habits and not on a DIET.

Hello. I am feeling the loss of a sister to chat with. I know you are at a seminar and can't be here but I really could use you today. I was real hungry shopping for groceries yesterday so I bought a bag of Baked Potatoe Chips....I ate half the bag yesterday on the way home from the store and finished the bag today!!! I feel aweful. I was doing so well and now I feel like I have to start from the beginning. I am so mad at myself!  The chips weren't that bad  (just 10 pts. per day) but it is the point... I am still gobbling up food in large amts. just because. I should not have had the bag open in the car! I should not have put the bag in my lap today! I should have put a little in a bowl and been done with them. Hope your doing better then this. Sighned, really bad today, Wendy

I am sooo excited! I weighed in this morning and I have lost 11 lbs ! ( in only 13 days ) !!!! I feel less puffy/bloated. I don't really feel like I am dieting, just eating right.My 2 month goal in my photos that I put here on our site might not be so unreachable as it would seem....check out Stac and I in our photos. I digitized them to make us smaller so we could see our possibilities(it had us cracking up)! . ~ Wendy

With living so far apart, we need an outside source for motivation.  We have found that in Jillian Micheals. Watching her on the Biggest Loser each week and having her book "Winning by Losing" as another resource to lean on is helping us to get into the life long routine of the health and wellness we both long for. 

Hi Wendy,

 

I was going to post a note last night but I was unable to get connected.  How are you doing?  I am glad you went to help Shelly.  She was very depressed when you didn't come over on Sunday.  She really needs her family right now.  We may not always agree with her decisions/choices, but I can't imagine being in her shoes right now.  Well, I weighed myself today and I have lost 8 pounds.  I wish we could do a magic trick and this be over.  It is soo depressing to have to worry about being "obese", as the doctors chart in our records.  After only 8 days, I already feel I have more energy.  It's amazing!  I talked to a dietician at work today and she said it is very important not to skip meals and to eat small portions/meals during the day.  How many times can a person be told this and finally let it sink in.  I always think about my dialysis patients when I make the wrong diet choices.  They have a terminal illness with "End Stage Renal Disease" and their diet is so crucial to their mortality rate, yet I still try to educate them on the importance of staying on their renal diet.  Meanwhile, I was continuing to get bigger - making myself at increased risk for diabetes, heart disease, and hypertension - all major contributing factors to renal failure.  We can do this!  For ourselves most of all, and our families, and mom who would be right here rooting us on and is watching over us.  Keep up the good work and maybe I will see you this weekend.  TTFN  Stacey 

This the beginning of a new life for Stacey and I. The horendous battle of the buldge ends now. Though she is my sister' Stacey hasn't always been my best friend' She and I became real close the year our mom was sick with cancer and then her death in Oct. of the same year. Stac, as I call her, and I are really close in weight. We compare each other all the time even though we are differently proportioned. Only we, as living the same life can understand what we go through each and every day. With the loss of our mom and having our weight in common, we feel each others pain.  We have dreamed many times of being on the "Biggest Loser" as team-mates or competitors but it has yet to happen.  You see, Stac lives 2 hrs. and 10 min. south of me. I own a photography studio and she is an RN with a traveling teaching job. She has 2 small boys under 5 and I have 2 boys of my own both in the teen/tween years. It doesn't leave much time to work together. I have asked my husband to give up 3 months of me to live with Stacey in my off season. That way we could fight this battle together like on the show.  He doesn't think we would do it....it wouldn't be the first time we both surrendered to the disease.