Weight Watchers

Updated June 3, 2009

Dad and I started Weight Watchers 3 weeks ago after dad's doctor told him a lot of his health problems could be eliminated or reduced if he lost weight. We weigh in each Thursday and I'll try to keep up with the posting of progress. Congrats to Dad for week 2. We were in New York and he still lost eating Galima's great cooking.

DAD
Week 1 lost 6.0 lbs
Week 2 lost 2.0 lbs.
Week 3 lost 5.4 lbs
Week 4 - Dad took the day off so didn't weigh in (I think he was afraid)
Week 5 - lost 2.4 pounds
Wee 6 - Dad at meeting and didn't weight in!
Week 7 - No weigh in - We were at a wedding
Week 8 - Maintained! That's great considering missing two weigh-ins, no tracking and a lot of
eating out.
Week 9 - Gained 2.2 pounds. Time to recommit!
TOTAL lost 13.6lbs.??

MOM
Week 1 lost 5.4 lbs.
Week 2 gained 2 lbs. (It was that New York Cheesecake)
Week 3 lost 3.4 lbs.
Week 4 lost 2.2 lbs.
Week 5 lost 1.4 lbs.
Week 6 lost .6 lbs (better than nothing)
Week 7 - No weigh in - we were at a wedding
Week 8 - lost .6 lbs. (shocking with all the elcairs, BBQ ribs & wedding cake I ate)
Week 9 - Gained 1 pound - No more Chuck-A-Rama for me. I can't resist their scones!
TOTAL lost 12.6 lbs.

NEW YORK CITY!!

Our trip to New York was great fun! We had a red eye flight Thursday night and went straight to the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island after dropping luggage off at the hotel. We spent time in Battery Park watching street dancers, vendors, etc. Had lunch at an Amish deli then to the hotel to crash. Saturday, the girls had dance classes most of the day at Broadway Dance Studio. Ate New York Pizza between classes - Yum! Shopped 5th Avenue. Then off to the Broadway show of "Mama Mia" in Times Square. Sunday we went to Church and then the Metropolitan Museum of Art, then to the Broadway Show of "The Little Mermaid". It was amazing. Monday is rained and our flight was cancelled to come home. The girls had a dance class with a guy that was the Dance Captain for the Chicago Broadway Dancers. He put them through a mock audition. We then shopped at Macy's which is 8 (or 9) floors and takes the entire city block. It was huge. We then walked and subwayed to Ground Zero. It poured rain all day and the kids were soaked. We checked back into our hotel and ordered pizza for the girls who were wet, cold and tired. Several adults went to Time Square for some great pizza. The extra day gave us time to go to Little Italy and china Town. We finally made it home late Tuesday night.
We experienced a lot of New York life, ate from street vendors. Hot Knish is real good. I had that instead of a Hot dog (yuk). It's worth going to New York for the cheesecake. Here are some pictures. of our adventures.

Little Italy. Laura ate lunch at the restaurant on the left and Lindsey ate at the one on the right. Most of Little Italy were restaurants and bakeries. Food was wonderful.

Empire State Building. Very windy as you can tell by Lindsey's hair blowing. Also, very cold as you can see by the looks on the faces of the girls.

Very crowded subway. Sometimes we just had to push our way into the subway.


View of Central Park. I can see why they have this park. With the rest of New York being only buildings and concrete, they need somewhere to go to get out of all that hussle bussell.

This is the castle in Central Park that was used in Step Mom.

In the city is the Temple. Notice Moroni on top. That was the only time that I new my directions because I know that Moroni always faces East. We went to church on the 3rd floor. We were so tired that everyone fell asleep. Nice visitors we are.

Laura getting out of the limo we took back to the hotel after seeing the broadway show "Mama Mia". They gave us a good deal for our group so we all piled in 3 limos. This might have been the highlight of the trip for the girls.

Laura and friends in FAO Schwarts dancing on the piano.

Can't shop 5th Avenue without going to Tiffany's and can't go into Tiffany's without buying something. My souvenior was a traditional charm bracelet from Tiffany's. Dad didn't respond when I text him asking if Icould get it. I took no response as a yes. There is probably a lesson here. Answer your wife promptly or never let her go into Tiffany's alone.

Statue of Liberty and the girls on the Ferry on the way to the Statue of Liberty.

At the airport getting ready to go. This is going to New York not coming home. We looked a lot more tired when we left.

Easter

Easter was a busy day. We had Stake Conference til noon and then a Youth meeting til about 2:30pm. It was great but a lot of church. We had Easter dinner at Grandma and Grandpa Lyon's house with a traditional easter egg hunt. Erin wasn't able to come on Easter so they came on Monday and had an easter egg hunt.


Nikaylee finding her egg.



Aiden with his egg

Jonathan helping Abagail

Grandpa helping Dayton.

Happy birthday to all the April birthdays. We have Brooke, Abagail, Aaron Elwood, Paul, Jason and grandma Lyon. I sure hope I didn't miss someone. We are a little behind on the cards but they are coming.

This is one of my favorite dances. Laura danced it last year and they brought it back this year but Lindsey is dancing. She is the one that starts and ends the dance. Some think its creepy but I like it ( maybe I'm creepy)

Heres another one. I liked this one because it was so unique. They take so long to upload that I quite yesterday. Now I'm in my business law class and have 3 hours to let this upload (unless I run out of battery)

This is a dance that Lindsey choreographed. It was chosen as the officers dance. Lindsey is the Social Rep and Laura is the Historian. They are in the middle and start off on the floor. Lindsey is on the right and Laura is on the left.

Laura and Lindsey are nearly through with their dance concert for the year. I will post some of their dances that I liked. The first one is their military dedication that Laura is in. She danced it with Adam in mind and was upset that Adam didn't come watch when she found out that he was back home - even though back home was in Texas.

Sorry for those that missed it. They missed a great evening with family and ice cream afterwards.