Jim Eason.: Quotes for Weight Loss MotivationIf

If you want to look young and thin, hang around old fat people.

Anthony Robbins: Weight Loss Inspiration Quotes

The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.

Thought for this morning

Well, if I'm the only one that is going to post anything, this will be easy!

I wake up every day with the realization that this is it, that there's only one shot at this life and I can either enjoy the ride and live it to its fullest and to my highest potential or I can stay the way I am.

Thought I might as well do one more while I'm at it...

Apple salad with figs and almonds

2 large red apples, cored and diced
6 dried figs, chopped
2 ribs of celery, diced
1/2 c. fat-free lemon yogurt
2 T. slivered almonds
2 carrots, peeled and grated

In a small bowl, combined the apples, figs, and celery. Add yogurt and mix thorougly. Serve on separate plates topped with almonds and garnished with grated carrots.

Serves 6
95 calories per serving
17 g carbs per serving

***try substituting raisins, craisins, etc. for the figs if you want. I'm not sure what the calorie and carb exchange would be.

One more...

Pineapple Chicken Salad with Balsamic Vinaigrette

4 boneless, skinless chicken breasts, each about 5 oz.
1 T. olive oil
1 can (8 oz) unsweetened pineapple chuncks, drained except for 2 T. juice
2 c. broccoli florets
4 c. fresh baby spinach leaves
1/2 c. thinly sliced red onions

For the vinaigrette:
1/2 c. olive oil
2 T. balsamic vinegar
2 t. sugar
1/4 t. ground cinnamon

Directions:
Cut each chicken breast into cubes. In a large, nonstick frying pan, heat the olive oil over medium heat. Add the chicken and cook until golden brown, about 10 min. In a large serving bowl, combine the cooked chicken, pineapple chunks, broccoli, spinach and onions. To make the dressing, whisk together the olive oil, vinegar, reserved pineapple juice, sugar and cinnamon in a small bowl. Pour over the salad. Toss gently to coat evenly. Serve immediately.

Serves 8
187 calories per serving
8 carbs per serving

Recipe for the Weekend

Try this one. Only 193 calories and 10 carbs (2 of which are dietary fibers)

Gingered Pork and Vegetable Stir-Fry
1 Pork tenderloin (about 12 oz, thinly sliced)
2 T. Fresh Ginger (grated)
1 c. Chicken Broth (reduced sodium)
2 T. teriyaki sauce
2 t. cornstarch
2 t. canola oil
8 oz. snow peas, strings removed (fresh or frozen)
1 med. zucchini, cut lengthwise
3 onions, cut into 3 inch pieces)

1. Toss pork with ginger in a bowl. Mix broth, teriyaki sauce and cornstarch in a cup and set aside.
2. In a nonstick 12" skillet, warm 1 tsp. oil; add pork mixture and stir-fry until pork just loses its pink color, about 3 minutes. Transfer pork to bowl with ingredients.
3. Stir cornstarch mixture to blend; add to skillet and heat to boiling. Boil until sauce thickens slightly, about 1 minute, stirring constantly. Return pork and vegetable to skillet, stiry to combine with sauce and heat through. Serve.

For your afternoon enjoyment...

Your body keeps an accurate journal regardless of what you write down...

Ok girlie...you wanted inspiration?

Only One Pound
Hello, do you know me? If you don't, you should. I'm a pound of fat, And I'm the HAPPIEST pound of fat that you would ever want to meet.Want to know why? It's because no one ever wants to lose me; I'm ONLY ONE POUND, just a pound!Everyone wants to lose three pounds, five pounds, or fifteen pounds, but never only one.So I just stick around and happily keep you fat.Then I add to myself, ever so slyly, so that you never seem to notice it.That is, until I've grown to ten, twenty, thirty or even more pounds in weight.Yes, it's fun being ONLY ONE POUND OF FAT, left to do as I please. So, when you weigh in, keep right on saying, "Oh, I only lost one pound."For you see, if you do this, you'll encourage others to keep me around because they'll think I'm not worth losing.And, I love being around you - your arms, your legs, your chin, your hips and every part of you. Happy Days!!!After all, I'm ONLY ONE POUND OF FAT!!! - Author Unknown

Comic Relief

So I'm not sure if this is inspirational or not, but I thought it was rather funny. Might give you all a little laugh! Enjoy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsZFsZw5jtU

Last Week's BIG Winner

Hey everyone - thanks for your participation in last week's challenge! Mandy, Heather, Megan, and Chad were all successful in both areas with good exercise hours and weight loss as well! In the exercise category Mandy Ogaz came out on top with 29 points! She turned into an exercise machine! Our overall winner was CHAD BYRON with combined exercise and weight loss points of 36.6! (I think he took the How To Weigh Cartoon to heart and weighed upside down yesterday morning!) Thanks for your participation and again congratulations on your successful week! Julie

Selfish Challenge.

Whoever has the most points wins... enjoy all the homework I'm giving you that will really benifit me.

You get 1 pt for every workout song you submit that has an awesome beat
3 pts for telling me your favorite thing to do to work out and why
5 pts for every motivational saying you submit (under a paragraph please)
10 pts for telling me how many lbs you have lost so far (I help people... inspire me!)
15 pts for watching this weeks episode of biggest loser (you can watch it on cbs.com)
20 pts per every killer low cal recipe you sumbit.

Just post right on the blog people! If you don't want everyone to see then you can e-mail me at myrealtormeg@yahoo.com but really we all want to see it.

Winner gets $15 of choice as long as they commit to buy one of the following with the gift card: a new workout dvd, new music to work out to, a healthy cookbook, workout clothes (anything else you want that will help you continue on the path)!

Reminder

Everyone remember to send me your weights for today and also your minutes exercised to my Mom!

Chad

Update

Just so everyone knows there will be an update tomorrow. A couple of people needed a little more time so I am waiting for them!

Chad

2nd Chance Double Header

GEAR UP FOR THIS WEEK'S 2ND CHANCE DOUBLE HEADER CHALLENGE!

Since I am the Oldie of this group I decided to give all of you busy students a 2nd chance at the challenges that I won, which include:

EXERCISE HOURS

AND WEIGHT LOSS

So this is how it will work. You all need to get your weight first thing Tuesday morning to Chad – then again next Tuesday morning. You will receive 1 point for each tenth of 1% of your weight loss for the coming week. Also you will receive 1 point for each 15 minute session of exercise that you do during this week. The trick is that at least 20% of your total points must be from each of the two areas in order to win the challenge. So you can exercise til you drop but if you don’t lose weight you will not be eligible to win and visa versa. The good news is that during the upcoming week – you can eat anything you want ---- or should I say you can focus on having a balance of all the food groups instead of focusing on just one and watch your portions! The whole goal here is to attack this beast from several angles all at once. Have a great week!

Water Winner

And the winner of the Biggest Loser 2009 Water Drinking Challenge is....



Megan Harris! She drank an amazing 1054 ounces! Congratulations! Go buy yourself a fancy Neoprene bottle!

Most of us have heard we're supposed to get at least five servings of fruits and vegetables a day- some doctors recommend as many as nine! The winner this week will be the person who eats the most servings of fruits and vegetables. Fruits and veggies are packed with vitamins A and C, iron, calcium, fiber and phytonutrients (phytonutrients are the stuff that is non-essential, but good for us nonetheless. These will lower your risk of certain cancers, heart disease, and muscular degeneration).

It's important to remember that fruits are higher in calories than vegetables are, so veggies might be a better choice a lot of the time. Most doctors recommend three or four servings of veggies for every one or two of fruit.

Online guides will tell you how much of a certain veggie/fruit constitutes a serving, but as a general rule, one serving is:
-One medium-size fruit (about the size of a tennis ball)-1/2 cup raw, cooked, or canned fruits or vegetables -1 cup raw, leafy vegetables (like lettuce and spinach)
-1/4 cup dried fruit (like raisins, apricots, and mangoes)-3/4 cup (6 ounces) 100 percent fruit or vegetable juice

Oh! And the winner will get the Biggest Loser Family Cookbook, which has more than 125 healthy (and budget-friendly) recipes.

Heather

Water results

Please email water results to Dylan. Heather has the challenge for this week so she will be posting it here shortly.

Update and Winner

Alright, so another week has come and go! For last weeks challenge our winner was Julie Byron. She is embarrassed that she won another challenge but I told her she won it fair and square...and she can only win three so to pick and choose from here on out! Congrats Julie. Let me know what clothing store you want that to go to.

That brings me to my next point. We are still waiting to hear who won last weeks challenge (Kerinas Challenge). I believe that it was Lauren, but if you could let us all know that would be great. In addition, please remember to send out your prizes to the appropriate people.

Now as you have all been waiting for it for two weeks here is the update on percentages! Also if you have a 0% that means I have not been getting your updates. If you could send that to me I will input it for this week. Also remember that your challenge info is always due Tuesday night by 8. So if we don't have any info by then we will go ahead and declare a winner.

Now that I have all of that administrative stuff done...thanks for being part of the challenge! Have a great week and don't get water logged.

Chad

Reminder

I need everyone weight updates to determine the winner for this week.

Please have it to me by 8 P.M. Mountain Time. I will then post the results.

Good Luck!

Challenge of Water!

We all know how important drinking plenty of water is when trying to lose weight. It also seems harder for me to drink as much as I should in the winter, so this week's challenge: Drinking water! Keep track of how many ounces of water you drink each day, and send me the total (dhaney at gmail), and the winner will receive a $15 Amazon gift card! (Get it? Amazon? Ha!)

Keep in mind that you should track just water. So don't include things like diet soda, milk, etc.

Good luck!