May

16

Lilac Season

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Wow, its been a while since I’ve posted anything here.

We are still involved with our “25 Weeks” adventure and Lori and I both have been posting things over there. I’ve lost 12.5 lbs and Lori is down seven. We’re both feeling better about the direction we’re going.

Anyway, its that time of year where our lilac bush blooms. It seems extra pretty this year:

lilac

My mom loved lilacs. When ours blooms, it always makes me think of her.

Mar

23

Wrong Way, Dude!

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Our group of 12 loser friends have just finished week #3 of our 25 week adventure. We’ve lost 70.3 lbs now in just thee weeks. I think that is really great.

Myself, I somehow managed to gain almost a pound this week. I’m supposed to be going down, not up! I’m not sure why I gained as I didn’t do anything different from what I had been doing up to this point. Last week, I lost more than I “should” have so maybe it was just a “light” day when I weighed which would account for what looked like a gain this week.

We’ve been concentrating on eating better and getting more exercise. Even if the scale does not show progress, we have to be improving our health. I feel better about the example that we’re setting for Logan too. Hopefully, we can keep it up and it will be something that will set good habits for him as well.

Lori has been sweatn’ with Richard Simmons most every day when she gets home from work. She’s doing a great job of keeping that up.

I’ve been working on weights and the elliptical. I know I’m making progress. I’ve increased what I’m lifting by quite a bit, and have more than doubled how long I can keep going on the elliptical now. Thats gotta be helping my heart.

Maybe this week will produce more expected results.

Mar

9

Week #1 Results

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Our first of  “25 Weeks” is over.

As a family, we did pretty good this week in eating better and moving more. I worked out every day and I’m feeling good about that. I lost 1.4 lbs this week and Lori lost 1.6. Thats not a stellar amount, but thats better than we were last week! :)

When we reach the end of these 25 weeks, I will get a cholesterol test again to see where I’m at. The last test I had showed that my cholesterol was borderline high and my triglycerides were way high. Along with working out, I’ve been taking Omega 3 fish oil, and “Red Yeast Rice”. Those things combined have to be helping.

As a group, we lost 39.8 pounds in one week! I think that is awesome for a group of 12 people to lose that much in one week.

Off we go into week #2!

Feb

16

25 Weeks

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We’re making a commitment . . . a commitment to spend 25 weeks working on eating better and exercising more.

Starting March 1st, we are joining in with a group of friends in this “25 Weeks” project. It will be a fun process to see what we can do as individuals, and as a group.

I’ve created a website for the project here at http://losewith.us

We have room for a couple more people if this sounds like something you would really like to do with us.

After the initial 25 weeks, we will decide where to go from there. We can decide if we want to go another 25 at that point.

Hopefully, we will end up being losers.

Feb

13

A-PDF Text Extractor

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Do you ever have a need to extract text from a secured PDF file?

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The program is freeware, which means that you can use it either personally or commercially for free.

The program is a standalone application; no Adobe Acrobat needed.

If you want to grab images from PDF files, you may check out the A-PDF Image Extractor.

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