Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Weigh-In Wednesday Week 18

Whew, this week last week has been crazy busy.  Basketball is back in full swing and after Sr. High Jamboree games all night Friday (which resulted in 2 wins for Marty's team), Trojan Fest Fundraiser all day Saturday (which raised almost 10,000 after expenses)  & church on Sunday (where we had someone saved woohoo!), by Monday I was not rested up for the new week.  We came home Sunday afternoon to try to get some things done before Monday morning and it's a good thing we did since we haven't been home since.  

Monday night we went to Blevins for a Jr. High Jamboree and Marty's boys won both games there and played very well.  We went to Emerson on Tuesday night and won both games, but that 2 hour drive each way was not fun! Kyle couldn't make it on Tuesday morning so we rescheduled for this morning and when I set my alarm for 5:30 am as I was getting in the bed at 12:35 am, I knew it was going to be a long day of school today....and I was right! After half a diet coke got in my normally non-caffeinated body, I am still shaking from the jolt! My body doesn't know what to do with caffeine! At least I was awake though.  

And no rest for the weary, we have plans tonight and Parent Teacher Conferences till 7 pm tomorrow night followed by 3 games at Kirby Friday night. I'm wondering when sleep and laundry figure into that?! I really need to do laundry...and dishes and dusting...oh well, plenty of time for that some other day.  

I'm already enjoying basketball season this year and we're only a week in.  Marty graduated a lot of seniors last year and has only one starter on the team that started last year, but he is very special to us and we just love him like he's one of ours so our family is looking forward to watching him play this season...and Marty to coaching him.  Maybe it will give Marty some practice for when he coaches Carson starting next year in jr high. 

After several weeks of losing 1/2 pound or maybe a pound, I lost 2.2 this week for a total of 27.4 pounds and 26 inches! I was thrilled with my results when I got on the scale this morning!!  I have set my goal for myself to be at my goal weight by basketball tnmt time so we'll see how that goes.  My weight tracker app on my phone tells me that is about 130 days from today and I want to lose 26.6 more pounds so I'm  finally over halfway to my goal of 54 pounds...only by .4 but over halfway now! :)

A good scripture from my devotional today to close this with...

He will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.
Matthew 25:45 (NIV)

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Weigh-In Wednesday Week 17

I am behind a week on my Weigh-In Wednesday.  Last week (week 16) I'm really not sure what happened but I didn't get to post.  I lost .5 pounds last week so I wasn't really pleased with that result but I've been losing slowly and consistently so I'm trying not to panic. My body just doesn't like to lose more than a couple pounds a week at most so I'm used to that by now.  I hear others that lose 4 and 5 pounds a week for multiple weeks and though I'm wishing that were me, it's just not the way my body works.  I'm doing the work so I know it will keep paying off even if it is slower than I would like. 

Also, that Saturday of week 16 I ran 8 miles!  Woot! It was actually easier than the 7 miles I ran the weekend before.  I was really dreading it so I was relieved that it went well.  The weather was perfect and though my body started really aching on about mile 6, I was able to finish strong.  I averaged a 12:05 minute mile and with those slow hills I actually ran the flatter parts faster than the 7 mile run plus I didn't pass out on the porch when I finished and worry the kids! LOL!

This last weekend we went to the Razorback game and spent the night in Fayetteville and we had a great time...but it wasn't good for my diet because I only lost .5 again this week. I will post some pics from the game as soon as I get time.  We had a blast and the game was great! 

  I did cheat and have a couple things I wouldn't normally eat while we were in Fayetteville and I missed my long run on Saturday so I didn't get all 6 days of my exercise in for the week either.  I've still been doing phase 1 of the South Beach Diet plus some fruit and yogurt (Kyle style as Sarah says). I have been able to consistently eat that way and not feel really deprived.  17 weeks is a long time with very few cheats so I'm proud of how I've done so far.   

Basketball season has begun as of last night.  We had the maroon and gray game last night and Friday night will play the AAA Benefit Games at Kirby and then a Jr High Jamboree on Monday night and then our first regular season game at Ouachita on Thursday and of course we also play on Friday.  We are hitting the ground running and that nice peaceful month of September we had is long gone now.  We always enjoy the first of the school year in the evenings because we get to be home almost every night.  We are still busy on the weekends and have a few things going but nothing like basketball and baseball season...which runs from now through July! We love it though!

It's going to be a big adjustment for me this year though now that I do early morning workouts.  I'm used to sleeping till 6:50 and then racing around to get to work.  Now that 5:30 alarm is going to be even harder when we've been out till late with a ballgame several nights a week.  I'm determined to keep it up though. 

I passed another milestone this week I've been looking forward to.  I am officially down 25.2 pounds!  Seems like it took forever to get from 20 to 25 pounds!  I've also lost 26.5 inches.  Woohoo!  I'm very pleased and though I'm in my 17th week, and feel like I should be further along, I am more determined than every to finish what I started and then keep it off.  

A good rewarding part of the week happened last Wednesday.  I had to take Gracen to her orthodontist appointment for her consult to get phase 2 of her braces started next week and I thought I was going to need some jeans for the Razorback game.  I was mistaken on that part because it was so hot I didn't wear them, but I bought a pair.  I had been to the store back in March when it was still cool and tried on a pair of this brand and fit of jeans and none of the size fit that I had been wearing so I refused to buy any at all and was in denial that I had outgrown that size. I know some of you can relate to that denial factor. It must have been the brand and not my behind that didn't fit! So, on Wednesday I with much anxiety went in to try on the same brand & fit of jeans that I had wanted before.  They are those "miss me" looking jeans though not the Miss Me brand with the decorated pockets and all that.  Well, much to my absolute delight...the size that was 3 sizes smaller than that pair that didn't fit in the spring...FIT! I was ecstatic and Gracen was with me and we grinned and celebrated together that they actually fit! 

I read a devo this week that really spoke to me about being afraid of failure.  Our pastor, Bro. Ralph Ruffin, sends out these daily devotionals and I saved this one from last week to share and to look back on when I'm having one of "those days." I often think of something I would like to do, whether it's a ministry opportunity, reaching out to someone, the entire subject of weight loss, or a myriad of other things in my life and often I end up not acting on them because I tell myself that I can't do it...I'm not capable enough, I'm not motivated enough, I'm not strong enough or smart enough....we women especially tend to do that to ourselves.  This really spoke to that issue in my life.  Maybe it will to you as well. 

BIBLE MEDITATION:
"Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for Thou art with me; Thy rod and Thy staff they comfort me." Psalm 23:4

DEVOTIONAL THOUGHT:
In Matthew 25, we read the parable of the talents. When the master who had distributed the talents came to see the stewardship of those talents, one man had taken his talent and hidden it in the ground.

You may have a buried talent, but you've been covered up by the sinister minister of fear, who keeps you from achieving your dreams. You say, "But what if I fail?" You can be so afraid of making a mistake that your entire life will be a mistake. The fear of failure keeps so many from competing that they never even get in the race. They just lose by default!

ACTION POINT:
Sir Walter Scott was called a "dunce" by his teachers. Napoleon Bonaparte was next to last in his military class. Walt Disney was fired as a cartoonist because the newspaper said he couldn't draw! It's not bad to fail. We all will fail. But may God deliver you from the spirit of failure, which is a spirit of fear.