Check List

Summary of historical journal entries 9-29 through 10-19

• Join a Fitness Center - Check
• Shop a grocery list carefully prepared to make sure I have enough ounces of what I need to follow the nutrition plan for a week – Check
• Laugh at the strange looks I got when I put 20 heads of broccoli in my shopping cart – Check (7 days x 6 oz. of broccoli every day + broccoli to serve to family and guests at some meals = bunches of broccoli. Insider trading tip: Buy stock in broccoli! Sales are increasing.)
• Bake birthday brownies and not eat any – Check
• Go to the gym five days a week, several times on my own, without my exercise buddy – Check
•  Plan, fix and eat a meal for guests after church on a Sunday that they will like, fits my nutrition plan, and won’t be noticeable that I am eating differently than they are – Check
•  Increase time and resistance on the elliptical to 30 minutes, a varying resistance from two to ten, and a sprint one out of every five minutes Check!!! ( 5.75 miles and 275 calories in 33 minutes!)
• Feel measurably more flexible, stronger, less out of breathe, and have more stamina – Check
• Thank the Lord daily for my wonderful support network – Check
• Talk to a fitness Life Coach on the phone - Check
• Posted my first blog on work's Chairman's Challenge blog site - Check.  (If you had told me three weeks ago that I would share any of this with anyone other than my dear Patrick and closest family/friend, I would have said you were crazy!  Just one more "I cannot" that has changed to "I can.")
• Eat six meals a day – half check! (So much to eat - so little time to do it!)
• Shop for a sports bra so my bra hooks stop gouging skin out of my back when I exercise – Epic fail! (Stepping up on my soap box) Dear stores, Please do your part to encourage overweight women to exercise. Can you please carry sports bras for women that are larger? It looks like you are going to make me buy one online and pay double the amount of the ones you carry. (Stepping off of my soap box.)  
• See a difference in the numbers on the scale – I have the right to remain silent.