Weigh-In Wednesday...Week 7!

49 Days Down. 

7 Weeks Completed 


And I'm officially in the 70's!

This week felt like a great one. I really stuck to my game all week long for the most part. I had a couple snack slip-ups after scheduled snack times, and I had a little slice of apple pie on Labor day lol. But other than that I really feel like I had a great week. I got tons of exercise in over the long weekend. Including a couple of great long bike treks on Saturday and Monday mornings. 

I even saw a weight as low as 277 over the weekend. WOW. However, as they say, your body can catch up with you and fluctuate. Who knows maybe it was alot of water weight one day? 

Anyways, I step on the scale tonight for my weigh-in and I see... 

Week 6 Weight -- 280
Today's weight -- 2-7-9 !So that's another 1 pound down this week.

Total Weight Loss to date = 15 pounds

At first I must admit I was kind of frustrated because I felt like my weight should have been lower this week. But, the more I thought about the big picture, the better I felt. I still have gone over my 2 pounds a week goal. I can't really complain at all. 15 pounds in 7 weeks is not too shabby, and I'm just going to keep at it. Slowly but surely ... 

Check out this picture of me at our friend Melody's wedding last fall. Pictured is my wife Jaimie and our good friends Katelynn and Alex. 

Quite the difference right? 

In other news ...

Our big project this weekend was doing our office/library room in our house. 

So we went to IKEA. And filled up Laura and Dan's Van lol

Room Before ... 

And room after! 

We have lots more pics on Facebook too. 

Thanks everyone for checking in with me this week and keeping me accountable. I feel like this is a critical time just because I'm almost to that two month mark and the newness of this has kind of worn off. Now it's a marathon and I just have to stay the course. My goal is to be about 30 pounds down by the time I see my family in the beginning of November. 

I'll check back in before the weekend and let you know how the week is going. So far so good! 

“First we form habits; then they form us. Conquer your bad habits or they will conquer you.” ~Robert Gilbert

Happy Labor Day!

Enjoy the Holiday everyone!

We've been busy furnishing and setting up our library/office. I'll have lots of pics up later once we finish everything today.

Things are looking good for weigh-in Wednesday, so I should have some good news for you coming up this week as well.

For now, Enjoy your day off of work!

Be back later....

FYI for all of you who watched the WVU vs Marhsall season opener yesterday. Here is some cool video of the big storm that called the weather delay.

I have a bike, and I'm not afraid to ride it...

Happy Sunday Everyone!


I hope you've all had a great weekend . Mine was pretty much jam-packed but it was a blast.


I started out Friday night with an Improv show with Strangers and Fools at Smiley's Coffee House for their back to school Friday night live. We had an awesome crowd come out and it was a good time. FYI we also have some shows coming up at "The Box" Theater in Ybor in September, and also we were invited back to American Stage Theater Co. for another show on September 24th at 10 PM. Come out and see us and laugh. After the show we went out for food like we always do, and I am proud to say I successfully resisted the delicious temptations at Steak N' Shake and just made do with my cherry limeade beverage lol. What was unique about this experience, was that I never even almost ordered something. The temptation was minimal, and all I could think of was progress , progress. I'm sure a burger and fries wouldn't have killed me, but it sure would have slowed me down. 


On Saturday, I woke up with one mission in mind: Get out there and find a bicycle! I realized a few days ago that I'd never actually bought a bike, just been given them as gifts when I was younger. So I reached out to my friends etc for help. Thanks everyone for the great ideas and suggestions. Special shout outs to my brother-in-law Dan Crider and Dr. Kris Dewitt for pointing me to Chainwheel Drive Bicycles, a great local bike store here in Tampa Bay. They were happening to have their summer sale this weekend so it worked out perfectly. The people there were awesome, so if you're looking for a bike around here go see them. They have great deals. They let me test-ride about 3 different bikes and helped me find one that fit my body type. Another cool thing is that the color I wanted wasn't built yet, so they built me the color I wanted right there in the store for no extra $$$. Super Cool. It was about a $500 bike, and I got it for $350. After adding a kickstand and taxes etc it was about $387 all said and done. Not too shabby. I went with the Raleigh Venture 3.0 (see pics below). It's a hybrid style bike (thanks Bob Koechig) and I love it.

I went out for a 50 minute ride today on the new ride and it was great. It felt really good to be back on bike. One of the worst parts of the ride was riding through a giant cloud of gnats lol. When I got back and looked in the mirror most of my face and neck were covered in them. Gross.  That's a pic of me with the bike, after I got off most of the gnats. Rough pic I know. This blog is beginning to look like a scrapbook of me and the bike so lets move on haha.

Food News:

I had some great food at First Watch this weekend. My wife and I were craving breakfast. When this happens we usually go to Lenny's, Bob Evans, or the old classic Cracker Barrel. There are so many great breakfast diners around here, and one of my favorite foods in the world is good biscuits. I knew there was no way I could go there and not get one sooo.... I wanted to go somewhere a bit healthier with less temptations and still good food.  So we decided on First Watch. I went with the Power Wrap (see pic below). It was so good. 470 calories and TONS of protein. Try it, you'll love it. It's egg whites, mushrooms, spinach, onion, and swiss. 

I've seen significant progress again this week on the scale and that has been very exciting. Thanks for all the support and encouragement on this journey. 

“Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.” ~Henry David Thoreau

Bicycle , Bicycle ??

Hey hey everyone. 

Quick check-in. Cardio tonight at the studio, should be a blast. 

Anyways, I'm looking for some feedback. I am wanting to get a bicycle to use for exercise. I want something to break the routine and give me a different option than a jog. There are alot of mostly flat trails around here. Any bike suggestions? 

Also, best place to get one? Not looking for anything fancy, just something that does the job.