Biggest Loser - Season 10 - Episode 2

Biggest Loser - Season 10 - Week 2 - SPOILER ALERT

14 arrive at the campus.

Lisa, 31 - Stay At Home Mom
"Every pound hides a piece of who I used to be and who I know I am deep on the inside. Part of the reason I am here is to find myself again."

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The contestants meet Allison Sweeny.

Yellow Team is introduced.  Bob and Jillian are each allowed to pick one person who didn't make it onto the ranch.

They are given second chances. =)

Bob picked Aaron so he could make his son proud and Jillian picked the asthmatic Elizabeth who kept going until she passed out and lost the challenge for the yellow team.

Allison reminds them, even though they have colored shirts that match

Biggest Loser - Season 1

Not only are hubby and I watching the current Biggest Loser - Season 10 which just started last week.  We are also going through all of the other seasons. =)

We just stated and we are in Episode 3 of Season 1.  So if you never watched they had the two teams with Bob and Jillian but they were called the Eat More and Eat Less teams.

In Week 1 they all had great losses, but Jillian's team definitely did more and more intense workouts than Bob's team.  The most that was lost was 20+ lbs in the first week.  In Week 2 they had from +3 to -7 I think was the most - but most were at 0, 1, 2lb losses across both teams.

In Week 3 Jillian talks to her team about how they are all going to plateau.  How their bodies are going into

I Am Killing My To Do Lists

While I was preparing The Big FIVE post, I was adding a few details to each of the Big Five and I wrote the line "joyfully marking things off of your to do list" in the category of "schedule time for yourself to do things you enjoy".

I stopped.

I don't enjoy my to do list.  That todolist.txt file on my desktop never ends.  We even have a Basecamp account for a collection of all of our to do lists across our life.  None of them ever get short enough that I feel

The Big FIVE

Trying to lose weight?  Generally how you manage the big five will have huge impacts on your success of losing it, but also keeping it off.


How are you doing with the big FIVE?

FUEL BALANCE
1. Eating every 3-4 hours to keep your body fueled evenly throughout the day.  Eat your heavier fats and carbs early in the day with a protein (see next one) so you are highly fueled to get through your day and can

Shootin' for that 5%

Statistic:  Only 5% of people who lose more than 10% of their body weight retain that loss after 5 years.

That is horrible.

What does that mean?

Does that mean that 95% of the people are incapable of keeping it off?  That if they just worked out a little more, or just ate a little less, they could remain in the 5% category or increase the percentages?  One of the big eye openers, and areas of forgiveness within myself is to find out that my weight is a factor of dozens of

Let's Learn About: Your OMENTUM

Your OMENTUM is like the stomach's outdoor parking lot.  Normally there are four double rows to this parking lot.  Your Omentum's job is to temporarily park fat for energy when it senses you have elevated stress levels.  It interprets that to mean that the tiger is lurking near and if you need to make a break for it, it will park fat right here in the lot right outside the stomach to draw from for immediate energy (rather than that far away stored fat on your thighs) and it will use that to provide you the fuel you will need to get away.

So under constant stress, it never clears the parking lot.  It keeps storing more fat in the lot (building

Note to that voice in my head...

I'm not trying to win a race.  I don't have to be a certain weight by a certain date.

I am focusing on finding ways to incorporate health and fitness into my daily routine in a way that gets me to and maintains my body at a healthy for me weight.

I want to lose this weight SLOWLY as to reduce any health risks that I may have if I try to lose this too quickly.

I will allow myself to have time to defrag and allow my body to readjust itself during the week of my comma and give myself a break as I am emotionally in a different place than normal and I do have to take that