serial youth pastor

I feel bad about last week for a few reasons.  First of all I didn’t work out at all last week.  I ate more than I should have.  Through it all though God was gracious to me and I didn’t gain a pound.  So I began working out again (after my week long break) this past Saturday and things have been going well.  I felt a level of frustration after upping my calories to 2000a day.  The two weeks I did it I saw a combined weight loss of 5 pounds.  Before this I was averaging 5-7 a week.  So this week (Saturday-today) I dropped my caloric intake back to 1600 calories and the results have been great.  I lost another 4 pounds in the last 3 days.  I’m starting to notice little things as well like;

• my fingers are much thinner
• the knuckles in the back of my hand of sticking out now
• my jaw line is re-appearing (slowly but it is getting noticeable)

These are just little things but big things to me.  It helps keep me going.  I am hearing more comments from people as well.  One lady this past weekend at church said, “Hey it’s great seeing less of you around these days.”  I thought it was pretty funny.  Most people would have taken it as an insult but I knew she meant nothing but good things by it.

So now I’m at 360.  I’m down 37 pounds.  I am looking forward to losing 13 more to make it to my half-way point.  I want to celebrate losing 50 pounds and then again once I hit the 100 pound mark.  I’m thinking of tattoos.  Any suggestions?