Weight Update!

If you haven't seen the news already on my facebook, I finally worked up the courage to weigh myself again!  The last time I weighed myself was on November 8th, according to the log in the gym at work, and today, I've subtracted another 13 pounds!  I'm at 319 now, and that's a grand total of 67 pounds lost, 47 of which have been since I started using AdvoCare products!

Another reason why these most recent 13 pounds is so big to me, is because in the almost-two months since I've weighed myself, Thanksgiving and Christmas have taken place, and instead of putting on 5 or 10 pounds and backsliding, the pounds kept coming off!

Not to give all the credit of the poundage lost to AdvoCare, I've been working hard and and sweating up a storm as well and paid a lot more attention to my eating habits, but the products have certainly made a huge impact on me, as well as the support system that has developed because of them!  I know I talk about AdvoCare a lot on here, but I just love how much the products have helped me, and helped me see results on the scale, on the treadmill, and in the dressing room, but one thing that never ceases to amaze me are the people in AdvoCare.  They truly are some of the most supportive, generous, and encouraging people I've ever met!

I can't thank my family, my AdvoCare family, and my church family enough for all the support you've all given me!  I know this is another thing I've harped on as well but the more I think about it, the more necessary, I think, having a strong, deep and broad support system is.  I really think that's why people who want to lose weight start off so strong at times, then things get busy, or they hit a plateau, or something happens, and they fall off the wagon.  It's not necessarily a will-power issue, although granted, that can be a part of it, I really think a huge part of it is that they didn't have friends and loved-ones who understood their desire, and their vision, and supported them in it.  That goes for more than just health, but for any huge goal or change someone tries to implement.

I honestly hope that this blog has been as beneficial for others as it has been for me.  There's nothing I'd rather do than help others feel a great as I feel now, and that goes for health and fitness, as well as hope I have of what will come in 2012.  I've never been a huge fan of New Years Resolutions, but just because it's the new year, that's not going to stop me from pushing and fighting for my goals, and hopefully, I can help you fight for yours!  What better time do we have than now?

Today was a Victory!

I finally broke the 15 minute-mile mark today and ran a mile in 14:44!!!!!!!!!!!!

I've never been an athlete, but I've almost always been, at least someone active.  Be it in sports, marching band, Drum & Bugle Corps, or even running around Ball State campus trying to get to class on time, there has rarely been a time where most of my time I've spend sedentary.  That's changed now.  As much as I do enjoy my job, it's very normal for me to spend 12+ hours a day sitting in a chair.  Still, today I realized that I am in the best physical shape I've ever been in, in my life!

I remember in high school the fastest mile time I remember having was right around 15:30.  When I did drum corps in the summer of 2006, I lost a lot of weight and my physical shape dramatically improved, but not as much as it could have, I don't think, but the recovery time was so minimal.  It also came to a dead stop when I got back home in August.  The changes that took place were not sustainable at all.  (I'll have to write another post about Corps, because it was an amazing experience!)

Like I said earlier, I ran a mile in under 15 minutes today!  I also actually ran over half of that mile, walking about a fourth of it.  (Maybe a little more than that, kinda hard to gauge it.)  I also realized that the pace I now warm up at is faster than I did my entire workout when I first got started several months ago.  I'm also doing my working and my cool down in less time than it took me to do just my workout back then! 

The improvements are coming so quickly now, and I can only thank God and his sufficient grace and faithfulness towards me!  He's provided such an incredible support system of people all over the country, and that is growing all the time!  I know that my story is being used to inspire and encourage people all over the place and that inspires and encourages me even more!  I absolutely could not have made it as far as I have without God's provision!