why did i wait so long?

I just want to give you all a little glance into my world. this is a picture of my living room. It isn’t a recent picture (maybe 6months old) but not too many changes have occured. The thing i really love about this living room is the wood ceiling and the tile. I absolutely hate carpet.  I hate trying to keep carpet clean. Its almost impossible with kids. so, the tile makes it so much easier to clean. something spills…just get out the mop

Im happy to report that i am feeling better. I still have some breathing issues. What ever that was that decided to reside in my lungs is having a hard time moving on ;)  I had this issue in october too. I hope it stays away this time. Im sure i picked up some retched bug from work. The kids are doing  better too. Today was the first day that they all went to school.  They only had high fevers for like one day each. wierd. 

I am still going strong with no cheating. It has been surprisingly easy for some reason. I think it might be the fact that i am so close to the 100 lbs mark, but i hope it continues.  Guess what??? I finally built up the courage to do the body pump class. This is the class that is all about weight lifting. I chickened out a couple weeks ago. I am so glad i did it!! It was really no big deal. I loved it! It taught me new moves and isolated muscle groups. They weren’t intimidating at all.  actually some of the stuff i was doing in the spin circuit classes were a lot more difficult than what I did in body pump. LOL   what is really funny is I almost chickened out again. see, I took a rest day on wed, so I wanted to do a little extra thursday. my plan was to do my 60 min spin circuit class, then the 60 min body pump class.  So after the spin class I was talking myself out of bodypump, saying things to myself like ” its too much to do in one day, Im still a little under the weather, maybe i will push myself too far, the spin circuit class was pretty intense tonight” ect, ect…..Then something pushed all those excuses aside and I opened the door and went in.  After that it was no big thing :)  why do we try to make excuses for ourselves?  its frustrating.  They taught me new techniques like dead lifts, clean sweeps, ect… and made sure i had the right technique. It was like having my own personal trainer. very cool. I will go to that class often.

this is a picture of me and my sister. taken a couple yrs ago. we are identical twins. she is on the left, i am on the right. this was way before my weight loss began, hince the face shot! I rarely took pictures of anything lower than my neck. I do have a few full body shots i will post later.

this is us before our prom in highschool. I was about 135 (my goal weight) in the prom picture I am on the left and my sis in on the right. this pic was taken in 94 or 95. I was slim, but it didn’t come natural. I always had to watch what i eat, and I did work out a little bit here and there. no, we didn’t go to prom together, we did have our own dates, LOL.   And if I recall correctly, the night ended with me hallucinating on magic mushrooms in my boyfriends (my now hubbys) bed asking him to turn out the damn light because it was shining in my eyes. The light was the sun shining through the window! LMAO  yeah, i had a bad streak. I had lots of fun though. I wasn’t all bad. I kept up good grades and was a social butterfly. I just had the slight experimental drug phase, hey it was the 90’s. I just hope to keep my kids away from that phase.