Today I did my first weigh-in & measurements to see how I’m doing. I hit my first goal of 153, so 4 pounds down. My next goal is 146 lbs. Not only have I lost weight but I’ve lost 1 1/2 inches, 3/4 of it off my chest measurements. Before you go thinking I’m losing my bust, I’m not I lost all of it from my back. I had noticed my back fat going away but I didn’t want say anything until I knew for sure. I’m so happy. I did all of this over my birthday & the holiday season. What I can’t do is say, “OK I made my goal so now I get a treat”. I have to remember that I’m changing my lifestyle, not dieting, so I have to keep up the hard work. If I want to reach my goal of 140 lbs. by the cruise then I have to stay the course. The reason I’m shooting to lose more weight this time is because I have started building muscle so it should get easier to lose the next several lbs, plus I’m not going to be getting birthday cakes, cookies & candy. I’m also going to work out more this month. Three days with Niki & 2 days swimming so I will be working out 5 days a weeks now. Over the Holidays I took some time off working out to Christmas shop. I’m not going to do that this month. I’m hitting it hard until the cruise.
Working out isn’t the only thing I’m doing to help my health. I’ve been reading about bio-identical hormones. Unfortunately I’m at the menopause stage of my life & don’t want to take hormone replacements because I’ve heard that’s worse than not taking them. Plus they are synthetic animal hormones. I’m going to see a Dr. who will take all my hormone levels with saliva testing, and blood work and he will find out which of my hormones are outta whack & by how much. Then instead of synthetic animal hormones in a pill he is suppose to make up a creme that is identical to human hormones in just the right dose to get all my hormones back to the proper levels. I’ll let you know more about that in March after all my testing is over & I’m using the bio-identical hormone replacement.
Gary is still really well, nothing new or exciting to tell you about, but also no sickness to tell you about so life is good and normal.
Please continue with all your prayers & good thoughts.
