Wow, a lot has changed in few months and so has my body. I've reached some personal milestones and celebrated some goals as well. On May 11, 2011 I weighed in at 162.2 lbs, not the personal limit that I had set for myself of 160 lbs without dieting. So I decided that my resolution this year to love myself without diets or exercise just didn't seem to be working for me. On July 1st, I started Dan Pearce's Biggest Loser competition weighing in at 156.4 lbs. And now eleven weeks later, I have broken through new barriers and I currently weigh 144 lbs, the lowest that I can ever remember weighing. I'll be honest though, I didn't grow up with a scale in the bathroom so I don't have any memories of being any certain weight. When you watch the weight loss shows, they always talk about not being that weight since junior high or high school or age 16, etc. I know that I was just average and unhappy.
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| September 2009 160ish lbs |
If you remember back to this time two years ago, I was starting with a new team at T-Mobile and one of my pod mates talked me into running. I ran daily from September 2009 until my first half marathon in June 2010 and which point, I was weighing in at 148.4 lbs. At then, I just stopped. I hated running and it wasn't worth it to me. By May 2011, I was right back up where I had started from, all that time and energy lost. I have been eliminated from the Biggest Loser competition but I'm still continuing on my weight loss journey. Yesterday I weighed in at 144 lbs, a new milestone for me. I still have a spare time and a 35" waist so I'm going to continue on towards my goal of 130 lbs give or take a couple.
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| September 2011 144 lbs |
My belly doesn't hang over my belt anymore. I can see the definition in my abdomen slowly starting to come out. I am doing less cardio work now and more strength training to burn off those last few pounds of fat that I have sitting around my midsection, thighs, and buttocks. After three children, my stomach muscles are pretty stretched out but I still want to do as much as I can before I consider assistance like liposuction and plastic surgery. I don't feel "fat" anymore, I feel great. In fact, I feel so great about how I look that I took a couple/few weeks off and a couple pounds crept back on but it wasn't anything that I couldn't drop in a week or focusing. Now it's time to refocus again and knock out these last few inches. I am starting the P90X Lean version and see if I can't reach my goal in the next 90 days. Stay tuned because this hot mama is ready to make her grand appearance!
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| July 2011: Start of Competition @ 156 lbs |
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| September 2011: Out of the Competition @ 144 lbs |
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