Just Utterly Stunned!

I had to come post....

I've been sick lately, coughing really bad to where I had to get a shot in the behind last week and it didn't get better, only worse as it settled into my lungs. I still have kept up with the workouts for the most part. I have missed a few days here or there, I think 3 tops but I am planning on doing doubles to catch up.
But...you know, I was eating a bit badly, adding in some comfort foods but not going too nutty about it and still kept up with my Shakeology.

I heard that if you are going to cheat, it was best to do so during your snack time when the calorie count was the lower versus the main meals. So I did try to keep to that. Also of course, I have been drinking water and herbal tea with honey, the green tea with lemon a great deal for my throat. Halls, Allegra...Tessalon Perls...trying to rest too which is not easy to do but I know so important for my health.

I even didn't go to the Ren Faire for the last weekend cause I was just coughing too much and I didn't want to give this to anyone. Even had to forego going to my friend's house for dinner. :( I just didn't want to cough all over her and the others and all over the food. And then of course, there is the matter of the incontinence kicking in. Oh that is just so WRONG! *ugh*

I have been just absolutely miserable. It did break me of looking at the scale tho', that and of course picking up two new kittens as well that I had to quarantine in my large bathroom to be sure I got the fleas off them before allowing them out into the rest of my home that is fully carpeted cause I been thru the flea thing and it is just not fun! So they got Dawn baths and I think the fleas are gone so they take a lil journey up to the vet to get their first shots and such now that they are 8 weeks old. :)
So my scale was in there and at times, I knew they were sleeping and didn't want to disturb them so the scale went untouched for a while.

I did peek at it here or there. I'd see 177...178...blah blah....no big deal. I knew I am sick lately and I expected it to stay still.

Well I looked this morning. I was like....HOLY MOLY!

Just floored! I couldn't believe it!

Ready for this?

174.5!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

YES YES YES YES!!! That means folks, I only have 9.5 lbs to go before I hit my goal of 165 by my birthday, 07/31!!! Nice! That is so doable, it is not funny!

But it IS funny to me how my body is just melting this all of off me despite the colds, despite the not as aggressive workout schedule, despite the comfort food...despite everything!! I am just like wow.

Completely floored!!

I want to just sit and cry and would if I didn't think it would get me coughing away. Just....omg....
I am doing it! It's happening!

Now the bad news...I am seeing the 'girls' getting smaller...lighter feeling, not as heavy. :( But I am trying not to focus there and ignore it. Allow my body to do what it needs to. Once I reach my goal, I can decide what I want to do from there. Now before anyone goes oh man....or start the whole, oh I'd rather be fat thing....yea, I have thought that before and it has crossed my mind now.
I don't want to look anorexic. I am not going to go overboard here. Promise! I still want my curves and no, I am NOT happy with my girls decreasing some, or at all for that matter. LOL

BUT!

What we and I, have to keep in mind is that this is more healthier for me. For my body, my cholesterol and heart, my health. That's the most important thing to me. So we'll see what happens as I know more needs to go around the middle.

I got in my new bathing suit too, size 14!! and if FITS really well! I am so happy! This is just off the charts and takes me well beyond Vegas days!! I will have to look to be sure of it but it's exciting!

THANK YOU BEACHBODY!!!

It works people! It really and truly does work! Eating right and exercise CAN and WILL make a huge difference in your life!!

As soon as my voice returns, I will be making vids for youtube!! Promise!! As nervous as that can make me, I am bound and determined to do it!!!

If you are curious, teetering, unbelieving...or just unsure of yourself...or just....anything....write me! Please do! I am so happy to share this with you and to help you with your own goals!! I am living proof that it works! It is still working!! I am not done yet!! Please join me! We can get to the finish line together!!!

All of this...from 202 to 174.5...from 01/31/12 to now...today..05/31/12....over 33 inches lost....I gotta measure again! LOL
But all of this....IS POSSIBLE...FOR YOU!!! YES YOU!!

And trust me, I didn't go bonkers nor was totally clean eating either! I cheated! I had lil chocolates here or there....I slowly weaned myself off the candy and such....fried stuff...fattening things...sugar bombs...
and I didn't do supplements either...not at first...I am now, but not too too much. I just gave myself a gift of 30 mins to 50 mins...6 days a week. That was it. Up early and got it done and out of the way so I can have the rest of the day and night all to myself again and relax and enjoy my day. I felt great cause I knew I had gotten my exercising in. And it wasn't hard to do. It seems so daunting at first. When you see a big number like that, like 90 days, you go *UGH* and think no thanks. But no...NO NO NO!!

Please, please don't put it off anymore! YOU CAN DO THIS! You really can. If I can, you can. 90 days is only 3 months. That's it. Just 3. Give me 3, give 3 to you!! You will feel so much better, more energetic, lighter and stronger than you've been before and certainly more than you were 3 months ago.

Don't be there, still reading 3 months from now and go...damn...I wished I had followed Wanda or wrote her back then....she did it....I could have done it with her. Don't do that....write me now.

I am going to finish up the training that shows me how to do challenge groups on Facebook. You can find me there under Wanda GhostPeeker. Friend me. :)
I have room for more!!

Let me be your cheering section! I've been through Power90 and now doing the Master Series and when I get back from my vacation end of July/early August...I will be starting P90X!! Look out!
And you know what? I've modified things....and I've still lost, still gained in muscle and energy! Lost in inches and pounds!! You can too!

Join me.....write me...I want to hear your story...I want to hear of your struggles and goals. I want to hear of your dreams and wishes for yourself. Tell me! :) I'm just an Add a Friend away....;)

Til then....

Power90 Finished!

04/29/12: I finished Power90! I couldn't believe how I got to my goal of 179 by the time I completed Power90! I started at 202 on 01/31/12, so that's a loss of 23 lbs!!
I have lost 30 inches from all over my body! It is amazing the feeling I got and the accomplishment alone was just incredible!

This took me back to days when I lived in Nevada and had completed Slim in 6! But this time, I felt more healthier and stronger and lighter!!

I have already been doing Power 90, the Master Series for the past 3 weeks now and I have lost a bit more weight since then! I am not sure yet on inches as I still have to take my inches yet but I would not be surprised that it is way over 30 inches!

I can't begin to say how excited I was last week when I tried on my Dallas Cowboy Football jersey that I had bought over a year ago. Still had the tags on it too! Roger Staubach! It was too tight last year and I was a bit sad about it. But now? WOOHOO! I can fit into it just fine!!!
Also, my jeans that I could not even zip in January, I can fit into them and no fat hanging over the waist or nothing!

When driving now, I look down and it's not so fat as it used to be!!! It's so exciting to feel so great and so much thinner than I have been in such a long time! Now....now is the moment to lose even more!

I did lose some in the breasts/chest area and my daughter even thought I looked THIN yesterday while at the Ren Faire! :) That is great but I don't want to lose anything in the breasts! They need to stay but unfortunately you really don't have a choice as to where you will lose the weight. I just need to lose it in the belly.

I did try on my bathing suit from last year and it looks so much better than it did then! I went ahead and ordered another bathing suit, one size down as I still have two full months and a week or more to go before I go on my vacation to the shore. I want to be down to 165 by my birthday, 07/31!! I am now at 177.5, so that means just 12.5 lbs to go!!!

Not sure if I will make it or not but I will be giving it my best and not going to miss a workout!!