______________ Thursday Week 6

Well, I'm not thicker thankfully and despite my use of a thesaurus I could not find a "th" word that was suitable. Anyway, I didn't lose anything this week...but on the upside thankfully I didn't gain anything either.  Obviously eating out every meal for a week in addition to working out on my own for 7 days without Kyle there pushing me resulted in no weight loss.  I was down 1.5 inches so not a total lack of progress but of course the scale going down is ideal! 

Now that I'm home, we're working out Wednesday, Thursday & Friday this week to get back on my 3 day schedule and needless to say I'm a little tired tonight...& sore!  Starting week 7 of training with Kyle this week and excited about the coming weeks! To add to that I have committed to run the Dam Night Run at Lake DeGray Saturday night and the last time I ran it...which was about 6 years ago when mom and I were training for a half marathon...I swore I would never do it again because it was reallllyyyy hot!  Looks like Saturday night may be the same so say a prayer for me! LOL!  

Actually while I was in Branson and I had that scoop of ice cream and a piece of french toast...well, I found that I felt bad after I ate it and regretted eating the sugar the whole day.  Matter of fact, though both of the "cheat" foods I ate were good....and both are on my list of favorite foods for that matter...after I ate both I thought about it later and realized that neither one was worth how much I regretted eating them.  As the saying goes...nothing tastes as good as looking good feels.  Trying on and being able to buy 2 sizes smaller after the last 6 weeks of hard work really did feel better than eating that sugar.  Hope I can remember that the next time the choice comes up...because I know it will. 

My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness. Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me.  That is why, for Christ's sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties.  

For when I am weak, then I am strong.

2 Corinthians 12:9-10 (NIV)

Weight Wednesday Week 6...coming soon!

Well, I won't be posting my latest progress until tomorrow this week...so I guess I'll have to call it Thankful Thursday if I am down & if I'm not....well maybe we'll call it Thicker Thursday...but I sure hope not!

It has been a crazy last seven days.  I went to Dallas on Wed morn and arrived home at 11:30 on Thursday night.  Friday morning I woke up early so I could get in a workout on my own & then packed and headed to Searcy for Carson's Big State All-Star Tnmt.  We played Friday night & lost big to Nashville, won over Hope on Saturday morning and then lost Saturday night to Searcy.  We actually played well and winning a single game in Big State is usually doing well for our small town team.

After getting beat Saturday night we spent the night in Searcy and had a great night of fellowship with the other parents and kids.  On Sunday morning we decided to go on to Branson for a couple days of family vacation and we had a blast!  We did a little shopping, played lazer tag...which is one of my favorite things now and quite the workout actually...and 2 trips to the Water Chute which is always fun.  We counted about 90-100 steps to the top and the kids insist on running back to the top so Carson pretended to be Kyle and kept me going to get in my workout for the day since I didn't have treadmill time that morning.  I did get my hour in while I was gone though I did have some ice cream one day and I had my favorite French Toast at the Belgian Waffle on Tuesday morning before the water slide.  Hopefully I burned off the piece I had...and I know I saved a ton of calories since I usually have the adult order and this time I had the kids order and split it with Marty!

Tuesday was mine and Marty's 15th Anniversary and we had a great family day to celebrate! I have been blessed beyond measure for the last 15 years.  Marty & I went on our first date on December 31, 1995 after we were set up by my brother & his coach who was Marty's best friend.  A few months later he proposed over Spring Break and we set the date for our wedding on July 26, 1996.  After a couple of years of infertility treatments & while I was in graduate school we decided to go forward with IVF and were so blessed & shocked to find out we were having twins!  We've barely had time to turn around and now they are turning 12 on August 10th.  It is hard to believe how fast time has passed.  I can't wait to see what the next 15 years have in store for us...though the thought of my kids being 27 freaks me out a little!

I'll post tomorrow on my weekly results....hope it's good!

Weight Wednesday-Week 5

I'm on the road today so I will make this short & sweet. I'm headed to Dallas with a group of my best friends that we take every year. Lots of talking, shopping...and more shopping!

I lost 1.6 pounds again this week to make 11.2 pounds so far. So far I'm averaging 2.25 pounds per week. I lost 2 1/4 inches this wk.

I'm going to be traveling for a couple days then home long enough to prepare for a weekend of baseball so getting all my exercise in is going to be a challenge so that makes me very nervous! I only was able to do 2 with Kyle this week so I am actually missing my workout this morn...never thought that would happen!

My biggest struggle this week has been focusing on 1 week at a time & not the big picture of how much I still have to lose. That's had me a little down this week but I'm trying to redirect that energy into working even harder, but it's a daily challenge I have to admit.

"Ideals may tell us something important about what we would like to be. But compromises tell us who we are." -Avishai Margalit
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