Me, Then and Now, 90 pounds gone

I hit 90 pounds gone today, so I made a collage of me from then *Please keep in mind that I had already LOST 20 pounds in the Orange Shirt before taking "starting"(photo from Feb 2010, started journey Jan 1st 2010) so I was even bigger than the photo show.



The blue shirt is from today 6.3.11

From 271.2 on my starting day till now 181.2 pounds

May Recap & June goals

For the month of May I did 1857 minutes of exercise and I got 87.86 miles for the month of May!! I fell short by just a little, and with me being out of town for a week that it totally understandable! I'm proud of my accomplishments just the same!!! Looking forward to another successful month! 

In the month of May I went from 194.3 to 184.5 so nearly 10 pounds in a month woo hoo!! 


For June my goals are 

1. Read my Bible Daily 
2. Drink at least 12 cups of water daily 
3. Exercise 2,000 minutes 
4. Get 100 miles logged by Walking /Running, Treadmill/ Elliptical or Bicycling 
5. Lose 10 pounds 
6. STAY ON TRACK, NO SLACKING! NOT EVEN ONE DAY! 
7. Log my food & stay within my ranges set by Sparkpeople 
8. Go 3 times a week or more for classes 

Woo hoo! Here's to a great month filled full of Great choices!!

May Exercise & Miles Log

Goal 2000 minutes 100 miles 

1. 112 mins 12 miles 
2. 75 mins 5.6 miles 
3. 72 mins 4.13 miles 
4. 97 mins 0 miles 
5. 92 mins .93 miles 
6. 64 mins 2.82 miles 
7 Rest 
8 Rest 
9 120 mins 0 miles 
10 33 mins 2.30 miles 

Out of town .... 

16 75 mins 1.12 miles 
17 105 mins .25 miles 
18 rest 
19 rest 
20 20 mins 0 miles 
21 140 mins 15 miles 
22 120 mins 11.35 miles 
23 78 mins 1.65 miles 
24 50 mins .75 miles 
25 105 mins 1.9 miles 

26 67 mins .50 miles 
27 300 mins 7 miles 
28 67 mins 8.05 miles 
29 125 mins 9.16 miles 
30 off 
31 55 mins 3 miles 

1857 minutes and 87.86 miles for the month of May!! 

I CONQUERED GOLIATH!!!

Let me back track, we love Six flags, we go regularly. Well 3.5 years ago I was ready to try the roller coaster called Goliath and so me and Miranda stood in line for 2 hours,  and me being oblivious to my size didn't really think I wouldn't  fit, well the longer I stood in line the more nervous I became that maybe  I couldn't and so when we finally got to the seats I got in and was WEDGED tight, the man said, try and adjust so I did and he still couldn't get it clicked, he said "I've only got 1 click, I need 3" well it wasn't happening so I got off the ride, and I was crying, Miranda was crying, and I was so embarrassed.  I told her to go on without me, it's ok. But for really the first time  I had my "SLAP in the FACE" about my size, no longer could I pretend I was "just fine". So I made it a personal goal that one day, I would ride that ride.

Fast forward to last year, I had been working really hard on my journey, so I decided to give it a try, nope still not there yet, so I told Miranda, I'm not giving up, I'm gonna keep trying, tried at the end of the season, still nope, I tried in March when they opened and it was 2 clicks ooh yay getting so close, so I've just kept going and working hard.

Well Yesterday, We went to Six Flags because a new ride ride Dare Devil Dive opened and I wanted to ride, I was a bit nervous waiting in line thinking omgosh what if I stand here like I did Goliath a few years ago and I can't fit, so when I go up there, and sat down I had room on both sides of the seat, I was like awww yay piece of cake! No problem! So then that got me thinking hmm if I can ride this I wonder if I can ride Goliath.

So I told the girls that I wanted to go up on the deck and see if I could actually do it yet (not just in the test seat outside the gate).I wasn't sure if I would or not and I told the attendant I just really want to see if I fit, I've been working so hard, but I don't know if I'm there yet,  I'm thrilled to report FINALLY FINALLY FINALLY after 3 years was able to fit into the seat and got to ride Goliath!! I sat down, the attendant pushed it shut then came back and pushed it one more time and woo hoo, I was locked in and we were going to ride!! At that moment I realized OMG I did did I did it! Talk about an amazing feeling

I was so happy I got off the ride crying!! It was so amazing and such an accomplishment for me to FINALLY be able to ride this ride, from the first day I was told I was too big to ride, that has always been my personal goal, that one day, I WILL Conquer Goliath! Well woo hoo I did it! I DID IT!!




I cannot express how excited I was yesterday!

Had to share with you, This has been my year of firsts and I defiantly have to say this tops the list thus far!!

Day 92 & 93

Things are going well, I've finally lost the weight that I gained when we had to go up to Michigan, I was in a hard predicament, we ate out 3 times a day and all though I tried to make good choices, even the healthy stuff was loaded with sodium, so I gained. Happy to report that is GONE GONE GONE now, and I'm back on the "loosing track" 

As of yesterday morning I am 185.2 pounds, for a total of 86 pounds gone since starting my journey 

I've been killing it at class, lots and lots of cardio and sweating going on!! I love it! 

On the PBS Tv side, they called the other day to let me know that due to their scheduling conflicts that they are pushing the weight loss program tapings back until July. Which is fine by me, it will give me more time to lose weight before I go on Camera. I've got a month until Disney so I am really really really going to work hard to get as much off as I can before we go! 

Here's to a great day!!! 

Day 90/91 Feeling and back on track

Saturday was great day, went for a bike ride with the family, just over 2 hours and 15 total miles!! great & so much fun! 

Sunday was filled with excitement from PBS television calling to interview me and setting up for this Saturday that I will go into the studio to be filmed. 

I did 20 mins on the treadmill (jogging) and 15 mins on the elliptical, then after dinner Greg and I went for a 10 mile bike ride! 120 mins total for Sunday!!! 

Ready for another great day today! I have class this morning and I'm so looking forward to it! 

PBS TELEVISION CALLED

I think I remember telling you all that about 3 weeks ago Sparkpeople contacted me in regards to PBS doing a segment on people in Georgia who've lost weight, and asked me if I was interested so I submitted my information, well they called the other day to let me know they'd like to do a phone interview, so I agreed and she called today!!!! 

We had great phone interview, She asked me about my journey, we chit chatted a bit, just a nice friendly conversation!!!! She said she liked me and wants to film me... 

I will be going this coming Saturday to film and then out of the blue she said if that goes well, they'd like to follow me around for a day, come to my house see me posting on SparkPeople.com, (and the boards!! ) , then follow me to the gym and film me boxing and working out etc. WOW WOW WOW!!! 

Basically make me a whole segment! Oh my goodness I'm freaking out.. woah this is so overwhelming but so exciting!! 

Had to share with you all!!!!! 

Day 84-89 Restarting ME again

Gah! I'm so lost I don't even know what number of the challenge we're on. 

Exercise wise I've been doing great but I have really been struggling with my food choices, so like I've done many times before, I'm restarting ME again. Taking baby steps to ensure that I am successful and don't fall off track... 

That's the best thing about a journey, is no matter how many times I need to restart it's ok as long as I keep going. 

Here I go again on my journey.... I CAN DO THIS 

Day 77-83 & new Photo

Wow, it's been a bit since I've blogged, On Sunday we got news that Greg's Grandma wasn't doing well so we started driving to Michigan, well on the way she ended up passing. We got to Michigan on Monday morning and just got home yesterday morning. 

Even though we went for a funeral it was an amazing visit. We got to re-connect with the the family. There's been so much time and distance between all of us, that this week together was really a blessing. 

I ate so so, but I did exercise every day. On Tuesday morning I even got up and went for a run while the rest of my family was sleeping. 


This photo was taken while I was up there, and it blew me away. I never realized how I really look, sure I've lost 85 pounds but in my mind I still see a "BIG/VERY LARGE" woman, and when I saw this photo I nearly fell over. I put my "BEFORE" with it to compare and thought I'd share with you 
 

So now we're home and I'm ready to keep going on my journey!!! 

Playing Catch up 74,75,76

Last night there was a MMA Fight and my trainer was in it, so we decided to go and it was so much fun! There was 10 matches and 8/10 had someone from my gym that I go to (Independent MMA) in the match.
Of those 8 we won 6 of the fights. WOO HOO!

My trainer rocked his match, he did so awesome, he won by judge decision!!! Just a super awesome exciting night!! On Friday when I was training my trainer said "We train WINNERS" at this place nothing else!! Push yourself! GO GO GO....
He was sure right! I'm so proud and thrilled to be a part of this amazing group of "athletes" (me an athlete! woah!)

There was even a FEMALE fight, (which by the way was amazing and I totally could see myself doing that in a year or so with training!)

Who would've thought I'd be having thoughts of going into a cage match! LOL The girl from my gym was there (the one that I wrestled with and got the bruises) and we both were just like Oh my gosh I that is so awesome, I want to do that! She said the next time she's coming to a match shes going to be in it! I though that was awesome! She's super strong and would rock it too!!
I told my husband I could totally see myself doing that and he said "I DONT THINK SO!" lo giggle I love my protective husband, but with training I totally would do it!! (this statement blows me away -- I really have come so far on my journey!!)

It's been an amazing week and I'm thrilled. The scale is moving, I'm feeling great! Looking forward to another awesome week on my journey

Day 72 Was Great

GREAT DAY!!

Had an INTENSE workout today at the gym

today we did 45 seconds of each (twice)
50 pound over head shoulder presses
Bear Crawls across the mat
Deep seat squats with 50 pound dumb-bell
60 pound bar doing squats
25 pound medicine ball triceps extensions
Running up and down the stairs

then we did 5 mins non stop of
Jump Squats, running in place, push ups, mountain climbing

Then class ended so I decided to do more
15 mins on treadmill (jogging)
Then 30 mins on Elliptical
5 mins stretching afterwards

Another great day! It was hard but I managed to NOT get on the scale the entire day!! woo hoo! I cannot believe how addicted I am to that thing! LOL

Day 71! Woo hooo

Today was good, I went to the gym and did 25 mins on elliptical, 35 mins on treadmill (ran at 5mph for 14 minutes woo hoo!) then went and did squats, lunges bicep, tricep & shoulder work with the dumbbells.

Tonight Miranda & I did day 2 of the Spring into Shape challenge! It was fun!!

Also when I first joined Independent MMA, I had a gain and was at 195.6 (4-18) and as of today I am 190.8 which with the up and down with my swelling/sodium etc is finally back on the way down. YAY! I'm almost back to 188 where I was when I bloated from all the whatevers!

I also took my measurements when I started there and have lost 1 inch from my waist and 1 inch from my hips in 2 weeks WOO HOO!!!

I've also grounded myself from the scale, I am so obsessed with it, weighing every time I go to the bathroom so I weighted this morning and put the scale in the closet until next week! I CAN DO THIS!! No weighing for 1 week!! Wish me luck!

May Measurements

Today I took my measurements. Overall I have lost 52 total inches from my body!!!
16 alone from my hips!! Incredible!! woo hoo I feel great and am so proud of these numbers!!!

HIPS
Starting 56 inches around
Today 40 inches around
____
-16 inches from my hips

WAIST
Starting 41 inches around
Today 31.0 inches around
______
10-inches from waist

THIGH
Starting 32 inches around
Today 23.5 inches around
______
-8.5 inches from my thighs

CHEST
Starting 42 inches around
Today 34 inches around
____
-8 inches gone from my chest

CALF
Starting 19 inches around
Today 15 inches around
____
-4 inches gone from my calf

BICEP
Starting 18 inches around
Today 12.5 inches around
_____
-5.5 inches gone from my Bicep

WOO HOO!!!

BMI is also down!!
STARTING 49.6 BMI
TODAY 34.48 BMI

Day 70 & April Recall/May Goals

'm thrilled, I have beat my personal best "goals" in WOO HOOO!! I exercised 2114 minutes and walked, jogged, ran or biked 104.79 miles for April!!!!

Day 70 has been good, we had an amazing church service, then a spaghetti lunch afterwards, I opted to NOT have the yummy delicious spaghetti and just had a salad. Came home then we all went for a bike ride!! We did 12 miles today in about an hour and a half.

My May Goals

A. Before all -- Daily Bible reading when I wake up. God is #1 in my life and spending 30 mins or more in the morning is my priority.

1. Stay 100% on track of the spring challenge (doing my videos everyday!) (I will also be finishing my 100 day challenge this month as well!)

2. Drink all of my water EVERYDAY

3. Stay in my calorie ranges & sodium ranges

4. Walk/run/jog or bike at least 100 miles

5. Reach 2000 fitness minutes for the month

6. Lose 10 pounds for the May Challenge

7. Go to my classes at least 4 times a week


Ready for a great month!!! I challenge you all to join the spring challenge from Sparkpeople! Lets make May an awesome month!

Day 67, 68 & 69

Hmm Thursday... Don't remember... lol!! Went to the park and did my walk/jog was still sore from the workout the day before so that's all I did.

Friday I ended up wasting the whole stinking day!! First I took the old van over for emissions and the stupid thing fails.... so then I take the van to Ford to have a recall taken care of so it doesn't blow up (yikes).. then took it to the car wash, and went thru and the first time it didn't get clean, so I vacuumed it out and had to go thru again, by then it's nearly 12:30, I've missed my morning class, missed lunch and I'm starving.

Go and get gas in the van and head towards the mechanics to drop of the van, walked home, (only bout .75 mile from home)..

Literally wasted the whole day. Evening was spent watching the Royal wedding

I am bit peeved because I got on the scale and somehow I'm up 6 flipping pounds.. I know it's that time of the month, but 6 pounds REALLY!! Ugh, I've been working out so intensely and being 100% in my ranges for food, this just doesn't make a lick of sense. Maybe it's just the swollen muscles along with TOM but ughhhhh I don't like this, this will not get me to my 100 pounds gone if I keep going up

I asked my trainer today and he said it could be the muscles swelling and retaining fluids because their not used the work I've been doing, he said that I may go up before I have a big amount drop while my muscles adjust and my body adjusts to this new lifestyle.. He said to ignore the scale for right now and focus only on how the clothes feel (sound familiar?!?! LOL)
It doesn't thrill me at all to have a gain but I'll keep going

I'm sure the swelling and this week my period showed up it's a combo of the two, but it's still frustrating.

Day 69.. Went to class did all boxing (my arms arm tired), then went outside weed wacked and then went out to dinner whee I did good until desserts hit the table! LOL Butter pecan ice cream & angel food cake.. yum!!!!

Ready for a great day 70 tomorrow!!!!!!!

Day 65.. Class was BRUTAL

Oh my gosh, yesterday's class was insane! I was wrestling on the mat "practicing" submissions & pinning, WOW that was fun and scary all at the same time. When he first said we were going be practicing that I was scared, because I've never done that before , part of me wanted to leave but I stayed anyway. My partner is all of 120 pounds but man she's a little warrior!!! She kept taking me down, bam, bam, bam!! I can't count how many times I got thrown to the mat! LOL

Then our trainer had us do an intense arm workout with weights,
75 bench press with 40lb bar)
75 Dumb Bell presses with 8lbs on each hand

and "just for fun " as the trainer put it, he followed all that up by me having my legs lifted while I walk with my arms (holding 5lb) weights... (like wheelbarrow )

It was BRUTAL, today I am bruised from head to toe and in a bit of pain from the "wrestling" for 15 minutes (3 5 min rounds) that we did, it litterally was a "match" wow! I must say for my first time that I did pretty good! I'm sore but am I quitting? No way, as a matter of fact I'm going back this morning for more!!

I will not let a bunch of bruises keep me from reaching my goals!!! I've counted over 30 bruises from my toes to my neck! LOL. My kids are freaked out cause mommy is black n blue but their just bruises, they'll heal.

(these were taken yesterday evening but you can see the bruises already, today their just more purple)




And this afternoon



See all the little bruises on the front

2 Months till Disney!!

Woo hoo I'm so excited to be going to Disney in 2 months!! Time to get my hind end moving and get working towards reaching 100lbs gone by then! I KNOW I CAN DO IT!

Last year when we went to Disney (April 1st 2010) I weighed 238 pounds! How exciting to get to go this year and be way down in ONEderland with 100 pounds gone!! Woo hoo I can do this!!

Here's me from last year after loosing 33.1 pounds for my 1st goal on my weight loss journey



And just for a reminder for myself, from the year before that (Feb 2009) of just how far I have come on this journey (aprox weight 255-260? or more not sure)






Only about 17 pounds until I reach 100 total gone, that's about 2 pounds a week! Totally do-able when I put my mind to it!! How exciting it will be to travel to my fav vacation spot so much healthier this year!!

Day 61 of 100 Woah!!!

Yesterday's Class was All leg work 25 Squat/overhead presses with weight bar, 25 squats holding medicine ball, then lunge from one end of the mat and back holding ball, repeating each time, and taking 5 off each round so 25, 20, 15,10, 5 of all that!)Then I jogged on the treadmill for 10 mins. 
OMGOSH my legs are like jello & on F-I-R-E. 

So when I add all that up 

thats 75 squats presses with the 45lb bar 
75 squats holding ball 
and about 200 lunges! (give or take) 

No wonder my legs are on fire today!! WOW BURN BABY BURN!! 

I'm taking today and tomorrow off from any exercises to let my body rest and the muscles heal. 

Day 60, Amazing again

Thursday, April 21, 2011

Today was a great day, I had Boxing class tonight and it was great, I got there and did 20 mins on the elliptical at "75 rpm", he and I were chatting and I told him (my trainer) that he does NOT have to be easy to me, that I want him to push me, so he said "ok step it up to 75 and keep it there", well I was being a show of and a couple times got it to 80, 82! LOL So anyway, did that then he had me go over to the bags and jog in place and punch the bag at the same time for 3 mins, take a 30 second break, do 3 minutes of lunges, take a 30 second break, 3 minutes jump squats, break & repeat, (and so on )

Then he told me I was going in the ring! UMM EXCUSE ME? WHAT? I don't have a clue what to do in the ring, I'm still learning I said, and he said, "just do what you've learned so far, I want to see how your doing," Omgosh it was awesome, I really liked it, granted I have a lot to learn but WOW it was amazing, and a couple times he'd tell me "great", thats right, etc.. so we went 3 minutes, and then I went out of the ring did Ab work, and he had me go back in again later for another 3 minutes.. wowie!

After our class ended, I hopped on the treadmill and jogged for 15 minutes and cooled down for 5.

Awesome day! I'm 100% in my ranges for food & water. With all the exercise I've been getting I've had to up my calories to match so I don't send my body into rebellion, which is hard but I managed to get it all in!!

WOO HOOO!!! 

Day 59 (WOWIE WHAT A WORKOUT)

OMGOSH! Today was intense for the class!!! 

I got there, and got on the treadmill, walked 10, jogged 10 then went over to the mats where we were going to start. He started us off with 3 mins jumping rope, 3 mins shadow boxing (repeating the pattern 3 times), then we did 25 jumping jacks, then got our gloves on and partnered up (I met a really nice girl, (we were the only girls) and she was so kind and understanding to my "NEWBIE-NESS" I kept apologizing for getting to close when we were practicing hitting, I was terrified I was going to hit her face! Guess that's something I've got to get over if I'm going to learn to box. The instructor was very patient with me as I learned the "lingo" and the stance, and we practiced, swatting and punching, & guarding today, we "boxed" for an entire hour" He showed me proper stance and encouraged me when I would get it right. I loved that!! 

After that he had us line up on the mat at and went down the line and we all had to do 25 of the following---Jumping jacks, jump squats, mountain climbers, sprawls, (OMG SO HARD), crunches, plank -hold for 25 secs, not sure what its called but in t-stand hop legs from side to side - only using arms to hold you while jumping, and jump -squat & sprawl, and the rule was if someone messed up we had to start over, so we got 6 done and some guy stopped, so he started us over, did 2 more, again mess up, put us all in a circle as a team and did them slowly so we ended up doing closer to 50! UGHHH Those SUCKED!!! Pretty proud of myself, one guy actually gave up on them, and just wouldnt' do anymore, proud to say I wasnt a quitter! 

Finished off with a good stretch! I cannot believe how intense this class was today!! WOW WOW WOW!!!!! But I never quit and I never gave up, I finished every single move! I'm exhausted, been up since 3:30 am and still did all that, when I get Tyler I'm gonna go lay down for a nap!!! 

I cannot wait to see the results from all these hardcore workouts I've just started doing! Weigh in is Friday 

Day 58 another awesome day

I got up in the morning, had my Bible time, while Tyler is getting ready for school, finish that go and take him to school, and my friend calls and wanted to know if I wanted to go walking, she must have read my mind, I already had my exercise clothes on and had every intention of going once I dropped him off. 

So we met and walked, I ended up doing 3 miles at a fast comfortable pace (only jogged a tiny bit) 

Came home, did my Sparking around. family time and such then later that night was Boxing class again, I decided to try the more "intense" workout from another trainer and WOAH baby was it hardcore. It was intense but manageable and I never quit. My coach asked how I liked it and if it was too hard, I said, it wasn't hard where I couldn't do it but it defiantly was a challenge and I'll be doing it again! I asked him how I was doing and he said "Better than most of these people who've been coming a while" .. lol yay me 

Class was an hour long... Heres what we did. First I warmed up on the Elliptical for 15 minutes, then he took us outside and had us run 15 laps around the parking lot, then we did 4 suicides (run to the first line, run back, run to the second line run back run to the third line back = 1 ), then we had to do 50 jumping jacks and then we went back inside and spent 10 mins working on our abs (crunches, bicycles, supermans, planks etc ) (OUCHIE!!), then 100 lunges, then we went over and did punching on the bag for a while, more jumping jacks and squats, and finished with weight lifting (each arm 25 bicep curls, 25 over head press, 25 kickbacks, 25 triceps extensions) 

Talk about a total body workout!! Whew!! It was great!! Defiantly what I needed. I will also be most defiantly doing it again!!! 

Total 120 mins of exercise & 5 miles done for the day! I stayed in my ranges but went over my fat by 3, so technically I say perfect day! 

Another successful day done ready for 59 

Day 57 Rocked

My evening was AWESOME!! 

Went to the Boxing Fit class, at first I was like ummm ok, I had no clue what was going on and no one really told me anything, then then the trainers tells me to warm up on the treadmill for 20 mins, so I did that and then it was time to get to work. (There is no coddling there, you're there to work and thats that.. At first I was like WTHECK, but then I was like ok makes sense!! ) 
He had me put on boxing gloves, and go over to the bags. and for 3 mins we just punched punched punched, then we'd take a 30 second break and then do another move, he had us doing lunges, jump squats, jumping jacks, more punching, then we got to practice mitt work with him and punch for as fast as we could for 1 minute straight. That was awesome.. Then we finished with Ab work (boo). It was great! I really loved it and before I left signed up for 6 months of classes. 

I can take as many as I want per week (there are more than 4 a week that I know of) and I have full access to the trainers, the gym and all the classes I want! I'm thrilled about it! I've always been "AGAINST" a gym and determined to do it on my own, well I've hit a wall on my own and now it's time to step it up to the next level by getting that extra push. And technically it is a gym, but it's more boxing and fitness one on one than a regular just show up, meat market type gym. 

Wooo hoo!! I'm so excited 

Then I came home and cooked dinner, and then me and my husband went for an hour bike ride together (10 miles) to finish the evening off on a great note~ 

120 mins total of exercise for the day. 100% in my food ranges A+ day 

Ready for another awesome day today

Day 54, 55 & 56 Recap

Friday -- Day of to rest before the 5k --didn't do much. 

Saturday 5k Race (see previous blog if you want to read about how it went) 

Sunday 11.6 bike ride with the family, got a bug in my eye, today my eye hurts really bad -- owie 

Best news for today day 57 
Omgosh I'm going to start taking BOXING, ever since getting my wii Golds gym cardio work out game I've been wanting to learn "REAL" boxing, and I've found a place not far from my home that offers classes and one one training with Pro-Boxers! OMGOSH I'm just so excited!!! My first class is tonight!!!!!!!!! 

   

I cannot it believe ME? Krystie WHAT?!? OMGOSH is turning into some sort of athlete, running, biking, boxing? Holy buckets who is this woman? A year + ago exercise was like a dirty word, don't mention it to me and don't expect me to do it! Now I'm constantly finding new things to try!! WOW! I don't know who this is but I SURE LOVE IT!! 

So excited. Will update later about how the class goes!!!! 
    

My 5k -Run for the Bun woo hoo I did it

Yesterday was the big day, the day I've been waiting for all year and have been training for since February. 

Before the big race was the itty bitty bun run , where I believe it was about a half mile (maybe a quarter mile) that the little ones ran, well Tyler (age 4) wanted to do that one so I jogged with him and the rest of the kids, cheering him on the whole time, and we finished the race together! It was so awesome, he wanted to stop because he was so tired but I kept cheering him on and telling him go go go we can do this Tyler, a couple times we even held hands while running. 
He finished his race in 3:39. I'm so proud of him for being the youngest one and he finished!! 
 
 

My daughter Grace (age 9) finished first for the girls in the itty bitty bun run. I was so proud of her. She finished first there and then did the 5k in 41:05 (Grace, Greg & Tyler crossed together) 
 


 
Then we walked across the street for my big race, I lined up with my family just to start and when they said READY SET GO, I said Ok guys love you, and I took off at a comfortable jog, I learned from last year full sprinting at the start line doesn't work and empties all my energy, so anyway I jogged well past the first mile marker, about 1.5 miles walked for 30 seconds and jogged again some more, there were a couple times I took 30 second "breaks" just to get my breath again and the I'd pick back up the jogging. Just kept telling myself I can do this, I can do this, then we rounded the corner and I knew I was almost done maybe 3/4 of a mile left and I got excited, and started pushing myself a bit more, when I rounded the next corner I could see the clock in the distance and that really encouraged me because it was in the 35 min range, so I full sprinted to the finish line because I wanted to be 36 mins or less, that had been my goal for a year. I crossed the finish line in 35:54 . I beat my last year time by 10 mins!!! WOO HOOO I DID IT, WOO HOOO I DID IT!!! 

   

After I crossed the finish line I walked back and found my family, Greg, Grace & Tyler we're nearly done so I told them GO GO GO, so I kept walking finally found Miranda & Hannah as they had fallen behind and finished the race with them too, pushing them and encouraging them to finish.. They finished in 46:37 

Just a comparison photo, this was me last year at the same 5k (Me 2nd person on left) 
 
Time 45:39 (really pushing myself hard to finish in that time) 

Yesterday - 
 
35:54 mins! 

I have come so far on this journey, not just in the weight loss department but in the mental & physical areas as well --to go from not being able to walk up my driveway without feeling like I was dying to walking a 5k and now running a 5k, WOW! I'm just so proud of myself 

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Day 53 Part 2

today has been a FABULOUS day, I got up this morning, read my Bible, took Tyler to school, then went to the park and did my 5 mins warm up, then I jogged 3.3 miles in 37 mins, and cooled down with another 5 min walk 4 miles done today!! woo hoo

Went and got my 5k race packet for Saturday, I'm so excited, as mentioned before I will be representing my weight loss team at the 5k, with my family and we all will be in our Dandy Lion shirts (even little Tyler!! ) I'm so excited, I've been wanting this for a whole year and it's nearly here.. just excited to finally prove to myself that I can run a 5k! I've been trying and practicing and will do my best

I've made good choices with my food today and am in all my ranges! YAY!

Tonight I went for a 14 mile bike ride with my husband for 75 mins, just riding around talking and spending time together without spending any money!! Woo hoo!! I can't believe how much I love riding bikes!!! I know I did when I was a kid, guess that never goes away. It's fun exercise! What could be better.

Tomorrow is gonna be an exercise rest day just so I'm not sore for race day.


Have an amazing night.. I'll see you all tomorrow

Day 51, 52, 53 (playing catch up)

Tuesday--Good day, I went walking and did 42 mins of exercise and was on track but then evening came and well, I was pressured into going somewhere I really didn't want to go in the first place because I couldn't just say NO, and was miserable the entire time, my emotions took over and I felt about 2 inches high, long story short, came home made REALLY bad food choices and binged really hard, not a good night... Made me question how far I had really come on my journey, thanks to my awesome friends at the Dandy Lions I was able to snap out of it pretty quick

Wednesday I didn't feel well all day (because of the binge the night before I'm sure) so nothing much to talk about I just laid around. Took it easy

Thursday. today a NEW day, I got up this morning, read my Bible, took Tyler to school, then went to the park and did my 5 mins warm up, then I jogged 3.3 miles in 37 mins, and cooled down with another 5 min walk 4 miles done today!! woo hoo

Went and got my 5k race packet for Saturday, I'm so excited, as mentioned before I will be representing my weight loss team at the 5k, with my family and we all will be in our Dandy Lion shirts (even little Tyler!! ) I'm so excited, I've been wanting this for a whole year and it's nearly here.. just excited to finally prove to myself that I CAN DO THIS!!!!!!!!!!!

Here's to a great rest of the day.....

DAy 50! 1/2 way thru challenge

What a GREAT day!

today I met my friend at the park , and we walked and chatted, nothing too "physical" for walking, but I did run one lap just because :D did 3 miles today and then came home and did 20 minutes of Just Dance 2 for the wii.

Then I came home & booked a family vacation to Disney for my son's 5th birthday on June 26th. (we'll get to Fl on 6.25 so he can wake up and go to the parks for his day, we'll be there 7 days!) I am so excited, We're going to try and keep it a secret from the kids to surprise them! I'm excited because we'll be getting to meet up with Greg's sister and her husband as well down there. We haven't seen her since Grace was a baby (she's 9.5 now) and his sister was just a teen. It'll be great to spend some time with her & her husband. I really think it'll be so great to finally get to know her

So with the upcoming vacation I am determined to step this journey into high gear, last year at this time I was on fire, rocking it and I made my Disney goal, I'm going to do it again this year. Today I got on the scale and I'm 190.4 pounds, I'd like to lose 20+ pounds by the time we leave for Disney! That would be amazing, putting me at my 100 pounds gone mark WOO HOO Gotta work hard to ensure I am successful. Only 2 months 2 days till then!

Food wise is an A+ I'm trying to stay at the high end of my ranges because of all the exercise I do. I don't want my body rebelling and not loosing weight because it thinks it's starving.

Calories goal 1,400 - 1,720 goal - 1645 actual
Fat goal 36-63 -- 61 actual
Protein 60-142-- 62 actual
Fiber 25-50 goal -- 43 actual
Sodium 500-2000 goal 1502 Actual

PERFECT WONDERFUL AWESOME DAY!

Day 49 A good day

Yesterday was good, I went to the park and did 5 miles of walking/jogging got all my water in. Still trying to "train" to run in the humidity for on Saturday's 5k, ugh, I defiantly like early morning runs a lot better. I can go further and longer when the humidity is not sucking my breath out.

Later went on a fun date with Tyler & Daddy. We went for dinner and then to see Hop. It was cute & Tyler loved it as well.



Ready for day 50 today!! Can't believe we're half way thru the challenge