OH MY STARS!!!! Can you say "ouchie!!!"???

Guess what?? I'm not catching you up anymore..........from this point forward, my posts will be in "real time." Oh, I may step back and tell a funny story or non-scale victory that pops into my mind, but it will be one that pops into my mind as I'm blogging about happenings since my last post.

My goodness my trainer continues to push and push and push. Tonight we did, among other things, three sets of threes (overhead presses, in/out running, jump shots). OH MY STARS!!!!! Doing two of the three moves with the arms overhead movement about kills me. This is the first time she’s had me doing two of the three sets of three as the arms overhead/jumping moves. I wanted to cry “uncle.” Actually, I just wanted to cry. I honestly don’t know how I survived it tonight. By the second round of sets, I felt as if I was lifting legs of lead, buns of steel and arms completed covered with metal protective gear. I wanted to cry by the time we got to the third set of three. But………….alas, I survived and was able to walk into the house when I got home, barely and not without tears, but I am in the house and preparing to call it a night. WHEW!!!!!

My most recent weigh-in was a good one. Lost another 4.4 pounds, for a total of 54.2. I’m closing in on another “landmark” number to get below—350lbs. And, it will be the first time I’ve been below that number in quite a long time, The year was 2004, I think. I got down to close to 350 in 2004, but didn’t stay there long. Sorry to say, the losses stalled and the weight came back on and on and on and on. NOT THIS TIME!!!!! I am more determined than I have ever been to squeeze this “monster” completely off my body.

Why do I feel so different this time? What is different??? Well, the difference is all about………………you got it, CHOICES!!!! I have made the choice to include exercise this time. When I say that I have never, never, never done exercise, you can take that one to the bank and count it out.

I was raised in a very sedentary home, didn’t participate in school sports, didn’t have physical education class at the high school I attended, and didn’t have a large youth group in the church I grew up in so there were little to no activities. Can you say S*E*D*E*N*T*A*R*Y childhood??!!! But, no more. I have made the choice to put aside my sedentary lifestyle and become well educated and well practiced in the lifestyle of exercise.

Choices? Yep, I’ve made the choice to EXERCISE!!! Even when my muscles are screaming and I’d truly like to just sit it out and cry………nope, not gonna make that choice. Been there, done that—time and time again. This time, I’m choosing to EXERCISE!!!! Ultimately, the choice is mine!!! And, I've made it!! WoooooooHoooooooooo!!!!!! (Cynthia shouts and celebrates without lifting her sore arms!! Sorry, Cathy.....maybe I'll be able to lift them as I celebrate later, but not tonight!)