End of week 21

So life continues. All is well in the Scott household these days. Tina is doing well, Ayden is doing well and I am doing well. Ayden continues to grow and develop nicely. She still can make me smile and laugh anytime she wants to by looking at me with her big eyes and beautiful smile. Perhaps I am bias but she is so cute to me. She is a little shy. She will often stare at me, then I will look over at her and smile then she will smile and then shyly turn her head the other direction. She brings me such joy. We watched the movie “Meet the Robinsons” last night. We enjoyed it, it was a nice little movie. The movie that has the child genius in it always seems to be good, for example the Asian kid in Goonies …. I can’t think of any more at this moment. My co-owned fantasy football team finally got there first win yesterday. It came against the Hitmen owned by one Travis Scott. While it is nice to get a win, it is unlikely to mean anything unless we go on a good win streak. Even then it would be tough to make the playoffs. My health and weight are doing great. I eat the way I eat and it is habit at this point, so I don’t really worry about reverting back to my former weight or eating habits. I want to lose another 40 lb’s to get down to about 190 lb’s. I am thinking about beginning a running program. Although I hate running. I always have. I would rather play racquetball, basketball, football, tennis, etc… than run. We will see, but I am going to start doing something to accelerate my weight lose. I think it will take at least another 5 months to lose these last 40 lb’s, perhaps longer, unless I start exercising regularly. The only problem is when do I do it. When I get home every day at 5:45pm I would like to sit with my wife and daughter, relax, make dinner or help with it. I don’t want to get home, change clothes and take off for another hour. So really the choices are to get up early in the morning and run, or don’t run or workout at all. So far I have chosen the latter. My boy Asher seems to be doing fine. I booked his ticket the other day. He is going to be visiting us from December 26th to January 4th. He says he is enjoying school and meeting new friends. So I have some projects Tina has given me to do around the house. One of the things she would like me to do is build a headboard for our bed. Since I was only in my first house for about a month I have not really tackled any projects yet. In addition to the headboard I need to prepare my garden area for planting this spring, extend the back porch of our house and put up a few trellises on the side of the backyard. I don’t really have all the tools I need to accomplish this stuff. I know I don’t have the stuff to make a headboard at the moment. I don’t have a wheel barrel to mix and pour concrete. I don’t even have a ladder at the moment. I have to get used to being Tim “the tool man” Taylor (Home Improvement for those not in the know) around the house. I will enjoy doing these things around the house, but I am a perfectionist, so I hope I can satisfy myself with my level of work. I am excited about the holidays. I always love the Thanksgiving/Christmas season. I love the feel of it. The change of weather, the lights/decorations, the spirit of the season. It is a special time for me.

Aydens new roll

I wanted to let everyone know that Ayden had her first verified roll over from her stomach to her back yesterday. We suspect she has done this before in her crib because Tina has seen her on her stomach and then checks on her later and she is on her back, but no one has ever seen it happen. Well I had the pleasure of seeing her do this on the floor yesterday. I don’t think she remembers how she did it, but we know she is capable of doing it now. Anyway I thought I would let everyone know.

End of week 20

The acting God in Evan Almighty, Morgan Freeman, is right. When you pray for patience he doesn’t just give you an abundance of patience, he gives you circumstances and events that can promote growth of patience. I remember the last time I prayed for patience, it was about 2 or 3 years ago. It seemed like a good idea at the time, but I woke up the next day to find that my truck had been smashed in and my nice cd player had been stolen… Advantage man upstairs. Not only did he win that point, he defeated me and I have not since prayed for patience. Quite frankly I am a little afraid to. Evan Almighty by the way is an underrated movie. I kind of enjoyed it. Things are great with us. My dear wife Tina just turned 31 yesterday. It is about time, I can’t stand her being able to act all young and stuff around me because I turned 31 five months before she did. She had a nice day I think, we went over to her parents house for a nice visit and stuff. She and Ayden are both doing well. Ayden I am sure will start teething anytime now, we aren’t really looking forward to that. Hey note to Cameron, Ayden has a very hard spot on the inside of her mouth, not where a tooth would be but on the roof/inside of her gum, any idea what that may be? Ayden is getting stronger all the time. She rolls over to her stomach all the time, much to her own dismay. She loves rolling over but hates being on her stomach for very long. So my question to her and her mother is why does she keep doing it? It is logical that if you know you don’t like being on you tummy why do you keep rolling over to it. I mean we can’t stop her. It is a constant cycle. She is happily on her back, then she rolls over to her stomach, then after a minute or two she starts whining. Then I get up and roll her back on her back. Then almost before I even sit down again she is back on her stomach. She is getting closer to rolling back over to her back but she is not quite there yet. My work is going well, I really enjoy what I do now and that is such a mental weight off of my shoulders. I am trying to decided if I should try to get a PhD in this field or if I should now pursue what I am really interested on the side and that is cooking. I wouldn’t be pursuing cooking to make a career change, it would be just to get better, it is basically my hobby. I want to make sure I have enough education to get where I want to be in training and development. I want to someday be a director or vice president of training and development or perhaps start my own training consulting company and I want to make sure my education is sufficient to accomplish those goals. I don’t know if a bachelors is enough. In weight loss news I got back on the good path and lost probably about 5 lbs or so. I weighed in this morning at 228.8 lb’s. For review I started this journey to better health 20 weeks or 5 months ago. At the time I started I weighed 276.6 lb’s and was wearing about size 43 pants. Today I am weighing 228.8 lb’s and am wearing size 36 pants. I would say I have made progress. I have lost 47.8 lb’s and 7 inches of my waist. I will have pictures tonight I think. Let me take a second to talk about my wife. She is very special and important to me. She is everything I always thought marriage would be and could be. So for my first marriage to be what is was, was really tough for me. We are taught that sometimes for us to understand the sweet we must experience the bitter. I have tasted more than enough bitter in my marriage life in the past so I can now understand and savor the sweet and forgive my language but damn is it sweet. I am going to be coming out with my top 20 movies of all time in the near future. You all are welcome to second guess my decisions and rankings all you want, but you will be wrong. Peace out.

End of Week 19

Well I missed last week as you all know. We have had a few things going on over the past couple of weeks. First let’s talk weight loss. The previous week I didn’t lose any weight and in fact gained a few pounds because I ate bad for about 2 days. It is really crazy. I can gain 4 lb’s in 2 days but it takes me 2 weeks to lose 4 lb’s typically. But that was just a mini blip on the radar and I got my eating back on track this past week. I still didn’t lose too much though. I don’t believe my weigh in this morning was accurate so I am going to weigh in again tomorrow morning. In other news, many of you have followed the saga that is my water bill. Last time I wrote about it I said we got about a $400 credit. Well let me update that number. After calibrating my water meter the county decided to not credit me $400. Instead they decided to credit me $900. So we owed nothing. Our meter is now fixed and our usage is well under average (we don’t bathe). Just kidding. But it looks like we may not have a legit irrigation leak. I am seeing moisture around some of my backyard sprinkler heads, and I haven’t watered back there for a week. Does anyone have any possible explanation as to why this would be other than a leak? In other news Ayden is doing well. We think she may be teething because her grumpy level has increased a bit lately. I have been working now as a full time Trainer for the past two weeks. I really enjoy it. I did my first client training session last week and it went pretty well all things considered. I have two more scheduled for later this week and I think I am going to be doing some onsite training at the end of this month in Pittsburg. I found out the other day that our company hit their bonus quota which is nice, we will be getting a little bonus at the end of this year. This past weekend I participate in the Richardson Corporate Challenge. My company had a basketball team that I played on. We got beat the first game 38 to 23. I scored 10 of those 23 points. That kind of tells you how bad our team was when I was the leading scorer. Actually I played pretty well. This is not breaking news, but my fantasy football team still sucks. I am not going to put up pictures of me this week because nothing has changed, but to give you some numbers on my progress thus far. When I started this eating lifestyle I weighed 276.6 lb’s and wore basically a size 43 pants. Today I weighed 234.2 lb’s and wear size 36 pants. So that is some nice progress. My weight goal is still about 185 lb’s so I still have around 50 lb’s I am going to try and loose. Anyway take care.

End of week 17

Well I weighed in at 231.6 lb's this morning. Down from 234 lb's last week. So I am down another 2.4 lb's which if my math is correct puts me at exactly 45 lb's lost in 17 weeks. I am pleased with it all. The other day I wore size 36 jeans. Granted they were a bit snug, but you couldn't count the quarters in my pocket so I didn't need to call a tailor. That was down from a very generous 42 pant size 17 weeks ago. So that is not to bad. I had my first day as a Trainer today. The training department and the company is about to explode. The opportunities for me in the training department are going to be great. I am really going to enjoy being a trainer and doing this for my career. I am really excited about it. My fantasy team is so bad and it is killing me. I hope to get the pictures up tonight for all of you.