proud...

I went on pinterest the other day to look at journal prompts. as I mentioned in my opening welcome video below, I am not much of a journal writer etc and am trying to do this on the regular and make it an important part of the day etc. so…….. I looked at some of the options and one of them was “what are you proud of?” I sat and thought a moment and the answer came shining through …..I am proud of finally taking control of my weight and health. it has been some time since I could even say that….hell, I have never said that. just a few months back, I weighed over 223lbs. I changed how I ate and made my way down to 204lbs. I stayed there for quite some time and was discouraged that things weren’t moving. I decided it was time to do something more “extreme” by joining or following a plan. I knew I wasn’t up for another round with advocare….and did research about weight watchers etc but nothing really spoke to me….I even looked into that food app on tv that I can’t think of right now. I knew I needed to pursue something that was going to recreate me and how I approached food. I had a friend who had been on a program and they had lost quite a bit of weight and so I contacted them and followed them for about a month or so. I was seeing that not only had they lost the weight they had kept it off….and that was super important to me. I contacted their coach from the program and so my time with optavia began. I started the program over 30 days ago and am over half way to my goal. with that in mind…..I have decided I will probably go beyond my goal and lose an additional 10 pounds just to make sure I am where I would be my healthiest from a weight standpoint. this program has not only changed my body, but it has changed the way I look at food and how I think about it. I haven’t had anything sugary…not even this wonderful white chocolate covered reese’s easter eggs…..and that was the day I found out I was being furloughed for a month….a day I could have REALLY used one or 6 of them….but I passed them up along with the super good looking snickers bar that tried together my attention at publix. I am the person who always said that I didn’t have the will power NOT to eat something….and was going to be the person who if I wanted a piece of cheesecake I was going to have a piece of cheesecake. however, here I am over a month in and I haven’t wanted a piece of cheesecake so that was nice….and unexpected! I did a vlog if you will and will post the videos below. please know some of them do get a bit long….so be forewarned! @