GCF: Happy Founder's Day!

Hi!

Ok, I have a good(ish) excuse for being late this time.  I am going to go ahead and blame the "Southern Snowpocalypse" for my delayed post.  As I was in "survival mode", not only did I not post on Monday, but I also consumed some cheese (gasp!!).  I didn't feel like cooking, and my Greek food had cheese on it.  In retrospect, I could have asked for them not to put the cheese on there, but it was a good "tester" for my stomach.  Today, I pretty much confirmed my stomach's all out hatred of dairy substances by rejecting the Greek salad I had that was topped with some feta cheese.  Oh well, now that "snow day rules" no longer apply, I guess that that's the last bit of cheese I'm gonna eat for quite some time.  (And I won't lie, I didn't even really miss it...which surprised me.)

Anyway, some of you may be wondering why I said "Happy Founder's Day!" instead of anything related to Valentine's day.  Well, since I'm not celebrating Super Chocolate Sales Day Eve ;) this year, I decided to wish my brothers a Happy Founder's Day instead.  My fraternity was founded on Feb 14th almost 100 years ago!  I love (and miss!) my brotherhood.

Welp, let's check some goals!

1. Improve my relationship and walk with God
• Still not much improvement here, honestly.  I've been slacking. :(
• I've been struggling with "jumping God's gun", so to speak, lately in a certain area of my life.  Tempted to take matters into my own hands, ya know?  Well, this verse sort of encouraged me to continue to be patient.
• "No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man.  God is faithful, and He will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation He will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it."  -- 1 Corinthians 10:13, ESV
• I'm on day 163 of my reading plan, aka still behind.
2. Lose 50-100 lbs healthily
• So, I'm definitely loving my new scale.  Granted, there is still a ~4 lb difference between my new and old scales, I like the "upgrade" of having this new scale.  Overall, from the initial weigh-in from the first weight loss competition we entered, I've lost ~10 lbs!  (Yay!)  While I was hoping to lose more than that by now, 10 lbs ain't too shabby.  As the competition also measure body fat, I'm hoping that I've lost some fat and/or turned that fat weight into muscles.  
• I was keeping up with the workouts until Snowmaggedon put a grinding halt on going to the gym.  But I don't plan to let this slight setback hold me down.  Come Monday, I plan to get right back into the swing of things.
• Weight Loss Tip of the Week:  Check out FitSugar!  They have some awesome workout tips and routines to work just about anything that you're trying to exercise.  I really like a lot of their routines and have incorporated several of the moves I've seen into my weekly workouts.
• Water intake is still doing pretty well, though I did get a bit dehydrated during the snow party.  (Mostly because it threw off my routine and I didn't have my massive water jug everywhere I went.)

Have a good weekend! :)

K