The Sackrider Family Blog

Its time.  Tomorrow morning I get on a plane for NC.  Tomorrow night, I’ll be at an East Gaston High School Football game with several of my high school alumni.  I’m excited to go, and I look forward to seeing everyone, but the trip is bitter sweet.  I haven’t been away from my wife for nine days since before we were married.  The thought of not seeing her for nine days makes me question why I was willing to go on this trip without her.

I want to show off my wife and my son at the reunion.  I want them by my side at Michelle’s wedding.  I’m going to miss them a lot while I’m gone.  Don’t get me wrong, I’ve been way from Stephanie before – some travel with my last job, or men’s only events at my church.  But never for nine whole days.  I’m going to miss her a lot — I know we will be able to talk on the phone every night, but its not the same when you cannot cuddle up next to your wife to talk about your day, and listen about hers…

Pray for me

If you haven’t had a chance to check Zander out lately, here are his 2 year old pictures (we just got around to getting them – he is actually 2 1/2)

Zander’s Latest Pictures!

I’ve updated the weekly update section.  I hate to know that I’m three weeks behind.  I gained several pounds during those three weeks, but when I weighted yesterday, I was only half a pound up from the last time I officially weighted in.  It is time to stop looking back and start looking forward.  I have three weeks before my reunion.  If I maintain my two pound a week weight loss goal, I will be 284 lbs.  That’s not the 274 lbs. I had hoped for but its better than the 330 lbs I was at my heaviest.  I haven’t been riding my bike much lately, but I really feel that my biggest reason for not losing weight is my diet.  I keep making goals to write down everything that I eat, but I have continued to fall short here.  I haven’t done a bod pod test in a while either.  The main reason I suppose is that I haven’t been looking forward to the results.  I will get one next week.  I must not stop looking at my weight goals, my diet goals, my exercise goals because I missed the mark – if I do, then I will stop trying to hit the mark.  I will push forward, I will continue to push myself, I will lose weight…