More Milestones…

On November 15th my husband and I set out for a 12-day-long trip to visit friends in a suburb of San Francisco.  Needless to say, it was pretty awesome but it also came with a few added perks that turned out to be pretty major milestones. 100lbs Weightloss Milestones 1)  Flying in an Airplane Up until that date, I hadn't been on a plane in almost two years.  This wasn't necessarily by choice,…

Major Setback…

Today ends my fifth week of Crossfit...it should be the end of my sixth week but last week I was at the beach with my family and well...didn't do crossfit or much of anything for that matter. On my last day of CF prior to leaving for the beach, I was feeling like a million bucks.  I had punished almost half a mile, I had steadily increased the amount of weight I was lifting and I was feeling…

It’s Not Worth It!

I'm here to tell you a week of vacation filled with craptacular eating and virtually no exercise  is not worth it!  These last two days at the gym have left me feeling worse than I did on my first day of Crossfit which was five weeks ago.  It feels like all the progress I had made is G.O.N.E.  and now I'm left feeling down and discouraged.  I'm not giving up, I know it will get better again but…

A letter to my gym who pissed me off…to put it nicely.

Before reading this you should know that everything was resolved as you can tell by subsequent posts and now that it's in the past it turns out that it was one of the most empowering parts of my journey.  I actually fought for myself and didn't give up.  I didn't let  my frustration become and excuse for giving up on myself... The following is a letter to the head dude at Crossfit at my local…

What the hell have I done?

Living Social sent me a deal for half off the pre-registration price for the Spartan Race here in North Carolina coming up in March.  So what does this dumbass do?  BUYS IT! First of all, obstacle racing has seemed like a brilliant idea to me since I first discovered it about 2 years ago.  But 2 years ago I was too fat to even THINK about actually doing one.  I'm 90lbs less than I was back in…