Bacon Lovers (anonymous)

I had a few new blog ideas for this morning rolling around in my head, but after last night, I feel I need to post about my night. I mentioned that I am participating in a weight loss competition at my church. It's called Biggest Loser (after the tv show). We began this competition in May and we are nearing the end. The group of 6 other women that I am teamed up with are called ............... Bacon Lovers (anonymous). We are a very competitive group of girls. There are about a dozen other teams and most teams are made up of at least 10-12 members, so we are one of the smaller teams. I wasn't really sure how we would fair compared to some of the other teams because we all didn't have huge amounts of weight to lose. We have meetings every other week and at the meeting last night, we won the team weight-in! We (as a team) lost the highest percentage of our weight. This is the second time we have come in first. We have been in third or fourth all of the other weeks. The exciting part of this is that the stats were sent out and right now our weight loss is the highest percentage (at 9%). That means we have a great shot at winning this. The prize is $ for our charity (which is Bond Christian Service Camp) and the thrill of victory. I love to win! So, that alone would be very cool. We just have to keep this up for two more weeks. I will still be continuing on my weight loss journey as I was before this competition started, but it has been awesome to have this going on. It has given me great inspiration at a point when I might have been ready to give up or slack off.

Another really cool thing is that the individual with the biggest percentage of weight loss will win some money for themself. She sent out some stats for that and I think I am tied for second. There were no names given, but I am pretty sure that's where I am. First place is only 1% above. This is totally within reason for me to get this. Like I said, I love to win! The money would be cool, but winning would just feel so good. Although I know that even if I don't win, I have done a great job and did my very best.

One more encouraging note from last night is that people are making all kinds of comments about how I am looking. It is hard for me to take compliments, but I have learned to just say thank you and leave it at that. I used to try to come up with some other sort of response that would down-play my success, but I am not doing that anymore. I do feel great, I do like hearing those things, and so I will accept the compliments for what they are. So, if you have been one of them, keep 'em coming! Thank you.