Day 1 - Waiting

Well, here is my first blog entry. The contestants have been announced on KDUV's In-Shape challenge and I have been selected to participate in this prestigious event. Hi, my name is Scott Unser and I live in Porterville, which makes it convenient that I was selected for the Porterville Team. I am a Special Education teacher, working with students who are severely handicapped and I work for the Tulare County Office of Education, and have for the last 19 years. I'm married to the bestest wife in the world, we just celebrated 16 years of a fantabulous life together. We have a 15 year old daughter who is a freshman in high school.
I applied for this challenge not only to lose weight, but to get healthy. Like many people, I tried the diets even though I knew that it would only be temporary, that they wouldn't create a lifestyle change, and I knew....I knew that's what had to happen. That's what this Challenge is for me, a jump start to a lifestyle change so that my wife and I can have a long, long, long fantabulous marriage, that my active daughter can have a dad that can keep up, and that my kids at school have an upbeat, happy and healthy teacher. I feel tired quite a bit and that gets taken into other aspects of my life, and its not fair to the other people in my life and its time for me to stop being selfish.
So I covet your prayers as I will be praying for all of the other contestants.

Scott