Ready, Set, Spark!
This is it! My year to succeed and to finally meet my fitness and weight loss goals. I am tired of saying I am going to lose weight and get healthy. This is the year I do it and I am determined.

March 30/2013... Down Fifty pounds!

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Some of ...

Ready, Set, Spark!
This is it! My year to succeed and to finally meet my fitness and weight loss goals. I am tired of saying I am going to lose weight and get healthy. This is the year I do it and I am determined.

March 30/2013... Down Fifty pounds!

Do you Tweet? Follow me @AndyinBC
I will follow you back if you let me know you are on Sparkpeople.

If you're on Fitbit add me there...
http://www.fitbit.com/user/24HNPG

Some of my Favourite Quotes, listed below...

Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire. St. Catherine of Siena

Nothing great is ever achieved without much enduring.
St. Catherine of Siena

Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change. But pretty soon, everything's different. Bill Watterson (Calvin and Hobbes)

If you want something you’ve never had, you must be willing to do something you’ve never done. Thomas Jefferson

You can't leave footprints in the sands of time if you're sitting on your butt. Who wants to leave buttprints in the sands of time? B. Moawad

Failures do what is tension relieving, while winners do what is goal achieving.
Dennis Waitley

Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.-Nido Qubein

Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional. -Roger Crawford

Striving for perfection is the greatest stopper there is.… It’s your excuse to yourself for not doing anything. Instead, strive for excellence, doing your best. – Sir Laurence Olivier

It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end. Ursula K. Le Guin

It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
Sir Edmund Hillary

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
John Burroughs

Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being, while movement and methodical physical exercise save it and preserve it. Plato

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed in the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. --Mark Twain

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might... Ecclesiastes 9:10

Nothing Without Effort ... nil sine labore (Old Latin adage)

Success is a year-round choice. You must decide what you want, why you want it, and how you plan to achieve it. No one else can, will, or should do that for you. (SP Article)

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. Confucius

There's no use talking about the problem unless you talk about the solution. Betty Williams

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance. Samuel Johnson

Act the way you’d like to be and soon you’ll be the way you act.
George W. Crane

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
Vincent van Gogh

A man who wants to do something will find a way; a man who doesn't will find an excuse. Stephen Dooley, Jr.

Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
Chinese Proverb

Fall seven times, get up eight. Japanese Proverb

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will. Vince Lombardi

Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Willing is not enough; we must do. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore,
is not an act but a habit. Aristotle

It is not enough to take steps which may some day lead to a goal; each step must be itself a goal and a step likewise. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out. Robert Collier

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments.
Jim Rohn

You will never plough a field if you only turn it over in your mind. Irish Proverb

The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before.
Steve Young

Throw back the shoulders, let the heart sing, let the eyes flash, let the mind be lifted up, look upward and say to yourself... Nothing is impossible! Norman Vincent Peale

All men dream but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes to make it possible. T.E. Lawrence

The way to gain a good reputation, is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear. - Socrates

The fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.
Robert Cushing

For my daughters...
Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness,heart, talent, guts. That's what little girls are made of; the heck with sugar and spice.
Bethany Hamilton (greatest female surfer of our time)

When eating a fruit, think of the person who planted the tree. Vietnamese saying

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times. Bruce Lee

The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. Vince Lombardi

You can't get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good. Jerry West

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice. Wayne Dyer

Invictus by William Ernest Henley (1849–1903)

Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.

The Story of Everest

Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back. Always ineffectiveness.

Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation) there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too.

All sorts of things occur that would never otherwise have occurred.

A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in ones favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance which no man could have dreamt would come his way.

I have learned a deep respect for one of Goethe’s couplets—“Whatever you can do or dream, begin it. Boldness has genius power and magic in it.”

--W.H. Murray,

"No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind
action leads to another. Good example is followed.
A single act of kindness throws out roots in all
directions, and the roots spring up and make new
trees. The greatest work that kindness does to
others is that it makes them kind themselves."
Amelia Earhart

New Starting Weight June 23/2012: 268

March 1, 2013 ... 240
March 8, 2013 ...

July 17th, 2012 ... The day I poured out my last bottle of Coke and haven't touched the stuff since then!

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