Let me start off by saying my job is secure for now. Recently because of the economy my employer is in trouble due to the slow sales in vehicles. We have seen our production drop from 5 days per week with a lot of overtime to 4 days per week and a little over 7 hours per day. Next week they are dropping to 3 days per week for the month of March. They announced that if my Union and my membership did not agree to work sharing ( 4 days per week and compensation for the 5th day by the state ) that they would have to lay off hundreds of team members. The Union agreed to this but the company wanted to also cut our pay and benefits. The Union denied the pay cuts and benefit cuts. So up until Friday there was speculation they were going to lay off a thousand people on Monday. However the Union and the company did agree to just the work share program and now my membership has to vote on this agreement on Tuesday of next week. I think it will pass and my job is secure for the next 6 months. I will be working 32 hours per week and compensation from the state on the 5th day. If the economy does happen to get better I will be back to 40 hour weeks.  Anyway back to my journey!!!!

As I write this, I weighed in today at 180.5 lbs. A 1.5 lb drop from last week. My goal is still around 154 - 155 lbs. I continued to stick to my game plan and as of right now it is still working. I had another great week of training and dieting. Check out my new training page which I will be posting my workouts. I also will be posting my diet intake on my nutrition page. 

Until my next blog!