31 days: a year of health!

It has been a FULL year since I started on this journey for weight loss..Back then I had finally had it..We weren't sure if we planned on having more kids..The kids were older and not in need of me all the time so I could take some time for exercise!   I had set pretty attainable goals back then!

(10%) 17.6 lbs to go!
Christmas:  25.6 pounds to go!
life time 64.6 lbs to go!

By Christmas I had lost 20 lbs! I didnt feel great but I felt a lot better as I was down a size or two in jeans...I was also completing the goal of the couch to 5k!

I joined my gym in January and really saw amazing progress there as soon as I started mixing cross training and weight training in along with my running!  In April I ran my first official race!  Given I was slow as hell I still beat my first 5k time by about 8-9 minutes finishing around 36.10 mins

Over the summer I got lazy and tired of losing weight and I pretty much took most of the summer off..I kept up with my work outs just did shorter miles but faster times, less gym time aka less burning those inches off and maintained for the most part!

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I finally hit my wall with maintaining and figured lets get my original goal DONE!  I want to get it done! I am currently 21.6 pounds away from that goal! If I reach that goal I will be 15 lbs under the high point of a healthy BMI!  However I just need a realistic goal to hit by years end which would be 16 lbs! So hopefully I can get these last 21 pounds off by hopefully Valentines Day and just really tone up the remainder of the year.  For now I am training for a 10k as it will keep me out there and on track!

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