I have received some incredible news!!! I am an identical bone marrow match for a woman with leukemia! I am on the national marrow donation list, and they contacted me in August to tell me I was a preliminary match and that they needed to do further testing......they contacted me at work last week to tell me I was her match. They gave me 3 dates to choose from for the donation. Two of the dates were before nationals, one of them is the week after. So I will get back from nationals on a Sunday, and start the process that Thursday (Thanksgiving day). I am so humbled and excited that I could do this for another human being.....they tell me the odds of my marrow matching hers are close to astronomical- they said I should go buy a lotter ticket:)

Training is going well, I am doing a run through of my "week of contest" prep this week. Today was my first zero carb day......yuck! I will be no carb tomorrow too, then reload wed, thur, fri. I needed to jump start my fat loss this week anyway:) Still holding on to a bit of a layer around my butt.

Halloween was great for the kids tonight! They totally made a hall! We went to a harvest party that their school puts on.....they had a total blast. Then we went to a friends house to hang out and play games.....hand out candy....etc. I have to say that taking in NO carbs on Halloween HAS to be against the law somewhere:) I swear to God, I felt like I would die without a tootsie roll tonight.....(no, I did not give in). The candy was calling to me.......eat me, eat me. I am exhausted- going to bed now. Take care and keep training hard!

Tami