So long but not goodbye

My diet buddy and friend Mary left the paper this week. It was sad to see her walk out the door but I know that she is going out there to start another chapter in her life.

This spring we were talking and she was lamenting that her weight was higher than she would like. I was in the same boat. Last year was a bad year in my weight loss journey. I had major surgery, got hit by a car while riding my bike and later blew my ankle out. In my basement are the three braces that I wore last year while I healed from all the traumas. In short, I put on 20 pounds because I wasn’t able to workout. And not to mention the chocolate I ate to make everything seem a bit better.

So when I heard Mary talking about her weight problems it made me throw down a challenge for both of us to get back on track and make the scale start moving in the right direction.

In an earlier blog, I told you about our bet. I found a scale at work in the mailroom, we used it once a week and who ever won for the week got the two dollar bet to put on their desk. We passed it back and forth to each other since May 15^th. The bet was supposed to end October 1 but we decided to keep going so that we could reach our goals of 140 pounds.

The truth is that the plague was on her desk 17 weeks and on mine for 11 times. She lost 35.5 pounds and I lost 28.5. She kicked my butt as it were but we are both winners. We are planning to keep up the challenge and work toward our goals in the New Year.

The best part about our challenge is that it brought us closer as friends and we both had someone to lean on and confess our sins to. That’s what friends are for and our backsides are smaller because of our challenge.

Find a diet buddy and start your own friendly wager in the New Year. It will help keep you on track.