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I’m doing all I can do get as many prayers going for this little boy.  His name is Chase Jones and is 7 yrs old.  He lives here in Harrisonburg, VA and the doctors think that he has stomache cancer.  Even if you only take a minute to send up a prayer for the Jones/Anderson family, God will hear you.  Pray with me in Jesus name that he be healed and that God is with his family in this very difficult time.  Thanks so much!

I know that 2 lbs down is still good, and I did slip up a little this week, but I worked my big butt out and was really hoping to lose 3 so that I could meet my mini goal of being 205.  I don’t know, I guess I need to be more thankful that it was a loss and not a gain right?

Hey guys, over the last few years I have lost a lot of people close to me.  I have lost a great friend, Chris, a close cousin, Crystal, a co-worker, Jeremy, a great-aunt, Mary, and on August 26,2008 I lost the one that ripped my heart right out, my Grandmother, Anna.  I added their names in there to honor them.  I have times when I’m okay, but lately, I have been getting really down.  You see she lived in SC, and I live here in VA and we didn’t get to spend holidays together until last year when she made sure she was up here.  I guess now that I am beginning to think of who all to buy gifts for and I realize that she isn’t here any longer, and that I can’t just call her up to hear her sweet voice, and her say how much she loves me, it’s breaking me in every way, mentally, physically, spiritually.  It seems like all of my other family has just went back to life as usual, but I can’t.  I am busting my butt to get healthy, which her death inspired me to do, but I am having a really hard time with this.  I tried talking to my husband, but he doesn’t understand.  He says it’s part of life and you have to move on, but I just can’t.  I miss her so bad!  My heart aches and I just don’t know what to do.  I go outsde and walk a lot of the time to either try to get the pain to ease up, or to vent some because I get mad that she’s gone.  I’m sorry to be whining to you guys, but I just don’t know what else to do.  I have experienced the pain of losing someone, but it’s never been like this. 

On September 1st I weighed in at 214, and got down to 210 last week, and have now reached 208, which was my 2nd mini goal.  I am now shooting for 205.  Being a Busy Bee for the walking challenge has kept me moving this week, so even when I slipped up and had that huge piece of cake, I just went outside and walked my butt off!!!

So I am doing the Thanksgiving walking challenge, and I have just finished my 60 minutes fory and I realized something.  Back in spring 2007 when I got down to my smallest in a long while at 180 lbs it seemed so much easier then than it does now.  I realized that the difference in then, and before this walking challenge was that I had a treadmill so that was my primary workout.  Since fall 2007 when we moved I have been without a treadmill, and using excuses not to walk on our gravel road(which I still don’t, I walk laps around my house and I’m sure I look like an idiot, but I know it’s worth it) so I have been trying to get myself to keep doing workout videos which I get tired of, are too hard, or something like that.  So my idea now is that I can walk here every day and that’s not really hard, and add in the dvds when I feel like it.  Hopefully this will be a change for me.

I am one of the busy bees doing the challenge, and I have found that it gives me inspiration to have friendly competition, as well as a goal.  I think when this one’s finished I will try to do a Christmas or New Years challenge too.  I am also using my grandmother’s heart breaking death as an inspiration to be healthy so that I can enjoy my 3 babies, their babies, and their baby’s babies.  It’s a whole new thing for me to want this not just to look better.  I mean sure, I always thought it would be nice for my asthma to not be quite so bad and all, but this is a whole new thing!  I am so glad that I am finding a new life in this tragic time, I think that is exactly what she would have wanted.  My goal for this week is to lose 2 lbs and meet my mini goal at 208.  Go Busy Bees!!!

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Okay, so today is not my real weigh in day, but I wanted to see if I was making any progress.  Granted, I have been sick, and haven’t worked out a whole lot, but tried to at least get some walking in.  So I really wanted to get to 208 this week and here I am at 210.  I know it’s better to have a loss than nothing at all, and that I am on day 12 now of my life change and at least I’ve lost 4 lbs, but I want to see more.  So the way I see it, I have 2 whole days to bust my butt and try to lose as much as possible by Sunday morning weigh in for me.  But I really hope to see some change.  I need some inspiration, and motivation, I guess this is it.  Thanks for listening to my rambling!  Good luck fellow buddyslimmers!

I was wanting to join the Thanksgiving walking challenge(3000 minutes in 10 weeks), but teams A and B are full already, so I am looking for more people to see if we can start a Team C.  We need 10 total, so 1 down 9 to go.  Please send me a message if you are interested.  Thanks so much!

I just started taking a new multi vitamin yesterday, and I took it with food, and a whole bottle of water, but I am still left thinking that it made me feel sick.  Any ideas of why, or what might help?

I did an hour long workout today and am feeling inspired.  I enjoyed it, I feel more energetic, and know I am on the right track.  Now I just need to stay this way.