I LOST 2.6 LBS BAAAAABY!!!!! YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YESSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That means that I've lost a total of 6.2 lbs. YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YESSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!! I'm SO freaking proud of me 😀 Have I said YES YES YES YES YES YESSSSSS yet!?!?!
And BY THE WAYYYYYYY… HAPPY HALLOWEEEEEEEEEN!!!!!!!!!!!!
How did you guys do!? I'm SO excited to hear 🙂
48 people weighed in last Friday 🙂 FORTY EIGHTTTTTTTTTT!!!!!! YAHOOOOSKI! Of the forty eight… we've lost 128.8 lbs 😀 Names in blue are those who have weighed in this week 😀
Alyssa (Hybrid Photography)
Annie (Varland Photography)
Ashley Turner
Blair Van Bussel
Bobbi
Brandi Thompson
Cailyn
Cathy Bock
Chrissie (C. Raysor Photo)
Courtney Reece
Danielle (DM Photos)
David Bock
Heather Cole
Jessica (lemongrass Photo)
Jill P.
Josh Solar
Kate M.
Kim Ilax
Laura
Melissa (Carolina Dreams Photo)
Melissa McClure
Mike
Molly (AV)
Nessa
Olivia Wagner
Steph (Reidel Photography)
Tori Clements
Vania
Wade Carignan
Watty
Amanda Abel
Amber (Smitten Photos)
Amy Clark
Angie (Angela Elle Photography)
Anna McClary
Ashley (Point Photo Design)
Brenda
Brittany C.
Dana (Short And Sweet Photo)
Elle
Faye Sommer
Hollie
Jennifer Adkins
Jennifer L
Jessica P.
Monica N
Nicole
Sara
Nine more people have joined us 🙂
Alicia K.
Jill S. (Flair Photography by Jill)
Kyle Hepp
Melinda
Melissa D
Nicole Neff
Penny Burns
Tammy
Wendy
55 people we haven't heard from 🙁 No biggie… if you'd like to rejoin us… I'm happy to add your name back to our list… just let us know in the comments section 😀
I'd like to tell you all about my experience at the gym yesterday with my personal trainer. I'm an "all or nothing" kind of girl… and when I'm there, I give 150%… and REALLY push myself. Why go if I'm not going to work at it?! Well… about after 45 minutes of an all out effort… I began to feel dizzy. WHOA! I started seeing white spots and couldn't walk in a straight line. It was the STRANGEST feeling… and I never want to feel that way again. I remember feeling sort of like that after a long run when I was training with the Army… but, never that bad. Back then, I gave SO much of myself… I would NEVER fall out of a formation while running. Once, we had to do an 8 mile base run… I was one of four women who stayed in the formation and never fell out. We lost the other 40 or so. When it came to pushups and situps… I had the female battalion record. I used to max my Physical Fitness tests… can you believe THAT?! With how awkward and short I am… I was somehow VERY strong. However, I'm NOT in that kind of shape now… So… a lesson learned… 140% will have to do… for now 😉
And because you know I hate posts without photos… Here are some from my Army days. I was in the Army National Guard for six years. I spent about seven months active duty training in both South Carolina and Georgia. These photos are from my training….
This one I scanned in from the little yearbook think they give us. I'm repelling off of a 60 foot wall famously referred to as Victory Tower. I found a video of someone doing it here… if you're interested. 🙂 It feels MUCH higher up than it looks in that video. 😀 Oh… and it feels amazing on your butt! 😉 NOT!
My basic training battle buddy PVT Rohrer. We were bunk mates 😀
Here's one from Advanced Training (where I learned how to be a signal soldier) See that person under the tree, on the right side? (not the ones getting "smoked" on the left side of the tree) That's me 😀 I was the "Student First Sergeant" in charge of over 200 soldiers. HOOOOAH!
My roommates Kelsi OKEEEEFEEEEEEEE and Francis Raspotnik.
Okay… these photos make me laugh SOOOOOOO hard! Kelsi OKEEEEEEFEEEEEE and I were BESSSST friends and LOVED to make eachother and everyone around us laugh. Here are some photos of us on just one random Sunday evening when all of the drill sergeants were leaving us alone. The two photos on the left are when we became "Private too cool and Private oh so cool" She's thrown someones weave on top of her head and I'm well… ridiculous. We went around from room to room to tell everyone to "stay cool." OMG… I'm CRACKING up right now… Maybe you had to be there… HAHAHAHAAAA!!!!! The photo on the top right… that was me as the unibomber. And on the bottom right… we decided to start an Army singing group. No… those aren't real M16s we're singing into… no need to be alarmed. GOSH we had SO much FUN! I'm convinced that the two of us could have made ANY situation OH SO COOOOOL! HAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!
DO NOT MESS WITH ME! 😉
That concludes my little walk down memory lane…
Thank you all SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much for motivating me, YET AGAIN!
LOVE LOVE LOVE!
~bobbi
PS. You can join ANYTIME! Just add your name down there in the comment section, and I'll add your name to our ever-growing Excel datasheet 🙂 Also, if you haven't let us know your goal for Christmas, DO IT!
UPDATE as of 8pm on 11/1:
40 people have weighed in for the week.
That brings our total weight loss is 168.1. (for a total of 62 people)WOW TO THAT!
Still haven't heard from 22 of you.
3 new people have joined us!
Christie (jlm creative)
Erich M.
Marcie M.
Oh, and a quick reminder 🙂 These people have not yet let me know what their Christmas goals are 😀
Mine was to lose 16.5 lbs… Only 10.3 for me to go… (Until Christmas anyway 😉 )
Amy Clark
Annie (Varland Photography)
Brandi Thompson
Brenda
Brittany C.
Brooke J.
Cailyn
Cathy Bock
Dana (Short And Sweet Photo)
David Bock
Elle
Jessica (lemongrass Photo)
Josh Solar
Kate M.
Kyle Hepp
Lisa Russo
Melissa (Carolina Dreams Photo)
Molly (AV)
Olivia Wagner
Steph (Reidel Photography)
Tori Clements
Vania
Wade Carignan
Awesome job, Bobbi! I lost 1.7 lbs. this week.
OK, I didn’t weigh in last week but got my butt in gear this week!! YAY! I lost 1 pound – I’ll take it! Woo! 🙂 GREAT JOB!!!!
heck yes. -1lb.
boom. goes the dynamite
I’m sorry but could you BE any cuter in your little Charlie’s Angel’s shot? uhhh…no.
You look awesome!
I’m so proud of you babe!
I lost 2.5 pounds this week! YAHOOOSK!
Um…I’m so proud of you!! I lost 3 pounds this week. Um…rock on!!!!
Happy Halloween you two! Wish you were here.
As for the army pix…I’m not mad you are so sexy. Not mad at all. It’s just the way it has to be.
I lost 1.4! Not great, but I didn’t eat all that healthy, either. Gonna kick it in to high gear…after tonight’s pizza, of course (it’s okay because I had a salad for lunch today!) : ) Great job on your loss!
Oh, and my goal for Christmas is 10 pounds. Overall, I’d like to lose 18.
Bobbi! You are awesome with your weight loss! You go girl!!!!!!!!!
And okay, I had no idea you were in the Army!!!! You are so adorable in all those pictures. And I think thats so beyond cool that you did that!!
Sooooo I am down to 115!!! I dont know how! lol I lost 2 lbs this week!!!!
Those army pictures were GREAT! I love them all! Great job on your weight loss! I didn’t lose any this week (maybe I’ll just follow a pattern of losing every other week??). I think it’s awesome how much total weight the group has lost. I need to remember to be really dilligent this coming week while my house is loaded with my kids’ Halloween candy. Ahh!!
Happy Halloween!
congrats!!! I lost 1.2 lbs. Thanks for sharing those pics you are so cute! Even in camo!
What a fun walk down memory lane! Love it, thanks for sharing. That is too cool…because I could never be anything military (except a military wife, I was that til’ hubs got out), I give mad props to people that can do that kind of stuff. 😉
Yippee to all of you healthy people. I have problem eaten 3 lbs. of candy this week so you ROCK and I suck BIG TIME. Seriously, you guys are awesome. Oh, and Bobbi, you could kick my ass with your eyes closed and your hands tied behind your back. ; D
Lovely, lovely. 🙂 Love the old photos!
Bobbi, I swear you have the most ADDICTING SMILE! SoOoOoOo Friggin cute I can’t stand it! Congrats on the 2.6! AMAZING! I knew you rocked the house this week!
Down one here..I’ll take it especially after the binge I had yesterday…it was really an ugly sight.
REALLY!
Took my daughter T or T earlier, now have a bag of candy from Ikeas fest…..think I might be trying to pawn it off on any T o T’ers that come to the door to get it out of here.
Goal for Christmas? To fit these size 10 lbs without worrying I’ll pop a button! (so, 10 lbs?) I’ve never worn a 10 in my adult years, how’s that for sayin somethin? BRING ON THE CALVIN KLEINS CORDS!!
Hey Bobbi…ok, so if we are one week three: week 1 I lost 3.6 (oh my gosh!), week 2 I gained 0.4, and week 3 I lost 2.4. I have to say though, I’m feeling a little blah about this week…damn Halloween! 🙂 Congrats to you and whole healthy club on the progress. woohoo!
great job bobbi!!!! i didn’t drop any this week. but i’ve been losing for about a year so i’m used to having some weeks like this. here’s to next week!
I was down about 1.5 this week!
Congrats on the lbs. lost!! You are most definitely the hottest Army girl I’ve ever seen!! Happy Halloween 🙂
Woops! Sorry I’m usually one to weigh in early and I forgot. Disappointingly I did not gain or lose. 🙁
NEXT WEEK!
And just to mention, my Best Friend was in the National Guard for 5 years. She joined in May 2001 to get her college education paid for and then the world went crazy on 9/11/2001 and she was immediately shipped to Iraq. She spent 10 months there and saw some crazy things 🙁 But she’s home safe now and has been for a few years and I thank her every day for her time spent there for people like me.
Thank you for being a part of that also!!!
Well, nothing for me, 🙁 But I do FEEL thinner and I did work out pretty well this week. So I am not bummed.. I know since I don’t really have much to lose, it’s harder to make it come off. I asked hubby if I look thinner.. He said yes.. He’s a smart man 😉
Love your old pics. You have the cutest smile!
Well, I must not be working hard enough. I gained .2 of a pound. Of course some of you have made the same comment that this is ‘the week’, well me too! HA!
Congratulations all you weight losers!
Bobbi, I can’t believe you were in the National Guard! That is really awesome! I’m sure you have some great memories and stories! 🙂
I lost 3.7 pounds. I’m going to start going to those Les Milles classes at NIFS. They look awesome. 🙂
Sign me up Sarge!
Except I don’t own a scale. And I’ve never been on one that measured my point lbs. They must not sell those in these parts.
But I’ll see what I can do. I’ve certainly got pounds to lose.
Those extra crispy fries never did me any favors.
So if I lose 3.5 lbs by Christmas can I, pretty please, see your pretty face in 2009?
I’d be willing to make it 10.
-Kelsi
OKEEEEEEFEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I’m SOOO excited to see you here!!!!!!!! 😀 😀 😀 It was the extra crispy egg rolls… HAHAHAHA!
LOVE YOU!!!! 😀
~Share-NUDDIN! ❗
I am down NO pounds this week. 🙁 It might have to do with all the halloween parties with my kiddos!! :/
I love your army photos! Are you excited to get back into shape like that again? You are going to be whopping all of our butts! I am proud of the progress you’ve made so far Bobbi 🙂
I lost 4 pounds this week 🙂
Awwww man, I only lost .2 pounds. Point two!!!! I’m irritated,…I was down 2 whole pounds yesterday and then all of a sudden for weigh in I sprung back up. Grrr!!!!
But dang, go you!! And you were worried about it. 😉
total weight loss since wk. 1 = 2.2 lbs!!!
Somehow I gained 2 lbs. not sure what happened since i was eating better (not great, but better) but hopefully it will come off next week and then some.
I still haven’t sent in my pic. we are out of town right now but i will get it done on monday.
Congrats everyone!
My goal is to Lose 15 maybe….. from now to christmas….
Okay, I wanna join in, I am doing a biggest loser contest at my church with a group of other mommies and I think another avenue of accountability would be fantastic. So I just comment with my weight loss every week?
Huge congrats all the way from Sydney, Australia!
No change for me this week but I am getting in high gear for next week. Maybe I will see you at NIFS!
Good job on your weight loss!
1.2 for me, .8 for Cathy! 🙂
You are doing AWESOME bobbi!! So so proud of you. I love the army stories and photos. That made me smile so big. 🙂
**UPDATE*** Well I weighed this AM since I normally weigh Saturdays anyhow and I am down a lb afterall. So 😛 down 4 lbs total!! WOOT! A little over a lb a week is great for me.
I am down 1.5 lbs. Slow but sure.
Unfortunately we’re in the middle of moving, so I don’t even have a scale to weight myself. I can pretty safely say I didn’t gain this week, but that’s just going off of clothing fit. I’ll be back next week though!
A day late weighing in 🙁 I did weigh myself yesterday morning but was running around all day like a headless chicken with my sis in law an her kids..getting prepared for a fun halloween. Anyway, no loss for me this week..i am bummed as ive been sick with a chest infection..but then i realised i have been living on a diet of very buttery crumpets & toasted bagels this week…ah well.
Ive sent myself a fairly modest xmas goal of 10lbs. I cant afford to join a gym right now..so,i have to make sure i do enough exercise myself.
Well done you for loosing another 2.6lbs…your doing so well!
I lost 1 pound this week!
Hi Bobbi-
My weekly weigh-in was 143 which brings me to a total of 4 lbs. lost so far.
My Christmas goal is 15 lbs.
I also noticed you added photography studios next to people’s names… no biggie but I am Olivia of Olivia Wagner Photography in MN.
Thanks for doing this! I can’t imagine being as busy as you are and keeping track of all of this! Wanna do my taxes? LOL
Olivia 🙂 I only do that if the name of the studio is different than your name 😀 CONGRATS!
~bobbi
SHUT UP!!!!!!! I always knew that you were cool — supercool even — but this slice of your life puts you well beyond the stratosphere of cool! Of course, everyone who is friends with my little sister (Karen E.) is extra lucky, but tonight I consider myself counted among the chosen to have a little sister with such a rockin awesome friend! Thanks for sharing, Bobbi! (And, thanks, again, for taking those fantastic pictures of my kids a few years ago….you’re fantastic!)
huge congratulations bobbi… you rock it woman!
go you good thing 🙂
I know… I’m late weighing in! I lost 2.5 this week! = )
My Christmas goal is 20!
Big fat zero for me this week. bummer.
zero for me too! Dang that Holloween Candy 🙂
hey!
congrats on your 2.6.
i didnt lose, but i didnt gain.
i’m sad… anyway.
my Christmas goal is 14lbs.
and i’ll be sending you my before pic as soon as molly gets home.
xoxo.
I’m late but I lost 1.5lbs WOOHOO! That puts me at 3, only 12 to go until Christmas.
Hey Bobbi!! Congrats! I lost 3.1 this past week!! 🙂
Good job everyone! I’m down another 1lb, which brings me to 3.5 I think since this began. Maybe 4.0, though. . . . I’d have to go check. . . . Primarily doing my own mix of Weight Watchers cooking for myself, the boyfriend, and my son, and portion control to get me back into the swing of good diabetes control, taking my meds (for PCOS/insulin resistance) with some degree of faithfulness, and drinking more water. Workouts are to be added once I get this part down. :o) Hopefully down 16 by Christmas, 100 down is my long term goal. . .
I have no idea how i lost cause i had too much fun this weekend and ate terribly but i lost 3 lbs – which makes my total….3 lbs 🙂
Good Job to everyone!
us us!!! we lost a whopping 2 lbs!! not each unfortunately 🙁 boohoo. ummm.. wow you were in the army national guard!!! you look too young to have been in that for 6 years!
Congrats on the weight loss! And those photos are HI-larious!
okay..sorry so late. i only lost about 1.5lb the first week. interested to see what happens this Friday. Not that I had any halloween treats to sabotage myself. : )
No loss this week. Boo-hoo! I need to start excercising. Congrats on your loss!
hi bobbi….. i know i was cut from the list because i forgot to weigh in! oops! 🙂 if i can be back in the club…. i lost 4 pounds in the past 9 days! whewhoo! my goal is to lose 20 pounds by may 12, when we have our photo session with you and mikey….. so i can be smokin’ hot!!!!
thanks for the motivation and congrats on your loss! you go girl!!!! 🙂
xoxo,
*mindy peterson (this photo story.)
you’re doing great bobbi! i’m late with the update but last friday down 2.1. i’m cool with that. love the army pictures.
Okay…I’m jumping on board. I haven’t lost any this week, but in the past 8 weeks I’m down 12lbs. Goal for Christmas is to lose 10 more!!! My friend Jen is going to be visiting me in CA from NJ and she will be taking photographs of me whether I lose or not…so you know I’ve got to do it!
Proud of you Bobbi! Love all the old ARMY photos too. The photos make it look like fun instead of work, but we all know otherwise! 🙂
Whoot !!!! I have lost another pound….and my goal for Christmas is to loose another 10 pounds…that would make 36 total that I would of lost since mid July…..Love your photos you posted !!!
Sorry I’m checking in late here. Have had a massive head cold keeping me down.
I”M down another pound! Two total for me! Love it!
Hi Bobbi,
Add me to your weight loss list! I came across Heather’s blog a long time ago and check back often. I linked to yours a while ago and I love reading what you girls have been up to. My goal is to lose 20 by Christmas. I am at 12….so…who knows where I’ll be by Christmas. But I’m trying my hardest to make it. Let’s all hope for the best!
Thanks!!