Michigan and Missouri Crew

Hey woman! Keep this site pg! We are all family and i think we wanna hear that dirty stuff. Anywho so I think this is an update on everyones weight loss:

Kristin- 30lbs
Mike - 28lbs
Ben - 18lbs
Steph - 13lbs

Change it if I am wrong. Again remember this is a change in lifestyle and don't settle till your at your target weight. I dont know about you guys but I feel amazing when I move around. I feel that I am very agile now and feel like I can run faster than I use to be able to. When i pick up a 30lb weight and imagine i had that extra weight on it just disgusts me. Just keep at it. Everyone is doing well. I've been reading a metabolism book as far as how to keep it running at top speed to break down/burn stuff up. I agree with some of the ideas thus far. Some of the things it recommends are things we know such as:

Don't starve yourself, eat small meals
don't starve yourself
eat balance meals.

Some of the interesting things I have read is that spices play a big role in metabolism as well. The spicier the food, the more your metabolism is in high gear. Also just adding cinnamon to stuff as well makes it faster as well. The big one is to make sure you eat slow enough because you will end up overeating by accident. Takes your body 20 minutes to register the food your taking in so you may be full but wont realize it till 20 minutes later. By than we've all stuffed our faces. Lastly looking through some of the comments on this site, one guy posted a really good link to a study on weight loss. The study shows that cardio is fine and dandy but if you want to kick your weight loss in high gear you should add weight training with it as well. Here is the link if anyone wants to read it. I'm sure Ben already knows but I still thought it was informative.

http://www.exrx.net/FatLoss/WT&End.html

Hope everyone is doing well. I was thinking for an added motivation to maybe kick it into high gear for any if not all of us to make sure we haven't fallen off the band wagon. Maybe we sign up for some form of relay? I know during marathon races sometimes there are relays where its broken down by 4-5 people. Well anyways I thought it might help motivation. Let me know

I love that idea, I think it would be really fun and motivating for everyone! I'm in if everyone else is

Yo: I think everyone had some set backs or just slowed down. Kristin is happy where she is and plans on toning I believe. We shall see how that goes with me in the house. Ben is on the injured list but still losing weight as far as I know. I am bouncing around the 170-174 which is below my target weight of 175. Now I just gotta get my *kitten* to have a stable mind and running. I'm about to switch my diet shortly so we will see how my body reacts. I am in the same spot as everyone else where I would like to tone. I dont care if more weight comes off to be honest because that is less weight I have to carry for 26 miles. I really want to get on this diet or life style change that I have been reading in this book called, "fit for life NOT FAT for life". Its a really easy and enjoyable read. Has a lot of simple tips and just seems to be easy to retain the information. Anyhow good job for everyone. Did anyone do a "before" and "after" photo? I only have one for the 60 day insanity trial which i'm 2 weeks in. Anyways congrats on everyone if they are where they wanna be. I'm looking to turn into that ninja assassin body so I still got ways to go. I dropped the weight, but my body fat has to be little high still which my diet will fix. Ill have ben check me out when i go home. Keep it up and man keep this site pg woman! I dont wanna her about my brother's wife rated r material!