Home Again!

Well I survived Girls Camp. We did an awesome hike in Yellowstone Park to Bunson Peak. It was about 5 miles, but it was a steep incline the entire way up. My knee was pretty sore coming back down. It has been nice to give it a rest for a week, but back to working out in the morning. I tried to be careful with my portions all week and limited myself to one dessert per day. We had camp cooks this year. Two single ladies in our ward that live together, and oh boy, can they cook!!! Every meal was incredible, and there was dessert at every meal too. We had a little walk from the bunkhouse to the cook house I had to walk several times a day, but that was the extent of my exercise the whole week.

Rhett and the boys brought up the trailer and we stayed up camping until last night. I was very nervous, but got on the scale this morning! I don't know how but I weighed in at 158.4

So I told Rhett maybe I should quite exercising and eat dessert everyday!! No, just kidding! I will be back at it tomorrow! Have a good one! Oh and I saw on Facebook you were released Cameron! Enjoy sitting by your family on Sundays!!

Another Week!

Glad you are back Earl! Glad you had a great trip. Can't wait to see the pictures and hear your stories! We missed you really bad and only ran once ourselves! We did walk another day though. We are going to start doing a track workout one of our days this week. It is something we saw in our "Runners World" magazine and our friend Jason was talking about. It is supposed to help build endurance. We will see. I mapped out a long run for next Saturday, 15 miles. Meeting at 6 A.M by the park. Everyone is welcome to come. I am sure I will be bringing up the rear so don't worry about slow you think you are!
I got on the scale this afternoon, morning was dedicated to mowing lawns before it got too hot! Weigh in was 233.8 lbs. Bec was too busy and didn't get on the scale. She looks great and is planning on running 6 miles on Saturday. Have a great week everyone!
Cameron & Rebecca

Back from Vacation

Well my vacation was awesome! I only managed to run once :-( Since we were up every morning by 6:30 and in bed every night about 12-1 am, I just did not have the energy to get up earlier and get a run in. Plus my feet hurt most days even with the good Asics I wore.

Since we did a lot of walking and I drank as much water as possible, I didn't really watch what or how much I was eating. I did step on the scale at 201.8 this morning. So I went a little backward, but I was afraid it was going to be worse. If I was a little more disciplined on the food, I probably would have lost weight by walking alone.

The good thing is that I missed running. I am looking forward to getting in my runs this week. Hopefully I can get back under 200 quickly and start working on my next goal of 195.

Way to go everyone - successes is in each stride. Way to go Claudine on the race!

Cameron you are catching me...

Glad the frequent eating is working for Rebecca. It seems counter intuitive. It is like a fire you keep burning and that water is going to clear everything out.

Race Day

Just a quick post, life is crazy busy!

We ran the Scenic River Classic yesturday, Rhett ran it in 29:42 and I came in at 31:25! It was a huge race, tons of people and we didn't get that great of a start, we were back in the pack a little ways, but we are very happy with our times. My goal is just to improve each time.

I weighed in Friday at 159.6, I'm not sure where Rhett is, he said he is about the same, so around 207. One of these days I am going to stand behind him as he weighs and get his official number.

I'm off to girl's camp this week - wish me luck, I am a little nervous about not getting my work-outs in and all the treats and crap we eat up there.

Have a good week!

Claudine

IT"S SUMMER!!!

Well I'm actually going to post... Cameron has been great at keeping up with our progress, Well mostly his progress. I continue to run but no result in weight loss! So now that life is a BIT slower I have decided to try to figure out why!!! I have been stuck at 162 pounds for 3 months!! So I started something new this week. I started writing down EVERYTHING I put in my mouth.
It is interesting to see what I eat and how much water I drink. I think I really havent changed my eating to much I just think about what im eating more, knowin I have to write it down!

I noticed that if I eat like Earl suggested, Every 2-3 hours and have a smaller portion im not eating junk as much or Over eating, because im not STARVING! I try to follow everthing up that I eat with at least 2 cups of water.

Well I saw instant results! I started this on Monday and by Tuesday I was already down a pound! Could that be right?! No just a fluke! Well Wed i was still down a pound and by Thursday down 2 pounds! The cool thing is I dont feel like I depriving myslef of food at all I just feel great! I eat when I want I just have to write it down!

Today was weigh in time... I came it at 159.8! In one week I broke the 160 barrier I have been batteling for over 3 months!! Now my goal it to not go back up!

WEll enough about me! Cameron is just amazing let me tell you as I Jog he run's circles around me literally! He run's in circles so he doesn't get to far ahead of me! He is doing so great! He also did amazing this week! He has been on a steady downward loss just what he wants!

Today he came in with a 4 pound loss!!! 233!! Way to go Cameron! You inspire me!

About time.

Well I guess I will finally post to the blog. I am still running although it is lonely by myself. But I try to run at three times a week. Normally three miles and one day six miles. I am hanging around the 172 - 175 mark depending any great desire. But I do feel great and have lots of energy. So keep up the great job everyone. And it will come off ...slowly but it will come off.
Have fun in Spain Earl.

Ron

Survived the Trek!

We had a great time on our pioneer trek! We had a ton of rain, but it gave us a great pioneer experience. I hope to have pictures and stuff up on our blog soon. I worked hard last week, and had set Thursday as the day I could break my "no sweets" streak. I weighed myself at 4:30am Thursday before we left. . .

I weighed in at 162.6

I was worried about the trip, about being good and also sitting on a bus for 9 hours there and back. I usually retain water like crazy when I just sit and figured I would blow up like a balloon! I was pretty good with the sweets. I went to have a brownie Thursday night, but it just didn't taste great, so I only had a bite. I did have some yummy peach cobbler on Friday and a cupcake on Saturday.

So I decided to weigh myself again this morning, I was really nervous, I figured I had gained at least a couple pounds, but much to my surprise and delight. . .

I weighed in at 161.4

We did walk about 11.5 miles in two days. And I was still careful, and I am happy to have not blown up like a balloon!!!

We are running the Scenic River Classic on Saturday. Several from Rhett's family have decided to run with us - Justin, Carleen, Shalean, Rick, and Heather. And my two sisters, Andrea and Melanie are going to run it as well!!!!! I am excited, and hopefully up for the challenge of a little friendly competition!

1/2 Marathon (Almost)

This morning I got up and did a long run. I wanted to run for 2 hrs. and see how far that would get me. I ended up running 12.35 miles in 2:17.18. I did pretty good for the first 10 miles and then had to walk for a minute or so. I ended up walking for 10 min. near the end. I did run (slowly) to the finish. I weighed 237.8 lbs before the fun and 233 lbs after. It was very hard at time but it is done! Keep up the great work Earl! You are a machine. Thanks for everyone else. It helps to see all your efforts, successes and setbacks. Have a great week!

Cameron

So close with a couple days to go - Revised

I have only run once this week on Tues. I ran 5 with a 43:38, which was my second best time at that distance. My knee and shin on my right side was a little sore on Wed and Thurs so I decided to take it easy. Didn't want to have a bum knee as I get ready for vacation. If I feel better, I will take a run on Friday night or Saturday morning.

I tipped the scale at 201 on Friday morning. I drank a lot of water yesterday and must have flushed out my system. I broke the 200 mark before my vacation.

Yeah Its Summer!!!

So glad school is out!!!! But our summer is very busy, I hope to be able to stick to my workouts throughout summer. I think it's going to be a little tough because we will be gone a lot and there are so many yummy things in summer - Smores!! We went camping last weekend and I didn't have ANY, it was a killer! We leave on Thursday for Martin's Cove and that is when I set to break my no sweets streak. I am going to be very careful though. I went with our stake to Martin's Cove 4 years ago and their snacks were Day Old Hostess everything. It seemed like everytime I turned around they were handing out twinkies and doughnuts. I am going to take some snacks along that are more healthy!!! But once we get home, I am home for a week and then I go to Girls Camp for an entire week, that will be a killer too. I always eat way too much at girls camp, so once again I hope to keep it all in check and figure out how to get some excerise in that week!!!!!

I weighed in on Friday at 163.8 (I didn't get Rhett's weight this week, he has been sore again this week, being revisited by sore muscles from his fall so he stayed in bed a couple days this week).

Slowly but surely, I was complaining to Rhett that the weight should be coming off faster! He told me I was insane, that I am doing great and it's coming off a lot faster than I put it on. But it's not as fun taking it off as it was putting it on!!!!!

Going the distance

We are in the Madera/Fresno/Clovis area this weekend. My half-brother graduated from middle school in Madera on Friday. I packed my gear so I could still do my long-run on Sat, but it is easy to sleep and be a little lazy when on vacation.

Last night I used mapmyrun.com to find a route. I needed to do something since I was neglectful last weekend. I decided to extend my run to 9 miles. I mapped a course close to the "Outlaws". After mapping the run, I looked at the area I was covering and thought...holy smokes that is far. I set a mental goal of 1:25 min and came in at 1:27 something. I was doing pretty good until the 6/7 mile mark. The last two miles were a little tough so I lost some time and had to walk a couple times. The last time I ran 8 I felt better, probably because I did a little better at pre-running fuel. I weighed in at 202.8 on Friday, but don't have a scale to check where I am today. I am hoping to break the 200 mark before my trip to Spain on June 15th. I also plan to pack some gear to run in Spain. There are a couple places I would love to take a 3-5 mile run.

Good luck everyone! It is worth the hard work and sometimes pain. Stay disciplined and eat smaller meals more frequently. I am a believer, even though it seems like eating less and exercise is the trick.

It's FRIDAY!!!

It is always good news when it's Friday no matter what the weigh in! We had a good week, ran 4 days I think. It's early when we run so don't blame me if I don't remember it all the time! I can't seem to break the mark I am on. It has been holding on for month's now! I guess I'm going to have to be more disciplined with the wrong kinds of food! But over all we are feeling great and slimming down even if the weight is not coming off we can tell our clothes are fitting better!


Cameron is up two pounds 237.4


Rebecca's staying steady like forever at 162. even.


I'm going to put a before and after photo on here to show the progress.
Remember these guys WOW!

Aug 2008

End of May 2009 Getting there!

Late Again!

I'm late again, but here goes. Friday's weigh in was good
Me: 164.4
Rhett: 209 (something - he doesn't look at the point stuff he says)
Then Saturday we headed to Utah to Lagoon on Saturday and Rhett's sister's baby blessing on Sunday. It is so hard to pass on treats at those shin-digs, I didn't have any treats but I did have a frozen pink lemonade at Lagoon and it felt like I was cheating. Rhett says it wasn't, but I'm sure it had a ton of sugar in it. Rhett's brother Justin and his wife Carleen have both given up sweets too, (they haven't said for how long) and they are running every morning. Justin is doing the Bone to Back Relay the end of June.
We are registered to run a 5k on June 20th, it is at the Greenbelt, the Scenic River Classic. I haven't run much since the 5k, so it will be good to get back to it! We are both getting new running shoes, I think that will help our knees a lot! Have a great week everyone!!