Goal Update

I blogged back at the beginning of the year that I had probably more than enough goals for the year.  I  have decided that as much as I love writing and the passion that I have for it, I wanted to put some of that fire in losing weight.  

I entered January of 2014 with a focus on losing 42 pounds in a year.  I really felt like that was a manageable number to obtain in a years time.  I think it averages out to somewhere close to three pounds a month.  I knew that the bulk of it needed to be lost in the first six months because when football season rolls around, my schedule and routine take a hit and I may not be able to focus on weight loss when the football team and myself will be focusing on winning a state title!!

I have been going since January 4 of this year.  As of my last weigh in yesterday March 15, I have lost a grand total of 27.2 pounds.  I am really kind of speechless.  I wanted to write a big long blog on how things are going and the struggles and the successes.

I just don't know exactly what to say.  I am a lot farther ahead than I thought I was going to be when I started this journey.  It really is much easier that I ever had imagined.  Again, once you get sick and tired of being sick and tired, you put your mind to it that you are going to do it and you go for it.  Do I fall of from time to time? Yes!  Just last week I weighed in and gained a pound and a half.  That is what crazy weather does to a person.  Instead of being in your routine, you are at home with easy access to the snacks and you don't move around much.  Its okay to fall off.  You recover from it.  Every once in a while I will treat myself to some killer frozen yogurt with the PB topping and some crunch cereal thrown in and a brownie and some peanut butter cups, i said ALL IN on the frozen yogurt.  But its a once in a while thing.  My weakness when I started this trip was wings!  LOVE THEM!  All of them, everyone of them!  I could not slow down if their were 20 in an order I would do everything I could to put away each of them, plus the loaded cheese fries I got with it.  Things are much slower and civil now.  I still treat myself to wings when someone invites me to.  I get a small order and a small order of a fried potato product and enjoy.  I find that my stomach feels smaller, like I ate 3 pieces of pizza a couple of weeks ago and I felt terrible.  I use to do that with my eyes closed and without thinking twice about it.  

It is okay to splurge from time to time.  You don't want to play the system.  Some people like to do "activity" and get activity points, and then add that to their points for the day.  I just go for the allotted  points for the day.  I don't want to beat the system.  Beating the system is what got me to, to close to 400 pounds.  It was a scary sight and feeling.  

I remember back a few years ago I was watching the Biggest Loser sitting their watching it with a gallon of Moose Tracks Ice Cream eating it by the scoop fool.   That thought afterwards has stayed with me to this day.  Watching a Weight Loss show while Gaining weight in the process.  Think about that for a second.

Okay I feel like I have babbled enough today, so I will let you guys get back to better things like watching for the upcoming Ice Storms headed are way!

Peace, Love and Wrigley!  I love you guys, thanks for the hits...

  I love this pretty lady!  One of my all time favorite pictures of me and my beautiful wife!  Trenton, the sweatshirt has been spotted.

Time Flies....Just like Superdad

Well it has been awhile, and to be honest with you its been to long.  I love writing, I know I have said this countless times, but it is true.  I just got really busy really quick!  So what is going on in the great big world of Winston Salem and the Vogel House hold?

BABIES!!  Lots and lots of babies!  I know when you read that your first thought is Michael and Nissa have more than 2?  Well in a way we kind of do.  Nissa has a "Sisterhood" if i can use that as a term, that have all had babies around the same time as both of ours.  Finn's was more spread out from the other babies that came that same year, but Lil Ms. Eleanor?  Hers all came around the exact same time. One even came on the same day!

Visitors?  Well she was born in the great Blizzard of '14 so the visitors that we did get, came by foot.  Her Aunt Booka and Uncle Tooka braved the elements and walked to the hospital to see their new niece.  Not sure Eleanor realized what great lengths they came.  If she knew that her Aunt Booka freezes when its 78* outside, let alone blizzard like conditions.  She did venture out of the room on the second day to go visit her newest boyfriend, we will call him Mr. UNC!  Not that I am a UNC or Duke or NC State fan by any stretch of the imagination, but his daddy IS a die hard fan!  UNC born and bread.

It really was quite comical.  Nissa allowed me to leave the hospital as the snow storm started (now before you going and getting upset with me about leaving my beautiful bride at the hospital with our second born by herself, we live a whopping 1 mile from the hospital, and plus her best friend was literally right down the hall) again we live roughly a mile from the hospital.  It took me close to 40 minutes to get home with all of the people leaving work to get home.   I got home and got a nice HOT shower and clean clothes.  On my way back was the crazier scene.  I left and took some roads less traveled because I know how to drive in snow unlike anybody in the south.  There were cars stranded on the ramp ways and as I approached the stoplight by the mall/hospital there were people deserting their cars and heading for higher/dryer ground.

Superdad?  Well I feel like it anyway.  Not that I am superhuman by any stretch and I don't do super things but Finn just makes me feel that way.  He yells out for me when I am getting home for work, or he will go in the bathroom and clime in the window to waive at me and blow kisses at me as I leave for work.  We have our own unique sign language just the two of us that we are helping mommy with so she understands, it took her forever to figure out what GUP was?  Ummm Hello Garbage Trucks!

I don't feel like a Super Dad so mad as Super Blessed.  I have been blessed with an amazing wife, an amazing son and daughter.  My family in Indiana is pretty special and amazing themselves.  I miss them and wish they had the ability to see my kids more.  I keep telling them that they won't get all of that nasty weather in North Carolina like the 100 plus inches Indiana has been hit with this year.  Somebody will take me up on it sooner than later I am hoping.  Thank you guys again for taking the time and reading my work and blogs. I enjoy it.