Busy, tired and rewarding as well and about my profile picture. how it all started with my weight loss!

My work has been extremely busy this week but most rewarding because things got done and everyone is happy, I think.

Someone told me that I really should put together a side by side comparison of me before and now so that I, myself can see my progress. We tend to be very critical of oneself so I did that. I sent it to my trainer, I sent it to FB and I got a lot of compliments. I thank everyone for that. I am still working on this phase of my life both physically and emotionally. I feel 2013 is I can do this slowly and in healthy ways. I have to thank my trainer for opening my eyes to weight training and eating clean and pushing me. I don't think I can do it without her. And because of this new mindset, going to Arrichion Hot Yoga and doing the Tiger's Eye, Warrior and Sparta - I am trying harder and doing my best rather than going through the motions. The coaches there are wonderful and encouraging. With both trainer and Arrichion - I am on my way...thanks so much. IT'S A PROCESS, YOU CAN DO IT! YOU GOT THIS! These are the words of encouragement

I have been on numerous crash diets in my life. I even went on a liquid diet and a intense diet of no carbs as well. Oh, truly, if you basically eat little and exercise like a fiend, you will lose weight. The trick is how you make it stay off. The picture of me on the left (which you should be able to see it on my profile) was in 2008 when I was 200+ lbs. I went on an intense diet and exercise program and did lose a bunch of weight but felt very tired, sick and unhealthy and got down to 110 lbs in 2010. I have to thank the boxing gym is helping me though but I knew it was not the way to go long term. Going forward to 2011 and 2012, I had a series of setbacks of eating and exercise. I was getting injured and felt lousy and gaining the weight back up to 150+lbs. OMG, I said, I just don't want to start over again. So I do have a picture of me end of 2012 after my buds and I finished our half marathon - I can see how puffy and fat I was and yup, that BMI calculator at the gym said so too. So that is how 2013 started.  So why am I telling you this? To say, don't give up on yourself! You know when the time is right and YOU, YOURSELF will do something about it. Until you are ready, it is not going to happen.

Other news is that I will truly miss my swim instructor, Ed. We started together about 2.5 years ago when I was so deeply afraid of the water but I could float and now, I can swim the 50 yards and I sink now. I am going to try to keep practicing. Good thing the YMCA has the Swim Fit program which will keep me honest.

Yesterday, Galloway group run was 8m with a magic mile instead of 6. Magic mile is when you measured how long it takes to do that mile. You should be running it harder but not that you drop dead. I do not run fast but I can run far. I sense I am getting stronger though - with the weight training I am doing so yesterday that magic mile felt good - knock down my time 30 secs.

So it is Sunday now...what am I cooking?

Well, I made some:

Roasted brussell sprouts which the recipe is in some earlier post
Going to do more asparagus - in earlier post - that one seems to disappear fast
Going to do a brown rice pasta with some chicken and veggies

Enjoy,

Sue