July 2010

July 31, 2010 ~ Busy summer...
Sorry it has been a few weeks since I have updated my blog!  My summer session just ended and the last couple of weeks have been pretty hectic with papers to write and tests to take!  I am now officially done and so happy to have a few weeks before the fall semester begins.  For anyone that doesn't know, I was laid off from work after 22 years at the same place....a year ago this past March.  I decided to not only lose weight, but go back to school and finish up a degree in Social Work!  I'm re-inventing myself!  LOL!! 
I have been on my journey since July 16th of last year and am happy to announce that I am down 108 pounds in the 54 weeks since I started!  What a journey this has been!  I love eating this way AND I love feeling this way!!  I have been an inspiration to friends and family members and actually am responsible for six friends AND five family members that have now joined me eating healthy with Medifast food!  It is so much fun watching them have the same success that I have had!
 
So many things are different this summer when I look back to how things were last summer.  I'm not at goal weight, I still have around 70 pounds to go, but I am able to do more, stay out in the sun more, and basically LIVE more! What a blessing that is!  This morning I helped my husband mow the lawn at my brothers house.  A year ago, I wouldn't have even attempted helping with the mowing. Now I feel like I am more of a partner in our marriage and can help with more things!  I like looking in the mirror and seeing the person that is looking back at me.

If you are just starting your journey and are scared or wonder if you are thowing your money away, or if you can even survive on these little white packets, believe me when I say you can!  I still remember looking at my first shipment and wondering what I got myself in to!  LOL!!  But I just decided to jump in and do this, and I've never regretted it.  I know, for the first time in my life, that I will get to goal weight!  This coming from someone who spent the majority of her adult life at around or above 300 pounds!  So if I can do this....you can do this.  Believe it and believe in yourself.  YOU ARE WORTH THIS!! 
I'll try to get in here a little more often now that school is finished for the summer!!