Readers, I would like to inform you that I have graduated from the class of 300 (pounds) and now I'm under it and will never, never go back.
I have lost over 20pounds right now, let break it down.
I started after Thanksgiving I was doing the P90X program but that wasn't working that well for me, I would lose weight then gain it, I stayed around the same weight for weeks, I started the diet (there's 3 different diets in P90X, the one I'm on is called "Fat Shredder" I'm on the level 2 phrase and will stay on that one, I thought by starting that I would lose the weight faster along with the workouts from P90X, but the program itself wasn't working for "Me"
after I stop doing the P90X workouts and started doing the treadmill, the pounds started to drop, a week and a half ago I was 48 pounds away from 260 (Which, at 260 I can start on my papers.. that is if I have been making money, for mission).
Now I'm 37pounds away from 260, amazing isn't it?
In a week I lose a pound everyday, if I didn't lost one in a day, then the next day it'll be gone, so now in a week I lose 5-7pounds
When for weeks just doing P90X it wasn't moving, it stayed
I'm just so happy it's working now, life will get so much better.
My friends are amazing support, they all know I'll be able to lose the weight, and that help tons, same with my Mom, she's amazing, helping me out, telling me I'll be able to do it
Last week I tried on a pair of jeans, they were to tight, I couldn't even put them on all the way, today I tried them on and they fit, I was able to wear them and walk around, they are the tightest jeans I own, so I will not wear them yet, couple more weeks and they will fit like normal.
The shirt I'm wearing now, used to be tightish, now it's baggy.
The shirt I had during trek, the second shirt, I only wore it on the way home, it was to tight for trekking, I now use it as my church shirt and there's so much room!
I'm loving the changes, I was talking to a friend of mine, Spencer Steele and he sent me this video to watch
It'll be an amazing journey, and I would like to welcome you all to share this journey, send the link to my blog to you're friends and families, I now have 20 followers and that is just amazing by itself, how much can I get before I leave on my mission?
"The Lord gives us a spirit of hope and a feeling of comfort and confidence that we can overcome the obstacles we face. He has shown the way to gain strength during our struggles. With His assistance, we have the ability to succeed."
--L. Lionel Kendrick, "Strength During Struggles,", Ensign, Oct 2001, 24
I know the Lord is on my side, I have prayed to him, for help on this journey of losing the weight to be his servant, to be his hands for two years, and it doesn't even stop there
Here I come missionary of 2012
And here I come new body.
"I have not yet begun to fight!"- John Paul Jones
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Monday, March 19, 2012
Friday, November 4, 2011
I have not yet begun to fight!
At efy this year, there were many talk that really hit me and I still remember a lot of it today
There was many other great talks, but this one I enjoyed a lot
John Paul Jones, born in Scotland, came to America later on, searching for his new life
He was a great seaman and once the revolutionary war broke out, he joined the US Navy
Back then.. our Navy was weak, they acted as pirates and they sabotage the British ships
In September 1779, Jones served as captain of Bonhomme Richard an old converted merchant vessel, and commanded a "fleet" of three smaller warships in the waters off Scotland and northern England when he encountered a British convoy carrying naval stores to England from the Baltic Sea region. Acting as an escort to this convoy were two British warships. The largest of these warships, which Jones engaged, was Serapis, a 44-gun vessel - though at the time carrying fifty guns - with a crew of 284. A ship of that size and firepower occupied a place in the eighteenth-century Royal Navy equivalent to a cruiser in its twentieth-century counterpart. From the battle's onset, Bonhomme Richard was at a disadvantage fighting a ship with superior firepower and maneuverability
He sailed to the Serapis, firing any firepower they had on their ship, which then got destroy from the 44-gun vessel.. Understanding immediately that it would be suicidal to continue to sail toward the vessel, he did so.
He got close enough allowing his crew to use grapples and lines to secure Bonhomme Richard to the 44-gun vessel.
John Paul's ship was so battered that it resembled more a raft than a fighting ship. In fact, the British gunners wreaked such devastation with their broadsides that their cannonballs would pass through Bonhomme Richard without hitting anything solid.
By this time half of his crew were dead or wounded. At this point in the battle, the senior warrant officer of Bonhomme Richard and the ship's carpenter, unable to see their captain or the first lieutenant and assuming both were dead, decided to surrender their sinking, burning ship. They called for a ceasefire and ran
Hearing their calls for surrender, an enraged Jones drew his pistols and ran at them, shouting, "shoot them, kill them!" Jones, finding his pistols unloaded, hurled his empty guns at the carpenter, the slower of the two fleeing men, striking him on the head and knocking him unconscious. The captain of the British warship, who heard the calls for surrender, yelled across to the Jones, taunting him. Jones then replied, "I have not yet begun to fight," - With that, the battle continued.
A Scottish seaman serving in Bonhomme Richard, began to throw the eighteenth-century equivalent of hand grenades onto the deck of the enemy. One of these "grenades" rolled down a partially opened hatch and landed near cartridges that had been stacked along the portside guns of the Serapis. Because of the position of the two ships, these guns were not in action and these spare cartridges were piled behind them. The grenade's explosion ignited these cartridges, which in turn ignited other cartridges on the gun deck creating a flash-fire, which had a devastatingly horrible effect in the cramped gun deck filled with men and officers. Twenty crewmen died instantly and another thirty were badly injured. Several of these men - their clothes burned off, their skin seared, and their hair on fire - jumped out of the ship's gun ports into the sea. With this disaster, the big guns of Serapis fell silent.
When news of the disaster was conveyed to the captain, Richard Pearson, he decided to surrender and save his remaining crew from slaughter. Calling for quarter, he personally made his way to the rear of the warship and hauled down the battle ensign. Thus ended the three-and-one-half-hour battle. Jones and his crew had prevailed and had captured the enemy's vessel, which was fortunate since the badly damaged Bonhomme Richard sank shortly after the battle. Against long odds and a formidable foe, they had achieved a remarkable victory.
The battle was over.
Brother McDonald shared stories from the book of Mormon too, he talked to us about when you feel like giving up, don't and to think of "I have not yet begun to fight!" he bore his testimony to us, efy was the first week of July, it's now the first week of November... I have not forgotten those words
I used them while I was on trek, been using it while I work out too, I have not yet begun to fight!
Endure to the end, stay strong in the Gospel and you won't regret it
There was many other great talks, but this one I enjoyed a lot
John Paul Jones, born in Scotland, came to America later on, searching for his new life
He was a great seaman and once the revolutionary war broke out, he joined the US Navy
Back then.. our Navy was weak, they acted as pirates and they sabotage the British ships
In September 1779, Jones served as captain of Bonhomme Richard an old converted merchant vessel, and commanded a "fleet" of three smaller warships in the waters off Scotland and northern England when he encountered a British convoy carrying naval stores to England from the Baltic Sea region. Acting as an escort to this convoy were two British warships. The largest of these warships, which Jones engaged, was Serapis, a 44-gun vessel - though at the time carrying fifty guns - with a crew of 284. A ship of that size and firepower occupied a place in the eighteenth-century Royal Navy equivalent to a cruiser in its twentieth-century counterpart. From the battle's onset, Bonhomme Richard was at a disadvantage fighting a ship with superior firepower and maneuverability
He sailed to the Serapis, firing any firepower they had on their ship, which then got destroy from the 44-gun vessel.. Understanding immediately that it would be suicidal to continue to sail toward the vessel, he did so.
He got close enough allowing his crew to use grapples and lines to secure Bonhomme Richard to the 44-gun vessel.
John Paul's ship was so battered that it resembled more a raft than a fighting ship. In fact, the British gunners wreaked such devastation with their broadsides that their cannonballs would pass through Bonhomme Richard without hitting anything solid.
By this time half of his crew were dead or wounded. At this point in the battle, the senior warrant officer of Bonhomme Richard and the ship's carpenter, unable to see their captain or the first lieutenant and assuming both were dead, decided to surrender their sinking, burning ship. They called for a ceasefire and ran
Hearing their calls for surrender, an enraged Jones drew his pistols and ran at them, shouting, "shoot them, kill them!" Jones, finding his pistols unloaded, hurled his empty guns at the carpenter, the slower of the two fleeing men, striking him on the head and knocking him unconscious. The captain of the British warship, who heard the calls for surrender, yelled across to the Jones, taunting him. Jones then replied, "I have not yet begun to fight," - With that, the battle continued.
A Scottish seaman serving in Bonhomme Richard, began to throw the eighteenth-century equivalent of hand grenades onto the deck of the enemy. One of these "grenades" rolled down a partially opened hatch and landed near cartridges that had been stacked along the portside guns of the Serapis. Because of the position of the two ships, these guns were not in action and these spare cartridges were piled behind them. The grenade's explosion ignited these cartridges, which in turn ignited other cartridges on the gun deck creating a flash-fire, which had a devastatingly horrible effect in the cramped gun deck filled with men and officers. Twenty crewmen died instantly and another thirty were badly injured. Several of these men - their clothes burned off, their skin seared, and their hair on fire - jumped out of the ship's gun ports into the sea. With this disaster, the big guns of Serapis fell silent.
When news of the disaster was conveyed to the captain, Richard Pearson, he decided to surrender and save his remaining crew from slaughter. Calling for quarter, he personally made his way to the rear of the warship and hauled down the battle ensign. Thus ended the three-and-one-half-hour battle. Jones and his crew had prevailed and had captured the enemy's vessel, which was fortunate since the badly damaged Bonhomme Richard sank shortly after the battle. Against long odds and a formidable foe, they had achieved a remarkable victory.
The battle was over.
Brother McDonald shared stories from the book of Mormon too, he talked to us about when you feel like giving up, don't and to think of "I have not yet begun to fight!" he bore his testimony to us, efy was the first week of July, it's now the first week of November... I have not forgotten those words
I used them while I was on trek, been using it while I work out too, I have not yet begun to fight!
Endure to the end, stay strong in the Gospel and you won't regret it
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