Contest is officially over the results, sigh. I didn’t win, well not the prize. Disappointed, yes. Happy for the winner definitely. However, I totally rocked the contest in the numbers. Weight loss at 19.46 %, reduced fat percentage by 7.7%, lost a total of 22 inches! I am in the best shape of my life, I don’t even think I was in this great of shape when I did tumbling, cheerleading and sports back in high school. Not really sure, but there is speculation to why I didn’t win in the end. Enough of that talk, as it is what it is and it doesn’t define me.
As I reflect back, I look at the weight loss chart I have been charting since September 4, 2013. That first number, that highest weight I documented was a tough one to write. As it was around the same number I was when I gave birth. Gasp. But I am glad I wrote it down, and continued to document my weight changes two times a week. When I get discouraged, which I blame my human condition and Satan I look back at what I weighted the previous month, and notice that I am down 10 pounds from December 28, until now. I am consistent. Yes, I am not at my lowest weight for the month, but I am down 10 pounds. So it is okay to fluctuate in the weight numbers department.
I told you that the contest is over. You want to know what I did after the contest? Well, I went to grab some dinner with husband. Where? At a restaurant called The Garage, it is a hamburger and loaded fries place. What did I have? I freakin’ turkey burger, and 2 light beers! (remember the “contest” is over, I should have had loaded cheese fries, a reg. cheeseburger but NO as I developed a healthy lifestyle)
The next day, the Hangover. Not like an alcohol hangover, but an I was focused of a contest for 16 weeks and now it is over and will I fall off the cliff and eat donuts, cookies, pizza, ice cream kind of hangover. I woke up, thinking all negative. Then I looked at myself in the mirror, and was like today is no diff then yesterday. I am still me, I have work to continue. I have developed the habits, the several small habits I developed over time didn’t go away because the darn contest was over. Did I work out, heck ya. Boxing, Running. Weight training. All the same activities was doing, but now I was doing them because I wanted too. ( Don’t get me wrong, I wanted to before too. But this time it was different.) I now have 15 to 20 pounds left to go to get to my goal weight. I have the tools, the desire, and the passion to get there. Follow my journey. Start your own journey.
