Low Carb Again

Yes, I am now Low Carbing again, and yes, I am blogging again.

I started Induction on Monday of LAST week and at my first weigh in Monday of this week I'd lost 9 pounds. Can't wait to see what next Monday brings.

On another note, the Keurig mini brewer is the bomb. I picked mine up on Craigslist for $40 and it's the best appliance I've ever owned.

Update!

There Tanja...I updated my blog.

How Big A Boy Are Ya?

Click Here If You Want To Change Your Life in 90 Days Guaranteed.

Them's big words right there! Click a link to change your life in 90 days...hmm... Sounds like a hoax, or a bad infomercial. Well, it's neither. If you click that link you will be taken to a Bible reading plan that is so ambitious it will take you through the entire Bible, cover to cover, in a mere 90 days. It's rough, it's tough, and it's not for the lazy. It's called B90X (yes, it's a play on the P90X workout program) and it's not for the faint of heart.

I'm so tired of who I am that I want to kickstart my change as radically as possible. I'm willing to make the sacrifices needed to be a man after God's own heart. I figure the best way to do that is simply spend more time with God's Word. I am excited to see how the next 90 days will refocus me into a sharper, more Biblically educated man of God. I'm especially excited because the next 90 days are what are considered by most Americans to be the "holiday shopping season" where people frantically stimulate the economy by buying up a bunch of stuff people don't really want, for people they don't want to buy for, using money they don't have.

What are YOU going to do with the next 90 days of your life? Lay on the couch? Watch some TV? Root for a football team? Yeah? Well me too, but I'm going to do it while reading the Bible. The ENTIRE Bible. All of it. Every last word of it. And I will love it more than I did before.

If you want to join me on this intense Bible journey, just go back up to the top of this post and click that link. You'll be able to print out your own B90X plan. Then come back here periodically to see where I will blog about how it's changing my life. Leave comments about how it's changing your life too!

My New Car-In-Waiting

Well, it's official: my beloved 1999 Dodge Dakota is dead and buried. I don't even know where it's being stored right now. At this point I'm just waiting on the "defendant's" insurance company to tell me how much money they're going to give me for my truck since they declared it "totaled". In the meantime, I think I found my next vehicle, who's picture you can see above. For some reason, this stupid blog won't let me show the full picture, but if you click on the car, it will take you to a full size picture of it.

For those of you that don't know me well, when I purchase a vehicle, my plan is to run it into the ground until it completely dies (or is destroyed by an inattentive, inconsiderate driver like my Dakota was). Therefore, when looking for a vehicle, I try to find one that fits my personality because I consider it a VERY permanent purchase. After much prayer I just didn't know what I would find, but God really came through this time and I think that 2004 Pontiac Vibe GT is going to be my new 2nd home for a LONG time!

I've even named it and when I get it I'm going to apply for a personalized tag for it: "MACVIBE". I think that says it all! Well, that and a Scotland flag ought to do it! :)

Today is my 2 Year Anniversary of Being Called To Sunnyside, 2 Weeks Into Low Carb Update, and Massive Truck Wreck

Well, you're probably wondering about those pictures up there, but I'll get to that in a minute...first things first.

First of all: Today is my 2 year anniversary of being called to Sunnyside! Thank you Jesus!

I began this phase of Low Carb 2 weeks ago today at 215 pounds. Today I am 204 pounds! 11 pounds gone in 2 weeks! That's pretty exciting for me.

As for the pictures, Emmi and I were absolutely CREAMED by a driver that wasn't paying attention yesterday around 5:30pm. We were on 36 going from Kingsport to Gray and we were completely stopped behind 2 other cars while waiting on the car in front to turn left. THANKFULLY I left about 11 feet between me and the vehicle in front of us. I had been stopped about 15 seconds and I looked up and here came a 2001 Nissan Frontier barreling down on us at full speed (around 40-50 miles an hour), and she didn't even slow down a bit and just RAMMED us HARD! Emmi of course was scared out of her mind and crying, but we are both fine.

You can see some of what it did to my truck, but the woman that hit us broke her hand, was cut up, and burned a little bit. Her truck was totaled. I didn't have my camera at the accident site, so I didn't get a picture, but trust me, that truck is gone to pickup heaven, a sacrificial lamb for a driver who was in too big of a hurry to pay attention to her surroundings.

Why did God do this? Well, I'm not totally sure, but I got to witness to the lady and everyone around her! It was great, and I'm grateful God offered me the opportunity to share my faith when otherwise I'd have just kept driving down the road to get home.

Well, time to go. Wednesdays are busy, busy, busy. For more pictures you can see my Facebook page (for those of you that are on my friends list).

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Weekly Weight Loss Update:

9-9-09: 215

9-16-09: 208

9-23-09: 204

2 Week Low Carb Update

2 Week Low Carb Update coming Wednesday.

Stay tuned.

In the meantime, check out my boy Jimmy Moore's blog, and be sure to check out his new book too:

http://livinlavidalowcarb.com/blog/

Diet Update

Okay, so I've been doing Low Carb again for 7 days. My weight last Wednesday morning was 215. My weight this morning was 208, so 7 pounds gone this week. I know, it's water weight. What else is new? At least it's gone. The real test/results will be a month from now.