Winning Numbers

I'm 25 today!

Now before all of you think I’ve lost the few marbles I still have in the game or have turned into a liar, let me explain. Twenty-five is not my age. Today the scale says there is 25 fewer pounds than the first day of the AT&T Chairman’s Challenge. Hitting this goal means I am at 33% of my ultimate goal and that makes me want to crunch more numbers.

42: The amount of weight I am down from my very heaviest before the tumors were removed. (Losing the tumors counts as weight loss, but I don’t recommend having body parts removed just to lower the numbers on the scale!)

200: The amount of weight I leg pressed this morning.

130: The number of day since the Chairman’s Challenge was announced, and I faced my fears.

129: The number of days since the Chairman’s Challenge that I have avoided eating cheesecake. (That piece of my friend Carrie’s cheesecake with homemade hot cinammon apples on top was amazing and worth every calorie!)

17: The number of Happy Gave Birth Moments I will have celebrated as of 11:38 tonight. It is so hard to believe it has been 17 years since my “Joymaker” made my life and this world a better place. (Happy Birthday Baby!)

3: How many day I have until my life’s odometer changes to (25x2)+2.

2013: The year that I become chronologically older but physically younger.

I don’t know about you, but I think those are some pretty blessed numbers. In spite of the fact I have never bought a lottery ticket, somehow that would make sense, but just thinking about them reminds me that I’m already a winner. Let me encourage you to take a minute and celebrate your winning numbers today…and please share!