Good News!

Good morning friends! I pray that everyone has a good Sunday and good fellowship in the Lord's house!

My week has been a good one for the most part. I found out Wednesday that my insurance is going to pay for my surgery. Amazing! I didn't think they would but they approved it at THQ. Now I just have to wait to hear about the sick leave. My surgery is scheduled for November 1 and pre-op is October 31. Seems appropriate after this year of change and weirdness that Halloween be the last day in this costume!=-D Not sure what the new one will look like but it will be a bit different. My fear is that people are expecting too much change and will be disappointed in the outcome - especially those at the gym. I think the only really visible difference will be in my arms - I've been able to hide my stomach skin well so I don't think they'll see a difference there. We'll see. I will never be thin but this will help with mobility allot and I'll be able to do things better like sit-ups and crunches and jumping jacks and well everything.

I decided this week too that most of my goals this past year have dealt with weight and who I am is not what I weigh so I wanted to make some goals that were totally different from weight goals. My trainer helped me come up with a few to try and do before my surgery and then we will have to set new ones to get me back up to speed. For right now we have increased the treadmill speed on the Warrior Workout, we are working towards running at 8 degree incline and 8 mph. Friday I made it 7.5/7.5 - it was very scary for me! I think I'll get better at it though. I also want to be able to do at least one pull-up and one dip (holding your body weight with your arms and lowering yourself down and back up). I'm not so sure I will be able to do those - my arm strength is pretty weak.

My blood sugar has been doing some weird things this week as well - pray for me that I'll get it figured out. Friday evening when I got off work it was at 68 - pretty low for the end of the day and I'm pretty sure it was way low at the end of my workout Friday. I think I need to find a better balance of Carbs and Proteins - I had eaten allot of proteins Friday but not many carbs so that could have been the deal. I've been wanting to get down to 190 before my surgery so I've been playing with my diet a bit to try and get there. I've got 45 days too try and get there - we'll see what happens.

I sorta get the morning off today since it is Men's Sunday and Major Watts is coming to do the service. It will be nice to sit and listen again. I still need to do a couple of things before the service so I better go get busy!

I love you all and will be praying for each of you today. Kari