The #1 Team of the Challenge
Tuesday, July 24, 2012
I'm a slacker sorry
The Canyon County Weight Loss Challenge is over
BUT
my journey in this is far from over. It will never be completely over.
Just because I may have lost all my weight doesn't mean
I can go back to eating whatever I want and not
keeping up with the daily couple hours of exercising.
It has became a part of my life. Something that is
as natural as eating for me.
I am glad the challenge is over. Alot less stress.
I lost 74.4 lbs and came in 13th out of about 243 contestants.
I lost 21.8% of my body weight.
Unfortunately it wasn't based on the amount of weight
you lost it was the percentage.
As far as my team went I lost the most weight of the females. 2 of my
friends lost a little bigger percentage. There was 2 men on our team.
I beat one and the other guy blew me out of the water. He almost took 3rd place.
We had 4 people from the team in the top 15.
We took 13th, 11th,9th and 7th places. All odd numbers.
Our team overall lost 25% of the total pounds lost. Amazing!!
We were the number 1 team and each of us got a $15 Nordstrom Rack gift card.
Nordstrom Rack - Boise also gave us (and anyone from the challenge but we were the only
ones to take advantage of it. They were invited to many things we participated in and not 1
person showed up. I don't know if they were intimidated by us or
just didn't care) a private shopping experience with each of us having our own
person dressing us (ok not actually dressing us but picking out
flattering clothes for our new smaller bodies).
From January to July I have lost 89 pounds!!!
I get emotional when people I know see me and are in shock.
The look on their faces are priceless.
I couldn't help but cry even before I weighed in when I saw
Greta Van Dyke at the challenge. She is a Diabetes Certified Educator
that is very involved with the kids who have diabetes. She is always
at the camps for them (HODIA). I love that lady.
My 21 yr old daughter is a type 1 diabetic and Greta has taken care of her at camp, in the hospital
and has taught her so much.
Audrie was barely 5 when she was diagnosed and went to her first
week long camp at the tender age of 7.
She went there having to have someone do her shots for her,
and came home shooting in her belly. And then went on an insulin pump
4 months later. She would have lots of lows because we
kept her in tight control and that would cause seizures from low blood sugars.
The pump made it to where they were less frequent.
There is no happy medium with diabetes.
Greta was doing the weights on the set of scales I used.
She started crying when she saw my weight and of course
I already knew what I would weigh and how much I had lost
since my scales weigh exactly the same as theirs.
We hugged and cried some more
My leg finally healed from me breaking it in April. I didn't think it was ever going to heal.
Then the end of last month I was getting ready
to go on a date with my husband to the
Meridian Speedway and watch cars drive in circles.
He was being nice and tieing my shoes. I would swing my
leg over the back of the weelchair and he would tie it.
However I miss calculated how high to swing my left leg.
Since I was holding onto the chair with the brakes not on
we went backwards.
I fell hard on my right hip and the speaker, dresser and gun cabinet
were not very soft as I fell into each of them. I smacked my right
shoulder on the gun cabinet. My pride was hurt along with my butt.
My shoulder didn't hurt right away. Then I got a big ugly bruise on
my back on my wing. It hurt to raise my arm above my head.
In true Honey Badger style I kept going to all my classes.
What doesn't kill you makes you stronger.
It feels so good to be able to wear jeans that when I bought them
they didn't fit. So as I continue to lose I get brand new clothes without
even having to go buy new ones.I can shop in the normal section
in the store now. Some of my clothes are just XL and not 3-5X. Most of my jeans
and capris are either XL or an 18-20 vs 28 and those 28's were getting
tight.
I have 100 pounds left to lose until I hit the weight I want to weigh.
My BMI has went from 54.4 to an unbelievable 40.3.
Once I hit my target weight I will be in the high end of the healthy
BMI range with it being at 25.
I feel so much better.
My cholesterol wasn't to bad believe it or not before I started. Since
then I have had it done again. My bad cholesterol dropped 10% my good stayed the same
and my triglycerides decreased my a whopping 40%.
I continue to eat as clean and healthy as I can.
I still drink protein shakes at least once a day.
I still have things I shouldn't but it is not a daily occurance
and they are not eaten because "I deserve them".
I am not a dog and do not need rewarded with food.
I still go to Nampafitstudio and work my butt off
5 days a week sometimes 6 days. I always do at least
2 classes sometimes 3. So that is around 2-3 hours a day.
I LOVE IT.
I wish everyone who was over weight could find a place like
Nampafitstudio where they live so they
can really start to LIVE themselves.
I am only 40 and have alot of life left ahead.
I have became really close with several people from the studio
and I am so grateful for whatever brought us all together
at that particular time. Its both the trainers as well
as my buddies working out beside me.
My favorite classes are ZUMBA (of course) which I do 5 days a week,
Flab Fighters which is 4 days a week,
Pilates for 2 days a week and
last but not least HHH just once or twice a week.
In August there will be
Les Mills BODYPUMP. So excited.
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