Randi

Life has been a little crazy for Randi’s family lately, as they’ve moved into a new, bigger, house. “It was a good move,” says Randi’s mom Terrie, “but it sure takes your focus away from other things. Packing up a house of 5 people after we lived in the same house for 11 years is a lot of work.”

The kids are all doing well at school. Randi is doing tap dancing and swimming while little sister Maggie dances and takes piano lessons. Their big brother Mitchell rock climbs and joined a competitive league this year, “He climbs 4 or 5 days a week,” says Terrie with pride. Mom still works out at the gym a couple of times a week too, and developed a passion for Nia, a form of creative dance, but dad hasn’t been able to keep up with exercise because he has been concentrating on starting a new business.  

The family is happy and doing well, although they still struggle with making the right food choices and fitting exercise into their lives. “We still talk about what we should be doing, and we still try, we just aren’t as successful as we’d like to be,” says Terrie.

Just after filming finished, Terrie raised $2300 doing a 60k walk for charity, and says that she felt amazing doing it, and couldn’t have succeeded without all the exercise that she’d done on her X-Weighted journey.

She hasn’t been able to maintain that same commitment to exercise since, but says that the amount of exercise they were doing when on the show would be impossible to maintain long term. “Having a balance is important, and there was no balance back then, we exercised all the time,” she says, “we accept that we won’t always be perfect and I think that is a better place that trying to be perfect and keep falling off the wagon.”

“I don’t think that you fail until you stop trying,” says Terrie, “We are much healthier than before we did X-Weighted. In many avenues, things have drastically changed. I’d still like to be a lot lighter, and that will come, but we need to find a balance between having a family life and doing enough exercise.”