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I don't know if anyone's even keeping up with this anymore or not, but I just wanted to say that I've been Not doing so well with things, yet back on track. I made it down to 299! :-) Then I totally stunk it up and was at 315 for a little bit! :-(  THen I made it back to 303 this afternoon, the day before the day before Christmas. :-) I was hoping to be down 200 pouds by Christmas, but I don't think I'm going to lose 9 pounds in the next 2 days....probably. :-)

Oh well! :-)  I'm back on track and doing better.  Still have my struggles, but don't we all? 

I was watching this show about super obese people (That's what it was called) becfause they were like at 750 pounds or like 950 pounds. I just cried and cried watching it because I could have been those people... PRAISE THE LORD I'VE gotten my life in order adn things are going along So much better.

Ok, check back in some time in the next 3 months and I'll blog again! ;-) ha ha

This is me as of TODAY!  It's October 8, 2008, and I'm down 190 pounds!

Not much to say today. :-) Just thought that I'd put in my new weight as of this morning.  I wore an XL shirt yesterday to work :-) it felt Great! I can't fit in all of my XL stuff yet (and some 2XL seems tighter than what I wore yesterday!) but that's Ok. It's all coming off and going good!

:-) Blessings!
:-) Richard

I'm really excited about this!  I've been doing kinda poorly the past few months due to not really eating like I should have.  I wasn't eating like a Ton or anything ;-) but y'know, I Was eating stuff that I just didn't need to.  Anyhow, had a scare last week with my health going down hill and had to go visit the doctor. Turns out that I was feeling So bad because my blood sugar was up a lot higher than it needed to be. So, back to the medicine for a while. But that's Ok! I'd rather take my medicine and be Healthy.

Anyhow, so I've been back to eating Small amounts of high protein food (insert a variety of energy/protein bars from Walmart and SlimFast here!) and low and behold, I went from 330 on Thursday, Aug 21 to 315 on Friday, Aug 29!  Wow! That's like 15 pounds in a week!  maybe I was at 329, I don't remember.

Well, that's about all for now.  Blessings Galore on you!

:-) Richard

Hi there :-)

Well, I'm back!  It's been a Crazy week getting back to work and trying to get everything going here, so I don't have a lot of time to write anything today.

Just wanted to let everyone know that I'm doing well and the trip was Great. We had a great time and I'm really looking forward to the next step when they come and remodel my classroom for next year.

I've been struggling with head hunger and wanting to eat when I'm not hungry and wanting to eat stuff I know isn't good for me. So, I'm going back to my "roots" and doing a liquid diet for a couple of days to get myself back in order with what I need to be doing. My head feels a bit funny, but I know that I'll be fine. I'm not advocating a starvation diet by Any means :-) ice cream is a liquid, right?! :-)  But I just need to get myself back in gear and I think this will help.

Just saying it out loud helps me have power over the desire to eat, plus it builds in some accountability for the many thousands of you that are reading this. ha ha :-)

:-) Hugs and Smiles and Blessings!
:-) Richard

Hi everyone :-)

Wow! I've had like 5 different people say something about what I wrote in the past few weeks--I think that's Cool! :-)  Thanks for the nice replies and all--you're a Blessing!!

Ok, so did I ever mention that I've won this AMazing classroom makeover for my room next year? It's a $10,000 room makeover at school. WOW!!!  I've just talked with the designer this week and I'm looking forward to what ideas he has in store for my room. It's a special education Life Skills room, so we have some cool ideas in mind.

So Then, besides the HUGE blessing this is, I've been invited to Washington, D.C. for this big whoop-dee-doo awards banquet thing. It's an "intimate black tie affair" which sort of sounds like a contradiction in terms. How does one have an intimate Anything and wear a bow tie at the same time? Weird. :-) But Cool!!!

Anyhow, so I'm heading for the National capitol on May 5th and will be running around like a crazy man with my principal (glad he's a good fellah) and my good friend who is my Special Ed director (a cool Christian lady).  It's just Such an amazing thing that the Lord just plopped down in my lap.

Isn't it just like Him, though? I mean, think about it.  His word says that he delights to do the Exceedingly Abundant in our lives, and this is just a HUGE example of that!  I would have been pleased as punch if He'd given me a $100 gift card for paint at Lowe's and instead He gave me a $10,000 room makeover! Then He gave me this free trip to Washington D.C. And I'm staying at some swanky place that charges more per night than I pay for my house note.

I wonder if they'll have free mints on the pillows? At those prices, they should have twenty dollar bills on the pillows. :-)

So, it's just an Amazing thing and I'm SO glad that the Lord has allowed me this chance to be a part of this.  It's one of those things that happens to Other people, and now it's happened to Me. :-) It's weird/cool at the same time.

Well, I guess I'd better get going. I need to get a white shirt for my fake tuxedo. :-) Ok, it's a jacket from my bro-in-law and some black suit pants I got on sale at Penney's last month. PTL for that! :-)  Um, a bow tie from my music minister and a shirt from WalMart. :-)

Oh! I can shop at Walmart again! In fact, I can fit into my 2x clothes! WOW!

Ok, I gotta let you go. If you're still reading, let me know what you think. If you think I stink, it's Ok. I forgive you. :-) ha ha ha :-)

:-) Blessings!
:-) Richard

ps---A new online friend called BabySis got her date for operation! Pray for her, Please!! :-)

Hi there :-)

Well, my 35th birthday was yesterday and there were some good parts to it and some sad parts that ended up in even Better parts at the end. Whew, that was a cotton pickin' mouth full. :-)

The good part is that I went to church and went to the aerobics class. WOW! Anyone that says aerobics is for "just" for women should try it. That instructor (a  friend of mine) just kicked my butt the whole 30+ minutes. I think I lost about 10 pounds and about 47,000 calories in that workout. ;-) ha ha 

So, that was good.  Then we had a youth workers meeting and I thought, maybe, they'd have a card or a cake or....remember it was my birthday. Y'know, they could sing or wish me well.  Everyone was tired and no one either knew or remembered, and I sat there the whole time feeling really down about that. The Lord brought back to mind a Lot of good things I've learned over the years (this is from Dr. William Backus's book "Telling Yourself the Truth") that my feelings are MY feelings and that No one has the power to crawl up in my brain and "make" me feel good, bad or anything else.  My reactions are MY reactions. So, I decided, as hard as it was at the moment, not to let such little, petty things worry me and just go on with life.

That took a couple of hours, actually. I'm a slow learner, give me a break! ;-) ha ha

Anyhow, I went home and weighed after all of this and on my 35th birthday I weighed in at 344 pounds--Happy 150 Pounds Off Day! ;-)

I weighed this morning to see if I about 10 pounds had magically appeared and it was actually down to 343. Wow! 151 pounds off! Praise the Lord for He is Good and His mercy lasts Forever!

:-) Blessings!
:-) Richard

ps--Oh! I forgot!!!  Ok, the weight loss was Cool, I won't deny it. The BEST part was when I was writing my friend and trying to express all of this and it suddenly occurred to me that when I was upset about feeling forgotten that I didn't Turn To FOOD to feel better. I did rant and rave in my head for a while, but only a while and then I made good choices about my feelings. But I DIDN'T turn to food! That's the Best part of the whole thing!

Hi there :-)

I just realized that all you can see are pics of my house instead of Me. :-) How sad! ha ha ha :-) Just a joke, friends, just a joke.  I didn't realize that those pics would be the ones that would pop up.

Actually, though, the new colors on the walls represent something new that I've started learning since I got my surgery. I've been wanting to paint the walls in my trailer for 11 years, but I've always been too scared to do it. What if I messed up? What if I chose the wrong paint colors? What if? What if? WHAT IF???

You'd think a child of God would get over that kind of crazy thinking, pray and then let the Lord tell me what to do :-) but I'm a bit thick at times and I was Scared.  The thing that I've learned is that if I can go and have surgery to lose weight, I don't have to be afraid to pick out wall colors and paint my walls.  I experience More freedom when I painted the walls than about anything else I've done in the past 10 years.  Suddenly I became master of my own destiny, so to speak, instead of letting Fear rule the day.

Now, before I start sounding too "Look at Me!" (see above--ha ha) let me just say that this only works in my life when I Know that the Lord is at the center of who I am.  It's when I'm submitted Totally to Him that I have the freedom to paint the walls or just whatever.

Probably other people will say, "Eh, it's just  a new coat of paint on the walls. What's the biggee?" For me, that paint on the walls represents Freedom to choose the life I want to live. I don't have to be afraid anymore. If I fall flat on my face, I fall. But at least I'm not living in the Cave of Fear :-) where "What If???" is scrawled on every surface that I see.

Plus, this just came to mind.  During World War II, a Dutch family was hiding Jewish people in their home.  The sister that people know best is Chrsitian missionary Corrie ten Boom (although she wasn't a missionary back then, just a 50 year old woman hiding Jews).  Her sister, Bestsie, had a quote that always stuck with me: "There are No 'What Ifs' in God's Kingdom."  Isn't that cool?

So, I don't know if anyone reads this stuff or not, but if you're reading this and wondering, there are no What Ifs in God's Kingdom! Pray and then go into action.

:-) Blessings!
:-) Richard

ps--I have a new friend named Babysister....oh, I forgot to copy your name, Well, I'll just call you BabySis for today. :-)

Hi Anybody :-)

Ok, so I know that like 1 person might read this, but y'know what, it's Ok by me as what I have to share is soooo cool that maybe this will get more than 1 person to read this. :-)

A few weeks back I received a phone call. It was Friday and it was during my last hour of teaching students for the day.  The phone call was from a represenative from Honeywell Industries.  They told me that I was one of 5 Grand Prize Winners for a $10,000 classroom makeover! WOW!!!  So, this is SUCH an answer to my prayers because I'm going to be teaching in a new Special Education Life Skills Center next year and we had like Zero budget and Big needs.

So, the Lord just Totally blessed me with this way to get everything I could ever dream of wanting for that room. :-) Ok, maybe not Everything, but still. A WHOLE lot!!! :-)

Ok, so Then I get a phone call from the Honeywell PR lady yesterday saying I was invited to attend the Hope Awards in Washington D.C. May 5-7 and they are going to pay for the plane ticket and the hotel room! I even get to bring my principal along, which is cool.  So, not only do I get this Amazing room redo, I get a free trip to Washington DC and maybe even get to meet some of our nation's leaders at a Congressional Breakfast on the 7th!

So, I'm just praising the Lord that He has given me beyond Anything I could hope or dream for! What a Blessing!!!

Well it's Already Thursday :-) and this has been a Busy week so far. I'm really glad to have the chance to put some ideas on my webpage here. :-) Thanks again to my good friend Notesmith for the idea!

Today I was soooo whooped from staying up too late with a Very important dvd (yeah, right!) that I was just out of it when it came time to exercise this a.m. So, I decided to walk this afternoon. Where I work is a walking track and if you do 12 laps. you've done a mile. So, I did 24 laps and got 2 miles in.

I discovered a couple of things:

1.  I'm getting to where I Like to exercise. How "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" is that?!

2.  Dress shoes are Not tennis shoes. :-)

3.  I'm capable of doing So much more than I normally give myself credit for.

Anyhow, that last one has really helped boost me up this afternoon. I can't believe how much I'm changing on the Inside apart from the food stuff. To be complimented on my progress is such a boost, but to have that Inside Boost is the Best! :-)  In education, we call that an "Intrinsic Motivator" which is a fancy phrase for "Good Self Talk". :-) (Which, actually, is a psychological phrase, I suppose.)

Oh well!  Whatever you may be facing today, take a walk and get your brain cleared and then you'll be ready for action. :-) Wow, maybe I should become a coach. :-)  ha ha ha :-)