Ten Pounds Down!

See? I told you I would blog about other things than writing ! :)

This year was hard on the old waistline for me. This holiday season, I didn't hold myself back from ANY treat. The result...not pretty. Here are the top reasons I knew I had to do something to lose weight and get back into shape.

#1: A child asked if I was pregnant.
#2: An adult asked if I was pregnant.
#3: My muffin top was beginning to look appetizing.
#4: I realized I was setting a bad example for my kids with our eating habits.
#5: I was tired of being tired

So, I decided to do something. I am usually pretty self motivated when it comes to eating and exercising. As a family, we generally eat healthy and are constantly outside riding bikes or walking around the lake. But it seemed that we were "treating ourselves" way too often. I needed something to kick my butt into gear, show me results quickly and get me motivated. I usually don't look to "fad diet tricks" or the newest sensation in weight loss, but I needed something. I have heard great things about Advocare for years and I new someone that sold it, so I looked her up and ordered a 24 Day Challenge Bundle from her. Here's the link to her page if you want it: https://www.advocare.com/0007378/default.aspx It came with a 10 day herbal cleanse and 14 days of meal replacement shakes, metabolic nutrition suppliments and Spark, an energy drink that DOESN'T give you the jitters.  I gotta say I loved it! It was a bit hard to get used to taking the suppliments 30 minutes before you eat breakfast and lunch, but it was worth it.

I lost a FULL TEN POUNDS in the 24 days!!! Come on folks, that is pretty spectacular for a woman! ;)

I fit into my clothes a lot better and I am motivated to lose more! I never took a before picture, because quite frankly, eww! But I am mad at myself for not taking inch measurements, because I would have liked to see the results from that. Another benefit I have noticed is my complextion has improved noticably. Bonus!!! I am impressed!!!

I also had another handy little helper to help me on my way, an app called MyFitnessPal. You can find it in the app store or at www.myfitnesspal.com What an amazing tool that has been! It has been such an eye opener to see how many calories we truly are eating in a day versus what we should be eating.

I am also doing the 90 Day Weight Loss Challenge at Life Time Fitness, where I work part time, so my goal is to loose at least ten more pounds for that. I started that February 5th, so that is a totally obtainable goal!

All in all, I wanted to let you all know that it has been a good thing for our family. My kids and husband are all eating healthier, we are becoming more aware of what goes into our bodies, which is great. I hope that maybe someone will be inspired to do the same.