Week 22 -- Out With a Whimper...

Start Weight: 226.0
Week 22 Weight: 214.6
Weekly Loss/Gain (+): (1.6)
Program-to-Date (PTD) Loss: 11.4
% Weekly Loss/(Gain): (.71)
% PTD Loss: 5.04
Program Goal Weight Loss: 36.0
Program Goal % Loss: 15.9

We had a great time over the holidays, but I think the blahs set in with a little bit of sickness around the house, but most of us are coming out of it. It was good to have family in town, we had our annual family bowling tournament last Thursday, and it was quite exciting. Randy and Russell tied to the pin for the 3-game series... so since I had a less-than-stellar third game... Tim was in that category as well.... we decided to have a one-frame bowl-off to determine the outright winner. Tim and I gave up our tenth frames to Russell and Randy... Russell won the coin toss and decided to go first, he knocked down six and then two.... seemed a shoo-in for Randy... but he knocked down seven and it came down to the last roll... he knocked down one pin with another one wobbling which finally fell... drama to the end. I have a mind to get a trophy of some type to rotate each year... we seem to have fun with it. We thought of 2008, Russell will be on his mission, who knows where all the rest of us will be... but the trophy will remind us of all the trash we talked that day...

I wasn't doing the best on NY eve, so stayed home when Gail went to party with her sisters and their families... I finished the Elder Bushe book I rec'd for Christmas and I finished the "Steve and Me" book by Terri Irwin on my hero the Croc Hunter, and I started the book I gave Russell for Christmas... "My Grandfather's Son" by Clarence Thomas... all just very, very good books. I haven't read like that for a long time.. very nice... don't know when I'll do that again... there's talk at work of sending me to Houston for three weeks at the end of January, first of February, so if it happens, I'll take some books with me.

This last week, there was no exercise to speak of, and still quite a bit of eating. Now, back to reality. I realized probably a little past half way that the mental focus just wasn't there... I'll have to come up with a different format/angle for continuing... I'll do at least 2x/month updates... 15th and 30th, and evaluate in between. I may not continue with the e-mail blasts... then again I might as no one would look/read/comment if I didn't...

An honest thanks to those who commented on our family happenings and humored me (us) along the way. Gail still believes she is married to a grown-up kid, and this was one way to have some fun. If I didn't learn anything else, it's that we have been blessed with true friends.... just great people. I appreciate that, and apologize for not letting that be known enough... that is one of my resolutions... a point that came through in each of the books I've read is to let your thoughts, inspiration, and good feelings for others be made known. So, then, I will...

See you all soon... again thanks.

Brian