It’s weird because I was pretty bad this week with eating. I went on our church’s Men’s Retreat and ate a bunch of bad food. I probably exercised more than usual though.

By the way, my favorite “diet” food is Hebrew National 97% Fat-Free hot dogs. They are only one weight-watcher point each. Wonder Light hot dog buns are one point each too. So you can have two hot dogs for four points. Four points is the same as a small bowl of Frosted Mini-Wheats with milk. It’s the same as four apples. A six-inch Subway sandwich with only turkey (no crazy Chicken Parmesan sandwiches) is five points.

That is up 0.2 pounds from last week.

Not bad. I was pretty bad this week so I’m satisfied with this result, but I need to get back on track to lose a bit more before the Hawaii trip. I have decided to not be on a diet at all while in Hawaii.

Weight Tracking Summary
Your current weight : 171.6 lb
Weight change since your last recorded weight | -3 lb
Total weight change to date | -16.4 lb

WELL DONE! You’ve recorded a loss this week. That’s great news!

However, we notice that you’ve lost more than an average of 2 pounds per week over three or more weeks. This rate is too rapid — it may be unsafe or unhealthy.

While we’re proud of your achievements and pleased you’re making changes in your life, we need you to concentrate on one more thing: You should slow the pace of your weight loss to no more than 2 pounds per week.

So I lost 3 pounds and I wasn’t even good this week. It’s so weird. Maybe the good week doesn’t take effect for a while. Also, maybe Marie Doan’s delicious food is also magical and makes you lose weight instead of gain weight. I love it!!

It says that I have to slow the pace of my weight loss. Hilarious! Awesome! Join me on the weight loss journey to health with Weight Watchers Online.

Then we had dinner at Matt and Marie Doan’s house and Tim and Natalie Nellis came too. Matt is the High School Pastor at Calvary and Tim used to be an Associate in High School Ministry and is now the youth pastor at Rancho Bernardo Baptist Church. Marie is the serious Barefoot Contessa. Awesome food. The weigh-in will probably be problematic tomorrow. The creamed corn and the flourless chocolate cake with a raspberry sauce and chocolate chip ice cream were my favorites. The Spinach-Artichoke dip was delicious too. Everything looked beautiful. Such great hosts!!

Tim and Natalie took high school students to Kenya with the same organization we are going with last summer. They also just got back from a two week trip to Kenya about a week ago. They were contemplating becoming full-time missionaries there, but have decided that this is not the right time for that in their lives. They were able to tell us all about the places we would go and even had a cool video and some pictures. It made me start to get really excited about the trip, but it’s also making Bea get kinda nervous. I feel bad about it, but I’m committed to taking all these people and I really feel like God wants me to do this, so what can I do? If you are in SoCal in the middle of August and you know my wife, then help keep an eye on her and our two kids!!

174.6 pounds

That’s a weight gain of 1.8 pounds in one day. Frightening. Time to get back to work.

I decided long ago that the diet won’t exist for the Super Bowl Party I’m going to today. So we shall see what I weigh tomorrow morning after a day of gluttony.

Take that doubters!!

This week I weighed in at 176.4.

So I actually gained 0.6 pounds which is completely aggravating since I have lived this crappy diet all week. The Pirate Dinner was a bit of a setback because I kinda gorged myself that day. So I gotta be more disciplined.

So I lost 3.2 pounds this week and 12.2 total. Not bad!!

I’m working to keep up the discipline. Join me with Weight Watchers Online. It’s always better when you have accountability.

Discipline in eating is a huge part of living simply. You can’t just gorge yourself every time you eat and expect to have a disciplined life or a simple life. The simple life requires discipline. This is really hard for me because I LOVE LOVE LOVE food. I still will enjoy an awesome meal with big portions once a week or so, but just not every day or even every meal.