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!