UPDATE ON WEEKS 6-9:

Sorry I've been so out of touch! The quick summary:

Exercise - GREAT! I have had only two weeks in which I didn't meet my goal (only getting to exercise 3 times), but otherwise have been sticking to my routine 4-6 times a week. Go, me!

Weight loss - not so great. Not sure what happened, but it's been a whole lot of nothing! Good news, though: because ATC has extended the Campaign window into the summer, I am planning to continue with my goal of exercising 4x/week, and I am renewing my commitment to concentrate on the weight loss component of my campaign. However, I am no longer setting a pound goal - I just want to be heading down rather than up!

What does this mean for you? I am still $290 short of my goal. If you've been waiting till the last minute to show your support financially, now's your chance. I will continue with my campaign at least until I have raised $1500.

Once again, thanks to all my supporters out there. Keep it coming!

WEEK 5 UPDATE:

It's way too late at night, so here's the quick news: exercised 4 times, lost 1 pound. Good week! More when I'm not half asleep.

As always, thanks to my supporters. Keep it coming!

WEEK 4 UPDATE:

So I obviously got a little too cocky in my last update since I only managed to eke out 3 workouts last week. <hanging head in shame> I would love to offer a list of excuses - sick kids, sick me, writing student progress reports - but it all boils down to the same thing: I didn't prioritize exercise, so it fell by the wayside. Bottom line: Rob, ATC gets an extra $25 from me at the end of the campaign. That's not going to be the end result this week though!

I am throwing away my scale; it's not telling me what I want to hear. I am considering re-evaluating my 15 pound goal; I don't see how I can possibly lose 14 pounds (yep, you read that right) in the next 6 weeks - not unless I go on "The Biggest Loser" anyway. However, I don't want to low-ball it either because where's the challenge in that? So, starting this week, my new goal is to lose 7.5 pounds by the end of the campaign - that's 1.25 pounds per week for the next 6 weeks. Not impressed? If you make a BIG donation to my campaign, I'll up my goal again.

Thank you SO much to all of the friends and family members who have supported me monetarily. I'm sorry I'm not holding up my end of the bargain as well as I should be. New month, new leaf.

Check in next week, same Bat time, same Bat channel. :)

WEEK 3 UPDATE:

I am totally rocking my goal of exercising 4 times per week! I don't know how I'm going to keep this up for the rest of my life, but I can definitely do the next 7 weeks. :)

Losing 15 pounds? What was I thinking??? I am all over the place with the scale - down the first week, up the second week, still up the third week, but still down from the start. (Did you follow that?) I know I can do the exercise part of this, so I really need to focus on the eating/weight part. So that's my goal this week.

How can you help? More sponsors = more motivation and more people to whom I have to be responsible! If you can sponsor me for any amount, that will be a huge help; if you can sponsor me for a LOT, that will be even huger (and make me even smaller)! By the way, my sponsors have donated an average of $44. With $440 left to reach my monetary goal, I only need 10 more sponsors to get there!

Thank you, thank you, thank you to the 24 of you who have already sponsored me. It means so much to me that you are standing behind me and encouraging me to achieve my goals. And to know that At The Crossroads and homeless youth benefit, well, that's just gold.

See you here next week.

Week 2 update:

Sorry I've been incommunicado -- for some reason, I haven't been able to get on to atthecrossroads.org, but Dave figured out a work-around for me, so here I finally am!

Week 2 ROCKED in terms of exercise, but the eating wasn't quite as controlled as it might have been -- read: I ate way too much! I blame it on the fact that my parents were visiting. Who wants to eat carefully when you have guests? Anyway, I am on-target for the first part my goal. This week I'll pay more attention to the second part.

Thanks, fabulous supporters of mine! If more of you make donations, it might be easier for me to stick to my goals. ;) http://atthecrossroads.org/campaign/lizwei

Week 2 stats:

Exercise: SIX times! Go, me!

Weight: I didn't get to go to my official Weight Watchers weigh-in, but my home scale tells me I'm up -- must be all the extra muscle from working out so many times last week!

Next moment of truth: Tuesday morning -- check in later that day!

Here we are at the beginning of the second week. I feel like I have started off really well, both in terms of my own efforts and in terms of the support of all of you. Thanks to the many of you who have already shown your support through the donations page. To the rest of you, there's still time! ;) Since I have already made it 3/4 of the way to my $$ goal, I have increased the goal to $1,500. Hope I make it!

Week 1 stats:

Exercise: 5 times

Weight: -3.8!

Off to a great start! Tune back in next Tuesday to see how things are going....

We're under way! 4 days into the campaign, I have already exercised 3 times! Haven't gotten on the scale yet -- trying not to do that every day....

Thank you so much for your support, everyone. It means so much to me to have your encouragement, and I know ATC greatly appreciates your support as well.

Stay tuned....