The Biggest Loser - Finale!!

Spoiler Alert:

If you have not seen the finale for the Biggest Loser and you don't want to know who won, please do not read this post. The results are contained in this post. Come back and read later after you watch it on Tivo.

I've been watching this show for the last couple of seasons and I love it. It is inspiring and this season has been particularly fun because I feel like I've been losing weight with them. (Not as much and not as quickly, but I feel like I'm doing it with them. I've lost 60 pounds this year, so I'm doing pretty well. I still have a lot to go though.) And I think a girl might actually win this time. It's been close for a couple of seasons, but the guys ultimately win. Stupid male metabolism. :)

(By the way, my Biggest Loser enrichment group team is doing very well! We have won the last two weeks in a row and our team has lost almost 4% of our body weight since we started. We're in the hunt to win the whole thing!)

Roger is in the final 3. Bummer. I should have voted. I like Roger. I like him a lot. But I wanted Mark to be in the final 3 because Roger still had weight to lose and Mark didn't and I thought Ali had a better chance of winning if Mark was in the final 3. Did that make sense?

BERNIE!!! Winner of the at home prize! He beat Mark by ONE POUND!!! Rock on brother.

The final 3 look amazing. I love the finale. I get so excited for these people. Especially when you see their before pictures.

Wow. Roger lost a lot of weight. He's down to 199 pounds and has lost over 45% of his body weight. That is a tough percentage to beat for the finale.

Kelly needs to lose 123 pounds to beat Roger (This part reminds me of the Showcase Showdown wheel on Price is Right. The person in the lead waiting under the little light up screen while the other contestants spin the big wheel.) She lost 109. That is still amazing. 40% of her body weight. Good girl.

Go Ali. Go Ali. She looks great. She needs to lose 106 pounds to beat Roger. She looks confident. Commercial break!?! NO! She lost 99 pounds on the ranch. I think she can do it. Here is a picture of her from last week's episode as she was leaving the ranch. Isn't it amazing? (Results of the finale after the picture......)


SHE DID IT!! She lost 112 pounds! First female Biggest Loser! That is awesome. I'm inspired. I'm going to do crunches right now.

The Biggest Losers

We are starting a REALLY fun Enrichment group in our ward. It's based on the TV show "The Biggest Loser." (Which is pretty much my favorite show.)

We divided the women into 5 groups, and we will weigh in every Monday morning and the team with the lowest percentage of weight loss at the end of the week will pay up $1 per person toward a prize for the biggest losers of the month. We also have a weekly goal that is more health related. For example, this week the goal is to drink 8 - eight ounce classes of water 6 out of the 7 days this week. For each day you miss, you have to pay a dollar.

I'm a team captain and I'm very excited about it. We are the "Slimming Sisters" (we chose a positive sounding name because we are drawing positive things into our lives) and we have a most excellent team.

Join us! Here are the weigh in guidelines and the challenge for this week:

Weekly Weigh In Weigh in Monday morning by 10AM – use the same scale, wear the same clothes. Report your new weight to your team captain. Weekly Goal – each week we will have a new area of focus. As we add new goals we will continue to work on past ones. Week # 1 - Drink 8 glasses of water/day (24 hour period). You must complete the goal 6/7 days. $1 penalty for each day missed, paid to team captain weekly.

You don't have to send me your weight or pay me any dollars, but if you want to, play along with reaching the weekly goal.

I've been surprised at how much this has energized me. I'm writing down my food intake. I'm going to work hard so I don't let my team down.

Except that I got a box of these in the mail today: (Thanks Dad & Kimmie!)

We're trying to control ourselves around here with these in the house, but they are Cheryl & Co. cookies, for crying out loud! One can only be so strong! At least I don't live in Ohio within driving distance of their retail stores anymore.

Shhhhh! It's a Secret!

So, I've had this book for a while now. I believe I bought it when Miss Oprah first promoted it last year. I haven't finished reading it yet, but Oprah talks about it a lot, so I understand the basic principle. The book talks about the law of attraction, which means you attract to you the things you focus on and think about. Like attracts like. If you focus on positive things, positive things flow to you. Even the tools you need to accomplish the positive things suddenly show up.

Oprah did another show on the law of attraction on Wednesday. (And I actually think there is something to all this. I've been thinking about it a lot - especially how the scriptures say the exact same things all these self help books do. More on that later.) I had been thinking that since I've been exercising pretty well, I need to eat better. Every healthy eating book or article I've ever read suggests that you should write down what you eat during the day to give you a better idea of the calories you actually consume. It makes you more self aware and makes the calories easier to track. I was thinking as I watched this episode of Oprah that I should change my focus to one of health instead of just losing weight and that I really needed to start writing my food down. I figured that in order to not cheat on writing things down, I also needed a small notebook that I could carry around so I would be sure to write down everything as I ate it. But I had to work yesterday and I haven't had time to go buy a notebook, so I haven't started doing this yet.

Guess what I found earlier this afternoon when I was going through a pile of stuff in my office. Yup. Small, spiral bound notebook. Exactly the right size for my purse. All because I've been focusing on being more healthy instead of worrying that I'm not losing enough weight fast enough. So, I'm starting a food journal tomorrow with my cute little notebook. I guess the universe wants me to be healthy. :)