As you have read by now, my sister had quite a week.  My heart goes out to her.  It's so hard to make ourselves a priorty and to do the things necessary to make ourselves well, when there are so many outside influences that affect us everyday.  Laurie is such a caring person and was obviously devasted by the events that transpired last week.  But she was able to pick herself back up and get back on track by the end of the week.  I'm very proud of her. 

 

As for me, I DID IT!!!!  I reached my goal of a 10% weight lost before the end of the challenge at the Y; I have lost 25.2 lbs as of this morning AND I still have one more week to go in the Y challenge and 11 more days until the end of this Biggest Loser challenge.  Now all I have to do is maintain through next week; of course losing a couple of extra pounds would be the icing on the cake. 

 

Next week is going to be a bit of a challenge for me because I have a bone marrow biospy on Tuesday, which will seriously impede my ability to work out for the remainder of the week.  It's hard to just sit after one of those surgeries, let alone trying to get in serious walking. 

 

Speaking of walking, my step count isn't too great this week.  One of the medicines that I have to take, I take on a quarterly basis (10 per day for 15 days).  Monday was day 1 of that prescription.  This medicine makes me feel quite hideous for several days until my body gets used to it.  Usually by the time that happens, it's time to quit taking it.  However, I did still manage to get in a short walk every day, so I'm happy about that.  Here's my step counts for this week. 

 

2/22 - 7130

2/23 - 6214

2/24 - 7614

2/25 - 5146

2/26 - 6168

2/27 - 6302

2/28 - 7143

 

To all you Biggest Losers out there:  We're in the home stretch now and I'm sending good thought's everyone's way, so that we can all hit that finish line with a strong showing.  Of course many of us will continue on with our journey after this.  We have such a great start.  Good luck everyone, work hard the next 11 days.  WEIGH TO GO!!!