Just. Cant. Resist.

Curse the dreaded grocery stores and their Easter candy that is beckoning my name!!

With only 3 weeks to go, how are we all doing? Fess up and chime in!! Leave a comment giving us a hint as to who's going to win.

10 Day Challenge!

Join the lovely "Healthy Amy" and her fabulous plan for a 10 Day Challenge to be ONE pant size smaller!

Amy's listed meals to eat within the calories, snacks, and exercise.

I'm in! Who else? It's only 10 days and a great Jump Start for our contest.

Easy 400 Calorie Dinner

Here's a yummy dinner that I made last night: Egg & Spinach Burrito.

Cook 1/2 a bag of Spinach in a pan with a drizzle of Olive Oil. Then once cooked, add your eggs. When the eggs are almost done, add some Parmesan cheese. Then toast a tortilla with once slice cheese and add your eggs to it. Fold it up nice and enjoy! You can add a dollop of sour cream if you need to, but only 1 Tablespoon for another 60 calories.

What are you eating for meals, I need more ideas?

Meet the Competitors

Here's our Big Losers! With 14 of us, that's $160 in the pot. I've chosen 1st place = $120 & 2nd place = $40.

Marie
Jordan
Mom
Dad
Jeff
Jenna
Laurel
Becky
Sue
Steph
Brian
Rame
Jeanne
Randall
Amy
Scott

Good Luck to us all!

The Last Meal!

Jordan and I went to JCW's for dinner tonight, per my request. I love their delicious ONION RINGS and FRY SAUCE and HOT HAM AND CHEESE SANDWICH! With a large drink. Then a large CHOCOLATE SHAKE for the main course. Ha Ha Ha!

Jordan came home and wanted to vomit. He's ready to throw everything out in the house, even the chocolate chips. Here we go!!

What was your last meal before the contest?

Biggest Loser Competition - Holt Style

Here we are again at the start of a new year. I've got my resolutions set and losing weight is on the top of the list, along with 1,000,000 others! To help me make it past the first 2 weeks, I'm heading up another HOLT Family Biggest Loser Competition.

Let's use this blog to help, encourage, raz, smack talk, and support each other!

I need to get a cute tight tank like Ali from season 5!

Starting Weigh in: January 2nd
Final Weigh in: March 31st

Good Luck to us all! -- (You're all going down)

Turkey Tri

Steph's gotten me all excited about entering the November Turkey Tri Triathlon. Yes, a triathlon! I've been wanting to start getting into these and why not start now! It's giving me something to work towards and train for, getting my extra baby weight off!

So who's with us? It's in Orem on November 8th and it's going to be COLD. They reverse the order of the tri, with running a 5k first, then bike 12 miles, then finish with a 1/4 mile swim in the Utah Lake, JUST KIDDING, indoors at the Orem Rec Center.

Here's the link for more info: Turkey Tri
Here's the link to register: Active

Gobble Gobble - Marie

I am having a love fest this week with Van #1. Thank you , thank you for being my family and support. I truly couldn't have done it without you! Tots-Awes. Every time I have re-counted last weekends experience, I cant' say enough about how much fun it was to run with you all. I had to laugh as I remembered leg #3 and being so proud of myself that I had just run the whole last mile, at the mile 3 watering pit stop, and while still "running", I noticed Becky was walking at a pretty slow pace right next to me and she was going faster than me. Thanks for being so patient with me, especially that last leg and letting me get through that one, no matter what it took. I loved your enthusiasm and great support of each other. I had some really neat spiritual experiences throughout the race and learned a lot about myself. And also, thanks for being so good to Devin! She is awesome and I had so much fun being with her! She is an inspiration to me.


Devin and I had bittersweet feelings of it being over. And I'm really bummed we couldn't go to dinner with you all and re-cap. Re-capping is the best part. I would've loved to hear more about Van #2 and all your great experiences. I got to hear a couple of them through the grapevine.

I have to say that Nan was the best driver ever. She was so calm during the very busy times and really great during all the Sat. afternoon craziness. Thank you Nan for all your love and support.

Thank you Cathy for being so organized and totally awesome and supportive along the way. I have to say, if it weren't for you I may have not ran the race at all.

One more shout out to the volunteers who gave up their whole day so that we could all do what we did. And to J & J for letting us re-coup at their house.


Thanks to everyone! Love you all! BTW, I think I'm going for a 3 miler tomorrow morning. I'm really excited and hope my legs are up for it.

Steph

PS. Did anyone else get sick in Van #1? Devin and I get really sick Sat. night, Sunday and a little on Monday. Brian said he read that a lot of other people in Van #1's from the race got sick. He thinks we drove by a farm with pesticides or something. Just curious.

Awesome Team

Seriously a great relay!! I'm so happy with the personal accomplishments that were reached during this relay as well as the Team work. It is inevitable that we will have injuries along the way as we take on more of the relay races. WE CAN DO HARD THINGS!!

Thank you for all of your training, hardwork, commitment and support for this Wasatch Back!! I'm proud to be part of the Incredible Holts Relay Team.

Wah Bah Runners 2008

• 1 - Devin
• 2 - Amy
• 3 - Scott
• 4 - Steph
• 5 - Becky
• 6 - Cody
• 7 - Meriel
• 8 - Jeanne
• 9 - Melissa
• 10 - Bryan
• 11 - Virginia
• 12 - Cathy
• Driver Van 1 - Nan
• Driver Van 2 - Mat Ulmer
• Volunteer - Rachel
• Volunteer - Brian
  
• Volunteer - Rame
  

cath

Go Team Go

With just a few days to go, I hope you're all ready to kick some butt! I'll be cheering for you loud. If not at the race, then from the hospital bed with baby.

Good Luck to all the runners, volunteers, and drivers. You ROCK! Go Incredible Holt's!

P.S. special thanks to Rame for helping volunteer in Jordan's place. Love you!

BYU is apparently our very serious rival!

I don't know who the mysterious DW is, but I do know that the BYU runners take this race just a little too seriously. So funny!!! We rock!

Race comments - Anyone gunning for BYU

Team Shopping Time Change

Grocery Store Team Shopping Trip changed to Thursday at 3pm instead of Wednesday. Is this better for everyone???
Thanks,
Cathy

T Shirts

Scott, Cody, Steph, Mat, Virginia & Meriel - Please send a digital picture of your face to my email ASAP. We need to make your Incredible Holts iron on. You need to purchase a white T-Shirt. We'll iron them on Thursday night 6/19.

thanks

CONFERENCE CALL

We have a team conference call this Sunday at 4 pm Utah time. Check your email for the call in number & password.

All team members are invited to be on the call!! Van Drivers, Volunteers & Runners!!

Rock the WB.
Cathy

I'm so excited!

This is how excited my mom is to be the driver for Van #1! Wasatch Back! whoo-hoo!

hurricane half marathon!

As part of our training for wasatch back - me and Amy decided to run the Hurricane half marathon on May 3rd! I wasn't so sure how I felt about it since the furthest I had run in the last few months was like 7-8 miles. But running with Amy was a lot of fun! Amy's average was a 9:15min/mile and mine was a 9:23 min/mile. Now it's time to start training for my 7.4 mile all uphill run at a way higher elevation than I am used to! AAAHHHH! It looks like I will be going to Cedar City a couple of weekends to prepare myself!

Excited to run the WahBah!

I think we both felt pretty good after! No injuries, just a few sore muscles!

Keep up the running!

T Shirts & Conference Call

SEND YOUR HULK FACE PICTURE TO ME ASAP! Buy a white T Shirt and bring it to the Pasta Feed on 6/19. We'll iron on the decal that night.

CONFERENCE CALL ON SUNDAY, MAY 18TH! Stay tuned for the time, phone number & access code.

Cathy

Welcome to Cody!

Jordan was working really hard but his knee is killin'! We definitely don't want him to make that knee any worse! He needs too be in great shape to get up in the night and take their crying newborn to Marie:)

Anyway, Cody joins the Wasatch Back team this month! We're so excited to have you running with the Holts! You're officially an adopted family member! Lookin' forward to running with you Cody!

Thanks for training and stepping up!

Volunteers

Thanks to Maclaine Neff, Jordan LeBaron & Rachel Holt!! Our Wasatch Back Volunteers!! I'll post your volunteering assignments on 5/16!! Thanks!

Runner #4 finally says Hi!

Wow, it feels good to get on the family blog and see what my PEEPS are doing and what everyone is up to. Way to go Scott! and Yeah for Nan. I am so excited you'll be with Van #1. You're positive and fun attitude I know will be a help to me and to everyone else I'm sure. Thanks for doing that. What a sacrifice!

Okay so not only did I just join the 4 mile club today, but the 4.3 mile club. Brian and I have been running for a while now some 2 milers up and down hills just to get my legs and feet going. I still am dealing with my plantar facsiitis, so 2 miles is what I've felt I can do so as not to over do it with my feet. But with the race coming up soon, we decided- more like Bri decided- to push it today. It was awesome! I have to walk part of the time and do lots of stretching, but it felt great and I can't wait to do another one. This morning I have been driving around provo from our house checking out different 4 mile runs. My legs/feet aren't feeling so hot right now, but I'm going to go on a little walk right now to keep them warm and stretched.

Anyway, thanks for listening. I think I'm going to need this blog to feel connected and feel the runners energy! You guys are great. Love you all.

Steph