Official Weigh-In

I took a few days off from work since my Grandma will be 100 years old Friday. I decided to take some clothes out to the clinic that helped me get started on this journey. I jumped on the scale and had officially lost 70.3 pounds since October 4, 2007.

Monday I went to the gym and sweated off 3 pounds and kept it off overnight. Last night I sweated off another 1 pound and this morning another 1 pound. Tonight is the official "Biggest Loser" weigh-in. Hopefully I will reflect all this water loss.

Have a great day,
God Bless,
Karen

Prayer Request

Do you sometimes wonder if God really listens to your prayers? I admit that sometimes I do. Well, last night I was praying that God would bring something into my life that would allow me to keep my house and yet be able to quit my second job. Today, someone sent me something that I want to follow up on. But I want to make sure it is in His will.

Please pray that I make the right decision. If it happens I will go into more details but for now just know that God knows what it is.

Thanks,
God Bless,
Karen

The Next Day

Okay. If I ever get the hairbrained idea to do two bootcamps in one day please just lock me up and throw away the key!!! I took yesterday off and even though I am not in the main competition anymore I still went and did the bootcamp at 10am and then again at 5pm yesterday.

BAD IDEA!!!!!!! I am so sore today that I can hardly move and the second day is usually the worst!!! So, if you aren't busy tomorrow can you follow me around and help me be able to walk and put my arms over my head? Just kidding. It was actually a good thing to do this but I really am sore. Muscles that I didn't know I had or that I thought I had worked out before are letting me know of their existance.

Anyway, I am still enjoying working out. I don't know what will happen when the Biggest Loser ends at the gym though since the workouts right now are intense. I like having that team work and trainer to motivate me.

Have a great day,
God Bless,
Karen

Ever heard of Bosu?

Well, me neither. I have, however, been using on and off at the gym for awhile. If you are familiar with the exercise ball this is basically the top third to half of one of those sliced off and attached to a flat base. You use it for many purposes but my trainer, Craig, has decided that doing deep knee bends while trying to balance on this monstrasity would be a great exercise. I guess he saw me working on it last Monday night before my circuit class. (Josh, the other trainer, had us using this thing in a couple of our circuit and bootcamp classes but my balance was horrible, I wanted to practice). Anyway, I got my new routine last night and this was on it. Oh what fun and joy. However, I was able to do 9 of the 12 in a set before falling off. Don't worry, it isn't a far fall and you land on your feet so...

Anyway, as you can tell I sucked it up and went to the gym last night even though I was still bummed about being eliminated. I ran into Sheryl, one of my teammates and we talked a little. She promised that the other three girls and her would hunt me down if I started slacking off now. It is nice to be loved!!!! Really, I do appreciate the ladies and was very thankful for them.

Have a great Easter,
God Bless,
Karen
Matthew 27:45-Matthew 28:20

Not Enough

Well, by 1/10th of a percentage I was eliminated from the main competition at the Gym. I can still workout for the second place prize and will, but today I am sad. One of the girls from here gave me one day to be sad then I have to get over it!!!!

Anyway, I guess I will have to try to get over my pride and exercise even though I am not in the main competition. My pride says that everyone will know that I didn't make it. Though I knew that I would probably not win I thought I would be in it a little longer due to my size. I guess my body is starting to build muscle and so the weightloss slowed down. Oh well.

God Bless,
Karen

Three Pounds, enough?

Okay, normally I would be very happy that I lost 3 pounds in one week but because of my size, I don't think it will be enough to keep me in the Biggest Loser at the gym. Unless someone didn't weigh in or only lost about a pound then I would be the lowest percentage lost. Needless to say I am pretty bummed. Of course I was already down because of not being able to do a lot of the things that others were able to do so this didn't improve my attitude any.

There is a lady that is on my team at the gym and she is so nice. Actually, I don't think there is one person that is not nice on my team that I have met but poor Tiffany, she got to hear me having my pity party tonight. She tried to encourage me and I just continued to pout. I definately owe her an apology.

I have no idea when I will know since my team leader is out until Monday but I guess I will let you know when I do.

God Bless,
Karen

P.S. Can you pray for my attitude? Help me remember that I have lost 69 pounds since October 4th and this is just a small rock in my journey.

A Woman's Perogative?

Okay, remember the post from earlier today? Well tonight's is different. I was working out tonight and got so discouraged. We do something called "Mountain Climbers" that require you to be on the ground and then lift up and kick your legs behind you like you are climbing a mountain. I can not do that, then he had us do pushups, again, couldn't do and finally he has us run around the floor. Everyone was running past me because I had to walk fast and not run.

For the most part I am keeping up but it is embarassing and frustrating because I can't do some of these things. The trainer is very encouraging and knows that I have bad knees so he doesn't push but it is so discouraging sometimes. I was almost in tears. Fortunately the sweat was covering my teary eyes.

Don't get me wrong. I still love to work out and won't give up but it is still frustrating. Now I just have to stop listening to Satan trying to discourage me!!!!

God Bless,
Karen