Weight-Loss-A-Thon-week 8

It has been a crazy week, but for those of you on the Weight Loss a Thon bandwagon, thanks and progress is good!

Of course a day of intestinal bug on Friday helped more than I would like to admit.

Excercise (or lack thereof) has probably slowed progress. That has to change to meet the 35 min. 5K goal for the CASA 5K in November. Tonight's run felt great and the temperature was very nice, but taking three minutes off should be doable in a month, right?

Have a great week out there.

Weight-Loss-A-Thon-week 7

It has been a good week... and the scale showed the results.


Not a lot in the exercise department, although I think spending two evenings covering high school football should count for something :). It isn't aerobic exercise, but there is certainly a lot of walking involved.

My Sunday evening run was cancelled by thunderstorms. Praise the Lord for the rain. What a relief that is.

And I won't complain about having to mow the lawn. Much.

Photos from the lightning after the storm are posted over at my EastTexasPhoto blog...


Thanks for stopping by,

Don J.

Duck, Duck, Duck....

Sometimes we do oddball crazy things that aren't really very smart. And by "we," I mean mostly me.

So when the opportunity to care for an orphan duck came up, we ended up with a duck. Which is fine. Except he stinks and requires more upkeep than the dog. (Ducks have been a regular snapshot subject when I have a camera handy...)

Of course, what I do is photography, and it is hard to beat a duck as a baby photo prop.

Joshua does like to look at the duck. Luckily, he is not big enough to chase the duck or we would all be in trouble.

I have been known to chase ducks now and then myself..


Put the two of them together and it gets pretty funny.

I was really getting the camera out to take some pics since Joshua is 5 months old tomorrow.. crazy how that has flown by.


Compare that to June 22...

Happy Monday everyone,

Don J.

Weight-Loss-A-Thon-week 6

Not much to report this week, except for proof that you have to keep up the calorie reduction to keep the pounds dropping. Several nice Mexican food dinners, pizza and various other tasty meals kept me stagnant for the week.

But this is a new week... more pounds to go. Have a great Monday,

Don J.

Weight-Loss-A-Thon-week 5

First, I must say that a chimichanga at Mi Cocina is not on the diet. But I had one today anyway. Again, it is my contention that any diet that will last is not about doing something drastic and crazy. It is about choosing not to eat bad stuff almost all of the time.

Joshua is pretty sure that peas are not so good... and I can't disagree!

But the reduced calories and less junk food is definitely paying off. More than 10 pounds gone in just over a month.

Have a great short week friends.

Don J.