Thanks Luflic!!

Even tho. I did end up gaining a bit, I exercised all 3 days of my trip to North Carolina. This included a long walk w/my friend (beautiful national park), using weights in the hotel fitness room, and using resistance tube in my room.

Starting personal training tomorrow--right before Thanksgiving to give myself a kick in the pants.

Enjoy the holiday!

Whooo hoo

So my personal training session was just awesome! I learned some new core exercises and a lot of good upper body and lower body things with barbells, various big machines, etc. Also finally learned the proper form for lunges.

I made it back to the Y yesterday for a pretty intense workout. I didn't overeat on Thanksgiving.

So I guess this counts as 2 or 3 victories!

Hope all had a good holiday.

That deserves some dancing carrots Elana I am glad you enjoyed your session with your trainer! That is awesome! Congrats!

Definitely good NSV Elana...great job!

Congrats Elana! I have a personal trainer, too, and I can't even begin to tell you what a difference she's made. I guess it's evident in my signature, huh? Lol. I don't think I could have handled this task without someone in my corner pushing me harder than I can push myself. Sure it's not easy and it's not always fun, but the rewards are so obvious! I hope you get as much out of your personal training as I get out of mine! Congrats for making that huge step to getting a trainer, too.

Okay, so I have a funny NSV. Hehe.

So, I was home for all of Thanksgiving week, and on Black Friday (muwahahaha ), my mom, sister, and I went to the Mall of GA to go participate in the madness. Well, we get to New York and Co., and my mom says, "Amanda, I want to get you something useful for Christmas. Would you mind trying on clothes so I can write down some possible items?" Uh...yeah! Lol.

So, I go in to my favorite store ever and just start grabbing things. Here's the victory:

1. I'm no longer an XL shirt. I'm a Large. But it's not even a tight-fitting Large. I could probably even go down to a Medium, if my boobs weren't so big, lmao.

2. I could never ever fit into NY&Co's pants. Ever. And they even go up to a size 18, and in other stores I was a 16. Well, I tried on their 16s and they fell off. Lol. So I tried on a 14. It fit perfectly. Not too snugly and not like I was poured into them. They just fit. Well, they had pleats in the front that I didn't particularly like, so I had the power to say, "Yeah...they fit...but I don't really like them." Haha! I didn't have to buy them just because they were the only pants to fit me. I'm not shopping out of desperation any more! I'm shopping like every other girl my age shops--picking and choosing and having the power to say no to fabric that doesn't work.

It's amazing. I can't even believe it. So that's my NSV. Going down in sizes, and reclaiming my power as a shopper to say, "Yeah...it fits. But I don't like it."

Awesome!! Great NSV, Calpurrnia!

I have one too. Last week my co-worker that I go to WW meetings with and I were talking about our meeting that night. Well, he thought we were talking about a work-related meeting. I told him, "No, Weight Watchers." He said, "Why are you going to Weight Watchers?"

lol. If he had only seen me 6 months ago

Steph, that's wonderful!! What a great pick-me-up for you!