A Time To Lose

*PPP = Pinky Promise Project for more PPP posts go HERE

I've said it before and I'll say it again, I love Biggest Loser.

Before I saw this show I thought, "What? Some reality show that embarrasses people who struggle with weight loss?" No, no, no. It ENABLES people who don't know how to get out of the rut that, yes, they have created for themselves due to one issue or another. It's brilliant and motivating and even brings legitimate tears at times...unlike some other reality shows I could mention.

I started watching this show...what? Season 7? Was that the one with Ron and Mike? Anyway, it changed the way I looked at health forever. It does every time I see it.

Did you know obesity kills 112,000 Americans each year?

Did you know obesity increases the health risk for heart disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes, cancers, fatty liver disease, chronic venous insufficiency, gallbladder disease, breathing problems, deep vein thrombosis, arthritis, expectant mothers and their babies, etc.

source

Sad, isn't it?

Is food really THAT good?

I think the American mind has confused us in A LOT of areas. One being our intake of the most nasty, fattening, lame excuses for "food" the world has ever put on a plate. Jillian calls it poison. I thought, "That's a bit of an overstatement." Then she said, "Is it killing you?" Then it's poison." ...eeesh. The truth hurts.

But then there's area two, the part of America that tells you that you have to look like a model on the cover of a magazine to have value. P.S. It's called Photoshop.

Both are sick.

The world's ideals are not what we should be worried about anyway, right? Our first priority, believe it or not, should be ourselves and our own health.

Anyway, I don't know where I was going with that, but...

I'm recommitting today to living a healthier lifestyle.

That includes exercising more, sleeping better, eliminating junk from my diet, and so-on. I hope you'll do the same.

Change starts with you.

And the journey of a thousand miles starts with one step.

Need inspiration? Motivation? Watch Biggest Loser every Tuesday night on NBC 8/7c.

People are changing their lives TODAY! Are you?

You can expect more PPP comin' attcha! YEAH BOY!

My Biggest Loser ;)

Top 10 Reasons I Have a Small Crush on Daris

(aka America's next Biggest Loser)

1. He loves his family.

2. He's a role model & a people person.

3. He can cook!

4. He FINALLY cut the nasty fro & gnarly beard!

5. He ran his first marathon in 4 hours!

6. His mom is stinkin' adorable.

7. He's a hard worker.

8. He's sensitive.

9. He's ambitious & goal oriented.

10. He's perdy cute, too.

(minus the pompadour)

Biggest Loser Finale - Tonight @ 7pm MST on NBC!

Koli? Michael? Ashley? Daris?

Who will the next Biggest Loser be?

GO DARIS!

PPP Book of the Week - Part I

Madre and I have recently been reading this

If you're as "obsessed" with The Biggest Loser as I am, she should look familiar. Jillian Michaels is one of the two trainers on The Biggest Loser and, therefore, has a wealth of knowledge about balancing our hormones through a healthy diet and exercise routine to ultimately renew our metabolism to tip-top shape. Sweet huh?

You'll be pleased to know that the diet she prescribes is not excruciating either. It's all about portions and what kinds of foods are best for our healthy and fit lifestyle.

I'm taking it on, guys and gals! I'm happy to announce that I've finally worked it into my schedule to get to the gym every day, for at least 45 minutes, and now that I have the right tools (i.e. metabolism-boosting foods) to get me going, I might just get into my desired pants size sometime soon.

Wanna know a secret? Well, it's not really a secret, but when I finally get to my desired fitness goal, I'm going to buy some jeans and use them as my fitness marker for my whole life (except for when I have babies and such). That may sound like a lofty goal, but I know I can do it.

The key?

Eating nutritious food & weekly exercise routine.

They're the unstoppable duo.

If we want to lose weight or even just maintain it, we can't eat a steady diet of fried cheesecake and Big Macs everyday and expect that, just because we ran a couple laps, we'll automatically start dropping pounds (though I wish that were the case). We can do it! BAH, I'm kind of giddy.

Eat healthy.

Sweat lots.

Therein is happiness.

I promise!

#24

Do you want to know what the best part of my life is, thus far...

The part that fills my heart with love and my eyes with tears of joy...

The part that teaches me more about life than any college professor...

The part that solidifies my desire to be a mom every day...



It's being an Aunt.Aunt Widsy. Aunt Hee-hee. Aunt Dzee-dzee. Aunt Poops (don't ask).

I may be biased, but I'm pretty sure my n&ns are the coolest:

#1 - Bobs was born when I was 6 and is basically my sweet little sister.Quote: "Frankly, I don't wear a bikini."
#2 - Michael beats me at arm wrestling and has sweet skate moves.Quote: (to his preschool teacher) "What're you lookin' at, ya hockey puck?"
#3 - Whittles always has cool things to show me and makes me laugh.Quote: "That is so delinquently choice."
#4 - Em thinks I'm hilarious and writes me sweet emails that make my day.Quote: (in reference to a fly) "A bly! A bly!"

#5 - Samsta is sweet and does a hilarious Napoleon Dynamite impression.Memory: When he named his cat "Bum Bum" so he could say it without getting in trouble.

#6 - Jessie is a good sport and does awesome character voices when narrating.Quote: (on long road trip) "I'm dying back here and nobody even cares!"
#7 - Spence is a handsome little gentleman and an impressive athlete.Memory: Playing basketball one-on-one with him in the driveway and getting schooled.

#8 - Jaker is a sponge of knowledge in everything from animals to Star Wars.Quote: (explaining a Christmas present) "I received a Star Wars product."

#9 - Hai is thoughtful, creative and really good at UNO.Memory: When she gets really into telling a story, starts talking super fast and only takes quick gasps of air between phrases.

#10 - Ether is sweet and never forgets to give hugs and kisses to everyone.Memory: "I beasty!" (I'm thirsty)
#11 - Ammon-M loves to make people laugh, especially babies, and is a great artist.Quote: "Joseph Smith was lucky...Heavenly Father told him he didn't have to go to any church..."

#12 - Johnny is always smiling and sharing his latest jokes and songs.Quote: (to my sister when her date came over) "HEA-THER! Your BOY-FRIEND'S here!"
#13 - Bry is an energetic and sweet big brother and great helper.Quote: (referring to a popsicle) "I like thticky ithe!" (I like sticky ice)
#14 - Matthew is great at soccer and has a contagious laugh.Quote: "Dad said....."Poops" (laughs)"

#15 - Binny always gives me big hugs and sweet notes/drawings.Quote: (when the toilet paper was all gone) "The toilet paper runned out of batteries."
#16 - Sadster spreads enthusiasm and loves doing girly things.Quote: "I wuv Watatouille in the wuwst way" (I love Ratatouille in the worst way).
#17 - Sarah makes funny faces with me and loves to play with me on Barbie.com.Memory: Taking her picture. She is a natural at posing, smiling and making faces.

#18 - Smyler is a sweetie and loves to share his stories.Quote: "Dzee-dzee, Neeny eet me!" (Lindsay, Ninny hit me!)
#19 - Smylee is fearless and loves princess things.Quote: (after putting on hand santitizer) "I just...I just want to suck on my thumb, but it tastes yucky..."
#20 - Nater has an adult-like personality and always makes me laugh.Quote: "Knock knock {who's there} a monkey {a monkey who?} a monkey's head (laughs)! Get it?" #21 - Benj always says funny things and doesn't realize it till everyone laughs.Quote: "Dat me, dat fweak me out!" (If that were me, that'd freak me out!)
#22 - Lyni has the most beautiful long eyelashes and is basically just adorable.Memory: Scowling when she's feeling shy and feebly attempting to hide her smile.
#23 - Hy Guy thinks I'm funny and plays Hide & Seek with me none-stop.Quote: "Widsy...Iss...My...Fave-ut...An...(claps)" (Lindsay is my favorite Aunt).

#24 - Bebe is adorable and has sweet witto chunky cheeks.Memory: Holding her for the first time and stroking her fuzzy witto head.

I love those kids! And quite honestly, if being an aunt is this amazing,I can only imagine what beautiful blessings await me in motherhood someday.

Welcome to our family, Bebe!


P.S. I totally called this! Go Danny!

Tonight's The Night!

The Biggest Loser Finale

on NBC

woot woot!

Who's it gonna be?

Rudy? (boo!) Amanda? Danny? Liz?

I hope Danny wins...

Anyone but Rudy. He's Rude.

And I think that Amanda should marry Bob...

...I'm just sayin'

Ok. I'm done.

Enjoy!

As Of Late

...life has been good to me!

For more details, read on.

Halloweening

You saw Cruella and Peacock already...

But I wanted to be something else on Halloween itself...so did Nicole.

So here we are as The Bride of Frankenstein and the Angel. I love this costume!

My sister-in-law Kara helped me with this awesome do. Thanks Kara!

It involved: gel, blow drying upside-down, three-barreling upside-down, hairspray, backcombing, hairspray, styrofoam, bobby-pins, hairspray, white temporary hairspray dye...and hairspray. If it wasn't so weird, I'd probably do it more often.

It's strangely addicting having really tall hair!

Bowling

for ward FHE

(more pics here)

Check it out! They heard I was coming so they stamped my name on the bowling balls!

...jk...but I still think they're awesome!

Birthdaying!

Thank you for the kind birthday wishes, everyone!

Feathy Lou and Joseph got me these lovelies and decorated my room all cute and princessly! I decided to keep the streamers up for as long as they'll stay. It's fun walking through them every time I exit and enter my bedroom. Thanks Feath & Joseph!

Madre took me to IHOP for breakfast and got me (drum roll) my very own tennis racket!

So excited to take this to the court and Venus it up! Thanks Madre and Dad!

(not such a good picture, but I'll get some action shots on the court one of these days)

Sir Scott got me some hot chocolate because

a) it's "Italian"

b) to milk grasshoppers

How thoughtful! Thanks Scott!

I made a stop at good ol' Kohl's before I headed to school. Apparently I'm really good at convincing myself that I don't have enough clothes as it is. This is the outcome of yet another successful visit to that oh-so inexpensive addiction of mine, Kohl's. Gotta love cute and cheap!

"It's my birthday present to me! I'm...so...happy!" (name that movie)

Trav took me to a little piece of heaven called The Cheesecake Factory for dunch (or is it linner?) and got me a print of my favorite painting ever, "The Red Kerchief" by Mr. Claude Monet.

Monet finished this portrait of his wife Camilla shortly after she passed away. Thus, the symbolism of their separation with the closed door and her longing glance as she passes by out in the cold. This is one painting that Monet never sold. In fact, it remained at his bedside until he passed away in 1926. I love that story, beautiful! Thanks Travis!

John and I take late night runs to the grocery store to get banana milk on a regular basis and he always gets me a Propel or Fuze whenever I'm not with him.

Thus...his present to me. Thanks Johnny-O!

And...this is what I did with the fam when I finally got home from school at 9pm:

stuffed-crust pizza,

homemade rootbeer,

Biggest Loser,

"Happy Birthday" song,

"For She's a Jolly Good Fellow"

(it's my grandparent's Australian tradition),

blew out candles,

Funfetti cake!!!

It has been a fantabulous week

and it's not over yet!

Have a lovely weekend, cute people! xoxo

Reality

I think I speak for the majority of the population when I say,

reality TV is obnoxiously fake and melodramatic...

however,

this fact has not yet kept me from watching:

Season 8 starts tonight at 7!

Yeeyah!

Bring on the pain Jillian & Bob,

I'm ready!

...hey guys, fitness motivation doesn't grow on trees!