Big Event!

Jesus Painter


OK Ya'll! I need to send out a big announcement! April 11, 2008 at Faith Lutheran Church, Collierville- we are having a big concert that I hope you will come to see with me. We are having "Lost and Found" and "Jesus Painter" come in one show- tickets are $20 per person. The show goes from 7-9 and it is going to be an awesome show!

You can call the church at 901-853-4673 and ask for Pastor Morris
or come see us @ 507 New Byhalia Rd Collierville, TN 38017

The concert is raising money for our mission trip this summer to Alaska were we will be completing a vacation bible school and summer sports - WE NEED EVERYONE SUPPORT TO HELP SHARE THE WORD WITH OTHERS!

Before and After

I love thinking back about how far we (especially I) have all come! Before this whole thing started I thought walking on the treadmill @ 3.0 MPH for 10 minutes was tiresome. Now I am running @ 8.0 MPH? What? I could get out of breath walking up 3 flights of stairs- and weeks ago Odessa and I went from the basement to the 9Th floor and down 3 TIMES in 15 mins! I thought level 4 on the elliptical was changeling and now I am cruising at level 9! The best part is that I had mediocre self-esteem and now my hubby is introducing me as his Skinny Hot Wife! Heck Yeah- I turned into a trophy wife- SCORE!

TIm Hawkins

I was watching this on TV tonight and it was so funny- sadly it does not have the whole song on there- which sucks but it is really funny! I still want a piece of pizza BTW but I had fish lettuce wraps instead with a little salsa.

News this morning

This morning I caught a story on TV talking about how belly fat or obesity is connected with dementia. The thing that I loved most about it is talking about how to take a waist to hip ratio.
You measure the smallest point in your waist ( navel) and the largest area of your hips. And then divide the numbers if you are a female that has 0.8 or less than you have a better chance of not getting obesity-related complication and diseases. The lady was saying that surprising if you are a larger pear shape you could be in better shapes according to this study than a stick rail girl who waist and hips are close to the same measurements. And I got a textbook pear/hourglass body! So my message is:

All you stick cheerleaders who made fun of me and snickered at me all through high school - "Screw you Barbie- I least I'll know who I am when I am 80! HA!"

that was fun!

New Image

I am very big on giving detailed images to help people know how I feel. I won't just say that I am tired- I will say that I feel like I just got smacked with a 50lb bag of sand. I came up with a new description for this whole competition. That you feel like you are on a week Marathon - you start out feeling great -get a little rest over the weekend and you try the best you can to kick it up on Monday and Tuesday like you are running towards the finish line.

You just try the best you can cuz you know it doesn't matter if you finish first or last- You just got to finish HARD!

Then Wednesday morning comes and you did it- you crossed the finish line and you are safe and you feel so great that morning!

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.Your body wants to crash because you know that you have made your goal!

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THEN YOU REALIZE THAT YOU GOT TO GET UP AND DO IT ALL OVER AGAIN!

FUN FUN FUN! But this is giving me my life back, this will give me a better active life with my husband and this will help me look and feel great! I'm ready for the next race!

I DID IT!

I can't believe that I was the biggest Loser for this week! Did I really? Are you sure? Nahh- couldn't be. I really did- I wanted to so bad! I really, really did. I won't lie though I was kinda hoping to get a bigger difference between me and my other team mates but that is ok. All of them worked really hard this week. I don't know why but the past couple days I have thought about how I would go to the youth night at church or when we were on mission trips- the kids would play football and I would not. I wanted to play but I was too embarrassed because I knew I wasn't strong enough to throw the ball, I was too slow to try to catch the ball or the other kids and I was just plain told myself I was too out of shape to enjoy it. I will never let that happen again- I may don't be the best at throwing or catching but I will never pass up a chance to have fun and burn calories again! Even tonight has shown me that you can ache all over, you can be sooooooo tired and you just want to lie down but the hardest thing is getting to the gym and if you just do what is asked of you- you can do it - you just need to get started.


Thanks for everyone who voted for me!

I need it!

I need to lose 9 more lbs before my birthday! That's all I am focusing on! Yeah I might be sore and I might like the idea of sleeping in every now and then but I need 9 more lbs. Cuz I know that I can get 20lbs by October. Shoot I am going to lose 20 more lbs by July so I can go to Alaska with my youth kids!

I am watching the Biggest Loser which I don't watch all the time but the food contest are funny. The said avoid the worthless sugar foods like cotton candy and ice cream. I was`just thinking of ice cream! I dream of getting the little cup of chocolate ice cream with ONE chocolate chip or peanut butter cookie in it with a cherry on top. And they are eating SUBWAY- what. I would kill for an open face sandwich right now. Well- I will take that back- the food cravings are only bad during the weekend. Niki said it best and others have said that our society revolves around food and drinks. Going out to dinner, sport events, movies, even a game night with my buds- all have junk food or food that will keep my on the elliptical for hours!

Ho-Rah Pooh Bear! Ho - rah
hi Lindsay

To You!

Thanks Laddy for getting my fire stirred up!

On a bigger note- my hubby is awesome! Just realizing that you are more than you thought you were- is an incredible experience.

What can I say- I feel great!

Ho-Rah Master Chief!

Easter

Surprise, surprise hubby and I went to my parents house for Easter dinner. I will not lie- they had ham, mashed potatoes, asparagus and my dad got DELI chocolate chunk cookies for dessert. I have said it over and over again but I almost have to say it for myself but I did not cheat! I even helped my mom clean up and I didn't lick my finger when I was washing the potato bowl in the sink. I wanted to take a teeny tiny bite of hubby's cookie just to savor the taste but I went for a walk and I didn't have the urge anymore.

On the side note- if anyone knows my mother-in-law- I love her LOVE HER TO DEATH! But I am blessed that she is out of town during this competition. She makes the BEST southern style food. We're talking biscuits and gravy, fried chicken, homemade mac-n-cheese, BIG dinner rolls, fried green tomatoes, and so on. Raising three boys I understand but fried chicken with 4-5 starchy sides were a weekly tradition because it was the boys favorite. Cuz you know when you are first dating someone that you really care about and their mother's favorite thing to do is cook- you have to sample everything or it would just be rude. right? I didn't know I would become addicted to it.

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SSSZZZSSZZS! Do you hear that? SSSZZZSSSSZZ! No, that is not the sound of bacon frying...that's the sound of the YOU hatin on me when I strut into church wearing a little dress that I haven't worn since 2004! You can count it- it is 3 sizes smaller than what I wore last Easter!! AND THE BEST PART IS IT IS NOT--NOT- A PLUS SIZE DRESS! I am in a normal, regular, cute, doesn't my butt look good dress! Bette Midler got in right in the movie "The First Wives Club" when she said about her dress.."It's better than new- I haven't worn it in years. Look at me I have a waist, I have legs, who knew?" Did I mention that I had to have my dad punch 4 new holes in my belt this weekend! So now this competition is in a whole new meaning for me now. Regardless of if my name gets called Wednesday or I walk away with my name on a check ( BTW I spell my first name with an "ey") I set out to get out of the plus sizes and I did. So, try and push my buttons, go ahead and sling your mud, but no matter what anyone says or does..........I'm in it to win it and P.S.
I already won!