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If you haven’t had a chance to check Zander out lately, here are his 2 year old pictures (we just got around to getting them – he is actually 2 1/2)

Zander’s Latest Pictures!

I’ve updated the weekly update section.  I hate to know that I’m three weeks behind.  I gained several pounds during those three weeks, but when I weighted yesterday, I was only half a pound up from the last time I officially weighted in.  It is time to stop looking back and start looking forward.  I have three weeks before my reunion.  If I maintain my two pound a week weight loss goal, I will be 284 lbs.  That’s not the 274 lbs. I had hoped for but its better than the 330 lbs I was at my heaviest.  I haven’t been riding my bike much lately, but I really feel that my biggest reason for not losing weight is my diet.  I keep making goals to write down everything that I eat, but I have continued to fall short here.  I haven’t done a bod pod test in a while either.  The main reason I suppose is that I haven’t been looking forward to the results.  I will get one next week.  I must not stop looking at my weight goals, my diet goals, my exercise goals because I missed the mark – if I do, then I will stop trying to hit the mark.  I will push forward, I will continue to push myself, I will lose weight…

Ok, I don’t want to leave you guys hanging with the thought that my life is spinning in turmoil.  My last post titled “Shedding Light (Instead of pounds)” was my best to attempt to excuse myself from not posting and more importantly from not losing weight.  I do feel that I need to point out that at the time of the posting things were and still are going very very well for me.  I know you guys may have felt like I was down and out but remember, you were reading a history story and not a news report. (more…)

You have noticed that I stopped posting for about a week.  You may have noticed that I didn’t update “Weekly Update…” this week either.  I want to shed some light on the events over the last two weeks or so to explain my absence.  Bear with me as I’m going to throw a lot of unconnected information at you and I am not going into detail on most of it (not to keep it personal, but because it would just be a boring read)… (more…)

Everyday my son Zander is learning and doing something new.  He is 2 1/2 yrs old and been completely potty trained for several months, he is starting to say his ABC’s and he can count to 10.  Having Stephanie as a stay-at-home mom has been excellent for Zander’s learning curve.  A couple of months ago Stephanie started teaching Zander all the different body parts and he was learning fast.  He had already learned all the parts on his face.  As we walked through a sporting goods store he showed me just how much he had learned. (more…)

Ok, here’s the deal – if you have been reading my blog so far, you already know that my old job asked that I send back my laptop.  So I brought a new one, it came in last week.  All I still needed to do was copy over my files and pack up the old laptop.  Apparently, my old laptop had some hard drive errors so now I’ve been having trouble getting my files backed up.  For the most part, it’s been useless stuff that I could just delete and move on, however I lost one picture for sure and I may have lost a wav file with my sermon notes on it. (more…)

I had to make a change to how comments can be posted on my blog.  You will now have to be logged in to post a comment.  Why?  Well, at first it was just one little email saying, WordPress – Please Moderate Comment(s).  Inside the email there was a comment from someone I don’t know and have never heard of, with a comment like, “great site!” and 50 or so links under the comment for viagra.  No big deal, I simply marked the comment as spam and moved on.  Then I started getting these emails two and three times a week.  I couldn’t just turn of the moderator notifications – that’s how I met some of you guys. 

I had to do something when I started getting four or five of them a day.  By requiring users to be logged in to post a comment, spammers will not be able to send me these “buy my stuff” links.  This also means, however that you have to be logged in to post a comment.  I really enjoy reading your comments and it encourages me to keep posting, keep cycling, keep dieting, etc.  So I really do hope you will sign in and post.  If you haven’t yet registered, you can do so here (http://sackrider.org/myblog/wp-register.php).

Hey Everybody!  I’m still here.  So, why haven’t I written anything lately?  Well, my diet hasn’t been going well, I only lost 1/2 a pound last week and I don’t really talk about work online.  I also don’t talk about politics or religion (I talk about ministry but not really docterine of any type).  I would be suprised if someone reading my blog could tell you what kind of church I go to, or how I would vote in the next election (you don’t count, Cousin David – we’ve talked outside the blog).  So what has been going on?  I can’t talk about it…      🙂 stay tuned, I’ll have more later…

Check in the Weekly Update section – I’ve lost 11.5 pounds so far!  I’ve got a long way to go, but its only been 6 weeks, and I’m close to 2 pounds a week. 

At my heaviest, I weighed in at a huge 330 lbs!  I lost 30 pounds in Columbus, OH two summers ago through walking, geocaching, and at the end riding my bike.  It took me 10 years to pack on the 100 pounds I once carried.  I weighed a mere 230 lbs when I left high school, but I also bench pressed 300 lbs, and box squatted over 1000 lbs.  Each winter in Ohio, I would put on 20 lbs, and each summer I would take off about 10 lbs.  Ten years later, I was 100 lbs heavier.

But now… I have lost a total of 40 lbs from my heaviest; 11.5 pounds since I started cycling to work.  At this rate, I’ll be down below my high school weight in about a year… to bad the 10 year reunion is in about a month – 🙂

That’s what my son, Zander says whenever he does something we’ve made a big deal about before – like counting to twelve.

“One, two, free, four, five, six…(short pause) six, eight, nine, ten, twelve… I did it!”, followed by his own ‘Yeah!!” and clapping.  It’s cute.  We encourage it. 

On Friday, at 56th St and Mayo – I did it!  My bike odometer rolled over 1000 miles!!!  I called Stephanie.  I know, its not that big a deal for some of the cyclist out there, but I can count to twelve without skipping seven and eleven.  I did it!  And I’m very proud!