Here is something interesting that I just found out: Did you know that there are 10 to 100 times more toxins in your fat than in your blood? I found this out from a doctor. I knew that fat surrounds toxins to protect your body from them but I didn’t realize just how much toxins can be found in the fat in your body. Amazing and kind of scary when you think about it. So, it is a good idea to decrease your body fat and get rid of these excess toxins. Here is a partial list of diseases we are seeing on the rise due to all of the accumulated toxins- diseases like cancer, brain disorders like autism, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, auto-immune dysfunction, nerve disorders and more common ailments like depression, learning disabilities and fatigue. All this adds up to it being a good idea to get rid of as much excess fat as you can and that it might be a good idea to cleanse to remove these excess toxins. I was reading that using an infra-red sauna every day for a month is a great way to get rid of toxins and that taking Chlorella is another good tool for removing toxins. I am thinking of writing an article with more info about this if it interests you. Please let me know. Thanks
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Fat Is TOXIC?
Saturday, February 4th, 2012
Biggest Loser season 13 week 5
Friday, February 3rd, 2012
I forgot that the contestants were not there when Allison told the aqua team about their opportunity to come back to the Biggest Loser Ranch.
From what we have been seeing of them it looks like this brother and sister team really wants to be back on the ranch.
Daphne 37 years old-starting weight 271-26=245
Adrian 34 years old 370-34=336
They lost a total of 60 pounds on their own at home!
I think that for basically doing this on their own without even getting to step within the walls of the Biggest Loser Ranch that they did a really good job J
Now I hear Conda and Kim making comments, and yes some others did too but for the most part it was them.
Kim was upset because the aqua team was celebrating their return to the ranch. I am sure that if her team had been in their place that they would have been celebrating getting to actually be on the Biggest Loser Ranch just the same. After being there for 5 weeks I think she has forgotten just how excited they all were to be there that first day. So she begrudges the aqua team their moments of celebration?
That’s a bit sad really. They had their time to cheer and be happy about being there.
I know that The Biggest Loser is a tv show and as such they like to portray certain things (like drama) to up their ratings. And I know that they pick and choose what we see so some of it may seem awful but we have to remember that there are parts that we don’t see.
BUT, I have to say that the things being said and done WERE said and done or they wouldn’t be on film to show us. As such I must say that from what I have seen of Conda and Kim that I don’t think they are anyone that I would want to be friends with. I have enough drama in my life just struggling to get through. I certainly don’t need anyone that likes the drama and conflict the way that those two seem to.
I may be wrong. If you personally know them and they aren’t like that then by all means PLEASE comment and let us know. But, I must say that I put out there that same request when we had to endure the whole Vickie season and No One Took Me Up On It. I know that she posted over and over about not being like that but yet again when Vickie was on the Biggest Loser it was the same deal- they can’t film it if you don’t say it or do it.
Of the 3 challenges and 4 weigh-ins the black and the red teams are pretty much running neck and neck.
Red team has won 2 challenges and 2 weigh-ins. So that puts them ahead in the challenges by 1 win and a tie on the weigh-ins.
I will say that even though I like Dolvett I love Bob and feel a certain loyalty to him. I also like the way that the black team has treated Daphne much better than how the red team has treated Adrian. It’s not all of the red team but a bad apple or two can certainly spoil the bushel.
So, for me I am rooting for the black team. BUT, there are certain red team members that I like and so I am conflicted.
I certainly like Buddy as he is from Michigan- Like us! J
Now Kim said about that she doesn’t know of Olympic athletes that work out 14 hours a day at the intensity that they do and only lose 34 pounds in a month.
One month is approximately 30 days (give or take). To lose 34 pounds is losing more than 1 pound a day. Now she is not taking into consideration the fact that Adrain and
Daphne never got onto the Biggest Loser Ranch. They have very little idea how the other contestants have been training. SURE, Bob and Dolvett each took a day to go work with them but that is 2 days out of 30 and how much of that actually soaked in when you think about how surprised they were and how excited. Looking back after the trainers had left how much of it did they remember?
I think that they did a really good job and would like to say that I am proud of them
Ok, I understand that Adrian is the new guy but his sister is the new girl on the black team and I don’t see the black team treating her the way that Adrian is being treated.
Maybe the red team doesn’t believe him when he said that he was working out 14 hours a day. Maybe he was just exaggerating, hoping that the team would see how much he wants to be there or maybe he is just trying too hard to fit in.
But to me there seem to be a couple people that are just trying to push him right out the door.
Who else can see how Conda and Kim are being? I feel that Conda is being the worst of the two. She certainly has some issues.
Think about how she was with calling Cassandra a cheater, rolling her eyes at Dolvett and how she has been treating Adrian.
I think that Nancy, Buddy and Mark had a pretty good attitude about the aqua team being back.
I understand that Chris is upset about Chism and Jeremy writing her name down to go home. BUT, she needs to realize that they felt that she wanted to go home.
I find it interesting that the women all voted for Gail and that the guys voted for Chris.
Maybe Chris was more open with the women and they know she REALLY wants to stay.
Maybe it all comes down to how men and women process things differently?
Hmmm…. Interesting. What do YOU think?
WOW! Chris did an awesome job on Fran with 4minutes and seconds
Cassandra 7 minutes 46 seconds
Chism 7 minutes and 6 seconds
Emily 5 minutes and 29 seconds
Daphne 5 minutes and 14 seconds
You know, for all the doubting that the red team was doing about how well Adrian would do I think he did an amazing job on the monkey bars. He did better than most of the other red team members and he most certainly did better than I would JLOL
Buddy said that he was impressed with how well Adrian performed on the monkey bars but Conda, the drama and conflict queen, said that she is not impressed “This was one of the easier workouts that we’ve had”
I certainly feel for Adrian and his wife for losing their baby like they did. Losing a child is one of the hardest things a parent could ever go through.
I am also sure that watching this section of Biggest Loser was probably not easy for former contestant Denise Hill as she worries about her new baby grandson who was born January 17th at 1:36 (Exactly a half an hour before my Uncle died) he weighed 1 lb 5oz. He was due May 11, he was 4 months early.
I would think that hearing about the loss that Adrian and his wife had would certainly bring up some worries as Denise and her family pray that their little one will be ok.
So far he has been doing really well and she says that he is a fighter. We are praying for him to do well, be healthy and to be able to go home soon. Please send prayers to her family at this time.
Josh was born 2 months premature and he did really well. I am sure that they have made great advances since then.
Now Conda is stirring the trouble pot again. She is saying how Adrian called her on being disrespectful and said that because he is a gentleman that he hasn’t called her on it yet.
How true! How true!
Adrian has caused tension between Conda and the rest of the team?
NO- CONDA is the one that has caused tension for everyone on the Biggest Loser this season
And Kim is calling Adrian an idiot? Is it any wonder that there is tension this week? And I am sure that all of that tension is going to show up on the scales come weigh-in time.
Now, how many of you think that Chris’s whole speech was trying to get the guys to not put her name down again?
I think that Chism had a good point about how ‘if she really wanted to get to know us she would have done it before she knew we wrote her name down on the paper’
Then again, you can see Chris’s point too. She had a weak moment and she sees now how it could come back and bite her in the butt if she doesn’t do some damage control.
Everything kind of came to a head at the dinner table. I am glad that Nancy and Mark spoke up about the petty crap going on. Although I am not sure how much was directed at Conda and Kim and how much at Adrain.
I also saw how everyone left Adrian alone at the table except for Buddy. Now I don’t know how much of that was support for Adrian and how much was because he may have not been done eating-or shock that everyone all of a sudden walked awayJ I am glad that someone stayed sitting there though so that Adrian wasn’t left all alone.
It would be so hard to go home thinking that these people were saddened to see them go home and looking forward to being part of the group and then have your dream come true to only have it turn into a nightmare.
Cudos to Adrian for getting Dolvett to realize that there was a problem without talking behind everyone’s back (unlike a couple other contestants I could mention)
Dolvett does have a point about Adrian not forcing himself to be part of the group that it will take time.
Now for the weigh-in results:
Black Team
Daphne 245-1-244
Megan 238-9=229
Chism 320-2=318
Emily 235-5=230
Chris 215-4=211
Cassandra 206-6=200
Jeremy 347-9=338
Total 27 pounds 1.72%
Red Team
Nancy 200-4=196
Adrian 336-2=334
Kim 220-5=215
Roy 272-4=268
Mark 255-4-251
Buddy 353-8=345
Conda 265-2=263
Red team lost the weigh-in
I am surprised that the red team sent Nancy home. I was really hoping that they would send Conda home. I can see why Adrian said that he was surprised that Nancy was being sent home. All he did was make a statement of fact and boy did the gruesome twosome jump on him.
It would seem to me that if you have someone that causes friction that she would be the one that you would send home when you got a chance. But then again when they had a chance to send so named by many Biggest Loser viewers ‘icky Vickie’ home they didn’t do it.
Is this because ‘they can’t see the forest for the trees’ like Josh says? Or is it that there are things going on that we don’t see that determine the contestants voting so differently than what we think that they should?
Well, time to stop for tonight. I have something else that I am hoping to post tonight if I have time and time is short as the library will be closing soon.
Hope you enjoyed my thoughts, and rants Jlol, on this weeks Biggest Loser
Take care. I’ll be back next week.
Biggest Loser Season 13 week 3
Friday, January 20th, 2012Ok, so Joe wanted to go home. I understand that they miss their families. At least Jeremy has his head on straight and tried to talk him out of it
Did you know that there are 41,000 chinese restaraunts in the Us? That’s more than McDonald’s, Wendys and Burger King combined? WOW! I had no clue.
Ok, so here we go with a temptation.
Everything looked so good. I can’t imagine being in the room seeing and smelling that food.
Do you feel that an obese person is like an alcoholic? Do you think that they can never eat high calorie foods again or will fall right back into that whole way of eating? Do you think that they only need worry while losing the weight and then should be able to cheat on occasion without too much concern? Or do you think it was ok to eat to win the temptation?
I was surprised that no one on the red team seemed to be tempted
Good thinking on the black team’s part. A 30 calorie fortune cookie wouldn’t do a lot of damage and yet would have a chance of giving them control over the face-off and the 2 pound advantage
Cassandra seemed really happy about winning and she sure didn’t waste any time in picking out who would face off against whom.
Black (weight loss- %) lbs lost vs Red =who won & their weight loss
Emily ( 14lbs-5.30 %) and Roy (19 lbs-6.21%)
Jeremy ( lbs-5.14 %) and Lauren ( lbs-5.28 %)
Joe ( lbs- 6.44 %) and Nancy ( lbs-4.61 %)= Nancy with just 2 lbs
Chism ( lbs-5.54 %) and Kim ( 16 lbs-6.35 %)
Mark ( 17 lbs-5.84 %) and Chris ( lbs- 5.83 %)
Megan ( lbs-4.25 %) and Buddy ( 31 lbs-7.69 %)
Gayle ( lbs-4.35 %) and Kimmy ( lbs- 5.94 %)
Cassandra ( lbs- %)
What do you think of Joe leaving like that? He did leave his team in the lurch and make it that much harder for his team to win the weigh-in.
Yes, he misses his family but is his going home now going to cost them extra years that they might have had?
And when you think about how much the aqua team wants to be there and we have had 2 people leave voluntarily already in week 3?
That’s crazy!
How funny: Bob saying “I knew I’d get that old woman to cuss”
Well, that’s all I have time for today. I wasn’t sure that I would even post what with my Uncle dying but I decided to at least post some. I will try to finish it on Saturday so that we will be all caught up for next week’s Biggest Loser-K?
In the meantime here is something gross.
Take a look:
Click the pic for more info but basically this is processed chicken which is the entire chicken- including the eyeballs which is used in nuggets and processed chicken patties, etc. I am so sick to my stomach over this- EEEEWWWW! YUCK!
Now, from my research it DOES say that they have been doing this sinch the late 1960’s which means that we have probably all ate it and didn’t even know it.
It can be found in things like chicken nuggest, processed chicken patties, hot dogs, bologna, salami, etc.
I also know that we probably all know in that eating these things isn’t healthy anyway but when you are on a low income sometimes they are about the only meat you can afford to eat.
My son and I had just eaten hot dogs days before I read this article and saw this pic. Last night we had hot dogs again- because they are cheap. BUT, I couldn’t eat the same brand I ate the last time we had hot dogs- even though they were on sale for $1 for a package. We ended up getting some that were a manager’s discount for $2 because they were beef. Beef is not processed in this way in the US due to mad cow disease.
I do not know how each individual country processes their meat so if this interests you (or disgusts you) you may want to look into that. I know that we have visitors from all over the world (thank you so much for that 
we REALLY appreciate it!) and I would LOVE to be able to tell you all how the meat is processed in YOUR country. BUT, with my Uncle dying and time constraints I just cannot do so at this time.
I AM however trying to find time (hopefully this week yet) to see about getting a petition going to change this process. I do not see why they cannot remove the heads and the internals before processing the meat this way so that we are not getting the disgusting parts in there that some of us (Me included) cannot stomach the idea of eating- even if we already HAVE and just didn’t know it.
I know it may sound silly to some of you that I cannot eat the exact same thing that I ate just a week or two ago but the idea that there are ground up eyeballs and guts (including the bowel) in that meat is just something I can’t stomach.
I am hoping that many of you would be willing to sign a petition to get this policy changed.
I think that having people to clean the chickens before processing would save not having to use unneccessary chemicals that could be causing health issues for many of us and must be costing them money. Use that money to pay people to clean the chickens= healthier meat and more jobs.
They can always use the parts removed for animal feed like they have done for years. The animals won’t know the difference and they eat these parts when they hunt anyway. Also, the price of cat and dog food has risen dramatically in recent years. I wonder how much of this is because of people insisting that the anials get ‘choice’ cuts of meat. My belief is that this has caused the price of not only dog and cat food to rise but our food as well. Only so many animals can be grown in a given year and yet it needs to feed us all. And why shoud WE as humans be forced to eat these parts, if we don’t want to, simply because we cannot afford anything better?
I know that some of you will disagree with me. That’s ok. You can still come here and enjoy My Biggest Loser Blog. As you can see from past posts I very rarely rant about anything other than the Biggest Loser on here. So if you don’t agree about my views on the meat processin you can skip over it and get to what you really want to read. I most likely will only post if and when I get the petition done and a possible update here and there.
As for Biggest Loser? I cannot wait for tonight’s show. It comes on in just over an hour so I am heading home so I will not miss even a teensy weensy second of it like we did a couple of weeks ago due to there being a bad storm. We missed 20 minutes of it-UGH!!! The HORROR!
I am finally recovering though due to the fact that I was finally able to see what we had missed -ahhhhh! The relief! :-))
Enjoy Biggest Loser tonight and I will be talking with you soon.
Hug your loved ones as you never know just how much time you have left with them
Biggest Loser Season 13 week 2
Thursday, January 12th, 2012Right off the bat Alison asks for volunteers and then she pulls 2 volunteers from each team and takes them into another room. In this room are stacks of poker chips.
Well, it turns out that each team is to bet on how much weight that they believe that their team will lose this week.
Red team bets that their team will lose more than 94 pounds this week which is 3.8%
They lost 3% last week
OMG! Have these women even watched Biggest Loser before? Do they have any idea what week 2 is like?
The average loss for week 2 is only 2%
I cannot believe that red team’s went and bet for their team to lose 94 pounds in week 2 which is the toughest week in Biggest Loser history.
That is 10 ½ pounds per person in week 2. And nearly double the average loss for week 2.
Then during the flag challenge Gayle goes over to work on solving the puzzle and we are told that just before this she said that she is dyslexic and bad at puzzles. Uh, if she knows this and told others that this is true about her then wouldn’t it have been better if someone else worked on solving it?
Dolvett was not happy when he found out how much weight their team needs to lose to win this week.
He spray painted 94 lbs on the wall to keep that goal in front of them. Uh, didn’t his momma teach him not to spray paint on the walls?
Bob seems very unhappy with Dolvett but how much of that is true and how much is for ratings? I gotta wonder?
BTW, I forgot to mention that Jillian is no longer on The Doctors. I am wondering if this might mean a return to The biggest Loser???
I would love to see this happen and yet I do like Dolvett. Yet, the team of Bob and Jillian is just pure magic. They are friends and yet they like to compete with each other. Nothing mean, just clean fun.
Ok, everyone seems to be working out except one.
What is up with Mike? It seems like all he’s been doing is taking breaks?
I believe that he was the one that was telling that he gained 50 pounds the summer he was 12. Which is when he met his half brother(?) for the first time? And what father lets their 12 year old gain 50 pounds over a summer and smoke like a smokestack?
Just when I was so glad to see Mike go home he finally admits that he has abandonment issues and seems to actually be a nice guy. So then I was see sawing about him going home. Course we hate to really see anyone have to go home ….well, for the most part. I mean there ARE some people that you can’t wait to see go home and when they do you do a HAPPY DANCE!!!!! WHOOHOO!
Ok, here are the weight loss amounts I have so far. I will need to watch what I taped and get the rest of the names and numbers and post them soon.
Black team:
Gayle -5 pounds
Megan - 4 pounds
Cassandra - 5 pounds
Emily- 4 pounds
Chris - 6 pounds
Joe- 8 pounds
Jeremy -7 pounds
Chism- 8 pounds
Red team:
Ok, so far there are quite a few Biggest Loser contestants that we like but the one that stands out the most to me right now (as I am running out of time to finish this. It has started to storm out and we need to get home) is Chism. I think that he seems like a really nice kid and he certainly needs to lose the weight.
WHOOOHOO! Chism sure pulled out the win for his team didn’t he? 8 pounds in week 2? WOW!
And, Josh had thought how ironic it would be if the 5 pound advantage was what put the black team ahead. Guess what? It was! The red team must REALLY be kicking themselves and I gotta wonder if the 2 women that bet the 94 pounds will be going home soon. I mean come on, the rest of the team was really unhappy with them. When push comes to shove I really think that this could come back to haunt them.
What do you think?
That’s it for now. Will try to post more soon.
See, I AM trying to do better about posting. It would be so much easier with home internet service but property taxes being paid are much more important.
Take care
~Michelle & Josh
Biggest Loser- Sherry Goes Home
Tuesday, March 16th, 2010We find Daris realizing that his mom, Cheryl, was sent home. He seems upset but puts on a smile for everyone.
Josh brings up about how Daris is not letting his feelings out and talking about what is bothering him which is what helped to get him to the size he was when he came on The Biggest Loser ranch.
My feeling is that he had the chance to say goodbye, he KNEW that his mom going home was a possibility and yet he barely looked at her.
This is a far cry from how close they were when they came on the show.
Actually I am seeing changes in several of the blue team members that I don’t like. I do not understand why some people, when they start to lose a lot of weight, change.
Did they use to be like that before they gained the weight?
Or is it all about losing the weight and starting to look good and that it changes them?
You see, when Daris and Cheryl came on the show they were always talking to each other and hugging. I thought that it was great that they had such a good relationship.
Yet when Daris knew that his mom might be the one to go home he acted like he wasn’t even going to say anything to her, he didn’t go give her a hug goodbye and it seemed that when he did say anything he wouldn’t even look at her and he seemed a bit ‘cool’ towards her
I see the same kind of changes in Koli since the teams went to black and blue. He doesn’t seem to talk with Sam anymore despite the fact that he said that their being on different teams wouldn’t change anything that they would still be cousins.
Sam, on the other hand, is the bigger man as far as I am concerned. He praised up Koli’s weight loss when they had the weigh-in. And he said, in a great reminder to all of the contestants, that “THIS is what it’s all about not black or blue”
Anyway, so the contestants had to do a pop challenge and it was trivia about what they have learned since being on the Biggest Loser ranch.
For each correct answer they get a point and the first team to get three points wins.
The prize? A day (and night) at The Four Seasons.
The loser’s have to clean the kitchen and the gym
Now, we love the black team but we know that when teams get a prize like this and they get to do the whole spa thing that it usually shows up badly on the scale come the weigh-in.
So, even though we know that the black team would have loved to go have the day off and get massages (and that they deserved it) we were hoping that they wouldn’t win this challenge..
Cleaning the kitchen and the gym isn’t the most pleasant of tasks but it would give the black team extra workout time -after all cleaning IS exercise :0)
And the most important thing for us is for the black team to win the weigh-in
As much as I don’t like how Michael has been behaving I admire the fact that he left the ranch to be at her side when he found out her health was bad
We hope that she will be ok
The cooking challenge was interesting. To be able to create 3 courses using only 12 ingrediants?
The prize- a 5 POUND Advantage? OOOOHHHH!!!
We were hoping that the black team would win it. We have been hoping that the blue team would have to send someone home. The blue team has such an advantage already so a 5 pound advantage would help to even things up a bit.
I don’t remember the Biggest Loser ever having given a 5 pound advantage before.
If you haven’t already figured it out- we were happy to see the black team win the cooking challenge and get the 5 pound advantage. The weigh-in should be interesting this week
Josh and I realized that we really like when the blue team has to weigh-in first as it makes it so much easier to know how much weight loss to root for as each team member gets weighed.After all, you want them to lose enough to win but not enough to put them at a disadvantage next week
Well, when all was said and done the blue team won again. The black team had a weight loss of 2.5% while the blue team ended up with a 3.11% weight loss.
Even though the blue team has all those big guys that pull big numbers the black team still gave it a great try. They might not win the weigh-ins for losing weight but they sure do win for having heart and not giving up despite the odds.
So, the black team ended up having to send another team member home. It was sad to see Sherry go home but boy did she look great in the update-didn’t she?
I must say that I don’t like how the blue team has been behaving since they went black verses blue and I know that there are others that feel the same way. But, I guess we won’t be having to worry about that for much longer since the teams will be disolved soon.
Well, until next week.
Later :0)
Biggest Loser last week and tonight
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009Hi All.
I am sorry that I didn’t post last week. I had every intention of doing so until the last few minutes of Biggest Loser.
I really enjoyed the show and from how everything was going we were so SURE that Tracey was going home.
I don’t know about all of you but Josh and I are fed up with her being all about ‘the game’ and how she has stabbed every one in the back.. but that’s ok because it’s just ‘a game’
It seemed like everything was lining up just perfectly and Tracey was going home. We were laughing and so happy because we were so sure that we had seen the last of her so that the rest of the players could get back to being supportive like they were before she kept pushing ’the game, the game’
Liz was talking about how southern women get even, how she was going to be so nice to Tracey and then send her home first chance she got and she wouldn’t even see it coming.
Then Coach MO spoke up and all of that went right down the drain.
WHAT HAPPENED????
Did everyone conveniently forget how Tracey had stabbed them all in the back?
So anyway, all through Biggest Loser last week everything seemed to be on the right track and we were getting so excited and then…..
They sent Coach MO home :0(
So tonight we sat down to watch Biggest Loser not really sure how things would go.
to be honest we still had hope that maybe the blue team would wake up and see Tracey for what she is and that if they had to send someone home it would be her.
All through the challenge we were rooting for the black team. Sorry Bob, we love you, but we just cannot stand Tracey.
It just seems like Vickey all over again
Does anyone else out there see the similarities?
Vickey made that whole season absolute misery
Is Tracey going to do the same this season? Isn’t she already?
Okay, so the blue team sent the black team home for the week thinking that it would give them the advantage.
So at the weigh-in the blue team went first and I must say that for the fact that the blue team was there at the Biggest Loser ranch all week their numbers were not that impressive.
Then the black team got up to get weighed. Even though they had been home all week we had great hopes for the, From what we had seen it looked like they all did pretty good. They seemed to make good choices and exercised.
Then the numbers that they were putting up weren’t very good. We started to worry that the black team would be sending someone home. Then Danny got up there and pulled off a 15 pound weight loss.
FIFTEEN POUNDS!!!
Dan only had to lose 11 pounds and the black team would be safe.
11 pounds….
We were so sure that Dan had it, that he could do this.
Then the horrifying news that Dan had gained a pound
G A I N E D!
OMG!
of all people Dan gained a pound. we couldn’t believe it. then we were worried that Dan would get sent home. He finally had a break through and might be able to finally deal with the emotional issues that got him where he was when he came on the ranch last season.
Don’t get me wrong, we like Dina too but we really would like to see Dan go to the finale.
So how does everyone else feel about Tracey? How do you like how the show has been the last couple of weeks?
Are we the only ones wanting Tracey to go home? I wouldn’t think so.
Go ahead and leave your comments and let us know what you think about Tracey and the Biggest Loser…
Later
~Michelle & Josh
Biggest Loser Season 8
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009Hi All,
First of all I would like to apologize for not having blogged about Biggest Loser in so long. I had every intention of doing wonderful posts about Biggest Loser all summer and I couldn’t wait for the new season to start so I could blog about that.
Well, the best laid plans…. :0(
You see, I had all of these plans but God had other ones for me I guess.
This year has been one of the worst years we have had since my Mom died.
2009 started off badly and it has continued to be that way.
As I mentioned before we found our cousin in a pool of blood dead earlier this year. My friend’s sister died 2 days later. Her mother died shortly after that and then her other sister hung herself last month.
We have lost numerous relatives and family friends this year. I lost my job, gained a new one, have had a lot of health issues and the stress has been unbelievable.
I was hoping that I would make enough money online that I wouldn’t have to work outside the home due to my health issues but that has not been the case. I have taken on some part time jobs that have irritated my health issues but I have been thankful to have what money we have had. Though living on less than $10,000 a year is not easy by a long shot.
Ok, anyway. Enough about all of that. I just wanted you to understand why I haven’t been blogging on here like I had planned. It has been a heck of a year.
But, on to the Biggest Loser…
I CANNOT believe tonight’s show. What is up with Tracey???
I am in shock that she thought that 2 pounds was worth not being trained by Bob and Jillian and I do not believe it was fair of her to take it upon herself to choose that and take away the training from her teammate like that.
Then she got control of the game and almost literally threw everyone under the bus.
THEN when we wanted her to go home so bad that we could practically taste it she puts her team in first place putting 2 other teams in the hot seat.
She lied to people and backstabbed and from the previews for next week she doesn’t seem to ‘get it’
Do we have another ‘Vickey’ on our hands here or what? Hmmmm….
I want to applaud Dan for going to bat for Shay and I REALLY must say that I cried like a baby when Antoine and Sean sacrificed themselves for Shay like that.
I had a feeling that they would but I still was amazed that they actually did it. How humbling that even though they wanted to be there they put Shay, and her health, before their own wants
We saw a lot of emotions on the show tonight which is nothing new for Biggest Loser but it sure did bring out the emotions here. Tracey’s behavior has not won her any fans in this home.
Antoine and Sean should be praised for their sacrifice. You two are AMAZING! It was so wonderful to see the results that you both have had at home. WOW! Over 100 pounds each!!!
Shay? We are so glad that you and Dan will be able to stay on Biggest Loser. I know that you have had a hard life but PLEASE Do NOT Give Up!!! You ARE Worth fighting for. You DESERVE to be happy!!! And last but not least…. You CAN Do This!
Many of us have had hard lives. Josh and I have been through Hell and back. A strong person gets back up and brushes them-self off. For all you have been through You ARE a STRONG Person! Don’t give up now. Wonderful things are just ahead for you if you don’t give up.
As always, Biggest Loser has made me laugh, it has made me cry, I have rejoiced in the progress being made and I have been angry by the behavior of one contestant who needs to stop playing the ’game’ and realize why she is there- to lose weight and to deal with the issues that got her there in the first place.
Yes Tracey lost 11 pounds this week- I don’t know how. Even Tracy didn’t know how. That kind of weight loss won’t continue and it won’t last until she deals with the issues that got her obese in the first place and why she behaves the way that she does.
Can’t wait till next week to see what will happen next
I will try to be better about blogging about Biggest Loser each week. Just please understand that if I don’t it is because of all the chaos in my life right now. Earning enough money to pay the bills, buy food and to have heat during the upcoming Michigan winter is top priority right now.
Donations or your purchasing any Biggest Loser items you see listed on this blog would be greatly appreciated and would help to take the pressure off.
Hope you all are well?
How are your weight loss goals coming?
Whatever happens don’t give up trying to lose the weight….
You CAN Do It!!!
Weight Loss News
Tuesday, July 14th, 2009My research has come across an article describing a new weight loss pill, with a planned release date for next year.
Some people are describing this new weight loss drug as a ‘miracle’ stating that it helps people to lose anywhere from 10% and more of their body weight.
It is also supposed to help people to raise good cholesterol, help prevent heart disease, help people to stop smoking without weight gain and more.
But, my Mom always said “If it seems to be too good to be true then it usually is”.
So what, if any, is the downside to this new weight loss pill?
Well, it has been describe to increase nausea, it also could increase the risk of neuropsychiatric disorders, irritability, depression & anxiety.
This new weight loss drug works by blocking endocannabinoid receptors in the brain.
There are a lot of experts that think that it is not a good idea to block the pleasure center in the brain without producing any bad side effects.
Then there is another new weight loss drug that produced a 25% body weight loss in 1 week in trials on mice but there is no guarantee that humans will get those same weight loss results if (or when) it would go into human clinical trials.
And, if it does, what side effects might it have?
Sure there are weight loss products that have helped some people and that many claim could help you but what are the side effects? Will you be able to keep the weight off after you lose it? Will you gain it right back and maybe even gain more weight than what weight you had lost?
What other side effects might you experience? Will they discover, down the road, that there were more serious side effects than they even realized?
Quit hopping on the weight loss band wagon. Quit trying every new weight loss diet, pill or potion that comes out on the market.
The only sure way and safe way to lose weight and to be able to keep it off is to change the way that you feel about food.
Once you do that you can not only lose the control that food has over you but gain control over the food you eat.
If you have been reading My Biggest Loser Blog for a while then you probably already know about how I lost a lot of weight by using a subliminal software program that retrained my brain to think differently about food.
Since I quit getting on the scales years ago because I didn’t like what the scales said I have no idea what weight I finally did get up to.
A trip to the doctors office a few years ago showed me at something like 250 pounds. I believe I gained more after that.
I kept buying larger and larger clothes and I quit looking in the mirror. I only looked in the mirror enough to brush my hair. I also quit having pictures taken of me as I hated looking at them.
You see your mind can play tricks on you. You can look in the mirror and still see yourself as thinner like you remember or like you WANT to see yourself.
But, when someone takes a picture? Well, the camera doesn’t lie.
For many of you who are overweight you probably have had one of those “OMG!” moments yourself. You know what I mean. Someone shows you a picture of yourself and you are like….
Oh My GAWWWDDDDD- That CAN’T be ME!?
But deep down you know that it is.
If you have had your own OMG moment and you truly want to lose weight but haven’t been able to- please quit harming your body with weight loss pills and drugs that aren’t really help you and that could be actually causing unseen damage that might not show up for months or years to come.
I have showed you pictures of myself. Both Before and After. Right now you can go to the links to the right of the page and you can purchase this same subliminal weight loss software that I used to lose enough weight that I went from wearing a XXXL shirt to being able to wear my son’s size Medium shirts. My pants that I wore before I lost the weight swim on me. Some of them are so loose that even my hips barely keep them on.
You can get that same subliminal weight loss software for under $20 right now. That is not an ongoing subscription that is a one time fee and you can use the software any time you want to or need to for the rest of your life.
You will literally change the way that you feel about food so that you no longer have to worry about food holding you prisoner.
You know what I mean. You feel like you can’t even take a bite of your favorite foods or you won’t be able to stop eating them?
Maybe you are so bad you feel that if you just L@@K at them then you will gain weight. I did. But no more. I know that I can eat anything that I want because I can stop any time I want to. I can eat a brownie and stop at just one instead of eating a whole pan.
I can eat just 1 ice cream sandwich- unless of course the freezer breaks down and we must eat the whole box so that they won’t melt ;0)LOL
Hey, some excuse is better than none:0)
Seriously though, I did eat a lot of the ice cream sandwiches but I went right back to eating healthy and eating just until I was full and have not had any more set backs on keeping the weight off.
If anything I think that I have lost even more since then.
Yes, I also used a natural supplement to help boost my weight loss at first and you can too. You will also find a link to where you can get acai at a low price. You don’t have to use it but it is there if you want to kick start your weight loss for faster results.
But the most important thing is to change the way that you feel about food and you can do that for less than $20 right now and it will never cost you another penny EVER!
I keep telling you about his because it WORKS! It helped me to lose a lot of weight. Yeh, I can’t tell you exact numbers but I have showed you pictures.
I really want to help you. If I had known that I could change my life and lose weight for less than $20 I guarantee you I would have jumped at the opportunity in a heartbeat.
The first 25 people that buy the subliminal weight loss software and send me your receipt can get a 2nd subliminal software FREE for a limited time.
Yes, I want to help you to lose weight so much that I am willing to give you the opportunity to lose weight for what amounts to $10.
2 software for under $20 equals out to less than $10 each.
Biggest Loser Pigout?
Tuesday, June 30th, 2009I was just reading an article that talked about how so many people do not know when they are full.
When do you know that you are full?
Is it when your plate is empty?
When the food is gone?
When everyone else is done eating?
Did you know that there are a lot of people out there that consider the start of the Biggest Loser tv show to be their signal to start pigging out?
That people gather their friends and family as well as a table full of snacks in order to pig out during the Biggest Loser?
The Biggest Loser being used for a pig out fest?
I cannot imagine. I very seldom even eat while the Biggest Loser tv show is on. And I sure the heck try to avoid eating fattening food while watching it.
I don’t know about you but it just doesn’t seem RIGHT to pig out while watching a show about losing weight and getting healthy.
I may ‘pig out’ on occasion by having a treat or maybe eating a bit more than I probably should but I sure do not use the Biggest Loser as my excuse for loading up on junk food and stuffing my face
Do people think that they will be able to watch the Biggest Loser and just lose weight automatically?
Can you absorb the results of someone else’s exercise just by watching?
Can you lose weight by simply watching the Biggest Loser tv show?
Is this what people think?
Is that what YOU think?
I know that a lot of the people reading this blog are doing so because they want to lose weight and get healthy
I myself would be ashamed to pig out during the Biggest Loser tv show. It almost seems, I don’t know….sacrilegious?
It just doesn’t feel right.
Yes the Biggest Loser is entertaining and we love to watch it for it’s entertainment value.
BUT, if you are watching it in order to try to lose weight and get healthy how can you justify pigging out while doing so?
Heck, even if you are skinny as a rail how long do you think that will last if you continue to pig out for 2 hours every week?
So, if you really want to lose weight try taking a look at your behavior while watching the show.
If you find yourself guilty of indulging too much while watching the Biggest Loser then try making some changes.
Feel the need to snack while the show is on? Try having fruit and vegetable platters at hand or reschedule your HEALTHY, LOW FAT, meal to be eaten while watching the show.
They say that you shouldn’t eat while watching tv as you are not fully enjoying your food and you are much more likely to eat many more calories than you need to but at least eating a healthy, low fat meal would be better than pigging out on high calorie junk food snacks.
Remember Phil and his wife Amy Parham on season 6 of the Biggest Loser? I know that ’evil’ Vicky was who so many were talking about but you should remember Phil and Amy as Vicky couldn’t stand Phil and made Amy cry. Remember?
Now do you remember them talking about pigging out on ice cream while watching the show?
See, a lot of people are guilty of it but you CAN change those behaviors and lose weight.
If they can do it then so can you :0)
Here are a few tips to help you .
Try to avoid eating while watching tv
When you do so then try to have healthy snacks available- fruits, vegies, fruit sorbets, popcorn (pop it yourself and you control how much butter and salt it has on it)
Drink water whenever you feel hungry as sometimes it is really thirst being confused for hunger
Really want that high calorie snack?
Try cutting the portion in half or in quarters. Try having just a quarter of half portion instead. Really want more? Wait 30 minutes. If you still want it then go ahead and have another partial portion.
When you make fattening snacks like cake or brownies the cut them into serving size portions. Have 1 and put the rest in the freezer. By having to wait it gives you time to realize that you are already full so there is no more eating the whole cake and then being depressed when you realize what you have done
Not sure how to tell when you are full? Put only normal sized servings on your plate. It you are unsure of how much this is then look it up on the side of the package or in the recipe.
Eat slowly and chew your food thoroughly. They used to say to chew each bite something like 30 times before swallowing it.
Set your eating utensil down between bites.
Savor the flavor. Don’t have distractions.
Listen to your stomach. When it says you are full then stop eating
Need some help with this? Still can’t tell when you are full? Do you REALLY want to be able to watch something and be able to lose weight simply because you watched it?
Do you think that it is possible?
It IS.
If you are truly serious about losing weight and you know that nothing that you have done so far has worked then right now go over to the right and order the subliminal weight loss software.
All you need to do is have this software going in the background when you are on the computer. You retrain your brain to feel differently about food. This makes it so much easier to lose weight and get healthy. The pounds can melt off without you even realizing it. I know as this is what happened to me.
It is under $20 one time and you can use it to lose the weight and then use it as a refresher every once in a while.
If you could lose weight for under $20 one time and no starving diets or brutal exercising wouldn’t you do it?
Go over and order your software now. It installs easily and starts working immediately once you hit the start button. It even comes pre-loaded with messages and yet you can personalize it with some extra messages of your own.
Try it. You’ll be glad you did. I know I am.
Biggest Loser Weight Loss Percentages
Thursday, June 18th, 2009Just in case you are wondering what the weight percentages were for Biggest Loser season 7 contestants we are listing them here:
1 Helen 54.47%
2 Mike 53.35%
3 Tara 52.73%
4 Jerry 47.97%
5 Kristin 46.39%
6 Nicole 45.72%
7 Ron 44.66%
8 Sione 39.25%
9 Dane 37.38%
10 Filipe 37.09%
11 Damien 35.70%
12 Mandi 34.98%
13 Estella 34.30%
14 Carla 33.77%
15 Shannon 32.51%
16 Cathy 32.42%
17 Blaine 31.78%
18 Dan 31.28%
19 Laura 30.18%
20 Joelle 25.89%
21 Aubrey 22.09%
22 Dave 10.94%
It is amazing to see the percentage of weight lost by these people
You can definitely tell who worked harder than others.
I know that some of you are really down on Helen because of her sending Shanon home not once but twice.
Yet, I someone mentioned that this might very well have been their stragety right from the start. They might have talked it out and realized that Helen had a better chance of taking this thing all the way.
It might not be what you or I might have done and many of you might not be happy about it but when all is said and done it seems to have worked for Helen and Shanon. Who are we to judge? Who knows what we might do when in that position? I don’t believe that I would put myself ahead of my child- I haven’t so far- so I doubt it.. But we all react differently to situations and who knows?