Wasting Time

Just thought I'd post to shake things up a bit. Anyone have any good healthy recipes for Easter?

Lysa

weigh in

That's better... Here's our updated ticker... Sorry it's late. :)

Header pic....

Ok, I don't really like the cow buns picture, because those cows have bony bottoms and I certainly don't.

So, if anyone has seen a good picture to use for this spot, let me know. I thought about bread buns, but they make me hungry. I looked at pig butts (possibility, didn't find a good pic yet) elephant butts, etc, kind of like a "before" thing. Haven't found one so far and it's not like I have time for this. :0) A group of skinny butts might be appropriate...couldn't think of an animal with a skinny butt (a snake, perhaps, lol) and didn't really want human backsides on here. Baby bums are cute, but they're perfect...not too big, not too little.

Any thoughts????

Tickers...

Thanks to brilliant Kathryne, we now have tickers for everyone. Just double click on it to update the weight, any time you want, and for sure on the 9th of every month. Team Brent and Andy will remain faceless (they are my brother in laws coworkers) and Kathryne will update their ticker when they call her with the info. On the 9th of the month, when they are all updated, we will stack them in order from top to bottom, so the current leaders will be on top.

Welcome Waites...

My sister in law Liz and her husband Greg are a team in this competition. Greg just joined the blog, so he'll be posting stuff soon, I would guess. They are pretty fierce competitors at anything we've done, so they'll be some good competition.

Pics...

Hey everybody. At Michelle's request, I'm posting pics of me and my family. She's right about my hubby, Jeff. He'd disappear if he lost weight! It seems my two boys have inherited his tall skinny genes, thank goodness! Jonathan is 18 months, James is 3 months... Hence why I need to participate in this challenge! Two babies back-to-back really turns your body into bad things!

This is my skinny husband, Jeff.

This is our 18-month-old, Jonathan.

This is our 3-month-old, James.

This is a "fat" picture of me...

And in this lovely shot, you can actually see my face.

Introductions...

Since some of you only know some of you and some of you don't know any of us, I'm doing some intros. I'm certain that made no sense at all.

Anyway, Kate....can you get an email address for Chad's co-workers so I can invite them to post on here? Oh, and FYI, I don't think anyone calls her Kate but me, I'm sure she hates it. :0) I emailed my sis in law, Liz, we'll see if she shows up soon. If anyone else shows up, we'll do more intros.

So far, everyone that's on here knows me. And, I think Lysa knows everyone, and everyone knows Lysa. I don't think Kathryne's met Jennifer, though (Lysa's partner). Kathryne is my next to youngest sister. She's the mutant: short, curly hair (or it used to be anyway), smart and until recently no allergies. We got her at KMart. She's married to Chad, the second coolest guy on the planet. She builds fighter jets at Lockheed (cool, eh?) and Chad runs the water district in Lancaster, CA.

Jennifer Toone is Lysa's partner. Jennifer needed a partner because if her husband lost any weight, he'd disappear. Lysa was looking for a partner, so they joined forces. Jennifer is the other organist in my ward and she has two super cute babies, 15 months and 3 months.

Maybe you guys can post some pictures of yourselves. ;0) And don't forget weigh in day on the 9th.

Team Reed

Here is ours!!

As for putting them on the side.. I think Shel has to do it because we only have access to post.. not customize.. we'll just have to send her the code and she can cut and paste them into objects on the side.

Team Lysa & Jen

 

Team Lysa & Jen

So how do you put this on the side and not in a post?

Biggest Losers....

Ok, I'm trying to get this blog going. I'm going to make it so that the five teams can log in and post (but they have to set up their google user account, if they don't have one...it's easy and free). I tried to set up "tickers" for the weight loss graphs. www.tickerfactory.com has some cool ones, but I couldn't get them to work. So, if anyone is smarter than me, go for it. I pictured a ticker for each team, based on their combined starting weight and going down 20%, but if someone has a better idea, I'm all for it.

It would be kind of cool if everyone posted any ideas for exercise, mini competitions, recipes, tips that have helped, links to recipes or tips, etc etc. Even though it's a competition, it would be nice to be supportive of each other.

Lysa had a cool idea for a 1/2 marathon here in Monterey at the end. I'll let her post it. Since everyone doesn't know everyone, ya'll should post an intro.