Wes Linda

Well, it’s always fun when we incorporate major transitions / changes in our lives.  More amazing is how they can disrupt anything that you have planned or wish to achieve.  The incident that helped completely remove any focus I had on losing weight and staying fit was our decision as a company to move our clients to a new hosting company.  If you ever own a business, and think about doing this, I highly recommend NOT DOING THIS!

A little background on how we arrived at the need to switch hosts.  Roughly 6 years ago we as a design firm made the decision to have a managed hosting environment where we could fully control the offerings that we were providing our clients.  We were looking for an easy to use and manage solution that would work well for us and our clients.  Based in Baltimore, we were also looking for a company close to us that we could have a solid relationship with.  During that search, we found Alabanza with a reseller only focus and a great technology platform made the decision an easy one.

As time progressed, Alabanza grew in size and became a target for purchase in 2007.  Unfortunately, they found a partnet in Navisite.  After months of planning, Navisite makes the decision to move the Alabanza Datacenter to Andover, MA.  In November 2007, this transition was attempted.  We’ll keep this short, but a migration could not be screwed up any more than this transition was.  Hundreds of thousands of domains were down for days, many up to a week.  This was the first clue that we had been moved to a poor solution, and as time moved forward that fact became more and more obvious.  Missed deadlines, unkept promises, outsourcing of support to India and unprofessional sales reps added to the frustration.

We tried to get out shortly after that move, but unforutnately we were under an annual contract and didn’t provide enough notice to get out a year ago.  More unkept promises, lack of communication, and lack of current technology forced us to move hosts starting a little over a week ago.  We chatted with other companies that had left Navisite and decided on LiquidWeb as the provider of choice.  A solid solution, a fair price and Heroic Support.  The move was a real challenge, but the support team at LW was there the whole time and really helped us make the move.  Our hats off to them.

Soooooo…with all the fun and stress that has been the last two weeks, I’ve had no focus on weight loss and hope that I haven’t killed my progress too much.  We’ll find out in the morning and start fresh then.  It’s been a blast!

So, I’ll keep this one short and sweet.  Why?  Because I don’t have anything good to say!  I’m weighing in at roughly the same weight as last week, mostly because I’m not eating great, and not working out enough.  Shocker…I know!  My dedications that I added last week are yet to be followed.  It’s like I need something to beat myself up about.

Anywhoooo…since I don’t have anything good to say, I’ll say nothing at all.

This weeks’ weight was the same as last weeks, 231.5lbs.  Better luck next week right?

Okay.  This is really becoming a real challenge.  Staying focused is a very, very difficult and I’m hoping that I can really change my eating desires.  Cravings are the #1 downfall for me.  While I’ve not had soda in weeks, I’ve moved to drinking numerous sweet teas each day, and that’s a problem.  I’m replacing the soda with a sugar filled drink with no real health values and I’m pretty sure that isn’t good.  I’m also eating at work a lot, and not bringing my own food.  The eating choices I’m making at work aren’t great.  Better than I was making, but not great.

So, on this Monday after easter, with Candy in a basket next to me, I think I’m going to add a couple of new goals to the mix of goals to achieve each week.  On top of no soda, no fries, and going to the gym three times a week, I’ll be adding the following:

• Cook and Prepare all of my meals at home, take them to work with me.
• Drink on natural juices and water for beverages each day.
• Begin daily walking at work to prepare for the Arthritis Foundation walk I’m participating in on May 9th.

Shameless Self Promotion: If you can help me reach my goal of raising $250 for the Arthritis foundation, I would greatly appreciate it.  Please take a moment to donate at my AF Walk page.  Even if it’s $10, it helps and is greatly appreciated.  Thank you!

I think these steps will be required to get me really moving ahead on my goal, we now have roughly 7 weeks left to reach my goal and that’s going to take some serious focus.  I will not let this weight thing beat me.  It’s tough, but I’ll fight through, and welcome anyone to join me.