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Update, the First: As I said back on February 19, I’m working on translating the Gospel of Luke from Greek into English as a Lenten project. Once I changed the project from simply reading the text in Greek, to translating and analyzing the Greek text in two different forms and writing down a reasonable translation, I knew that my timeline was going to shift. I am now certain that I won’t be finished with the project before Easter. There’s just no way around it. I haven’t had nearly as much time for translation as I’d hoped, and the additional research takes up what little time I do have. Does this mean I’m giving up on the project? No. What it means is that even though I won’t be finished by Easter, I’m going to continue the work until it’s completed, however long that might take. If I’m still working on it in May, that’s fine. I will complete it, it just won’t be when I originally planned.

Update, the Second: As I said on March 1, I have started a new exercise regimen. I am getting up at 5:00 AM, Sunday – Friday, to workout. (To be honest, I have slept in until 5:30 a couple of days.) Each day I get up, do some warmups to get my blood pumping, and then practice every Tae Kwon Do kick, block and punch that I’ve learned so far, multiple times per side. I then go through my TKD forms (3 of them, so far), and then do pushups & sit-ups or squats. I may be dropping the 100 Push-Ups challenge from the regimen, for now, because yesterday when I tried to do a push-up, my right biceps made a sound that was not a good one, and it felt like if I continued, something was going to snap. Last Thursday, the last 5 push-ups really hurt, and not in that “pain is just fear leaving the body” sort of way. This was “if you do one more of these, at least one muscle in this group is going to break” way. I need to at least lay off the push-ups for a week or so and then try again. We’ll see.

The good news is that so far, I’ve lost 13 pounds. It’s been well over a year since I’ve been at this weight, so I’m quite happy with that. I just need to stay motivated and keep at it.

And finally, the trophy. I’ve been a member of Grayson NPS Tae Kwon Do since August 2009. This past weekend, 22 of us went to the ICMA Region 2 Martial Arts Tournament. I was part of the demo team, which took 2nd place (out of 7 teams) in the team demo competition. I also won 3rd place (out of 5) for martial arts forms (I did Taegeuk Ee Jang, for those of you familiar with TKD). Between us, we won 14 trophies, which is pretty darn good.

Much video was shot of the various competitions. As it gets posted, I will provide links.

I re-joined Weight Watchers the week before Thanksgiving, and this past Thursday was my first weigh-in since. Amazingly, I lost 4.2 pounds. Not bad for having Turkey-day in the middle.

Gained .8 pound. A bit disappointing given all the cycling I did last week, but my clothes are fitting better, and I can tell a difference in the mirror. The fact that the scale didn’t show a loss is just something I have to deal with, because I have lost fat; it’s been exchanged for muscle.

I had my weigh-in tonight and I’m already seeing results from all the cycling I did this week. I lost 5.2 pounds! Ooo yah!

Not as bad as I feared, but not as good as I’d hoped. I had a bad week, but only ended up gaining .6 pound. I’m on the road to a good loss this week. I went for a ride yesterday, and my plan is to ride every day this week, unless it’s raining. I’m going to gor for today’s ride in about an hour.

Last night I went to my Weight Watchers meeting and discovered that I had lost 2.2 pounds! So now I’m 0.2 pounds lighter than I was before the funeral weekend. And that’s a good thing.

Headed out to my weekly Weight Watchers meeting last night and got some bad news… a 2 lb gain. Drat! Several factors contributed to this… the funeral over the weekend and all the food constantly being delivered and the fact that we’ve had so much rain lately that I haven’t gotten on the bike since last week. And any bike riding in the near future is dicey since I broke the little toe on my left foot Wednesday night. Kicked a suitcase, I did.

Some of you who know me know that I’ve been battling my weight for years. Tammy and I have been Weight Watchers members for two years now, and I had lost a ton of weight, but then fell into a very long “I don’t care” period and gained it all back. :-( But now I’m on the wagon again and making actual progress. I have a new mountain bike that I’ve been riding at night, so that will help and I’m eating properly now. (I’ve also set a goal for myself of training to do the BRAG next year.)

So I’ve decided that after every weigh-in (each Thursday night) I will post my progress, good or bad. So for the inaugural posting, here’s the report from last Thursday, June 12:

I lost 2.2 pounds!

I just need to keep it up. This past weekend was hard with all the funeral-related comfort food around, but I think I weathered it pretty well. We’ll find out for certain this Thursday night.