Team Breedlove

Our final blog

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 18:04:38 GMT

Well it seems just like yesterday that dad and I were starting this million pound challenge....And now here we are at the end. In these last few months we have both accomplished a great deal. Dad is finally back in the 200s and I'm just 5 pounds away from being under 200. A lot of people around us didn't think we could do it. But it was with the motivation of watching The Biggest Loser and the support of the people in this competition that kept us going. And though we have accomplished so much, there is still a lot more goals to achieve. Though this competition is at an end, our weight loss will continue. But we truly believe that this competition is what has motivated us and has gotten us this far. When we first entered this contest it seemed like we hit so many road blocks. But having each other and the Million Pound Match up there to keep us accountable made us that much more successful. We both had tried so many times to loose weight, but everytime we seemed to be faced with failure. This time we are looking success in the face and loving it. We joined this competition to motivated us and to try and win a trainer....and we got so much more out of it. We have gained confidence in our selves and have seen it in each other. We have learned that it takes work, but hard work pays off. We have learned that we can do it. That we can accomplish our weight loss goals. We just had to believe in ourselves....This competition has also brought dad and I closer together. Through this we have started to talk more about things in the past that have contributed to our emotional eating habits. It has brought up some things that we once never talked about and through this we have healed and grown from it. It has helped us to get to the root of why we turn to food and where it all started. And how we could change our past habits. I'm not going to lie, it has not been easy and nor will it ever be easy. It's something that myself and my dad will struggle with for the rest of our lives. But this competition has made us realize that it is possible for us to keep going and to remain strong. We will forever be grateful for this competition and to the show The Biggest Loser. We think that it is for these reasons that we should win...Because we have not only been successful in loosing weight, but because we have grown and gotten to the root of why we are overweight. We hope that you will choose us because though we have gotten this far there is still much more to go and we can use the help along the way. Thank You for this opportunity and for changing our lives. The Biggest Loser and The Million Pound Match up will forever be in our hearts and we will forever be gratful for the opportunity......

Final Weigh In

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 15:19:59 GMT

Well here we go....

Danielle:

Starting Weight: 232 lbs.

Current Weight: 204 lbs.

Chris:

Starting Weight: 328 lbs.

Current Weight: 292 lbs.

Tomorrow

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 14:28:41 GMT

Well tomorrow is March 11 and we have until midnight so we will have up those video blogs from each of us. As well as our profile pictures of us now and our final weigh in and words. It's been a rough last couple of weeks and we have not had the chance to really work on our page but please don't mistake that as we have given up or are not commited. That is not the case, we are so dedicated. But unfortunately between me not being able to workout due to back problems and other sicknesses it has been hectic. But that's what comes along with running your own business. So we will wrap it up tomorrow and catch the page up......It's been a great journey and though the contest is ending.....our weightloss journey will continue and we hope everyone else continues on as well. Don't give up no matter how this contest turns out....we love everyone involved and the Biggest Loser for this contest which has inspired and motivated so many of us....Until tomorrow....God Bless!!!

Food Journel

Mon, 03 Mar 2008 14:12:11 GMT

Well since I was out sick last week I was unable to update our food and exercise blog. And unfortunately dad and I did not write down our daily food and exercise. So there will be a space of about a week that we don't have recorded. But sometimes you just can't help that sort of thing. We will have our weigh in by tomorrow or Wednesday. I'm afraid that with me being unable to workout or really move around last week that I will have a bad weigh in this week. Hopefully I just maintained my weight and not gained anything. Dad should be under 300 lbs which is so awesome and I'm so proud of him. Also the much talked about video blogs for us will be up soon. Its just been a rough couple of weeks for the both of us. But this whole journey has been so awesome and we are so glad that we are apart of this.....I guess that's it for now.

Sickness

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:47:20 GMT

Well since last Friday I have not been able to do nothing but lay on the couch. I had to go to the emergency room with my back hurting. I'm stilling hurting but its not as severe. So therefore I have not had the time to get on our page and do anything. Dad and mom have been running the diner with just the two of them so its been impossible for dad to get on and update the page. So the video blogs and our food diary will be off. I'm hoping I will be able to do all that next week to catch us up. This is the worst time for this to happen to me and it is so aggrevating.....I'm so frustrated because my weight loss is at at stand still for now.

A Bet is a Bet....

Fri, 22 Feb 2008 15:47:31 GMT

And boy was this a good one!!!! Dad eating oatmeal..!!!!!

He hated eating it. He complained every morning but he honored the bet and ate the oatmeal. Bob and Jillian would be proud! Hope everyone has a good weekend and by next Friday we will have some new profile pictures up and a video diary from both dad and I.....

Weigh In

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 15:46:46 GMT

Well we are late but none-the-less...here is this weeks weight

Danielle:

Starting Weight: 232 lbs.

Previous Weight: 210 lbs.

Current Weight: 208 lbs.

Chris:

Starting Weight: 328 lbs.

Previous Weight: 308 lbs.

Current Weight: 301 lbs.

So as you can tell dad lost the bet (but not by much so he is eating the oatmeal. And I am trying to get a picture of it because he hates it....He has been complaining about eating that oatmeal but a bet is a bet sooo....he has 3 more days of eating what he calls horse food.

The Challenge Part 2

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 15:15:13 GMT

Well Dad and my little challenge had to be altered since his elliptical machine broke on him before Friday. So it put him behind just a tad. So he had until this weeks weigh in tomorrow but I got a feeling he won't quite make it. But at least he tried. So that means the man will be eating some oatmeal and I can't wait to see it. This past week proved to be the toughest one for me. I had no energy to workout and to top it off was so ready to just eat everything in sight. I'm hoping I have a better week this week. As far as the contest goes we are just slightly worried that we are missing something that we are supposed to be doing...(if anyone has any insight as to something we are supposed to do then please let us know...we tend to be a tad paranoid). Anyway we will have this weeks weigh in tomorrow for you. Hope everyone is coming along and it is not long before the contest ends so we are hanging on.

The Challenge

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 15:43:32 GMT

Well Dad is making this home stretch interesting. He thinks that he can reach 300 by Friday. That means he has to loose 6 pounds by Friday. If he does not win this bet he said he would eat oatmeal (which he absolutely hates with a passion) for breakfast for one week. The rest of the terms are being set. He has not decided what he wants in return...So that is to be announced!!!!

Weigh In

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 15:35:56 GMT

Here we go!!!!!

Danielle

Starting Weight: 232 lbs.

Previous Weight: 213 lbs.

Current Weight: 210 lbs.

Chris:

Starting Weight 338 lbs.

Previous Weight: 307 lbs.

Current Weight: 306 lbs.

Feeling the burn

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:56:41 GMT

All weekend I did my Biggest Loser workouts off of my new video and let me tell you......Bob is kicking my butt! And I'm loving it. It calls for you to do the workouts 6 days a week but unfortunitly I just don't have the time to do it everyday. But it is definitely a great workout. I usually end up regreting buying those workout dvds because after one time I realize those things are not for me. But I'm glad I gave this one and chance. And I have to tell you it is refreshing and nice to see past contestants struggling on the dvd. Most of those videos edit it until its perfect but this one doesn't. It shows they are human and makes you feel like your not alone when you struggle. We decided to weigh in tomorrow since we had to wait til Tuesday of last week. This way its a full week in between weigh ins...So we shall see how well the dvd workouts are helping.

Plateau

Thu, 07 Feb 2008 18:06:22 GMT

Well the weight has been coming off every week...Whether its a huge loss or just a few pounds but I feel a plateau is coming on and this is not fun. My main problem is that when I hit those plateaus I start to get discouraged. I think though this time I will be okay. I just have to hang tough.......I know this is a short one but its been crazy busy around here. Hope everyone else is staying strong and not loosing faith when you hit those plateaus. As the saying goes "This too shall pass". God Bless, Team Breedlove

Mistake in Last Blog...Thank God

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 18:47:32 GMT

I thought something was wrong....My weigh in this morning was different. I pulled the wrong picture for some reason...Let me try this again...

Danielle:

Starting Weight: 232 lbs.

Previous Weight: 215 lbs.

Current Weight: 213 lbs.

Chris:

Starting Weight: 328 lbs.

Previous Weight: 315 lbs.

Current Weight: 307 lbs.

I put dad's back up too in case I messed that one up as well. It has just been a rough day all around.

Weigh In

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 18:42:14 GMT

Here it goes

Chris:

Starting Weight: 328 lbs.

Previous Weight: 317 lbs.

Current Weight: 307 lbs.

Danielle:

Starting Weight: 232 lbs.

Previous Weight: 215 lbs.

Current Weight: 215 lbs.

For Some reason I weighed in at 215 this morning......Yesterday I weighed at 211....Not sure whats going on. Just got to work harder next week so that this doesn't happen again....

Weigh In Postponed

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 14:59:43 GMT

Hey everyone....my absent-minded self forgot my camera at home so today's weigh -in is postponed until tomorrow.....But we do have another tribute video...this time for bob so we will be working on getting that up today......We had so much fun doing this video. Hopefully we can put the outtakes up to because this one took several tries before we got it......

Last Nights Show hit a nerve

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 16:35:55 GMT

Well I actually got the chance to watch last nights show and I have to say I was a little disappointed in the way Bob picked teams. I really felt bad for Brittany. I know how she feels. It was the classic last kid picked for dodge ball type thing. Its one of those things that though he didn't mean to hurt her feelings he did. I have felt like that a time or two. And usually I turned to eating. But anyway, this weeks weigh in we both saw some smaller weight loss numbers, but we are okay with that. I kind of expected not to have big numbers since I really didn't work out last week. But I have already started out this week doing good with the working out. As time goes on though we are both struggling not to cheat. But you know like Bob and Jillian said its okay to have a small snack every once and a while. Its more of just learning to control yourself and know when to stop. Calories in and calories out!!!!!! This week we are going to work on another video for everyone. And I will be doing some video blogs with dad. I hope everyone else is staying strong and doing good!

Weigh In Day

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:19:48 GMT

Alright....today is the day!!! Its weigh in time for Team Breedlove. Here we go:

Danielle:

Starting Weight: 232 lbs

Previous Weight: 217 lbs

Current Weight: 215 lbs

Chris:

Starting Weight: 328 lbs.

Previous Weight: 316 lbs.

Current Weight: 313 lbs.

Its definitely not the big numbers we have seen the first couple of weigh ins but it's still a weight loss. And we will take what we can get......Hope everyone has a good weigh in day this week as well.

Back pains

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:29:15 GMT

Well for those paying attention you might have noticed I have not been working out...but with good reason all week I have had severe back pains. I think maybe I over did it with the sit ups....So I have been taking it easy this week but I'm hoping by Friday I can start back with my normal workouts......

Adding to my story yesterday

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:56:32 GMT

So after high school I went on to college. About after two years at a junior college and I had yet to date anyone seriously I was miserable. All my friends were getting married and here I was the fattie left behind. So after a self pity party something in me clicked and I decided if my weight was ever going to change I would have to do it myself. So I went on a diet and started walking. At my heaviest I was 260 lbs and after a year of working out and dieting I got to 195 lbs. For the first time in my life I felt beautiful. I felt like I was pretty enough to get the guy. I had a ways to go to being really skinny but a size 16 to me was so awesome..And then I started to get attention from guys I liked and I was on top of the world. Well to make a long story short I got my heart broken and I turned to what I once used for comfort. FOOD! I began picking up my bad eating habits...And the fact that I had moved out on my own was not helping because there was no one there to stop me. And thats how I slowly gained a majority of the weight back. After all that hard work I let a broken heart get the best of me....But not this time...I am determined to get to my goal size and change the brusies on the inside and let them go so I don't let it happen again....Guess that's it for now...its lunch time, which is our busy time so until then...God Bless and Stay strong....

ps MY 24TH BIRHTDAY IS TOMORROW!

Haunting Words

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 16:17:07 GMT

One Childhood memory that I just cannot escape from has been haunting me for all my life and here recently I cannot stop thinking about it....As a child I had this one uncle who liked to pick on me. i remember I would dread seeing him because he would taunt me about my weight constantly. Everytime he would see me he would say "Hey Fattie"....and then he would laugh. It was and still is the most haunting laugh I have ever heard. I couldn't have been more than 6 years old or so...and I remember being so devistated and wondering why he would be so cruel like that to me...And now that I look at my childhood pictures I realize I was no where near fat...Not even close to being fat...But it was still destructive to my self esteem. And it still haunts me til this day!!!! I keep wondering had he not told me those things would I have turned out differently. Because at that point food became a comfort thing for me. I used food to make me feel better. I can't blame all this on my uncle but I look back now and realize that is the point that weight started becoming an issue. And as I got older it just spiraled out of control. We moved around a lot when I was younger. I think we moved like 5 or 6 times before I was 10. We were poor (we still are but not as bad as back then..lol) and so if my dad got a job offer we went. I remember until I was in first grade we lived with my grandparents in Houma, La and then moved to Lafeyette, La and then Laurel, MS where I changed schools several times. When we moved to Laurel I remember having such a hard time fitting in and finding friends because I didn't fit in. I didn't have the right clothes and parents that did the PTA and all that. Not to mention by grade school I was a chunky kid...Girls would pick on me and make fun of me for my weight. Dad said he remembers me coming home crying because they would make fun of me for my weight. I even remember joining the cheerleading squad in elementry school and the girl's parents lied to mine about cheerleading camp so I would miss it and not be able to be on the team....And anytime something like that happened I woiuld eat...and eat...and eat. It was my crutch. Food was my Best friend. It was the only thing I could count on. As crazy as it sounds it was comfort from a life of teasing. I guess i figured well they already call me fat so what difference is this food going to make. In high school I did find friends, true friends that didn't judge me. But as high school went on and they all got boyfriends things just got so depressing for me. I felt like I would never find anyone that would want me....Why would they I was fat. But I would tell myself well if they don't like me for me then it's not my fault. It's their lose and kind of like one of the contestants said last week on the show...I would tell myself well they are rejecting me because of my weight not because of me and that is better than them rejecting me because of my personality. At least it was a superficial reason...I was hiding behind excuse after excuse. I just gave up on trying....Well I guess that's where I'm going to stop with my story today. I will pick up with more hopefully tomorrow...

Photo Album: Random Photos

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 15:13:45 GMT

Random Photos

One of the things are our menu is DOUGHNUTS.....

It can be difficult to resist these scrumptious treats...

WE have a love/hate relationship with our cheese.....

Dad and I working at the Diner....

We had a little fun with a Hamburger bun and some ketchup!!!! We Love the Biggest Loser!

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Dad and I when I graduated from USM

The whole family (Chris Jr., Danielle, Carol, and Chris Sr.)

Us trying to do a little yoga...this was a scene we cut from our first video....

More Photos...

Photo Album: Chris' Photos

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 15:12:29 GMT

Chris' Photos

Chris checking out today's dessert at the diner....

Dad cooking....

One of the many delicious foods we are surrounded with everyday.....

Dad's Full Length Photo

The side View...

Dad working out before we shot our Jillian video...

March 11, 2008 292 lbs

March 11,2008 profile picture

Photo Album: Danielle's Photos

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 15:10:56 GMT

Danielle's Photos

This is me, taking a water break....

One of the many temptations I face daily....

My Full Length Photo

The View from the side....

Me working out on my eliptical...

March 11,2008 at 204 lbs.

March 11, 2008 profile picture

Custom List: Our Weight

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 15:22:30 GMT

Our Weight

Chris
Starting Weight: 328 lbs. Current Weight: 292 lbs. Total Weight lost: 36 lbs.
Danielle
Starting Weight: 232 lbs. Current Weight: 204 lbs. Total Weight Lost: 28 lbs.
Both
Combined Total Starting Weight: 560 lbs. Combined Total Current Weight: 496 lbs. Combined Total Weight Lost: 64 lbs.

Custom List: Chris' Food and Exercise List

Fri, 08 Feb 2008 15:56:51 GMT

Chris' Food and Exercise List

Exercise
22 min. on elliptical
Dinner
Roast Beef Sandwich
Lunch
Grill Chicken with green peas and mashed potatoes
Breakfast
Egg Beater Omelet and wheat toast

Custom List: Danielle's Food and Exercise List

Fri, 08 Feb 2008 15:55:54 GMT

Danielle's Food and Exercise List

Exercise
The Biggest Loser Cardio workout from their video (kicked my butt too)
Dinner
Tuna with one piece of wheat bread and one dill pickle
Lunch
Side salad with 1/2 cup of chicken spaghetti
Breakfast
Oatmeal with one sausage patty and one egg

Custom List: Chris' Goals

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 18:51:15 GMT

Chris' Goals

To Win this contest and meet Jillian
To have a more active lifestyle
To have lower blood pressure and be off sleep apnea machine
To loose 128+ lbs

Custom List: Danielle's Goals

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 18:50:46 GMT

Danielle's Goals

To Win this contest and meet Bob Harper
To be able to eat healthier because I want to, not because I have to...
To not be in the obese catagory
To Loose 60+ lbs