Jim1967

"Don't confuse your path with your destination. Just because it's stormy now, doesn't mean you aren't headed for sunshine."

"Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory."

"I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed." -Michael Jordan. We all make mistakes. Its not getting back on track and moving forward that is the bigger mistake. Move forward and start anew.

"If you do what you've always done, then you'll get what you've always got" - Chris Powell

"If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else." ~Lawrence J. Peter

"Lap-band surgery without professional support is a robbery"

"Oh yes, the past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it, or learn from it."

"The choices we make dictate the lives we lead. To thine ownself be true."

"The only real failure in life is the failure to try." ~author unknown posted on Chris Powell's Facebook page and liked it so much I had to steal it.

"You want me to do something... tell me I can't do it."

"You will never change your life until you change something you do daily". - John Maxwell

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” ― Martin Luther King Jr.

“You become what you think about all day long.” My goal has become an obesession which is bordeline unhealthy

“Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.” –Jim Rohn

1 week until 5K walk for Breast Cancer Awareness....

11 more inches of snow today..Just finished clean up and I got good work out

2 mile walk yesterday. Little sore today but not bad. I am confident I will be ready for the 5K in Sept.

200lb loss mark is still toying with me after about two weeks now. Two lousy pounds is all I want then the rest is gravy.

200lbs officially gone!! 68 more to goal...

252 this morning. 2 pounds away from my goal that I set last Christmas to be reached by this Christmas...

26 days away from the trip I set as a reward for hitting goal. 3 years - 323lbs = 7 days at Disney and Universal

260lbs gone....8lbs to a goal I set in 2011. I am pondering changing my goal.

3 month bandiversary today...58lbs gone

3 year band anniversary today...

3rd fill tomorrow morning...hoping this is the one. I feel I am close...