Weight Loss: beginning again

my brother (Keith) and cousins from Germany (Jonathan and Leoni) and me at my grandparents house in Hopkinsville, KY

So, today I started working out again for a research study that I am participating in for the next two months. This is really great b/c I haven't had the opportunity to strength train since I graduated (no free gym access). The workouts will include strength training 3 times a week (in beginning twice a week) and a bit of walking out side to that. It kicked my butt today, BUT I am super excited about it all.

My goal is to lose at least 10 pounds by the end of August, and I will definitely keep you all updated. Let's call the photo above a "BEFORE" picture.

Well, I'm off to walk to the post office! We'll talk later.

INTERACT: What are YOUR summer goals?

Mel is Getting Skinny

So, I went for a research study follow up and I was going to put a chart on here with all of my numbers, but I lost the paper that I wrote it on. So here goes: I now weigh 227.4. That is a 29 pound weight loss in 4 months!! That is like five of the beg ones below and 4 of the little ones. These are models of what 5 and 1 pounds of fat look like:





Sick! Well, that is all off of my body and now I'm moving closer to my goal of one hundred pounds in a year!!

Please pray for me as I continue my cardio and weight training 3 times and week and I stick to a low GI diet.


In other News:
my students, JT, and I will be going on the overnight hunger simulation tonight (see previous post on World Hunger Farm) so please continue to pray that we will be changed through this process. I rely on food for comfort, while others can't even rely on it for sustenance. That's almost sicker than the fat model.

Grace and PEACE