Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Shrink For Good Week 1

This past weekend I joined the Shrink for Good challenge over at The Sisterhood of the Shrinking Jean's site. The idea is to donate a pound of food for every pound you lose between now and October 17th, to your local food bank. I think this is such a fun and worthwhile activity to do to support my community.

Last year when I was still attending Weight Watcher's they had a similar campaign that I participated in. At that time I decided to donate enough food to equal the amount of total weight I had lost thus far instead of just the weight I had lost during the campaign's six week run. It felt GREAT donating almost fifty pounds of food! I went to Sam's Club and bought cases of canned goods and then carried them into my Weight Watcher's meeting. People just looked at me as I kept going back out to my car to get more food. I loved that day!

Anyway, Shrink for Good wants us all to weigh in on Wednesdays, which is today. So, this morning before work I hopped on the scale. I didn't really know what to expect since I was really in middle of my week, and I had just weighed on Saturday. I was pleasantly surprised to see a 1.6 pound loss! That equals 25.6 ounces of food.

I went into my food pantry and picked out a can of refried beans and a box of corn muffin mix to put in my basket for the food bank. The can of beans was 16 ounces and the corn mix is 8.5 ounces for a total of 24.5 ounces of food. I will make up the 1.1 ounce difference next week.

I can't wait to see this basket fill up with food. Not only will it be a reminder of the small contribution I am making to those less fortunate than me, but it will also represent all of the weight that is coming off of my body.

4 comments:

  1. Now that is an awesome challenge!! Good for you.

    Girl, I was just checking out your side bar photos. Holy smokes! You look like a different person now than you did in your before pic.

    One question for you - the Dec 2004 photo....was that a consistant weight for you then? I only ask because my weight only ever went up. I never held it at specific range for a period of time. I am curious how others are picking goal weights.

    But let me leave you with these words: You are looking REAL good!!

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  2. that is such an awesome challenge and I love the visual as well.

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  3. What a great challenge! Congrats on the loss! I expect your basket will be overflowing when you are done!

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  4. I love the idea of donating food for each pound you lose! What a fabulous feeling it must have been for you when you donated all the canned goods for your total weight loss at WW.

    Congrats on losing the 1.6-pounds today! That’s a great start to your challenge. :-)

    --Susan

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