While I fell off the wagon with my blog, I certainly haven't neglected my healthy lifestyle. Since last blogging in April, I doubled(!!!!) my weight loss. Now I am SIXTY pounds thinner than I was before beginning my journey back in January. My husband and I will be celebrating our 6th wedding anniversary this weekend and I am at least 30lbs smaller than our wedding day!

This year has been a year of milestones: my 30th bday, running my first 5k, etc... All of which I have been using as motivation for goals and each one I have achieved so far. My next goal is to lose another 20lbs by October 22nd. It's going to be a challenge but one I am ready to run with.

So continue on this journey with me.

AW: Thirty Pounds Down!

This week I reached a huge milestone...

MINUS 30 POUNDS!!!!!!

So many people have been asking me "what's your secret?", "how did you do it?", etc.  And honestly my answer should be that I bust my butt four days a week at the gym (2 spin classes, a weights class & kickboxing) two days at home (Yoga, running, or the Biggest Loser for Kinect) and one day for rest, and eat the best I can without depriving myself of a sweet now and then.  I also participate in an online community and owe much of my success to them for keeping me on track.

Has it been easy?  For the most part, yes, it has been.  I make it a priority to go to the gym and to plan healthy meals.  Life happens and I just can't beat myself up over a bad week.  It's about taking that week and making the next week better.

And this is it.  I am not going back to where I was.

AW Moment - Down a size!

The number on my scale has crept down over 15 pounds in the last 8 weeks.  A number that I haven't seen since before I was pregnant with my first daughter.  While this in itself is a very proud moment in my journey, I could now actually feel it in my clothes.  I knew I needed new jeans when the last hole on my belt wasn't tight enough and my pants still fell down.  I was growing quite tired of pulling my pants up every few minutes.  So while at Target one night, I stumbled upon new jeans.  I picked up a size smaller than my current jeans and I wasn't feeling terribly optimistic about them zipping up.  I tried them on and holy crap, they fit!!!!  What an awesome feeling!  Not only to be a size smaller and reach small goals, but to show that I can succeed at this!!