This kid is on FIRE!

Today was our first weigh-in and guess what????  Rotten #3 lost 5 pounds!  (woo hoo, cheering, jumping for joy etc.)  This little man has taught me more in one week than I have ever learned on my own trying to diet for over 30 years. 
He is only 11 so the goal is to just teach him healthy choices over bad and exercise 6 days a week.  It is amazing how quick a child can change habits if given the opportunity.  He cracks me up with his words of encouragement and little talks about commitment, not to mention the bets that I have lost.  Last night he told me I had to do a jumping jack for every jump he did on the jump rope.  I agreed thinking he's a farm boy with a jump rope, how many can he really do?  The answer is 96!  I loathe jumping jacks but I had to do 96 with my drill sargent counting them down.  When I completed them he told me GOOD JOB and that he was PROUD OF ME, sigh :).  He won't let me slack on workouts and he is doing better at his food journal than I have ever done. 

To see the energy level in him change in just one week has been so very cool!  There is so much to be said about parents being an example and how children will follow suit.  Changes are good and thank heavens he won't hold the last two years of bad grocery shopping against me!
As for me I lost 4 pounds and I honestly would have never done as well without him and my FitCrew!  I have started and stopped weight loss programs a million times over and this time I know it is different.  To really see first hand how my food choices have effected him is the biggest wake up call of all and I will NOT let him down!
There is a time in everyones life that is the last time before they succeed and this is ours!