This week marks the one year anniversary of a life-changing trip when I met a little girl who embedded herself into my heart. On February 10, 2009 I boarded a flight in Honolulu headed for Manila, in The Philippines, and then further south to Davao, in Mindanao. A few days later, on Valentine’s Day — … Read more
There’s the magic scales photo. As of this morning I have lost a total of 9.6 pounds since I started 14 days ago — that’s 4.8% of my original body weight. My starting weight was 199.8 and the first week I lost 6.1 pounds, weighing in at 193.7. This morning’s weigh-in at 190.2 equals a … Read more
I have never been much of an environmentalist, frankly. I don’t toss rubbish out the car window or pour motor oil in the storm drains, but I have never been very proactively green. But I’m trying. I just took notice of how many plastic bottles we go through in a week at our home, and … Read more
Total weight-loss on for the first week: 6.1 pounds. SIX POINT ONE POUNDS in one week. Not “Biggest-Loser” loss, but a great start.