Week 20 -- Merry Christmas....

Start Weight: 226.0
Week 20 Weight: 211.1
Weekly Loss/Gain (+): 0.2
Program-to-Date (PTD) Loss: 14.9
% Weekly Loss/(Gain): 0.09
% PTD Loss: 6.59
Program Goal Weight Loss: 36.0
Program Goal % Loss: 15.9

Christmas is here, the new year is almost here, we're going to the airport tonight to get Russell, so this will be very quick. Randy is coming in tomorrow night, so it will be great to be together again for a while. I started out the week with a great resolve, but it slid here near the end. Wendy gave a great performance Monday night here at home with her piano concert and will be doing a few more of them over the next several days. We had her annual Christmas concert at the middle school last night, and Gail and I celebrated 26 years this past week... I'll have to comment on that a little later. My weight is holding steady, just have to see it through the next few weeks.

ROUTINE: Nothing really... just on the go a lot with the many different activities. Food is still everywhere, but I've done some better with it. It will be nice to have a few days off over Christmas. I caught some of the Biggest Loser finale last night.... winner lost 51% of his body weight over the course of the program.... here I am putzin' around at the 7% mark. I don't just don't want to kiss off these last two weeks before I re-assess the whole weight thing at the beginning of the year... so I'll work to close out strong.

ON THE BIKE: Now this was fun and not because of the bike shopping itself.... for our anniversary, we pinned Wendy down to watch Sara for the whole day while Gail and I went out... so we went out to lunch, did some shopping and found Bicycle Planet in Folsom and talked to the owners there and got some good tips.... actually I spoke to Brian DeLucia tonight and he said he could build me a Surly bike for about the price I'm looking at... so it's getting closer, but won't happen before Christmas....

Anyway, we couldn't remember where the bike shop was, so we stopped in a close-by Starbucks to ask directions... we got the directions.... saw a peppermint hot chocolate on the menu and bought one. We'd never been in a Starbucks before ever... but near the back of the store was a long couch and some newspapers folded up.... so we sat down for a while, talked for a while, read the paper for a while, and just enjoyed not having to be anywhere at all.... then, well.. as we were chatting, we got cozy, not too cozy mind you...but we must have drifted off there for a while in the Starbucks lounge. It was great... we got up, straightened ourselves up, said a nice good-bye to all of the baristas and 90 minutes later, we headed off for our next destination hand in hand... very nice. I went back the next day and bought Gail a $5.00 gift card and made her promise me we'd do it again soon....


ODDS N' ENDS: Just cruisin' into the end of the week and still have to do a little more shopping. It is a good time of year. We'll talk to Steven sometime on Christmas day... will update you on that.































FAQs:
Q. Was there a little too much of a PDA going on there in Starbucks? Aren't you two a little too old for all of that?

A. Not over the line at all... and not too old for it either... it was fun...


'Til next week.... have a great Christmas

Brian