Weight Warriors

Gaining Weight For No Good Reason

by John Bonk January 17, 2011
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Sometimes weight loss does not make sense.  It can make the overall journey very hard.  As of Saturday morning I was down 1.2 pounds, then after my hard work out on Saturday my weight spiked the next morning and stayed that way on Monday.  If you check my blog something similar happened starting back in [...]

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Weight Warriors – My Results

by John T April 28, 2008

**Cross-published on I Reject Your Reality& The (Pendleton) East Oregonian Back in January I was asked to participate in a 12-week weightloss challenge pitting 6 people against each other to see who could move their body fat % the most. The six was made up of three from the local paper and three from the [...]

Weight Warriors: Week 9

by John T April 7, 2008

My Personal Trainer said something last week that kinda irked me. She said, “As hard as you’re working, you should be losing alot more weight than you are”. Since I began taking this weight loss thing seriously; I have always wanted the scale to move faster than it is, and it has been a tough [...]

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Wieght Warriors: Week 8

by John T March 31, 2008

I went out of town to visit the in-laws over Spring Break and missed 2 of my personal trainer sessions and therefore last weeks weigh-in. I did try to work in some exercise while in Ontario, including going to the gym I used to belong to when I lived there. I won’t say which one, [...]

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Weight Warriors: Week 6

by John T March 17, 2008

  Here we are at Week 6, the Half-way point of this little competition. After the Week 4 check-in, I was trailing Justin in the # of pounds lost. From what I hear, he is really going after it. A little bird told me that he is running a 2-mile road course. (WOW) There is [...]

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Weight Warriors – Week 5

by John T March 10, 2008

You could have probably guessed by my lack of posting here that life has been pretty hectic. But then again, who’s isn’t?I continue to plug along with my various sources of accountability and motivation on this life project. Mikki, my Personal Trainer for this particular project, has been ruthless but also encouraging. She makes sure [...]

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Weight Warriors – Week 3

by John T February 25, 2008

I feel like CRAP! I haven’t been eating right, I haven’t been blogging, I haven’t been to the gym but once since last Wednesday, but it is still weigh-in day for the warriors. So off I go to the RAC, with a dose of Tylenol Daytime Cough & Cold in my system. The first thing [...]

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Weight Warriors – Week 2

by John T February 18, 2008

Mikki has me on 4 different workout routines, 3 or them are what I would call traditional, the 4th is based on resistance bands. I was telling her this afternoon that I’m not a fan of the ‘rubber bands’ because I felt like I had ‘failed’ at every exercise. Plus, I am your average 6’2″ [...]

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Weight Warriors – Week 1

by John T February 11, 2008

Just for a little clarification, I am posting results for 3 fitness/weightloss programs that I am following. Weight Watchers – Tuesday nights Total Transformation – Sundays Weight Warriors – Monday So if you see differing numbers, it is only because I am using the numbers from a specific scale in each circumstance. Consistency, people! That [...]

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