Monthly Archives: January 2011

Guest Post: I Believe She’s Wonder Woman

As I’m enjoying the amazing town of Breckenridge and getting used to the high altitude, here’s my amazing sister! She’s my very best friend and I love her to pieces!

Hello.

I am Tracey. I am Brooke’s AMAZING sister.

The other day Brooke asked me to type up a blog post so that she can put it as a guest post while she is away at Colorado. When she asked I instantly thought “What do you even want me to write about?” and it didn’t take long for Brooke to respond back with a very modest reply “about me of course.”

So here I go.

What Brooke means to me.

Basically my whole entire life (well for as long as I can remember) I always said that Brooke is my hero…

I actually really think that she is Wonder Woman (hence the title of this blog entry)

Now…you all know that Brooke has always struggled with her weight. I never understood why because our parents weren’t feeding her HoHos, buckets of lard, and shoving soda down her throat. She ate the same things my brother and I did (which definitely were not the items I listed above). While growing up I always struggled to understand…but I didn’t think it mattered because whenever I saw my sister I didn’t see all of her extra weight…I saw her as my gorgeous sister whom I loved to be around!

It was always hard for me when people made fun of Brooke and a lot of you probably think that the jokes were only directed towards her…but believe it or not people would actually say cruel things about her to me. This always upset me because they just assumed Brooke only ate Twinkies (which was actually what a bunch of cruel girls said to me). I never understood why people didn’t see Brooke the way I did…it never made sense to me at all.

I think Brooke is Wonder Woman because she has broken through all the barriers that she has ever been given. She has lost an incredible 125 pounds in 2 years. She has overcome people’s cruel jokes, nasty looks, and stereotypes about who she is. She grabbed ahold of her life and isn’t going to settle for anything short of her goals. She has always been my best friend and I have always been able to rely on her for anything that has ever upset me. She has a heart of pure 18k gold. I have always loved who Brooke is…but I absolutely LOVE who she is now. She is the person I always knew she was but now she can shine and show the world.

To Brooke: I love you more than you will ever know. I want to thank you for all the years you saved me from the cruel fake people who were constantly in my life. I have always been able to count on you and I am thankful for that. My life would be so lame and boring without our fun photo shoots and random drives around random towns listening to RANDOM songs. I wish only the BEST for you in everything you do. I also miss you every day (since I moved to the ‘Loo). I can’t wait til I see you again in our completely MATCHING clothes…WE CAN DO THAT NOW! :)

To Brooke’s Readers: I would like to share some of my favorite pictures of Brooke and I…and also NEVER STOP READING THIS BLOG! :)

This picture is old, but def a fave!

This is what we do on a boring Tuesday night! :)

"We Sure Are Cute For Two Ugly People"

Weekly Weigh In: B-Fry’s Birthday Edition

Starting Weight: 327.6
Current Weight: 201.4
Last Week: 202.0
Loss/Gain: -0.8
Total Loss: 126.2lbs

I’m typing this on my phone while riding through Nebraska. We’re on our way to Colorado for our week’s vacation. Can’t wait!

So today is B-Fry’s birthday! I made him a book of 101 reasons I love him. :) It was cute. And I made him his favorite kind of cookie, oatmeal chocolate chip. I love making gifts for people I love. And I do love me some B-Fry!!

On to my loss for the week. I’ll gladly take it! My eating hasn’t been the best. And it probably wasn’t the greatest idea to make cookies yesterday. Lol. I’m sure vacation isn’t going to be the greatest for weight loss either. I’m not going to go crazy, but I will enjoy myself.

Since I’m on vacation this coming week I have some guest posts coming up. Even B-Fry is making an apperance! So make sure you come back for those!

For now I’m off to enjoy the darkness of Nebraska!

What’s the best vacation you’ve been on?

Weekly Weigh In: Moving Edition

Starting Weight: 327.6
Current Weight: 202.0
Last Week: 202.8
Loss/Gain: -0.8
Total Loss: 125.6lbs

Yay for a being at a new low! I’m sooooo close to being under 200. I feel like I’ve been saying that for the last 6 months. Ha! I know I’ll ge under it, I just need to do ALL the necessary things, not just SOME of them. But as usual with me, it’s easier said than done.

My mom did awesome though! She lost 3lbs her first week! Yay, go mom! :) She’s been walking on her treadmill even. She’s rocking it out.

So, I’m typing this from mine and B-Fry’s new place! Talk about some VERY exciting stuff. We moved a majority of my things yesterday. I still have a bit to move, but it’s getting there. Our duplex is coming along quite nicely. Right now we’re still working on having a functioning kitchen. We have all the appliances, but when they went to put up our microwave, they discovered that it had a HUGE dent along the bottom corner and it wouldn’t fit. So, that has to be returned. The stove hasn’t been hooked up yet either, so we have no way of cooking at the moment. No cooking means eating out and I didn’t plan very well last night. I ended up eating a 25 PointsPlus mean at Applebee’s. Ooops! We should have a stove later today though! *fingerscrossed*

This home improvement stuff has been quite the project and I’m learning that NOTHING goes according to plan. Luckily B-Fry and I have been going through it with very little fighting. So that’s a major plus. It’s coming all coming together and I’m hoping that it will all be finished with no more major issues, but I guess we’ll see. I promise pictures soon!