Updating...

So, I haven't posted in forever!!!! I have been really busy and just haven't blogged. But lately I have been reading my friend Benita's blog: www.fashioncheese.blogspot.com so check it out. It is on fashion and beauty, etc.

So what have I been up to for the last number of months...

Currently I am spending the night at RTS doing a fire watch making sure the chapel does not burn down. So that is why I am up so late. Thanks Amy for staying with me and keeping me company. We have had a fun time.

My last blog was about my Kidney Stones, well they were not kideny stones. It took a while to figure out the whole problem but in December I had my gall bladder out. They realized that my gall bladder never truly functioned correctly. Now I can eat breakfast for the first time in my life.

Last May 2007, I started trying to lost some weight by giving up soda. My weight loss got haulted with teh gall bladder, but from May 2007 until the surgaery, Dec. 27, 2007 I had lost 30 pounds. After the surgery I decided to start eating breakfast. Then i decided to start trying to be more serios about losing weight.

On January 16th, 2008 Benita told me and showed me www.sparkpeople.com (a nutrition and fitness journal that is totally FREE). I have lost in 2008, 58 pounds. Which means I have now lost a total of 88 pounds since May 2007. I watch what I eat and I excercise. I am really dedicated. I hope to be at my goal weight by June 2009, 155. I am losing about 2 pounds a week, though this summer that slowed down to about .5-1# per week.

The future is hopeful for me. I now picture myself as a larger normal person instead of such a big person. Maybe one day I will post My starting weight, not yet.

Next summer as a reward for my hard work I am going on a missions trip to Tanzania to visit Melissa Wiedamann with Rafiki. I am so excited. I always thought I was too big to go to Africa.

There are a lot of foods I have given up, but I still eat ice cream in moderation, that is my key, I only need a bite or two.

Well, that has been what is going on. My free time has been spent in my garden which I still love and on my elliptical machine.

Sorry I have not written more. I will try to keep more active! email me to tell me to write ... cgreenawalt@rts.edu