sharing the drive

When I first started this journey, I wanted to loose weight. My trainer said it was all about change. Okay, I was off the couch and eating less and that meant change to me. But not to him, he meant more. As time goes on, I am finding out what change really means and how I am not done changing. It requires you to constantly juggle all components of weight loss and modify them on an ongoing basis.

As I change, I so want to share this process with others and I think that is one reason I started this blog. In my attempt to share my journey, I hope others will hop in for the ride. Since my journey began, I have been able to get my husband started on watching his weight and going to a great trainer. He has moved from the couch and has lost twenty pounds already. (He is catching up to me in such as short amount of time. I had to learn that males have it easier than us females in terms of loosing weight). I am soooooo proud of him! He has changed and dedicated himself to loosing weight even though he still has some medical issues. I have also decided to invest money for friends and family in a boot camp. It is my hope that the group will continue to want to change. The commitment is theirs and I want to be part of their celebration as they change. My three sons are now coming aboard also. My two oldest have cooked for us in the last month meals that they found on line. These meals were nutritious and tasted delicious! It is amazing how change is coming about in our home. We have gone from eating out almost everyday to now having home cooked meals. We have gone from being stationary to moving about daily. I am in tears tonight as I think about how needless it was for us to be in the position were are now. But I also have tears of joy as I see change. Change that was so over due. The beginning of this process was so very rough, challenging, and quite frankly, frightening. But now, it is getting better. There is still a long road ahead but as we keep focused a better life looks brighter, attainable, and more appealing.

Talk about sharing the drive! I have documented my training, weight, and food log since 9/30/09. I was going to weigh in on 11/30/09 but after my training tonight, I wanted to step on the scale. With my husband by my side, the trainer weighed me in. I put the top marker where I started on this journey -299 lbs. My trainer slowly moved the marker down, down, and down. Yes, I am making progress. Today I am thirty pounds, can you believe it, thirty pounds lighter. I am so excited. It has been one of my goals to be in the 260's by Thanksgiving and I did it. I have to thank my husband for his ability to keep me on track at home and to keep encouraging me to go on despite set backs I have. He is the same guy, but with a new attitude and sometimes I don't recognize what he is saying and doing. I also am glad my trainer was there tonight. He has pushed, encouraged, lectured, reinforced, and trained me. He made me believe that I can achieve my goals despite my attempts to disagree with him. I am so glad I listened to him. My trainer shared this with me today "this is a commitment for life! You will take the weight off, but you need to keep it off". That is definitely the mind set I need to keep. The word CHANGE will have to be in my weight loss journey always.