This week I will be going 'home' to Alabama to host and cook an appreciation dinner for friends and family...mostly members of my home church.
What is a home church? The church you feel you have embarked from and/or originally hailed from. I feel that most jobs and traveling have always been temporary relocation's, of which I will relocate again next year to Sierra Leone. Care to join me?
Hopefully I will leave behind an existing business 'launching' to be able and look back to see them survive and actually provide a small base of financial support for my mission/charity/humanitarian/volunteer work...call it what you will, nobody pays me for it. ( lest I forget, my wife is also part of this, I usually just speak for myself on this blog, force of habit). I work for Mercy Ships, in case you didn't know already...or are new to my blog.
Well lets see...back to the dinner, if you feel this would be something you are interested in (financially supporting my wife and I) this is fully covered at our website tyroneandstephanie.com. AND there is also a link at the bottom of the blog to donate and receive a tax receipt/credit for giving to a charity.
If you are going to be in the Huntsville, Alabama area please drop me an email telling me you would like to attend and I will be expecting your presence at the dinner!!! All the information and a map is supplied VIA the website.
Our catering company is currently developing specialty products for National online sales, as well as local cakes and baked items for the holiday seasons. That can be accessed thru ExclusivelyYoursCatering.com.
If you are coming to the dinner I'll see you this Sunday!!!
Wednesday, July 18, 2007
Sunday, July 1, 2007
Fat Boy ~ A moment of truth
I have never been skinny. Ok, maybe when I was seven or so...
During middle school, high school, and my pre-college (running around) days I was basically a 'fat boy'. My weight came close to 280 in my young teens...my mother may not remember it that way, but I do! And if I could find those pics I would post them so you can see the difference. But right now I can't find them.
I am 6'2" and have successfully kept my weight between 200 and 220 for the last 10 years or so...but lately I have found that my clothes are becoming tighter and I feel less active. And I will not be buying new clothes just to fit in them!
If I don't do something to change for the long term I may find myself out of the 'big boy' stage and back in the 'Fat Boy' stage again...and that is unacceptable to me. Because I don't believe in dieting. Dieting meaning that 'commercial' plan of doing something to lose weight. No, everyone has a diet. Whether it be junk food, carnivorous, or vegetarian (just to name a few) everyone one, has one.
Possible reasons for this weight gain could be...less activity in my job. I still work hard, but till I get back on the ship I will be missing about 500 steps to run up and down a day. Not to mention your muscles always balancing out the sway and roll of being on a ship (and you can sweat to death in Africa or the Caribbean).
And there could be that period of time from 6 to 8 months where I neglected the gym all together because of too much going on: moving, starting a different job, getting married. I have been back in the gym for months now...but I gues I get frustrated because the weight loss doesn't seem to happen as fast as the weight gain.
Further contributions could be that now I work in a kitchen full-time and also work a second job catering. We are also working on some online products for sale. I think I realized that I probably sample/taste more calories then most people eat in three well balanced meals. How does that happen? You ask. Easy...spoonful of this, bite of that, few pinches and slurps everywhere else...then you get hungry and eat too!
I think I am on the right path to recovery but it sure is taking longer than I want! And during this time it is actually depressing and unmotivating when you can't seem to see results.
Plus, how many of you out there have vowed to change your diet but everyone and everything around you deters you from the lifestyle? You got to get tough, tell people NO! Tell grandma that you are already overweight and that YES, one more cookie will hurt! Because everyone will 'one more' you to death, literally.
All that being said I think I am going to implement more aggressive measures in my diet and exercise to find the balance I want. We'll see how it goes...donut anyone?
During middle school, high school, and my pre-college (running around) days I was basically a 'fat boy'. My weight came close to 280 in my young teens...my mother may not remember it that way, but I do! And if I could find those pics I would post them so you can see the difference. But right now I can't find them.
I am 6'2" and have successfully kept my weight between 200 and 220 for the last 10 years or so...but lately I have found that my clothes are becoming tighter and I feel less active. And I will not be buying new clothes just to fit in them!
If I don't do something to change for the long term I may find myself out of the 'big boy' stage and back in the 'Fat Boy' stage again...and that is unacceptable to me. Because I don't believe in dieting. Dieting meaning that 'commercial' plan of doing something to lose weight. No, everyone has a diet. Whether it be junk food, carnivorous, or vegetarian (just to name a few) everyone one, has one.
Possible reasons for this weight gain could be...less activity in my job. I still work hard, but till I get back on the ship I will be missing about 500 steps to run up and down a day. Not to mention your muscles always balancing out the sway and roll of being on a ship (and you can sweat to death in Africa or the Caribbean).
And there could be that period of time from 6 to 8 months where I neglected the gym all together because of too much going on: moving, starting a different job, getting married. I have been back in the gym for months now...but I gues I get frustrated because the weight loss doesn't seem to happen as fast as the weight gain.
Further contributions could be that now I work in a kitchen full-time and also work a second job catering. We are also working on some online products for sale. I think I realized that I probably sample/taste more calories then most people eat in three well balanced meals. How does that happen? You ask. Easy...spoonful of this, bite of that, few pinches and slurps everywhere else...then you get hungry and eat too!
I think I am on the right path to recovery but it sure is taking longer than I want! And during this time it is actually depressing and unmotivating when you can't seem to see results.
Plus, how many of you out there have vowed to change your diet but everyone and everything around you deters you from the lifestyle? You got to get tough, tell people NO! Tell grandma that you are already overweight and that YES, one more cookie will hurt! Because everyone will 'one more' you to death, literally.
All that being said I think I am going to implement more aggressive measures in my diet and exercise to find the balance I want. We'll see how it goes...donut anyone?
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