A little out of order.....

As I posted the picture on the previous blog, I saw this picture I did and wanted to put it on here too. Back in the 2007-2008 school year, when we lived in New Mexico, we hosted a beautiful exchange student from Germany. Her name is Isabel. She came here to visit us at the beginning of the month, after not seeing her for a little over 3 years. We did a "re-take" of the picture that we took on the night that she became a part of our family in 2007. The changes are crazy!!! :) Erik and I are significantly smaller and our kids have grown like weeds! :) These were taken August 6, 2007 and August 7, 2011. :)

And yes....I dyed my hair between this pic and the pic I posted in the previous post. LOL




Oh and might as well share this one too.... ;) Erik and I celebrated our 14th anniversary on August 2nd. We went out to celebrate a few days before and we had our oldest snap a few pics of us as we were dressed up to go out. I made a little collage of us on our wedding day, our weight loss starting day and current. :)

Maintenance....

Wow.....didn't realize it has been a whole month since I have updated. Things in maintenance land are going very well! :) It's been a little tricky with adding in all the things I've not eaten in so long and trying to figure out exactly when I should eat what....especially since I'm still eating three Medifast replacement meals every day. But, I think I've got the system down pretty well now and with the higher caloric intake and exercise combined, my weight is great! I weighed in at 128.0 this morning and I'm nearly 2 months out since reaching my goal at 130.2 pounds. :)

So, one thing people wonder about with so much weight loss....the "skin." Yes, I have some excess skin at this point. But, I am very happy to say that it is definitely shrinking in somewhat already. :) It has to have time to play catch up with the changes to the rest of my body and though I wish it would go faster, I will have to be patient with it and hope for the best. ;) It is to be completely expected with having lost more than 150 pounds. There's just no way around that. It is amazing to me, though, even with the extra skin on my belly....what is underneath is getting pretty solid!!! Who me??? Hard abs???? LOL I have discovered, also, that my belly button borders on being an outtie!! It is really crazy the things you discover about your body when the weight is not there disguising your true form. :)

I spend a lot of time in the gym these days. I go to Zumba classes pretty much 5 days a week and sometimes more than one class in a day. I'm also RUNNING 5K....had my fastest time yet yesterday at 30:35!! I want to try some of the other classes and now that the kids are back in school, I can figure out how to fit that into my day. I love Zumba so much, I don't want to do anything else instead, so just need to figure out how and when to do both. I actually love to exercise now and believe me, those are words that I never thought I'd ever think or say. I am so blissfully happy with the changes I've made! :)

This is a pic of me taken this past Saturday....on my way to ZUMBA!!! :)