Final Weigh-in Before Casting Crowns

Starting Weight: 242 lbs
Current Weight: 206 lbs
Weight Loss This Week: -2 lbs
Total Weight Loss: -36 lbs

Just 6 more pounds before I say goodbye to the 200s once and for all. That'll take me about 3 weeks if I continue the way I have been going, and I think that's good. Right in the middle is Thanksgiving, but this time around I can stick to my plan.

I have finally bounced back from that self-sabotage mode I was in a few weeks back. Probably what helps is that I'm not sitting around the house and looking for things to eat when I'm bored. 'Cause I'm working again! Yay! Go, God!

I've been making a point this first week at my new job to make sure I am packing lunch and snacks for the day so I don't get too hungry and do stupid things like head out to Starbucks or Wendy's or McDonald's (all within 5 minutes of the office). I'm planning to stay disciplined and take my food every day so that I can stay true to the healthy work I've done so far. Plus, I'm so busy that I don't often take time for my afternoon snacks until I'm on the way home from work! Busy is good, very good!

I feel like I'm contributing to my family again, and that is a good thing. Plus I like my clients that I've spoken to so far, and I want to help them obtain the benefits they deserve. My attorneys are great people and I enjoy everyone I've come into contact with in the office. Funny, isn't it, I talk sometimes about attorneys being jerks, but then the ones I work for now and most of the ones I've worked for in the past, with one or two heavy exceptions, are always terrific people.

And Casting Crowns concert in Brandon is tomorrow night! I am so excited. I would be excited even if I weren't getting the amazing opportunity to meet Mark Hall, for whom I have so much respect and admiration, and the rest of the band. I like the way Mark writes the lyrics to songs that are so "in your face" on one hand, but on the other, he never fails to let you know that God is, well, God! His books are the same way. If you've never read one of his books, check them out sometime. I especially love "Your Own Jesus" which is his most recent one to date. I'm reading it again so I can catch some of the stuff I missed the first time around; I read way too fast for my own good.

I hope I see you in Brandon tomorrow night, but if not, I'll be posting about the experience, so come back in a few days.

I'm praying that you have a week of seeing God everywhere around you... in your children's faces, in your reflection in the mirror, in a crisp fall (finally!) Florida morning, in a bird's flight, just everywhere. Be looking for Him, will you?

When I see Him, I'll tell Him you said "hey."