WHA?!

The other day my neighbor Olivia stopped by to have me take a look at her measurements because she's about to do the 24 day Challenge (I'm so excited for her, BTW) along with her measuring tape. I pulled out my stats and started going over exactly where she should have measured her waist and happened to notice my number was not the same as 17 days prior. I thought, hmmm....maybe Pam measured me wrong?  I checked my iliac crest. Wrong again. Maybe Olivia's tape is different from Xfit's tape? Checked my hips. Different. This time I realized that there was no mistake... I have actually lost even more inches since the challenge! I literally had goosebumps and teared up. I couldn't believe it! I haven't even tried. While on the Challenge I made sure to be SUPER strict with my diet, but have given myself WAY too much freedom since. Taking my MNS religiously everyday is the only thing I've not slipped up on, to be perfectly honest.

So yesterday, on Day 44 of my Challenge I decided I wanted to be weighed and measured again. I lost another 2 pounds and another 5 inches (pretty much all in my midsection/hips)!!! With the help of Advocare products I have lost 9.5 inches and 8 pounds in the last 44 days! CRAZYNESS!!! I believe in these products wholeheartedly and am so excited to help the people I care about change their lives too!

RESULTS ARE IN! (edited to add pics!)

SKI TO SEA:

In our leg, which was canoe: we placed 253rd overall and 23rd for division.

Our team placed 360th overall which is great, and finished 20th in our division.

It was an amazing experience I hope to do again. I'm so happy I was able to accomplish such a huge feat hand in hand with Jason. We did so awesome for it being our first time!

24 DAY CHALLENGE:

I made it through my 24 day challenge and did well overall. It was definitely a trying experience at times, but it was well worth it. I finally broke my plateau and am hoping by continuing the MNS portion I will lose/gain even more (if that makes any sense at all).

I lost 6 pounds, 6.4% of my body fat and 4.5"

DAY 24

LAST DAY!!!!!

It's the last day of my challenge. I may do one extra day because I have an extra day's worth of supplies, but it's totally not mandatory anymore! YAY! I made it! Wahoozie!

In the beginning it felt like it would take forever, but it really has flown by. At times it was rough and emotional and challenging. You'd think maybe I'd have expected that, it is in the name for pete's sake! I tweaked the plan a bit to suit me better. And cheated a bit here and there. BUT i think it's helped change my way of thinking about food. I know I can go a month without eating out. I know I can go without indulging in every craving. I will be replacing my bad choices for healthier options (you finally won the whole grain pasta war, jason!). I've learned a little bit more about what foods to eat and when. Overall, this experience has taught me a lot and that makes it worth the time and effort. Money well spent.

I'm a little bit worried about my weigh-in taking measurements. Not for any good reason, I just feel like I have reverse body dysmorphia (let's pretend that's a real condition) because I feel like I look better in real life than I actually do. I see pics of myself and think "Who's that? Surely it's not me. I look way better than that!" But whatevs... that's a okay problem to have I guess. Anywho... I may have my stats taken today, or maybe first thing friday. I just really hope that my numbers reflect the way I feel!

I used gum to curb my sweet tooth. I've never chewed so much gum in my life-I constantly felt like a Valley girl!

 CHEATS
*spoonful of PB most nights for a late night snack
*1 jolly rancher at a weak moment
*low carb tortilla on a burn day
*dressing on my salads(the best I could find,2TBS at most/watered down)
*potatoes in my breakfast scramble on race day + larger portion
*changing up my ratio to 2 burn days:1 refuel day

We have a date planned for Friday to go to Red Robin for fries smothered in ketchup and to see the new Snow White movie with Charlize Theron. Also, I have one of Lizzie's famous peanut butter cup brownies in a tupperware that's been taunting me from my counter since our BBQ on Monday! MMMMM!!!!!

is she on nyquil?

tomorrow is ski to sea. i have a cold. no fun. hope i get more rest tonight than i did last night. i really need it. on a positive note... i found biceps in the mirror today whilst doing my hair. that is all. goodnight.

Failures and Triumphs

So today was the last mid-session fit test. Steps. I was so super pumped up about it that I decided to go at 7am (which is unheard of for this non early bird). My goal at the beginning of this session was to do core workouts at home on off days so that by midsession my situp fit test improved enough to get me to 650. Well, my situp fit test was yet another bust, so I had to make it up in steps. 308 of them. I was going at an awesome pace and for one reason or another, only mustered up 302. I was beyond pissed at myself. I had a very short pity party, about 2 minutes worth, in which I shed a few tears. But brushed myself off and turned that into a celebration instead. I pulled off breaking 300 steps, which is totally awesome! Also, I beat my high score of 589 AND raised my total fit test score from 533@ the beginning of this session to 644 this time. That's 111 points people!!  PLUS... I now have some added motivation to meet my goal by EOS. The right way. By working on my weakness on off days, which is my core strength.

To sum up the way I'm feeling about not meeting my goal, AWESOME & MOTIVATED!!

Happy Monday!

I'm off to a great start of the morning and week. I woke up and stretched, greeted my boys with a smile and powered through my fiber drink, got on the computer and saw that my sweet baby brother had accepted my friend request on Facebook. And not only did he accept me, he actually asked to "add me as his sister" for the whole world to see! I know I shouldn't be moved by such a small thing, but I teared up a little over it. Siblings SHOULD automatically do those things. I guess I kind of feel like he's all of a sudden proud that I'm his sister? Whatever. I'll take it!

I need to make beanbags for the Sockhop toss game today and clean the house, but I'll throw on my favorite Pandora station and rock it out. Later is my favorite fit-test, pushups! Not that I'm particularly great at pushups, I'm just not as pathetic at them as I am some others. Like situps.

I hear a babygirl babbling. She may look like me, but she almost always wakes up on the right side of the bed. That's all daddy!

because blogs without pics are boring

rough

today has been rough. i've been cranky and moody. i'd like to think it's not anything to do with my current diet, but i'm pretty sure it is. i was ticked this morning at my mom for being late, which was probably just because that in turn made lunch late. i was literally bummed that i missed my afternoon snack (it's seriously what i look forward to from 10:30am on). i was seriously near b-word-y at dinner because it was not ANYTHING i'd be excited about. this better all be worth it in the end!  GRR!  i think it's time i go to bed and try again tomorrow.