Do the biggest loser trainers get more money if their team wins?

I would think that Bob and Jillian, are getting paid large for being on the biggest loser.  Although Bob won the challenge fair and square, but he clearly made the choices he did not so much for the contestants, but so he could be the winning coach this year.  I lost some respect for him.  Of course he is going to choose teams that give him an avantage, but he dumped the team that chose him first, and that didn’t show a lot of class.

It’s no longer a fair competition, the teams are so unevenly matched it’s not even funny. 

And Jackie????? She tells the girl (I can’t remember if it was Brittany or Jenn) but look you’re under 200lbs!!  As someone who has been over 200lbs, you don’t need someone else to remind you about the joy of being under, but it obviously was not good enough tonight because the black team needed bigger numbers….I guess it is easier to point out the positive when you have nothing to lose.

I like the yellow team now.  They seem to be really there for the right reasons, and aside from last weeks bad judgement, they have been pretty good.  I am amazed however that they are still there.  They’ve been below the line, and lost 0 and gained 3 pounds today…they must have a horseshoe up their butts.

In other news….if you’re going to have your actors doing CPR on a show…..have them do it right!

Lets Hear it for Sabbath

This is my 4th blog.  When I started blogging a few years ago I was using livejournal.  Then I moved to xanga, then to blogspot, and now finally I am here at wordpress.  I am pretty sure that I have posted about this topic on every blog, because I think it is so important.

The Sabbath, we know the commandment right? 

Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant, nor your animals, nor the alien within your gates.  For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.

Some people seem to brush off the ten commandments, dismissing them as legalistic.  A lot of the time they are very legalistic, but when we recognize legalism in the commandments we should also recognize that perhaps we’ve gone back to missing the point about what the commandments were all about. 

I believe that the reason God gave the commandments was to show us how to live in relationship with him, and also how to live in relationship with our community. 

I’m taking a closer look at the Sabbath myself, because I feel so tired.  I keep doing things and taking on more responsibility, because I have a real problem saying no.  I have not been honoring God’s command for a Sabbath.

Take a look at when Jesus was caught “breaking” the sabbath laws.  The purpose of the sabbath law has been forgotten, and in Mark Chapter 2 Jesus clarifies by saying.  “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the sabbath.” (2:27).  The sabbath was made for us, to give us time to rest, rejuvenate, recharge.

We seem to have forgotten this truth even in the church and we have gone to the other extreme, keeping our members busy.  We believe that because Jesus “broke” the laws that they are no longer valid, but I think that we are still missing the point if we go that far.

 I see a couple of problems when we take the extreme of not obeying the commandments of God. 

1. We are being selfish.  We feel the need to produce more and more.  We work sometimes 60-80 hour weeks in hopes of making more money, so that we can buy more things.  We believe that life is all about us. 

2. We are being arrogant.  We seem to think that if we take a rest that the world is going to fall apart.  If we rest we might miss something important or lose out on something.  How arrogant is that of us?  We are also putting ourselves above God when we do this.  Think about it.  We think the world will fall apart and we can not rest because of it.  God rested though, and what happened?  Nothing, the world did not fall off it’s axis, everything stayed very good.  God rested.  We can rest.

So it’s not so much about whether I ride my bike, or go pick up a loaf of bread on the sabbath day, it’s about my ability to take a regular time to rest, knowing that God has created this day for me….for you.  It’s about my ability to allow others to take a sabbath.  Don’t matter to me if it is Sunday, Monday, or whatever day of the week…we need to rest.

I stole this from my friend Crystal’s facebook, who stole it from Stacey

My 100 Truths…
1. real name - Jaclyn Joy Wynne 
2. like it - It’s worked for me for the past 30 years (well except in Kindergarten and grade1)
3. single or taken - single
4. zodiac sign - Taurus
5. male or female - female
6. elementary – Heritage Victoria until grade 3 then Bannatyne for 4-6
7. middle – Golden Gate
8. high – Silver Heights
9. college - booth college
10. hair color - dark brown
11. eye color – dark brown
12. hair length – Short

13. current worry – getting into college
14. race - Canadian
15. are you a health freak - do I look like I am a health freak?
16. height – 5′3
17. do you have a crush on someone - no
18. do you like yourself – most days

19. piercings - ears only
20. tattoos - on shoulder
21. righty or lefty - rightyFIRSTS-
22. first surgery – gall bladder last year

23. first piercings - my ears
24. first best friend – I don’t like the concept of a hierarchy for my friends
25. first award – Creative Writing award in grade 3
26. first sport - baseball but only for fun
27. first pet – babe
28. first vacation – clear lake
29. first teacher – mrs gaskin
30. first crush - Derek and AdamTHIS OR THAT-
31. orange or apple juice -Apple
32. rock or rap - rock
33. country or screamo - neither
34. nsync or backsteet boys - BSB
35. britney spears or christina aguilera - neither

36. night or day - night
37. sun or moon - moon
38. tv or internet – internet
39. playstation or xbox – xbox
40. kiss or hug – hug
41. iguana or turtle – turtle
42. spider or bee - neither
43. fall or spring – fall

44. Limewire or iTunes – itunes
46. soccer or baseball – soccerCURRENTLY
50. drinking – nothing
51. im about to – go home

53. singing – nothing
54. typing – this

FUTURE-
55. want kids - no
56. when – never
57. want to get married - no
58. when – never
59. where do you want to live - anywhere
60. how many kids do you want – none
61. any name on the mind – nope
62. what did you want to be when you were little - an officer…or a nurse
63. what do you think you’ll really be doing - Gonna be an officer

64. mellow future or wild – mellow
66. something you would never try - giving myself a tattoo 
67. when do you wanna die – when I am 72

WHICH IS BETTER WITH THE OPPOSITE SEX-
68. lips or eyes - eyes
69. hugging or kissing - hugging
70. shorter or taller - taller
71. tan skinned or light – tanned
72. romantic or spontaneous - romantic

73. dark or light hair – either
74. muscular or normal - muscular
75. hook-up or relationship - relationship
76. similar to you or different – similiar valuesHAVE YOU EVER-
78. kissed a stranger - yes
79. drank bubbles - nope
80. broken a bone - nope
81. climbed up a tree - nope
82. broken someones heart - nope

83. turned someone down - yes
84. had your heart broken - yeah

85. liked a friend as more than a friend – yesDO YOU BELIEVE IN-
86. yourself - sometimes
87. miracles - yes
88. love at first sight - sometimes
89. santa claus - if you don’t believe you don’t receive

90. kiss on first date - depends

91. angels - not in the common sense ANSWER TRUTHFULLY-
92. is there one or more people you want to be with right now - nah
93. who is it - no one 
94. like someone - no

LASTS-
95. text message - I don’t own a cell, let alone text

96. received call - uhh auntie Erva

97. call made - uhhhh I don’t know it was days ago…I hate the phone
98. facebook message - uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Kathleen
99. missed call - blocked call
100. last hungout with? - Linda

The Biggest loser just defeated it’s own purpose

Ok so it might have something to do with the fact that my favorite team was eliminated, but I don’t see the point of the twist the show took tonight. 

 The way they did it tonight made no sense, if I was there I might lose focus and think well what is the point of going on because it doesn’t matter if I work hard and lose weight, if I am not as liked then I will get voted off. 

It was dumb.  Oh and I totally lost respect for the orange team.

I love camp

I was up this weekend at camp arnes with the youth from my church and other churches of The Salvation Army in Winnipeg.  I was asked to go as a chaperon, so I did because I always loved going to retreats as a kid. 

I didn’t do a whole lot of chaperoning, because the kids were really good and didn’t seem to need us constantly watching over their shoulders.  I was also the “official” photographer for the weekend….the official part just means I was the only one who brought my camera everywhere. 

Floyd Tidd was our guest speaker for the weekend….and the theme of the weekend was entitled “Micahmorphosis”.  We took a look at that very famous verse in scripture that is found in Micah.  Chapter 6 verse 8 to be exact. 

He has showed you, O man, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.

 Floyd did a fantastic job of setting forth the context in ways that young people could understand.  And he spent the weekend talking about what it means to walk justly, love mercy and walk humbly with our God.

I was especially blessed by today’s session.  As you know from reading this blog, I am going to be changing careers in about a year.  I really believe that I am called to be a minister of the gospel as a full time vocational thing.  It’s really scary for me, I really believe that it is what I am meant to do.  Every time it comes down to it this is all I can picture myself doing or being I’ve tried to ignore it and put the thoughts away for years but I just keep coming back to it and now I know that this is never going to go away because I am meant to do it, but again…I’m scared.

I feel so inadequate because I just don’t know all there is to know about everything.  Culture moves at such and incredible pace that I find sometimes my head is spinning.   Am I smart enough?  Can I relate well enough with others?  Can I get over my anxiety?  The list of doubts and fears could go on forever.  It seems that I can think of a million reasons not to do this, but then when I think rationally I know that these are just lies.

Today Floyd Tidd illustrated this for me, and helped affirm in me that I am on the right path.  He talked about taking steps in walking humbly with God.  To do this he used the story of Gideon from Judges chapters 6 and 7.  He started off by asking if we had ever wondered how 1 person can possibly make a difference.  There were four points that he made using the story of Gideon, and honestly I can not remember them all, but what resonated with me was his affirmation that we need to be willing to listen to what God is saying to us, through scripture, other believers etc.  God might be looking at us and maybe he will give us something big to do.  We don’t expect it from ourselves, and others might not expect it from us but God can accomplish it through us.  He also said that we need to look at others knowing that God might be using them for something that we might not “expect”.   Anyways I did not take notes, and I don’t want to totally mess up what the speaker said, but you get the point?

I may feel inadequate, and I may be cowering in the shadows, but I know that God has called me to something that is bigger than myself, and the task will sometimes be so scary that I will wonder what I am doing, but God has a plan.  He knows what he is doing, and he won’t leave me alone to do it.  He’ll always provide me with the tools I need, even if they seem a little strange for the task (go ahead read Judges 6 and 7)

I’m still scared, but I just KNOW.  It’s interesting how someone can be talking in a room, and it seems that they have meant everything they have said just for you.  Floyd Tidd does not know I am going to go to training college, he knows nothing about me, yet everything he said over the weekend seemed to answer the questions I have been having. 

God is good.

I’m so conflicted

Ok so Tuesday nights there are 2 great shows on.  I was able to avoid conflict this week because I did not have a practice so I watched the biggest loser, and my sister taped american idol for me (I don’t have a VCR). 

 Next week I do have a practice, and my sister only has one VCR….so she can only tape one or the other for me.  What am I to do?  I love both these shows they provide me with great entertainment. 

Well it’s either quit my band or buy a VCR….I think I am leaning towards quit my band.

This one was my favorite

The Biggest Loser…my obsession

I love the biggest loser.  It is one of my favorite shows.  You can check out what the show is all about if you don’t know yet, at NBC.com 

Like all reality shows there are teams or individuals competing for a prize, and naturally as a viewer, I pick who I like and who I can not stand based on what the producers decide to show us.

So far this season I think I like the pink team the best.  Betty Sue and Ali.  It’s a mother and daughter team.  Betty Sue has a sense of humor that I get, plus she is determined to work out no matter what.

I also kind of like the orange team, Jackie and her son Dan.

I am pretty much don’t care about the other teams right now.  I don’t really pay attention to them.

 However there is always the team in every reality show that you just can’t stand, and for me that is the purple team.  Maggie and Jen, it’s not because they don’t try because they do.  They just don’t get my vote, there is just something about them that I don’t like.  I hope they go home soon.

Body Break

OK so every once in a while these body break commercials come on.  You know Hal Johnson and Joanne McLeod, and their motto “Keep fit, and Have Fun.”

I’ve seen them on the TV since I was a kid, they do these little 90 second commercials about fitness and healthy living.

It seems to me these days that Joanne always seems out of breath when she is giving her talk.  It’s hard to pay attention to what she is saying sometimes.

I hate exercise either way.

Happy New Year

Well it is the beginning of another new year.  I rang in the new year with my church family last night.  I feel really privileged to belong to the church I do.  Our pastors did a great job of providing something for everyone.  It was pretty well done.
Then I stayed all night at the church with the young people.  I was their chaperon and it was fun, they pretty much entertained themselves and me.  There was floor hockey, middle of the night tobogganing, games, guitar hero, and of course lots of snacks. 

I got home at around 9:30 this morning and had not slept a wink since around noon yesterday, so needless to say I was very tired.  I did some things and then around 10:30 headed to bed for a while.  I set my alarm for around 3PM so that I would be ready to go for dinner at my folks for 4:30…but I woke up before 1PM so really only got about 2 hours of sleep…which is good I guess because I will be able to sleep tonight.

 2008 looks like it is going to shape up to be THE year for me.  It started with fun and friends, then when I checked my bank, it appears that my student loan is finally paid off!!!

Did I make any resolutions?  Yup, I made  the same one I make every year…to lose weight.  I really have to do it this year though because my blood sugars are just slightly high.  Meaning I am not diabetic, but if I don’t get serious and get some weight off I will be, and my doctor told me I would have to go back on Metformin, and we don’t want that.

So I have devised a plan.  Each week I will weigh on Wednesday morning.  Weeks that I have lost weight I will reward myself, by putting the 15 (but I will up it to 20) dollars I would have spent on Weight Watchers into one of my piggy banks (I think the princess fund one) when I have reached my goal weight of being 40 lbs lighter I will take the money I have saved and divide it in half.  Half will go to feeding the poor, and half will go towards a new gaming system complete with guitar hero.  By July 9th (my doctor’s appointment is on July 8th) that should give me a total of 540 dollars.   Split 2 ways that will be 270 dollars, and the rest of the money for the game system I will just put in. 

I am motivated now.