Thursday, 11 June 2009
Tuesday, 2 June 2009
News from Andrea!
Gord (my Dad), Paula, me, Stephanie, Nathaniel (my brother)A lot can happen in a month! As most of you know, I graduated from the University of Southern California on May 15, 2009 and received my Masters of Arts in Teaching. My family came out to support me and celebrate with me!
AT GRIFFITH OBSERVATORYAnthony, Paula, Stephanie, me
We had a wonderful time together. This is a picture of all of us (excluding the photographer, my father); which is fine because I just realized that the rest of us are on here! Anyhow, we are at the Griffith Observatory. When we arrived we were surprised by how popular the place was and soon discovered that the parking lot was closed; we had to park a ways down the road. As luck would have it, the entire walk to the observatory was uphill! Just as we passed the entrance to the parking lot, it was deemed empty enough to open up; yes, this was our lucky day alright! Ha! However, we were able to console ourselves with the fact that we had gotten some good exercise!
This blog has seen some great positive change in the last month as well!First, Aunt Carol-Ann gave the blog a bit of a face lift, and now we are current and up to date!
Second, Stephanie has decided to join us, and she is off to a fantastic start! I’m pretty sure everyone who reads this is familiar with all the participants, but I’ll give a little introduction anyway. Stephanie is my older sister, and she decided to join the blog when she came out to visit me in CA for my graduation. We got to work right away exercising and eating healthy (well, most of the time, anyhow).
With all the excitement, I figured it was time to do a proper wrap-up for the month of May...
lost a total of 9.0 pounds
We are well on our way to being winners by losing! Keep up the good work, team!
Saturday, 16 May 2009
A Post from the blog Administration!
Congratulations to all you stick-to-it Winners! I'm truly amazed by the numbers that have been crunched to smaller sizes here! And congratulations, Andrea, on your graduation! Lots of hard work in every direction!
Now it is time to crunch the sidebars of this blog to have it truly reflect the current activity.
In the next little while all inactive members will be transferred to an alumni file and all active members will be given the more lofty positions in the sidebar. If you find yourself in the file and would like to be put back in the open sidebar, just leave me a note in the comment section. Remember, this is a "Winners" blog -- you are always rated "A" in our books! "A" for Alumni or "A" for Active!
Pretty good, eh?
Monday, 4 May 2009
Milestone for Andrea!
Andrea has broken into the 150s!!
Great job, Andrea!
Way to go!
Your goal is in sight!
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I can definitely feel the struggle to shed off the last few pounds! It is not as easy as it seems!
Studies have shown that people who make goals are more successful than those who don't! So I think it is high time for me to set a new goal since I have met my last one and am now struggling to move forward. My new goal is to keep putting in at least 2 hours of exercise a week and get down to 150 lbs by July 6. My new weight goal is 145, and I hope to be there by August 3.
Honestly, I think that the hardest part is keeping the weight off for good! I think that I will probably struggle with my weight for the rest of my life, but I want to make sure that I am doing my best to make good decisions that will keep me healthy and active for a long long time.
Thursday, June 11, 2009