Day 70

Ok folks. We are winding down on the 72 days but I am so excited to get started on another 24 days with my friends here in the area who want to start getting fit. 24 days is such an easy frame of time to adjust to. Many folks throw in the towel even before they start because they look at the finish line that's wayyyyyyy down the road. Why not start at the first goal you set for yourself? Make it a goal to just get up and move. Make it a goal to get up and move with friends. Those sound easy enough. I can not advocate this enough. We need to take better care of ourselves. I beat my body up pretty bad in my 50 years. I want to stop and reverse the effects of my lifetime of bad decisions. We know this is possible with diet and exercise. So lets join forces together and help each other out. We don't need to drag down others with our poor word choices. We should build them up. We are all children of God and we are precious in his eyes. We need Gods eyes to see this in others too. So we start our next 24 DC on April 2nd. If you are even thinking about it don't let the devil talk you out of it. Don't let stan make your choices for you. DO NOT quit before you even start. 

Day 67

Ok friends, hows things going out there? I am so fired up for spring and to see all my friends get fit and live a better life. I had another jog today. Even though its a cool 31 degree out the sun is shining and it feels like 50 to me. I broke out the jogging gear and fired up my new app on my phone and took off with GPS to track me. It was kind of neat except when it would say how far I had went and it was less than a mile.Then it would speak, "Zero point 25 miles" in that nice navigator voice. I would hear the zero and wonder is this thing working? Being me though I did take the car and measure off tenths so I had a rough idea of how far I wanted to go. I know the nice days make it easier and I have people who want to do the exercise video with me. We are going to have an official 24 day challenge hoe down, or hootenanny which ever you want to call it. We have Wellman folks maybe planning on whipping the Keota folks. I have loyalties to both as I am about half way in between. I am super excited about sharing what my journey has taught me and helping others reach a fitness goal no matter the level they start at. So come on friends! Lets do this together. Life is to short to ride the couch all night and then get up and do it all over again. Lets get out there and live the life God planned for us with an abundance of an over running cup. I claim that today and everyday. 

Day 65

As my 72 days starts to wind down I realize that I am not ready for it to be over. So for that reason I am going to do the whole 72 days over again. Only I am going to be farther along than I was 2 months ago. I now workout 3 ,4,5 days a week and I look forward to that. My next thing I am doing is starting to run(jog). I bought me a better pair of shoes and I know I am a wimp but when the wind is blowing on this middle prairie it is COLD! So I know I can do a 5 k I trained for one last year. Granted I did walk it because of the foot surgery I had in December but I know how far that is. I know I  can go into Wellman on any given day and walk that with some jogging included makes me happy. So keep hanging with me" friends"(as Jodi M likes to say on the can you 24 DVD. I love that she says "friends" I feel like I know her and maybe in august I will get to meet her. So please, please, please, anyone who is struggling with wanting to get fit and is afraid, or needs a buddy for moral support ,get a hold of me and lets talk. I work at Costco 3 days a week and I know I can find time to help someone who wants to get some energy back or tone up or lose weight. I am living it right here on the mid prairie. Come join me friends!!!

Day 60

It seems jogging/walking yesterday had no long term repercussions on my bones or muscles. Thank you Advocare products. I felt like I should at least be sore. Nope not a bit. So today was back to Can you 24 DVD (been doing this all along) and I am now ready to go back and do DVD 2. I can comfortably do the first DVD and need a bit more amping up. So while I am 60 days into this journey I know it is my life style now. I could drop the counting after my 72 and just redo them again. My weight loss journey and getting my body fit 72 days at a time. It almost sounds better than changing forever. You can do 72 days. I guess just do a whole bunch of them. So I am still out here still going strong and looking to be at my best. Whatever that looks like. I don't really know, I have never been 100% before. So thanks for taking time to read this blog. I appreciate each and everyone of you who read or comment. If you are working on being fit then keep up the great work. If you want to become more fit then shoot me a message and lets do it together. 

Day 59

Well here I am almost 60 days into this journey and I feel better than ever. So much so that I thought I would go out tonight and enjoy the longer sunny afternoon. While doing so I walked/jogged a mile and a half. Not impressed? Well considering I have not ran on purpose since high school I thought it was a great thing. Thanks to the O2 gold I was able to breathe well the entire time. It was my leg that I had the blood clot in that gave me some problems. I trust that is just from being old and rusty. So I wont tell you how long it took me. I did keep time so I can do better next time. I was on flat gravel road. Very soft conditions but no traffic at the time I went so it was all good. Stay tuned folks and see what new things I will be able to do taking these wonderful Advocare products. 

Day 53

Well I have a few minutes as I sit here and drink my post work out recovery (chocolate) I realized that the last few days I need to amp things up. So I went back to the first DVD and I am now doing the exercises at the intermediate or the advanced. Never did I think I could do such a thing. I had been doing the beginner at the whole length of time. I am now sweating and huffing and puffing and I feel as if I am finally accomplishing something. I measured today again and now I have a total of 10 inches gone. If I said I had done 10 inches before then I am a bad measurer person. After looking at my pictures I realize I have toned up. I have lost weight and it doesn't really matter what the scales say or what people think. Its me. How I feel or how I act and the things I can do. Maybe I do them better now or maybe I am doing them for the first time. This started out as a competition but has become a journey into finding me inside the fat girl. I am so thankful Advocare found me. So if your reading this blog for the first time or for the 10th time thanks for thinking of me and I do appreciate the support. 

All 3 pics together

I guess the pictures do not lie. I was sure nothing was happening to me. You know how everything feels the same? I will wear the last outfit now for all the new pics. Thanks to my good friend sweet Melissa for suggesting this. BTW that's Doolittle in the last picture with me. Larry had the laser pointer and he was ready to chase that dot. You can see some of the fun we have out here on the middle prairie.

Pictures of day 48

Day 48

Wow where did my week go? Oh yes! Snowstorm, work and school. During it all I have kept up with my DVD and seeing some definition on my stomach of some sort of thing I am not sure but it may be muscles. Stay tuned for that investigation. I will post pics later my hubby is gone to a men's night with church guys and I am home alone with 6 cats (4 outside) and 2 dogs. I do not get to be home alone very much at night so its kinda weird for me. I started Larry on a 24 day challenge to finish mine out with me. The 48 days has went fast and if nothing else I am more active and inches smaller. (not shorter) LOL. My faith in these Advocare products just grows leaps and bounds. So I plan to finish these last 24 days with all the gusto I have to give. It wont be swimsuit time yet but soon. If you want to hear about my journey more in depth give me a shout out here or on FB. Take care friends!