Jessie and I have signed up with a walking team who pledge to walk the 423 miles that equals the distance across KS.  The teams are groups of six and all members of the walking team split the mileage among themselves.  Its a pledge to be a healthier individaul and a healthier Kansan.  The program also incourages the particiapants to track their daily fruit and vegitable intake, and incourages getting your heart rate up along with information on how to read your heart rate.  We thought it would be a fun program to join.  Anyone who wants to take a look at what we are doing can visit www.walkkansas.org Since "Walk Kansas" became a state-wide program in 2002 it has grown from aprox. 5,000 participants to over 20,762 in 2007!  Jessie and I are excited to be taking part in the 2008 event.

So this week when i weighed in i was back down 4 lbs.  Thats a loss and thats good, but what frustrates me is its still 2lbs higher then my weight was 2 weeks ago.  It seems that i'm just fluxuating these 4-6 lbs.  It would be so nice to see an actual loss but i'm not sure there really has been one for a couple weeks.  I'm finding it very hard to stay motivated.  I'm working so hard and when the effort doesn't seem to be paying off its hard to stay focused.  There's a part of me that just wants to give in and have a cheeseburger.  I've got the "Evil Cheeseburger Blues"  I hope to at least be a couple lbs below my last weigh in at the gym.  Thats only a couple weeks away and so far it seems grim:(  I just think it may be seriously disapointing if my weight is higher this month at the gym then last.  I mean a whole month aprox. 30 days and no weight loss will be so depressing!! -Tracy

I've been going to the gym now for 4 month.  At the gym i attend we weigh and measure once a month.  Well in the previous months i havent noticed a big difference, however since i've been watching my diet and adding other work outs during my spare time.  I had a really good weigh in.  This month i lost 15lbs and 15.5 inches.  YAY:):)

This seems to be working for me.   Jessie and i both will be weighing in on a weekly basis now that we've started the million pound match-up but prior to that i was only weighing in once a month.  So in the future i should know my results sooner and i'll be posting more frequently. -Tracy

Last night 2/5/08  Jessie did 30 minutes on the treadmill.........go Jessie!

I went to the gym and before bed did 30 minutes of biggest loser cardio.  I attempted to do level two cardio, i'm not quite there but i'm working on it!

Today was a good start.  We went for a 20 minute walk and followed it up with 20 min of spin bike program.  We are starting out at a low intensity on the spin bike but im sure we'll be able to work up to more as we go.  Overall i'm proud of us!

Ok so this is our first entry.  Today its 75 degrees outside and beautiful so after work Jessie and i are going to go for a walk.  I'll input the distance and time we completed tomorrow.  Tonight we'll also weigh in and get a starting weight and some goals set.  I'll input that information tomorrow as well.