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Happy Father's Day for all the dads out there. We were listening to the radio on our way home from church this morning, and the announcer said "Call your dad for Father's Day!"  I said, "I can't I don't know where he is!"  Will said, "Mommy, he's right there!", pointing to James in the drivers seat.

I don't know where my dad is because he and my mom are wandering the country on a cross-country trip. My brother is working out at Yellowstone for the summer. They went out to AZ to see my dad's family, then worked their way up to visit my brother.  They are getting to see all the cool national parks out west.  At some point, they are going to work their way back via a "Northern route".  I do know I can get in touch with them via e-mail, so at some point my dad will get our Father's Day wishes.

James is earning a "Father of the Year" Award for playing trains with Will right now, when he'd rather be playing on the computer & watching his race (he can still watch his race while playing, though).  What a great dad! Our boys are blessed! For Father's Day, he's getting his office decorated (everything is framed, we're going to go hang them later this afternoon). (When they moved to the new office building, James got to move from a cube to an actual office. The walls look very bare, and I'm excited to see how it will look with things on the wall. If you come visit I'll be happy to show you, the office is just down the street, so it won't take long.)  He is also getting a Dishes Free Day.  That is really the greatest gift I can give him, since I HATE doing dishes and LOVE him deeply for doing them each day. And yesterday he got to go paint balling with people from work, and I made sure he got a nap without the kids bothering him. I think the only way I could make it better would be to let him go play golf, but it's raining today, so that is out.  Happy Father's Day, James!

Week two is complete.  I have worked out 12 of the last 14 days.  That is 6 days of intense weight training and 6 days of intense aerobic exercise.  While I still don't want to get up at 6 am to work out, I know that it is the only time that I am able to do it.  If I wait and say I will do it later it won't get done.

A few people at work have been impressed with my self control.  They had free Pizza at work for lunch on Friday and I choose to go home instead.  Who in their right mind gives up FREE PIZZA?  Well, me.  I am determined to say good bye to the 'grover belly.'  The caveat to the pizza story was I ended up going to Macaroni Grill with my department on the house and got a meal consistent with my 12 week plan.  So, I gave up free pizza for free real food.

Of course yesterday on the way home from playing paintball my ride stopped at DQ and I ended up cheating for lunch.  Not bad, only one cheat in 2 weeks.  And I didn't have a choice.

My stats:

No picture this week.  No visible change.

* Weeks are listed as the end of the week. (i.e. 1 is the end of week one)

Analysis:
Initial major change was the first week.  5lbs is alot to lose in one week.  My belief is that since we increased our water in take each day my body was able to shed water weight that it didn't need anymore.  Your body stores water reserves, like fat reserves, for those "drought" times.  If you are drinking enough it won't need to store the reserves.
This second week I had already shed the water weight.  I did lose some more fat as you can see by the body fat %.  The two numbers I am focusing on are Waist and Body Fat %.  If those both are signifigantly reduced and I am still 180 lbs I don't think I will care too much.  :-) 

For more information on the challenge you can go to www.bodyforlife.com