Did you survive?

Dec 282009

I know we aren’t completely out of the woods yet, but did you survive the holiday season?   Even more importantly though, did you ENJOY your holiday?

I know I did, I had a great time with friends and family and got a nice chunk of loot as well (mostly money, which I used to buy a Wii and some games, WooT!).  I also ate, and ate, and ate :(  

This weekend has been horrible for a diet and exercise standpoint, but in some ways, its okay.  I am standing firm in my goal to be in the 230′s by New Years, and I still think I can make it.

With that said, I will be doing the weigh in a little differently this week.

Since I know that I gained, I really REALLY do not need the confidence killer that another “gain” weigh in will bring, so I am not weighing in until Friday.  That will give me this week to undo the damage and to work towards the 230′s goal.  It may be a somewhat wimpy approach, but in the end its still a matter of my weight, so it’ll be okay.  I will still weigh in the following Tuesday (1/5/09), and after that everything will be back to normal.

I will also be announcing my New Years challenges in the next couple days.  I basically know what I want to do, so it’s just a matter of setting things up in dailyburn and maybe designing a nice logo or something.

Happy Holidays!

Dec 242009

Just wanted to take a minute to wish everyone a MERRY CHRISTMAS (or a joyful whatever you celebrate)!

I have a short shift today (6 hours) then going to brave the crowds to get some last minute gifts, then its all family stuff until Saturday…

…with a workout or two thrown in for good measure.

Have fun and be safe!

I AM the Biggest Loser!

Dec 232009

About two months ago two Biggest Loser type challenges started at my office. 

One was company wide, and called the Team Lean Challenge.   Basically you weighed in as teams, and whichever team lost the largest percentage of weight won a Nintendo Wii (for each person).

The other challenge was within my department, and was an individual challenge.  You would weigh in each week, and if you lost no weight you had to pay a dollar, and if you gained weight you had a pay a dollar for each pound gained.  At the end whoever lost the most weight would get that money.

My “Team Lean” team consisted of me and two other co-workers.  As a team, we bombed.  I don’t know what our final total was, but I know the winning team was based out of one of our Washington DC offices, and they lost 9.8% of their initial weight.  WooT to them.

As for the departmental challenge?

Yeah, I kicked ass in that one.  Of my total weight lost so far, 19 pounds of that was during the challenge, making me the winner.  The prize had gotten up to $73.00.

WooT!!!!

What’s even better is that of that $73.00, I had only contributed two dollars, and those were weeks I didn’t lose anything (in blog time, thats Week 2 and Week 4).

So far this has been an awesome week, and its Christmas week, so that makes it 200% awesomer by default.  Is everyone ready for the holiday?  I have a sh*t ton of wrapping to do, but other than that I think I’m in good shape.

Have a great day!

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