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I HAVE LOST A TOTAL OF 130 LBS SINCE OCTOBER 2009.   I HAVE 14 MORE LBS TO GO AND I AM AT MY GOAL.   I LOST 6 JEAN SIZES AND FROM A 4X TO L AND SOMETIMES M….HAPPINESS IS CLOTHES THAT FIT.   I HAVE BEEN WORKING OUT 1 TIME A DAY AND SINCE JULY 2X A DAY.   I LOVE THE GYM AND THE WEIGHTS…HAVE LOVELY TAN ARMS WITH GREAT DEFINITION AND AM NOW WORKING ON MY LEGS.   I AM TYPE 2 DIABETES AND MY A1C IS PERFECT AS IS THE REST OF MY BLOOD WORK.   I HAVE LOST MY HIGH BLOODPRESSURE….HOPEFULL WILL GET RID OF SOME OF THE DIABETES MEDS.   IF YOU NEED SOME HELPFUL HINTS LOG ON AND ASK…..I DON’T DIET AND AM JUST REALLY CAREFUL WITH WHAT I EAT.   QUALITY OF FOOD AND CHOICES IS MY RELIGION AND OF COURSE YOU CAN BET THAT GOD HAD A HAND IN MY TRANSFORMATION.   I WILL TRY TO GET A SIZE 14 PICTURE TO REPLACE MY 16 OR 18…..NOT SURE WHAT THE LAST ONE IS.   HOPEFULLY WILL BE HERE FOR SOME TIME.   GOOD LUCK, AND IF I CAN DO IT YOU CAN.

THINGS ARE MOVING ALONG FOR ME TOO FAST….I MISS MY BUDDYSLIM SITE AND ALL OF MY FRIENDS AND FELLOW WEIGHT LOSS ENTHUSIASTS.   I AM IN AN INTRUM HOME BETWEEN THE OLD AND THE HOPEFULL NEW ONE AND DON’T HAVE COMPUTER ACCESS.   IT IS HARD BUT THE SWEET LADY I LIVE WITH IS MY SECOND CHANCE TO TAKE CARE OF MY MOTHER.  SHE IS THE SAME AGE AS MY MOM WHEN I LOST HER AND WASN’T ABLE TO BE WITH HER.

MY A1C IS PERFECT AS MY BLOOD PRESSURE AND MY HEALTH COULDN’T BE BETTER.   MY NEW DOCTOR IS THE GREATEST AND IS THRILLED WITH MY PROGRESS.   I AM AVERAGING 12 LBS EVERY 6 WEEKS AND I HOPE TO KEEP IT UP.   I WILL REACH MY GOAL BY OCTOBER AS I HAD HOPED….IT WILL BE CLOSE TO 100 LBS AND I FEEL LIKE A MILLION BUCKS.  MY NEW FRIEND TELLS ME EVERYDAY HOW BEAUTIFUL I AM AND I HAVE TO KEEP LOOKING IN THE MIRROR TO BE SURE HE IS TALKING ABOUT ME.  I WILL TRY TO GET A NEW PICTURE ON LINE FOR YOU TO SEE.   IT REALLY IS ME!

STILL WALKING 60 MINUTES AND WEIGHTS FOR 20 TO 30.  YOGA IS SUNDAY TWICE A DAY AND ZUMBA IS ON HOLD TILL I HAVE MY OWN PLACE.

I WILL TRY TO UP DATE AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE AND READ BLOGS….CAN’T TELL YOU HOW MUCH YOU ALL HAVE BECOME A PART OF MY LIFE AND I MISS YOU.

Loosing about 2 lbs a week  on average.   I love the blog about evolution….I have been growing and changing as we all have since birth.   I am dating 54 yr olds, 65 yr olds, and one gentleman 70.   What a difference.  The younger are more appreciative and fun and the older sweet and genuinely happy to be with you.  The ones my age are spoiled premadonna’s. Baby Boomers….you suck!  They are the ‘ME’ generation!  The I want it tech and I want it now.   They have so much less to offer in so many ways.

My routine is unchanging just adding weight and changing exercises as I need to.   Still love the gym more than anything in my life.  I am on my own and it is a little scarey, but I have so many goals and noone to tell me they are stupid.  Actually no one to put me down.  The lady that is sharing her home with me is so sweet and supportive.  She says I can think of her as my Mother.  We all need a mom at times like this.

Need to read blogs to get caught up, will not be a stranger anymore…….missed you all!!!!

I have a new picture but couldn’t get it from my pictures to the finished product.   I have been busy with my new best friend and also more motivated, if that is possible.   I am wearing the pants that I wanted to be wearing and they are snug on the waist but look fabulas.  I can’t believe it is me.  Your have to check out my album.

Started moving into my new place and it is also fabulas!  It is so exciting…moving in all my workout stuff.  I don’t have a lot of clothes yet, but what I have is not old lady stuff.  Bought jeans with more tears than I have in my 20 year old pair.  Smaller sized shoes???? Oh well and fabulas hair color.

 My workouts are so diversified….legs today and they are shaping up.  Arms and the saggy stuff is almost solid.  I never dreamed…..!  Shoulders and back are stronger and less sags on the sides.  The abs are still my worst part, but it had almost 100 lbs hanging and pulling it down.  Still hanging but so much less and so much better.   Yoga is switched to Sunday and any stress day.   Zumba is anytime I have the time.  Lately I have had less free time but it is definitely an asset.  

I am crazy about this man and forget lots of stuff but not the workouts!   He thinks I am fabulas and tells me all the time.  Thank you buddy slim and my friends….! Special thank you s for all the boosters and Nancy, my cheerleader….I love you!  I have only begun to loose and am looking forward to Vegas in October at my final weight and with my new best friend.

My last blog on personal trainers, I promise……5 days and five different workouts.   Legs, arms, upper body shoulders and back and abs.    One day just cardio……I start every workout with 40-50 minutes of treadmill as fast as Lady GaGa can sing.   I am still getting over Monday and legs and the rest is just as sore.   Only when I use them though!!!!  So if I were to take a day off and put my feet up I wouldn’t be sore.   Not happening!!

The most pleasant part of the workout is the whole place is full of police officers (out of uniform) and Highway patrol is there too.   God thank you for our, in shape officers.   It motivates you to hold in your stomach and work harder.   I love this gym!!!!   My trainer knows all these guys…..wonder if any are single…..no wedding rings but that means nothing.   Have a fabulas 4th weekend….think thin!

A good start and my first lesson with my trainer yesterday…..ouuuuu….ie!  Did legs yesterday and I know where they are today.  My stomach muscles are singing in tune….I know that this is going to make a big change!   Did arms today and I can’t wait till tomorrow…what a way to spend a 5 day weekend.   Enjoying every minute and thanks for all those that encouraged me to do this………Nancy!  Many others too!  You guys have helped change my life for the better. 

started my first day with a trainer and WOW!   I feel beat up and bruised.   Started with legs today and tomorrow arms.  I never knew there were so many ways to feel your legs.   Holy **** I never should have let myself go.   He is a dam DI and I would really like to hurt him, but I am getting this for free.   He likes me!  He already figured how much older I am than he.   This will definitely get me to Vegas weight by October.   I am pumped and have a lot of stuff to follow on my nights.  Putting yoga and a walk on Sunday and Zumba at night with the run.   No wonder, after an 8 hour work day, I go home do my jog, and yoga or Zumba and shower and fall into bed.   What ever will I do about night life?   This so far, is way more fun!!!!

Should have a very nice picture in a few months…I will need a body lift..hope not.   I fought against getting a trainer, but think how much farther along I would be.  Live and learn.  Go buddyslim website….thank you everyone!  Nancy again, this was your suggestion!!!!

I miss alot of faces and names!   Am I the only one that notices this and what is with all the commercials?  I get enough commericals interrupting my favorite tv shows.   I miss all the blogs!   Nancy is the only steady person I notice and she is my #1 inspiration.  You all have inspired and encouraged me.  I wouldn’t be were I am without this website and your encouragement and ideas.  I like the exchange of ideas…be it recipes or exercises.  Nancy has put me to the right stuff and so have countless number of you.   Where did you all go?  Vacations, just tired of the whole inside computer thing?  If you are still there and I am missing you let me know.

I need input on barbells.   I have been doing pretty much without help and I want to move on.  It is hard without the right instruction.  Had a guy the other day tell me I was doing something wrong and I know I got the right instruction.  The guy was in bermuda shorts (plaid) and a pink tank top?  What the heck?  Increased my weight and cut back on reps (from my daughter).  She is a peach!   I am at that last 30 lbs and want the gut gone…it is hanging on with a tenacity of a pit bull.  I want to be able to wear fabulas sun dresses and wow Vegas.   I can’t do l pushup!   What’s with that?  Why can’t women do arm stuff…..I want to and don’t want to get a trainer.   My son in law has been the trainer, but moved to a different gym.  The abbsssss….help!   Is anyone out there!????

A very long week!   I have been working out so hard that I am maintaining a very nice plateau!   It is always hard to break through that one weight that you remain at always.   I increased my weights last week and shortened my reps..I always know when I am losing and not at the present time.  Have a Dr appt the 7th and I will know by then.   I am doing laps, jogging and another 50 min walk session at the gym at night.   Figure more protein drinks for lunch instead of food and the plateau will be history.   Doing dumb bells at home at night as well as in the morning.  There are a lot of moves you can do with them.  Didn’t realize how versatile they are.  Not sure how much to pump up the weight.  Have 10 lbs….where do I go from here.   Never thought they would be too light.

Still doing my Zumba, and yoga for peace and inner peace.   Plateaus are part of dieting and will go away, just have to be patient.

I don’t usually blog as much in a week, but this is special!  I started here last year in the 230’s but by my birthday in November had hit 260.  That was the end of the end…I started walking, huge clothes and huffing and puffing.  I have a before pic in my site but don’t know how to put it up on the front page.  That is my age not my ability speaking.  I learned to type in school and all of you learned the computer.   If you have followed me this year you will notice I am thinner, happier, and healthier.  I will actually look pretty terrific at 170 because of my height, but I may pass that.  If I live long enough, you know I am getting older.

170 is my goal so far and today, at the Dr.s I am 199.  You all know I do not weigh unless someone makes me.  The scale is evil and does noone any good.  I could tell you what I weigh by what I can fit into.  Put on my baggy size 16 jeans and put my favorite cami on which went over my shoulders and slid to the floor.  I have lost my butt, and 1 boob size, but kept my D cup.  Small favors!!!!! Still have the stomach to go, if only I could roll it up and tuck it under my arm. 

Going to Vegas in October and I tell you I am going to be a show stopper.   New hair, nicer skin, and beautiful nails.  Healthy?  You could say that and I feel like a million dollars.   Please be encouraged my friends, don’t give up it is never too late.