Andrew

Hey there everyone,
Just wanted to ask you all to keep my brother-in-law Andrew in mind today. He was in a pretty serious accident yesterday on his motorbike. No other cars were involved, he just lost control of the bike. He flew 30 feet and landed in a ditch (thankfully) - he was just about to merge onto a very busy road, where the cars all travel at about 100 kph, so he was very lucky to land in the ditch. He was taken by ambulance to a hospital where they started to assess his injuries, but decided to transfer him to a different hospital with a trauma unit that would be better able to help him out.
As far as I know right now it looks like he has a cracked pelvis in 3 places, one broken toe, and one crushed toe, that might possibly need to be partially amputated. I'm waiting to hear more from Leanne about if he'll need surgery or what is going on. But I just wanted to share that with you and ask those of you who are praying types to please pray for him today. I'll definitely keep you posted as I know more.
Thanks,
Colleen

Birthday Present

Look what I bought with my birthday money.... a treadmill!! YAY! I love it already... I can now exercise without have to take both kids out of the house. And when we DO go out of the house, it can be for exercise for them too - not just sitting in a stroller while Mommy gets the exercise! AND, I can watch Ellen while I walk/jog! YAY! :o)

I DID IT (almost)...

Well, on the official record, I have lost my thirty pounds by my thirtieth birthday!!! :o) The truth is that I actually lost only 29.8, but the nice lady at the scale fudged the numbers for me so that I could put up my hand at the meeting for my 30 pound loss. I'm pretty glad she did that. AND, I don't feel like I failed, because I tried super super hard this week to lose that 1.8. Or 2.0. Or whatever.

This week, I'm gonna relax a bit (being that I will be going to 2 of my own birthday parties and eating my favorite thing in the whole world... birthday cake). I plan to go back to WW 2 weeks from today and hopefully by then, I will have lost another pound or so.

Not Easy

Okay, this losing 2 pounds in one week thing is HARD. I keep wanting to go have a snack and then realizing that no, my tummy isn't even actually hungry for a snack, and so I'm better to wait till my body is asking for it . I didn't realize how often I was eating just cuz I had points available - which is okay - but when trying to lose 2 pounds in one week, I have to be as careful as possible. Oh, I really really really want a cookie right now.
But, maybe if I stay on the computer here long enough I'll be able to convince myself not to.
In Japanese, there's a word - "gambatte" (have I told this story already?) - it means keep going, don't give up, fight fight fight, stick to it, plug along, etc. Its really a great word that we don't have in english. But when someone is tired or sick or down or whatever you can tell them to Gambatte and its a great encouragement.
So, that's what I'm saying to myself right now and to the rest of you out there -
GAMBATTE!
We can do it.
(phew) I think I managed to talk myself out of that cookie.

Weigh In

Well, I have been going at it really hard for about a week and a half here, and it seems to have paid off. I lost 3.4 pounds from my last weigh in until yesterday. So, that's good news. The thing is that I wanted (WANT) to lose 30 pounds by my 30th birthday - next Friday, which means I have to lose 2 whole pounds this week alone. Now, I know its possible, but its gonna take my full full amount of effort.

I have a good friend who joined weight watchers here this summer as well - after having a baby in May. She's lost 28.4 as of this week, and so we decided that if we both hit 30 pounds by next week's meeting, we'll go out for supper together after. How fun would that be? No kids! (or at least no older kids... we might have the babies...) So, there's my double motivation. Now, to make it happen.

For starters, I'm going to choose fruits for snacks instead of baking. Second, I'm going to drink my 6 cups of water every day. And third, I'm going to try my darndest to get moving this week.

So far, so good today.

p.s.

I've been on track with WW since Monday of this week, using only 5 extra points ((until today when we had an awesome asian supper with my family, and I probably used a good 10 more bonus points)) and my strictness has been showing on the scale already. HOW BIZARRE that when you stick to the program strictly, you lose weight!!! WHY CAN I NOT GET IT THROUGH MY THICK SKULL that I should be staying on track EVERY DAY???????? MAN, I can sure be dumb sometimes.

A Start

Well, to start off, I just wanted to direct any of you who are interested to my husband's blog - his most recent post has sparked an interesting conversation between Trevor and an old friend of ours in the comments section of the post. I've been very much enjoying what they have to say about faith and the Bible and post-modern Christianity. I find it very relieving that there are others out there who believe along the same lines that we do.

So, this post is a bit of a cop-out, in that I'm not actually posting any opinions or really deep thoughts. I'm just directing you to what I've been reading lately. I'm curious what you, my friends, feel about all of this post-modern Christianity stuff and what Colin and Trevor are discussing about faith and the interpretation of the Bible. Anyone else out there in the same boat as we are?