Nick and Jaimee's profileNICK AND JAIMEE ARE GETT...PhotosBlogListsMore Tools Help

NICK AND JAIMEE ARE GETTING HEALTHY IN THE BIGGEST LOSER COUPLES MILLION POUND MATCH-UP Together we will lose 72lbs by summer

Work it baby,work it..Own it!!!!
Photo 1 of 3

Nick and Jaimee

Occupation
Location
Interests
Nick and I are husband and wife and as usual our New Years Resolution is to get our health in check. We are joining the MillionPound Match-Up to try and help us to reach our goals. These include losing weight and making life changes to improve our health. We both want to look and feel better and Nick would like to get off of blood pressure meds.
We have 3 children ages 7, 5, & 8months. They are the main reason that we are competing in this contest.
We are comitted to acctually getting our buts in gear this year. We need to get healthy for our kids and ourselves. We are also planning a trip out to California this summer to visit family, hang out at the beach, and take the kids to Disneyland. I want to shock our family with how wonderful we look in bathingsuits this year and I do not want weight loss to be our new years resolution next year!
We are very excited about The Biggest Loser Couples Million Pound Match Up Contest and we plan on winning!

Jaimee's Journey to a Beach Body

Nick's Progress to His Weight Loss Goal

January 16

Goal Changes

We have changed our goals so they would be more attainable. 
Nick now wants to focus on getting under 300lbs.  So his weight loss goal is now 36lbs by this summer.
Jaimee's weight loss goal is still 40lbs, but by this summer.
When I say "this summer" I mean by our vacation to California in the beginning of June.
Nick and Jaimee:)

WEEK 2 WEIGH IN AND THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!

First I want to say thank you to everyone for their kind words and support!!!!!  We are strong and God will help us get through this with flying colors!
 
Weigh in went great for me again, but even worse for Nick.  He has not stuck to anything we agreed on in the beginning of this challenge and this weigh in reflected that.
 
Week 2 weigh in:
Jaimee
Starting weight: 208lbs
Week1 weight: 205lbs
Week 2 weight: 202lbs
Weight loss: -3 lbs!!!!!!
Nick
Starting weight: 331lbs
Week 1 weight: 331lbs
Week 2 weight: 335lbs
Weight gain: +4lbs
 
He is killing himself slowly.  Nick has been so stressed, not eating right, and not exercising.  We talked this morning and he said he would change.  I am trying to help him as much as I can, but only he can make the choice to change.  All I can do is set a good example.
God, please be with my husband and help him to take care of his body.  Help him to know that we are all here to support him and want him to succeed.  Please help us and give us strength as we are going through some difficult times with his family.  Please help his mother to know how much You love her and we love her.  Help her to know that we want her to get better so that she can enjoy her children and grandchildren.  Please give me strength to keep setting a good example for my husband and my children.  Help me to exercise and eat well to take care of this body that you have given me.  Thank you Lord for your strength and wisdom.  We love you!
For your glory,
Nick and JaimeeSmile
 
January 15

ROUGH WEEK-END

Well, this week-end was rough.  It started on Friday with Nick's mom coming home from an alchohol rehabilitation center.  Nick was so excited to see his mom and we were ready to make changes and help in any way we could so that she would get better.  She came off the airplane stumbling drunk.  Nick was crushed.  He then had to go pick her up from a bar the next day because she was drinking and had drivin her mothers car.  I'm not saying that I know anything about having an addiction like hers, but we were hopeful that she would at least try not to drink when she came home.  Especially after paying thousands of dollars to go to a 6 week treatment program.  Nick broke down crying after picking her up from the bar on Saturday.  He basicly feels like he now has no parents left.  (His father passed away 4 years ago of a heart attack.)  How does this have anything to do with our diets, well we basicly went off of our diet and ate our feelings for the rest of the week-end.  There is so much more to this story that I am not going to go into on here.  It has been an ongoing battle for our family for many years.
We are now back on the wagon, so to speak, as far as our diets and exercise.  Our eating wasn't terrible this week-end but it wasn't good.  We both exercised yesterday.  I did 30 min on the elliptical and some abs.  Nick did stadiums and other cardio with his boys volleyball team that he coaches.
I hope everyone had a better week-end than we did.
God bless,
Nick and JaimeeBaring teeth
January 11

Exercise Journal

Yesterday was a great exercise day!  (Well, for me at least)  I did my 5 min warm up on the elliptical and then did:
Wide Grip Pulldown
Pelvic Thrust
Seated Row
Static Lunges
Supermans
Forward Lunges
Dumbbell Bicep Curl
Jumping Jacks
Bicycle Crunch
Concentration Curls
Jumping Rope
Russian Twists
5 min strech cool down
 
I am so very sore from the lunges especially!!!  Nick did not do any exercise yesterday, but a least he is still eating better. 
God Bless,
Nick and JaimeeOpen-mouthed
 
 
 
 
January 10

I gave into temptation

I am so mad at myself because between today and yesterday I ate an entire bag of chocolate/peanutbutter chips.  AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am also a stress eater and I have been stressed about a car accident that I was "involved" in on 1/8/08.  I didn't even hit anyone and I am being blamed for someone running off the road and hitting a light pole.  It is a long story and it is stressing me out big time!  In 15 years of driving I have never gotten in any accident!  Now there are no more chocolate chips in my house so it won't happen again.  I will have to work out supper hard today to make up for it.  I did not exercise yesterday, it was my day off.
Nick has been eating well and is now staying on track.  It's like we switched places.  Now he just needs to exercise.
I am going to to exercise and that will make me feel much better!
Nick and JaimeeOpen-mouthed
 

About Nick

About Nick

About Jaimee

Lets see...I am a Christian and I know that God will help me through this challenge. I am a mother of 3 beautiful girls and my job right now is to raise them to the best of my ability. My oldest daughter is 7 and is in 2nd grade. Then comes my middle daughter who is 5 and in Kindergarden. Last but not least is our surprise baby who is almost 9 months. I do also work a part time job doing data entry and new home market research here in the "Valley of the Sun". In high school and college I was a national level swimmer and was very in shape. I worked out at least 6 hours a day and ate whatever I wanted. I was very muscular and in great shape. Fast forward to now...I still eat the same and do not work out 6 hrs a day. So, that is why I look the way I do in my picture and why I am in this contest. I love photography and you will barely ever catch me with out my Cannon around my neck. I also like to play all sports. Of course swimming, but I also love volleyball and softball. Nick and I used to play beach volleyball regularly when we were dating and hopefully will be playing more when we lose weight. Before I had my youngest daughter I played softball for my church on many teams and can not wait to do so again.

Thanks for visiting and for supporting us in reaching our goal of a healthier lifestyle!

Nick and Jaimee

Please wait...
Sorry, the comment you entered is too long. Please shorten it.
You didn't enter anything. Please try again.
Sorry, we can't add your comment right now. Please try again later.
To add a comment, you need permission from your parent. Ask for permission
Your parent has turned off comments.
Sorry, we can't delete your comment right now. Please try again later.
You've exceeded the maximum number of comments that can be left in one day. Please try again in 24 hours.
Your account has had the ability to leave comments disabled because our systems indicate that you may be spamming other users. If you believe that your account has been disabled in error please contact Windows Live support.
Complete the security check below to finish leaving your comment.
The characters you type in the security check must match the characters in the picture or audio.
Feb. 3
Clarinwrote:
Just stopped by to say HI. Hope you are having a good week! Take care
Dave and Patty
Jan. 28
Hi Nick and Jaimee,
I'm looking forward to reading more blog entries from you both.  I love the close up picture of you both, too.
Keep working hard!
~Tracy
Jan. 26
I know how it is. I too am over 300 lbs. It seems an impossible task. I am here to tell you though there is hope. After 3 short weeks, the change is amazing. I am actually able to do so many things i couldn't do before. In only 3 weeks I have gone from struggling with 5 minutes on my ski machine....to 2 30 minute workouts using the hand grips and not feeling like I am dying. I am able to clean the house with hardly any back pain. (I had some early this week, but it is gone and hasn't been back) It can be done. The diff in 3 short weeks is a God send. My 3rd weigh in is Sun. so I am not sure how much I have lost, but I feel fantastic. My husband and I both do.
Jan. 26
Did you guys give up?  It's not to late to get back into this.  You may not win the contest, but you can still use this website to help you reach your goals.
Jan. 26