The Holiday!

I just love the Holidays! We had an amazing Thanksgiving and now I am enjoying this Christmas Season so very much! We've decorated our porch! Joe found a Light Up Big Bird and we just had to have it! It's all so much fun! We're gonna go lights CRAZY everywhere next year for sure! =D

Big Bird isn't as bright as he appears....my camera just grabbed all his light! HA! He's really cute out there. =D

HAPPY HOLIDAYS Ya'LL!! =D

Feels AMAZING! =)

I'm so happy! I still can't run but I can jog now and it feels AMAZING! My knee has healed nicely and believe me....I'm taking it easy on it because I NEVER want to hurt it again! I love jogging just as much as running so this is a Win Win to me! I also started doing Bear Crawls today.....OMG.....those are AWESOME....they kicked my big butt bad and I loved it!  Ha! It all felt so good to get out there and burn some of this fat! Burn fat BURN!  =D

23 years!

Joe and I had a wonderful 23rd Wedding Anniversary! Joe spoiled me ROTTEN! On Oct. 17th he took me to see the AMAZING Loretta Lynn! It was one of the best nights of my life! He also got me all this stuff from her 50th Anniversary Tour!

She was better and funnier than I ever could have imagined!  I'm so glad I got to see her live before she stopped touring.  I grew up listening to her songs and it was her true character that drew me to her thru her songs. She is an absolute treasure to Country Music. I can't thank him enough for taking me! I love my Man! =D

FINALLY! 30 Pounds...GONE!

Ok....being completely honest here....I did have a munchfest of pizza and hotdogs on Labor Day weekend so I gained 3 pounds that I had to get back off but now...I've lost those and more!  It's been nine weeks and I'm 30 pounds lighter and BUNCHES happier! Yay ME! =D

25 Pounds....GONE!

Today I've made it half way to my FIRST mini-goal! It's been 7 weeks and I've lost 25 Pounds....GONE! That's 3.5 pounds each week! It feels SO AWESOME! Even though I haven't been able to run...I'm still eating great, doing my daily weights and aerobics, and I've been walking every night here in my neighborhood to make up for the lack of running.  I'm so excited that this is really working! Joe is being SO supportive and has been super great at not sabotaging me at all this time so I gotta give him some BIG props for helping me succeed!  Thanks Honey Butters! I'm doing the Happy Dance!

It MOVED!

I'm SO happy! 

Got on the scale today and IT MOVED!! 

I've lost 22 pounds! 

I feel great and I guess this is still working so....once I heal up my ankle and knee....I'm be back running and speed-walking and working my butt off every day! Onward and downward I go! =D

No More Running! =(

I won't be able to run anymore for a while so I'm pulling it all back to doing a speed walk.  Both my knees and my left ankle are hurting pretty bad and I don't want to irreversibly do any further damage to them.  I'm so bummed...I love running so, SO much and I'm not a big fan of speed walking but I will make the best of it and stay positive.  I'm going to up my aerobics and strength training to offset that I'm not running which should still burn calories pretty well.  It's been another 5 days and no change in my weight.  Still crossing my fingers that by Friday I see a loss.