95.9 Kiss FM and The Biggest Loser

One of the local radio stations here in Green Bay started a Biggest Loser competition with 8 contestants getting a free personal trainer to work one-on-one with, free nutritional advice and a free gym membership. I, unfortunately, was not one of the 8 lucky ladies chosen, so when they decided to do an "At-Home" Biggest Loser as well, I was all excited to sign up. The downfall to the At-Home losers was that we had to do it 100% on our own. No paid gym membership. No paid personal trainer. No free nutritional advice. It was completely up to us to lose the weight and eat right. On our own. Alone. Ok, so maybe signing up was a mistake since I have the lowest willpower known to man. Give up McDonalds and pizza? Yeah right. Stop eating my much beloved chocolate? No way! Exercise that went beyond walking from one room to the other? Hahaha!

Then, one mundane Monday morning my telephone rang (and lo-behold I didn't hear it ring so it went to voicemail) and later my husband told me that I missed a call from what looked to be a radio station. I thought "they must be calling to see how well I'm doing with losing weight! Oh my... good thing I didn't answer the phone because I didn't want to have to admit that I wasn't doing a single darn thing to get healthy!". Moments later I go check my email and I notice that I have an email from Doug and Mary (the radio station dj's). Great. Now they're stalking me through my email since they couldn't get in touch with me via phone. This is the email that I received.

Mistie,

Any chance you want to go to our Boot camp weekend at the Waube Lodge?? It is June 1,2, and 3rd...it will be a total blast!

Let us know if you are available or if you are interested!!

Mary Love
95-9 Kiss FM

My heart started pounding out of my chest. "Could I do this? Would I be able to survive it? I'll look like a complete idiot since I haven't lost one ounce since this competition started! But I bet it will be kinda fun. Sure, I'll do it".

Let me tell you, it was a FANTASTIC weekend! Oh sure, the workouts were really brutal, but I SURVIVED!! Nothing like a feeling of accomplishment! There were 4 of the original gym-losers and 4 of the at-home losers that were invited. Only 2 of the gym and 3 of the at-homes came.

That Saturday morning one of my fellow At-Home'ers and I went down to the fitness room and had a little workout before the "real" workout began. As an afterthought, that was a pretty bad idea! For 45 minutes straight we did push-ups, sit-ups (cross extensions- elbow to opposite knee), walking lunges across the banquet hall, walking sideways lunges, jack-knife, more push ups, wall push-ups, wall squats, plank and a few others that I can't think about at the moment. We were all pretty exhausted after that, so we took a break and had breakfast. After our break we all went for a nice walk- about 2 miles or so. It was a really nice walk, even after it started to rain on us. The rain actually felt pretty good, as it was so hot! When we returned from our walk we took a lunch break. We all met back up about an hour and a half later down at the lake for the paddle-boat competition. We were in teams of two and had to race from a set of buoys across the lake and around a floating dock and back to the buoys. Well, my wonderful teammate, Chris, and I won that competition! We both won 2 free passes to Mt. Olympus at the Wisconsin Dells! From what I hear it is a pretty awesome place to be! After our fun in the water, we went back up to the land (right behind the resort) for a little running fun! We each had to strap on a backpack (one at a time) that had 18 pounds of weight in it PLUS carry a 12 pound ball then RUN 4 times around a set of trees (not exactly sure how far apart the trees were). By the time I got to 3 I was ready to collapse and puke! But again, I managed to complete the task! The very last task consisted of a wall-squat competition. The prize- two tickets to the Timber Rattlers game. Sorry to say that the three at-home'rs were practically out of the competition as soon as it started. Our legs had just been through hell!

The Gang
Personal Trainers Justin and Melissa, Radio Djs Doug and Mary, At-home losers Vickie, Me and Chris, Gym losers Trisha and Kati (front)

A picture of the paddle-boat competition. The girls are just about at the "start/finish" line. We had to go all the way to where the houses are (top of picture to the right) and back.

Here we are during our BBQ relaxing after the torture we were just put through!

This was the kick in the butt that I needed to get my health straightened out. I came home on Sunday (the 3rd) and have been working out at the YMCA every day since then. I have a 12 week Personal Fitness Program that I am doing and in 12 weeks I expect to weigh quite a bit less than I do right now!




Start weight of the program: 210
Ultimate weight goal: 130

"I'm tired of being a fatty with no energy"