WEIGHT LOSS CHALLENGE - UPDATE:
Well - one month has gone by & we've all weighed in for the first update of our weight loss journey. We've each lost a little. As a matter of fact, Mark told me he's lost 6 pounds since we started last month & he's not even trying to. I guess it's all the walking! Apparently our challenge has inspired others too- our friend Bob e-mailed me to say he wants to lose weight too. Anyone who wants to join is welcome - all you need to do is email me your goal, your planned method of weight loss and a picture. Then each month I need an updated picture & your total loss that month. The more the merrier!
Here's the photographic update followed by the numbers. Between the 5 of us (I'm including Mark), we lost a total of 39 pounds! Imagine that as 1 lb boxes of butter - that's A LOT of butter! WAY TO GO EVERYONE!!!!!
Do any of us look any different than we did last month?
Progress:
remember - JG has a total loss from much more than just one month since she started her program months & months ago...
----------starting goal
/ loss this month / total loss
/ remains to be lost
Jennifer --149 lbs ---------
11 lbs --------------64 lbs ----------85 lbs
Valerie ---115 lbs ---------
11 lbs --------------11 lbs ----------104 lbs
Mom -----49 lbs ----------
4 lbs ---------------4 lbs -----------45 lbs
Dad ------85 lbs ----------
7 lbs ----------------7 lbs -----------78 lbs
Mark-----none -----------
6 lbs ----------------6 lbs -----------none
Brandon rode his trike up and down the sidewalk while Nick cut & I supervised... Laedyn was napping (good girl!)
Brandon also helped out by trying to rake the yard. There were little seed pods everywhere.
As Nick's work progressed he got too warm and took off his sweatshirt. For 20 minutes after that Brandon pestered me about taking off his shirt. In between pleadings, he used a stick to beat on the pile of branches Nick was creating.
I don't think this is nearly as nice as the slender gracefully curving branches arched over by the weight of the seed pod bunches. I guess it will fill back in soon enough. In the meantime, the front of the house looks bare. Stark. Stripped. It also reveals how badly the house needs a paint job...
I think the little seed pods are pretty. I took a bunch of pictures. It wasn't all that easy though. There was enough wind to make getting a clear closeup shot rather challenging. Perseverence and patience paid off. I got more than one that turned out nicely.
Our neighbor, Rita, was very pleased to see that we finally got around to trimming the crepe myrtles. Now she's probably wondering when we'll get all the branches out of the yard... This isn't even the whole pile! Nick was only 1/2 done with the first crepe myrtle when I took this picture! There's another pile in the other half of the lawn from the other tree. I guess that's this weekends job - assuming the rain holds off.
