Can you believe a month has gone by since we started?
Well, this little Cinderella Pact is growing. I hear there are others who would like to participate and create their own little groups. So, if you want to create an auxiliary group, wow! I am so glad you are here! Best of luck to you all! Here is a quick review of rules:
1. Find at least one other person to do this with you because changing the way you eat and live is difficult and having someone to lean on and boost you up is key.
2. Each of you puts ten bucks in the pot. Then decide on a monetary amount that you feel like will motivate you to lose the weight, for me it is 20 bucks. Then decide how much you will lose in 2 weeks. Ours was 2 pounds in 2 weeks because we didn’t want it to be a starvation diet since we obviously didn’t learn anything from those crash and burn diets we’d all done before. Have a neutral party hold your money, so that you are not tempted to give up. I chose my spouse. Pick someone you trust!
3. Pick an end date and a goal to be working towards. Ours was Thanksgiving.
4. Post your results here!
Thoughts about these last two weeks:
There has been some discussion about banking pounds and my overall feeling about that is…NO! That just opens up a whole can of worms better left alone. The beauty of the two week time line is that even if you had a terrible night of temptations you can balance that out the rest of the 13 days. I can also see in the future where the scale will refuse to move for a week and then you have to put your 20 bucks into the pot, but guess what, that next Monday is a clean slate. You get to start over, because wouldn’t banking pounds mean that if you failed then you were in the red and you had to then lose 3 pounds to stay on track?
Anyone else’s jeans getting loose? I need go buy a belt, hee hee!
Saturday, March 20, 2010
Sunday, March 7, 2010
Week 2 down 38 more to go for Cinderella Pact & 8 more for exercise bet
Everyone’s update thus far:
Rachel – down 3 lbs & exercised 8 days within the last 2 weeks
Holly – down 2 lbs & exercised Apollo 2x the last 14 days making her have LOTS AND LOTS of banked days! Not that Apollo will let her have a day off!
Gretchen – down 6 lbs (due to liquid diet & surgery) exercised as much as the doctor would allow. Her new goal is to maintain within a 3 lb range for next two weeks.
Amber - down ?, will start exercise bet on Monday!
Some thoughts on this week:
This week I thought I did everything right however Monday – Friday however, I hovered in a +/- 0.4 he[[. Monday I went up .2, Tuesday went up .4, Thursday went up 2.2 and then Friday went down .4 and then on Sunday I was down 2.9 which roughly translates to NOTHING LOST FOR A WHOLE BLESSED WEEK! I was good, I didn’t spiral out of control into a sugar induced coma (not comma, thank you spell check gods), which is where I would have gone 2 months ago. Instead I told myself that, it is probably my body’s reaction to loosing 3 the week prior and kept going.
Which leads me to an interesting question; what do you tell yourself when the scale doesn’t move? I have read from multiple sources that the scale isn’t the only measurement we should use. The experts suggest that I get a tape measure out and measure my lovely parts and keep track of that. Others say to weigh myself only once a week. I could do the first *if* I could find my measuring tape; the latter is hard as I really like those silly stamps on the wii calendar. To be able to look at a whole month and see how many times I exercised is a point of pride for me. I did take a picture of myself last Monday, as a ‘starting weight picture’ so maybe a good idea would be to take a picture (gulp) every Monday and then I could see my weekly progress?
The only mantra I can seem to come up with is: Just keep swimming, just keep swimming, ala Dory from ‘Finding Nemo.’ Any others?
Rachel – down 3 lbs & exercised 8 days within the last 2 weeks
Holly – down 2 lbs & exercised Apollo 2x the last 14 days making her have LOTS AND LOTS of banked days! Not that Apollo will let her have a day off!
Gretchen – down 6 lbs (due to liquid diet & surgery) exercised as much as the doctor would allow. Her new goal is to maintain within a 3 lb range for next two weeks.
Amber - down ?, will start exercise bet on Monday!
Some thoughts on this week:
This week I thought I did everything right however Monday – Friday however, I hovered in a +/- 0.4 he[[. Monday I went up .2, Tuesday went up .4, Thursday went up 2.2 and then Friday went down .4 and then on Sunday I was down 2.9 which roughly translates to NOTHING LOST FOR A WHOLE BLESSED WEEK! I was good, I didn’t spiral out of control into a sugar induced coma (not comma, thank you spell check gods), which is where I would have gone 2 months ago. Instead I told myself that, it is probably my body’s reaction to loosing 3 the week prior and kept going.
Which leads me to an interesting question; what do you tell yourself when the scale doesn’t move? I have read from multiple sources that the scale isn’t the only measurement we should use. The experts suggest that I get a tape measure out and measure my lovely parts and keep track of that. Others say to weigh myself only once a week. I could do the first *if* I could find my measuring tape; the latter is hard as I really like those silly stamps on the wii calendar. To be able to look at a whole month and see how many times I exercised is a point of pride for me. I did take a picture of myself last Monday, as a ‘starting weight picture’ so maybe a good idea would be to take a picture (gulp) every Monday and then I could see my weekly progress?
The only mantra I can seem to come up with is: Just keep swimming, just keep swimming, ala Dory from ‘Finding Nemo.’ Any others?
Sunday, February 28, 2010
Cinderella Pact Week 1 is done! 39 More to go!
I hope this email finds everyone 1 pound lighter or in Gretchen’s case at least the same!
Amber is going to join our little pact, which is GREAT because now Gretchen and Amber have a face to face support system as opposed to phone to phone.
I lost my one pound and I have to exercise today but I’m right on track for getting in my 4 days this week! How about you?
Rachel
Question of the week: What do you do when there is an unexpected GINORMOUS birthday cake with that lovely icing that makes your heart happy at work and everyone is eating it? Does anyone have a good mantra? I was thinking “___________ won’t taste as good as skinner will feel!”
Cinderella Pact rules:
• $ 10 bucks went into the pot for safe keeping (Joe for MD, Warren for MT)
• Goal: 2 pounds in 2 weeks, (or maintain for Gretchen until she gets ok from Doc) if goal not achieved then you add how much you deemed necessary to motivate you to lose those two pounds. Holly and I have placed a $20 on the fridge to remind ourselves of what we’ll have to give up!
• Long Term goal of 40 pounds in 40 weeks, to end right before Thanksgiving, because let’s face it the holidays are a time to focus on maintaining rather than gaining!
• In November, as an additional incentive, (this may not be for everyone but I know it is for me) you have to get a picture taken of yourself. A NICE picture with a photographer! Because we all know how much we avoid those pesky pictures and we don’t want generations to go by without some sort of pictures of ourselves. (Joe teases me that when the kids get older they will ask, “How come we don’t have any pictures of Mommy?” as I am very good at avoiding pictures of myself.)
• And MOST importantly: This is about making little changes to help get ourselves healthy and be here for the long haul, because let’s face it we have all crash dieted, or starved/dieted ourselves to death and lost all of those jiggly parts but we went back to our old ways and have found that those jiggly parts just reattach themselves. I for one do not want to turn 40 and be this unhappy with my jiggly parts!
Exercise Bet Rules:
• For 10 weeks, (or 9 now for Amber) we will exercise at least 4 times a week (Gretchen will start when Doc gives ok)
• You can work out more than 4 days and have a day banked for emergency weeks (see Gretchen and Ice Skating Incident). Last bet I pulled a muscle picking up Liam and was thankful I had one ‘banked’ day.
• If you have an accident (See Gretchen and Ice Skating incident {I’m teasing}) you can drop out of bet but only if you have a doctor’s note! Yes I am a hard a$$ on this one as we’ve had some lame excuses out there about why some people can’t exercise. Plan People Plan! Must be the German in me!
• Minimum amount of time is 20 minute, but more is certainly worth it! But don’t overdo it, people! There was some discussion on if you did 40 minutes can you call that extra 20 a banked day, um…I think we said no to that, because it is a daily thing not a ‘oh crud, I didn’t exercise this week let me cram in 4 twenty minute sessions on Sunday!’ This is about making those changes and not letting ourselves get distracted/or put everyone first mentality we have.
• If you lose, it is ok, we still love you! However, you have to pay 100 bucks to some organization that will motivate you to get off of facebook/ the couch/ the internet. My motivation is to give 100 bucks to the opposite political party, Holly’s is that she has to join a dating service, Gretchen’s is she has to give 100 bucks to me (I think) but more importantly she can’t lose to me!
• What type of exercise you do is up to you, the point is to be moving and hopefully sweating!
Amber is going to join our little pact, which is GREAT because now Gretchen and Amber have a face to face support system as opposed to phone to phone.
I lost my one pound and I have to exercise today but I’m right on track for getting in my 4 days this week! How about you?
Rachel
Question of the week: What do you do when there is an unexpected GINORMOUS birthday cake with that lovely icing that makes your heart happy at work and everyone is eating it? Does anyone have a good mantra? I was thinking “___________ won’t taste as good as skinner will feel!”
Cinderella Pact rules:
• $ 10 bucks went into the pot for safe keeping (Joe for MD, Warren for MT)
• Goal: 2 pounds in 2 weeks, (or maintain for Gretchen until she gets ok from Doc) if goal not achieved then you add how much you deemed necessary to motivate you to lose those two pounds. Holly and I have placed a $20 on the fridge to remind ourselves of what we’ll have to give up!
• Long Term goal of 40 pounds in 40 weeks, to end right before Thanksgiving, because let’s face it the holidays are a time to focus on maintaining rather than gaining!
• In November, as an additional incentive, (this may not be for everyone but I know it is for me) you have to get a picture taken of yourself. A NICE picture with a photographer! Because we all know how much we avoid those pesky pictures and we don’t want generations to go by without some sort of pictures of ourselves. (Joe teases me that when the kids get older they will ask, “How come we don’t have any pictures of Mommy?” as I am very good at avoiding pictures of myself.)
• And MOST importantly: This is about making little changes to help get ourselves healthy and be here for the long haul, because let’s face it we have all crash dieted, or starved/dieted ourselves to death and lost all of those jiggly parts but we went back to our old ways and have found that those jiggly parts just reattach themselves. I for one do not want to turn 40 and be this unhappy with my jiggly parts!
Exercise Bet Rules:
• For 10 weeks, (or 9 now for Amber) we will exercise at least 4 times a week (Gretchen will start when Doc gives ok)
• You can work out more than 4 days and have a day banked for emergency weeks (see Gretchen and Ice Skating Incident). Last bet I pulled a muscle picking up Liam and was thankful I had one ‘banked’ day.
• If you have an accident (See Gretchen and Ice Skating incident {I’m teasing}) you can drop out of bet but only if you have a doctor’s note! Yes I am a hard a$$ on this one as we’ve had some lame excuses out there about why some people can’t exercise. Plan People Plan! Must be the German in me!
• Minimum amount of time is 20 minute, but more is certainly worth it! But don’t overdo it, people! There was some discussion on if you did 40 minutes can you call that extra 20 a banked day, um…I think we said no to that, because it is a daily thing not a ‘oh crud, I didn’t exercise this week let me cram in 4 twenty minute sessions on Sunday!’ This is about making those changes and not letting ourselves get distracted/or put everyone first mentality we have.
• If you lose, it is ok, we still love you! However, you have to pay 100 bucks to some organization that will motivate you to get off of facebook/ the couch/ the internet. My motivation is to give 100 bucks to the opposite political party, Holly’s is that she has to join a dating service, Gretchen’s is she has to give 100 bucks to me (I think) but more importantly she can’t lose to me!
• What type of exercise you do is up to you, the point is to be moving and hopefully sweating!
Monday, January 11, 2010
Sunday, January 3, 2010
New year - New bet part 2A
Grr - Silly Calendars that start with MONDAY instead of SUNDAY!
Baseline - Jan 4th - 17th
Official Kick Off - Jan 18th - Jan 31st
Wii renewal - Jan 11th - Mar 21st
Baseline - Jan 4th - 17th
Official Kick Off - Jan 18th - Jan 31st
Wii renewal - Jan 11th - Mar 21st
New year - New bet part 2
We are starting a new bet for the wii & a separate bet for weight and here are the guide lines:
Baseline weight bet: Jan 5 - Jan 18 (2 weeks) to see if a) we are comfortable committing to this bet and seeing how much we are willing to try and loose.
Official Start date of Bet: Jan 19th - with some sort of conference call to cement goals.
10 week wii bet - to begin on Jan 12th - March 22nd and our individual goal is to commit to 4x a week exercising AT LEAST 20 minutes. Any extra days are 'banked' for future injuries or problems.
Baseline weight bet: Jan 5 - Jan 18 (2 weeks) to see if a) we are comfortable committing to this bet and seeing how much we are willing to try and loose.
Official Start date of Bet: Jan 19th - with some sort of conference call to cement goals.
10 week wii bet - to begin on Jan 12th - March 22nd and our individual goal is to commit to 4x a week exercising AT LEAST 20 minutes. Any extra days are 'banked' for future injuries or problems.
New year - New bet
After taking a 3 week break from Wii'ing 5 days a week, I started a new bet. Wii'ing 3 days a week. I can definitely see that the weight loss is stabilized only doing 3 days a week. BUT I am still exercising AND almost done. The 10th of Jan will be the last week of my 2nd ten week bet. Hmmm,...now if I could only think of a bet that would motivate me to loose weight!
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