Great week!!!!

Just a few days into my competition and I wanted to report on my progress!! I am SO excited!! I know I wasnt going to weigh but once a week but I have been weighing a lot more than that. I ahve been working out consistantly, eating clean and taking my Advocare MNS strips faithfully!! I have lost 5 pounds since Monday!! I am pretty excited and hoping that I can maintain that through weigh in. I am so focused on this goal!!! The half marathon in may is coming soon and the only way I will be able to even walk it is if I get another 40-50 pounds off by then. My back continues to hurt as do my hips and I am icing, doing Chiropractic and getting massages so that I can keep working out. I feel blessed to be able to do what I do with working out. Still loving my total gym and have decided to cancel my gym membership because I love working out at home and I want to save that money each month.

I have been thinking a lot about attitude and how I talk to myself. Everyday I wake up and decide it will be a good day...and that JUST for today I will eat clean. An old trainer I had told me that I could eat whatever I wanted.....it just depends how fast I want my results to come. When I am deciding to put mayo on my sandwich I think about that and say "I could have this, but I want to be thin more than I want this mayo." BUT I dont EVER tell myself I CAN'T have something, that is an all or nothing attitude...I am steering clear of that behavior because it leads to a cycle of being dissapointed in myself for being imperfect. I wont do that.

Another thing that I have found really helpful is prayer. I believe that God is more powerful than anything! We need his help to beat our Giants!!!! We can be made strong through him! I am praying for help and strength. I am reading his words daily in the scriptures and my life is being blessed because of it!

I am excited to celebrate my birthday this year in April...that dress WILL fit and I will look AMAZING in it!! I am excited to do my half marathon and my mini tri again this year....I will smoke last years time for sure!!!! I might even keep up with my best friend Kim!! (that would be an accomplishment and that is my goal for the tri!)