Hit Goal!

Archive for March, 2007

8 Mar 2007, admin

Okay WOW… I really thought I was at least another week from hitting my Weight Watchers goal but it happened at my weigh-in this morning!!! =) Since all the people that read this are either friends or family members I wanted to post a few before/after pictures and give my stats (yes the after photos are ones I posted just last week but I think it’s good to see the comparison so I’m re-posting them). I’m so proud of myself for deciding to do this and completely following through.. there have been lots of little bumps in the road as the graph shows but this is the best thing I’ve ever done for myself – and I’ve never felt better.

High weight: 169lbs (BMI: 33)
Goal weight: 112lbs
Current weight: 110.5lbs (BMI: 21.6)

size 14 to a size 4

I joined Weight Watchers on June 7, 2006 and nine months later on March 8, 2007 I hit my goal. =)

The gaps in the chart are weeks I didn’t weigh in… the big gap was when I moved and didn’t go to a meeting for roughly 5 weeks. You can also see there were a couple of weeks in the past 9 months where I had gains.

Is Ignorance Bliss?

7 Mar 2007, Esther

I’m all over the map on this one.

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Iraq – a Kurdish perspective

2 Mar 2007, Esther

My friend Muhammad (an Iraqi Kurd) was gracious enough to let me ask him questions about the situation in Iraq for YT. I tried to edit it down to a reasonable length even though he had lots of interesting things to say.
The audio improves as the vid goes along I believe. =)

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Nottingham

1 Mar 2007, admin

I met up with Bethany & Lisa who were visiting the UK. It was great getting to catch up and hang out… (Bethany & I know each other from Jordan) and we’ve been lucky enough to run into each other just about every six months since then. We met up & stayed in the attic of a cute hostel when not wandering around Robin Hood’s city.

Lisa & Bethany at breakfast

Lunch at the oldest pub in England (circa 1189AD – Crusaders ate there)