Book Review: American Sniper

I am a pretty avid reader and I love to read just about anything. In all honesty, I don't tend to read biographies but I saw American Sniper and loved it so I thought I would rea the book. When I have read biographies in the past I usually struggle to read them and spend lots of time working to get into the story. This is not that kind of book. I had a hard time putting the book down, on Thursday night I had to restrain myself from reading more. 

The story of Chris Kyle is both moving and compelling. It is as if I was in the war theater watching him and hearing how he made choices. He writes of his life at home and on deployment. I found it particularly agonizing to read about his hopes for the future knowing that many of his dreams were stolen from him. Some of his story is accented by parts written by his wife, I loved reading about her memories and thoughts. I will admit that I have a new respect for military spouses, the strength they need to live while their hearts are away is amazing. 

I am not sure that I will read a million biography books but I highly recommend this one. The movie is similar to the book but the book had way more details. You should check out both the movie and the book. 

The month my scale died...

So I have been trying to lose weight for like forever, truthfully it is going relatively well. In the last year I have lost almost ten pound, maybe more maybe less. One of the things I try to do is not get on the scale all of the time so that I don't freak out over eating two cookies one day. So this month my scale batteries finally died, I am sure that I have some batteries around here but I though it might be interesting to leave the scale off.

So far I have been more dedicated to getting after the running and strength training that I want to do. I  haven't gotten discouraged this month. I am just excited to see what kind of results I manage this month, or if nothing else I am excited to have already hit my goals and the month isn't over yet. Yay.

I don't know that this will be a permanent change to the scale because if I don't get on the scale I tend to ignore all of the signs and believe things like: the dryer shrunk my pants, it is an optical illusion, it isn't fat it is just fluff. So at the end of the day I have to hit the scale at least once or twice a month. But all in all not getting on the scale has been good for me so far.

I just hope that at the end of this month the scale will be showing a smaller number. But at least I got out there and run and made a point to do many more sit-ups and pushups than usually happen in a month. It is about the small things.



PS. I am hoping to get back into blogging more and more these days.