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Well I have not lost any weight but I did lose 1/2 inch off of my hips and get this 1 1/2 inches from around my waist 1/2 inch on my chest in a week and a half I will take that!!!!

Hope everyone is well and having a great week!

Well here I am….I have back slid for the last time I have so much to be thankful for and I look at my beginning pix and I look at where I am at now….wow I look so different my body has changed and I feel so great now.  So why do we back slide?  I think I got to cocky that it would just keep coming off and I could have little cheats here and there and it would not hurt my progress….WRONG ANSWER…..everything time I slipped I hurt no one but myself.  My family and hubby love me as I am I know this but I am hurting a dream I have had for years.  Now why would I purposly hurt myself…Fear of success??? no it cant be that…I will tell you I just got lazy I never stopped excercising thank goodness for that but I got so lax on my eating.  So I have recommitted to myself to be the best I can be to continue on with my journey and I can look back at my blogs here and see what I did how I felt and to see all the comments and support that is here for me.  I have gotten so much wonderful advise now I am going to do something that I should have done a long time ago.  I am thanking all my buddies Thanks for your words of support and I hope that I have some good new on my next weigh in. 

I have not been excercising as hard as I can I hurt my foot pretty badly on the stair stepper.  I bone bruised the bottom of it and I pulled the muscle that wraps the heal so I have been not able to excercise like I want and I have not been eating as good as I should.  I feel I like I have totally let myself down.  I almost feel like I destined to be overweight.  I dont know where to go from here. I know I need to refocus and find other excercises to do to while my foot recovers.  I really need to get my head back into the game I was doing so great the first 6 months now 9 months into it I feel like I am back sliding and its the last thing I want to do I want to finish this journey with success.  I guess I just needed to write it out and replan my journey.

Thanks for listening

Patience for good things to come.  Why is it that word is the hardest to live by… the hardest obey?  I know that I did not put my weight on over night but I have hit such plateau that my scale hasnt budged in a month.  I don’t know what else to do I have been excercising more eating better….. Anyone out there have any thoughts any ideas words of wisdom?  I would really like to hear them.

Well I had my latest 6 month visit with my doctor.  I  have type 2 diabetes and I am so excited to report that my dr. took me off of half of my medications.  My blood sugars are so very controled now.  I am thrilled.  My goal was to be healthy with my weight loss  but only after 8 months I don’t have to take so much medicine.  I feel so in control. I never thought that exercising and watching what I eat would really make that HUGE of a difference.  It has I hope that anyone that is out there struggling with medications and wants to make a difference.  you can do anything you set your mind to.

I am doing it you can too!!

Last night I was sitting here looking at this computer screen and had a thought lets try that TAE BO dvd you bought 2 months ago and get it out of the wrapper and give it a shot.  So the DVD began with the normal perky music and before I knew it I was smiling and sweating like WOW I have no words.  I then this morning as usual was at the gym at 5am.  I had a class at 5:30 Pilates so I was on the treadmill at 5:02 am for 20 minutes then off to class.  Now not realizing yet how sore I was from that TAE BO dvd I threw myself into my morning work out and our instructor WOW she is good and she is great at getting you to do your best.  Well lets just say by the end of that class I could barely walk….OUCH. But I would do it over again I feel great my mind is clear and my heart is feeling so strong.  I am going to start a nightly routine of some sort of excercise.  I do 2 hours in the am but not much during the day and in the evening I give new meaning to veg out…. So I am hoping that added workouts will start my loss moving along a little more than it has I know I am being to impatient but I want to taste SKINNY so bad I cant stand it.

Hope you all are feeling determined.

Together we can do it!

Positive thoughts lead to a positive reaction.  I find as long as I do keep myself in a positive place my days go by very well.  I know that I can do this journey I just have to stay in a positive place and and keep my focus.  I have a huge support group family and friends my hubby is out of this world he is my biggest fan.  When I started this in December I was unstoppable I want to gain that focus and commitment back.  I think its like anything when you have been doing something for so long you lose a bit of focus I am going to regain my focus.  What have you done to keep your focus I mean I have lost 81 pounds so far and I am not willing to give that success up.  I am just searching for what worked for others.

Well today was not a great day on scale but I lost nothing but I did not gain I have been doing this for a while and I find that the hardest part is to stay focused.  I have days that I am unbeatable and other days I am just beat before I get started.  I mean I do not do anything realy bad like eat a cake like I used to but I know that I should have maybe only had veggies with dinner and not had that 1/2 cup of mashed potatoes.  I don’t know I am really trying to stay in  a positive place this lifestyle change is a huge mental game it is so hard to stay in a focused state.  I hope anyone that reads this and is having the same issues as I will let me know what they are doing to stay focused.