Who is the biggest loser?

Recently Codi and I started a recommitment to a healthy lifestyle which includes exercise and eating right. We have a side bet between us but we are doing this same challenge with some friends. We are doing it Biggest Loser style...whichever team loses the highest percentage of weight wins a dinner paid for by the losing team. So far we are a week into it and sticking to it...but we have 83 more days to go.

Codi is doing the couch to 5k program and I am doing a calorie counting and cardio program I feel like I have made some good progress so far. One of the things I have also done is cut out all soda diet or otherwise. At times this can be difficult but I know it is for my own good. Codi and I have made a commitment to each other to do this and I have done it for myself as well. In my family heart problems and high cholesterol are a big problem...one leads to another. I don't want to be on meds when I get old to control it. I want to be healthy again. We also have a goal for our summer vacation this year at Lake Tahoe. I believe we can make it.

I have near term goals and long term ones. End goals is to lose about 50ish pounds...near term is to lose 10 pounds at a time and feel like I have accomplished something and can improve upon it. I just can't wait to say I am the biggest loser.

Wish us luck and staying power.

Long time past

It's been a long time since the last post...almost a year and lots of things have happened since then. For starts the kids are another year older and I have changed jobs but we still live in Katy. Codi is now serving as the Boy Scout advancement coordinator a change from primary secretary and I am now the ward clerk. We are all having fun with all that is going on. The boys are both going to be playing flag football this spring and Aedan is doing dance with a recital later in the spring.

As for my job I have been gaining some valuable offshore experience. It is definitely a change what I was doing in the past. Codi is also teaching part time at the kids preschool they all went to and she loves what she is doing.

We have lots planned for the remainder of the year but I wanted to briefly take a minute to give a quick update. More will follow at a better pace than this past year...I promise.