* You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
* You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
* You cannot help little men by tearing down big men.
* You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.
* You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.
* You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money.
* You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.
* You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.
* You cannot build character and courage by destroying men's initiative and independence.
* And you cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves.

-- William J.H. Boetcker

HMR Update

I weighed in again today and I'm down another 3.9lbs. This brings me to a total of 72.4lbs since January 9th and a new weight of 265.6lbs.

Trivia

Dr. Suess' editor Bennett Cerf challenged him to write a book that could use no more then 50 words or less. Suess took that challenge and wrote the book; "Green Eggs and Ham" Which uses exactly 50 words: a, am, and, anywhere, are, be, boat, box, car, could, dark, do, eat, eggs, fox, goat, good, green, ham, here, house, I, if, in, let, like, may, me, mouse, not, on, or, rain, Sam, say, see, so, thank, that, the, them, there, they, train, tree, try, will, with, would, you.

QOTD

"I’ve noticed that everybody that is for abortion has already been born." — Ronald Reagan

HMR Update

Weighed in today at 274.1 which puts me down 5.0lbs this week for a grand total of 63.9. It also put me a pound under my second goal of 275. The first goal was 300. The next goal would be 250, but with the wedding coming up in July I'm going into maintenance after another 3 weeks so that I can eat normal food. Should still be able to lose weight, just not as fast.

HMR Update

Today I weighed in at 279.1lbs which puts me at -3.8 lbs for the week and -58.9 lbs since January 9th. :-)

HMR Update

Well another week has gone by so that means it was weigh in day yesterday. I lost another 3.7lbs putting me at 288.4 which is just .4 shy of 50lbs total loss since January 9th. Starting in two weeks they'll move me from the "Core" class to the on going weight loss group so weigh ins will move to Wednesday nights.