Post-Thanksgiving

Admittedly the rate of my weightloss slowed down during Thanksgiving.  In fact, I refused to weigh myself until a week after Thanksgiving.  In addition to the holiday meal, I have been on the road and driven over 2,500 miles back and forth between West Virginia, Georgia, and Washington, DC.  It's a long story, but the short version is that my mother had a heart attack and I was back and forth helping her in a hospital in West Virginia and then in Washington, DC.

While in West Virginia, and before my mother's heart attack, I did walk the hills each and every day.  It was quite a workout.  Then in Washington at the hospital I tried to take the stairs whenever possible.  My mother was on the fourth floor.  In addition, yesterday I was working in the undergrowth in my back yard trying the clear the back side of the lot my home sits on.  Wow!  What a workout that was.  The net result is that this morning I weighed in at 227.6.  I'm .6 pounds away from losing 25 lbs. since September 23rd.  That's half way to my goal of 50 by 50. 

Yesterday I bought a vest that holds 20 pounds in weights.  I wore it up and down the stairs at my home and up the hill in front of my home.  I never realized how heavy 20 pounds was until the cashier asked me to move the box for her.  Then it occurred to me that I've lost that much and more.  When I put the vest on and walked around I reminded myself that I weighed more than that before I started losing weight.  No wonder I was winded going up and down stairs. 

Anyhow, my mother is doing great.  God really performed a miracle.  To hear about that you can go to the link for my sermon last Sunday (Never Give Up On God). 

Scripture of the Day: Deut 7:10
9 "Therefore know that the LORD your God, He is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and mercy for a thousand generations with those who love Him and keep His commandments"  NKJV