Data, Glorious Data

Yes, I'm a data nerd. I'm not even a little bit sorry about it. I mean, how else do you know how you're doing? Huh?  Huh??? The last Friday of every month I do my "official" weigh in and measurements. They have not been very pretty in recent months. Definitely not brag-worthy! This month I …

First Results

At the end of week two in our Biggest Loser challenge we had our first weigh in. Some have decided that they wanted to wait until the very end and only weigh in at the final weigh in. This is just fine. The others...well, they do what I tell them. So we weighed in. I didn't …

The Looming Wall

Did somebody build a wall? Because I think I just ran into it. Hit it. BAM! Like a ton of bricks! I don't know the last time that I have been this dedicated to my workout plan. Since registering for the Iron Cowboy in December I have been in a zone. This is a good …

Kiss It, Biggest Loser!

Ah, friendly competition! Who doesn't love it!? Remember the Biggest Loser challenge that I'm doing with a group of my work peeps? It's going well. I guess. I kind of expected more trash talking than I've been hearing. Perhaps, that's because I'm kinda the queen of trash talk, so I assume that everybody enjoys a …

Crisis Averted

It's been a few days since I initially freaked out over my Biggest Loser challenge at work. There are just so many other things to freak out over, so I've cooled my jets a bit. I have not been able to get out of my head some machine telling me that I need to lose …

Confessions

Today marks the official start of the Biggest Loser competition at work. This means a few things: Initial weigh-in Initial BMI configuration Initial outbreak of hysteria Wait. What's that last one? Hysteria? What on earth for? Well, I'll tell you! One of the guys brought in this torture device. It's a machine that calculates BMI. …

What Have I Done?

Well, well, well.... You wanna talk about being in the wrong place at the wrong time? OK. Let's do that! I headed back to the operations manager's office to get some questions answered and a small group of people were huddling around having a very intense discussion. The door to the main tech area was …