The Fourth Week!

Well, I have officially been on the program for a month!  I still feel great (Except this stupid summer cold that is kicking my butt) and I had a fairly successful weigh in this week!  I am now down to 288 lbs!  That means, I lost 6 pounds this week and a total weight loss for one month of 26 pounds!  Yep that's right!  26 pounds in one month!  What awesome results!  I can say that in the past having tried a few different things, like diet and excersize, I have never really seen results, or at least not like this!  And I think that is one of the biggest challenges with weightloss, is when you don't see results quickly, you get discouraged easily and fall back into your old habits.  I love Take Shape for Life, because I have had amazing results, I rarely feel hungry (I do have some days where I will get the munchies, but those are usually days when I am stuck sitting instead of being able to do stuff) I feel healthy, I feel happy, and I feel full of life!  I hope that I can pay this feeling forward and help others in the future, change their lives and their situations.  I hope I can be an inspiration, like my own health coach has been for me!  I've never come across something that feels so right and so life changing, and so perfect.  I feel like meeting my health coach, was almost like fate!  Let me explain this.  When I was pregnant with Andrew (Who is now three months old) I was HUGE.  I had peaked at 370 lbs.  Yeah, I was pregnant, but I was THREE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY POUNDS!  I could hardly walk, I couldn't reach my feet, I had to have help to put socks on, I wouldn't wear any shoes that laced up, only slip on's, and I felt horrible.  And the thing was even though I was pregnant, it wasn't all pregnancy.  But, it was a blessing in it's own way being that miserable, because, it really gave me a glimpse into what I would feel like, permanently, if I let myself get any bigger.  I was already at the 340 mark before I got pregnant, so I wasn't far off.  It scared the Hell out of me to feel that way.  I can't even begin to describe how scary it was to be that immobile and that depressed, because I wasn't able to do anything.  So I knew after Andrew was born, I had to do something.  Before I met Jenn (My health coach) I was really trying to keep healthy foods in my home, and fix healthy meals.  But, having a new born and a two year old, it was hard to always make something healthy to eat for every single meal.  Plus, in a lot of ways, I didn't have a really clear grasp on nutrition.  Even now I am still learning every day about healthy foods and how they affect your body, and other foods and how they affect your body.  I am learning about excersize, and eating enough that your body doesn't go into starvation mode, but not eating so much that you are just packing on the pounds, and most importantly, eating the nutrients you need, and not just counting the calories.  It's all a lot to take in, BUT, this program makes it simple to learn.  And they make it easy to see results.  Anywho, I have gone off on a tangent.  So about 6 weeks 8 weeks after Andrew was born I met Jenn.  This amazing, wonderful person, who came into my life, and showed me that she used to be just as big as I am, and I see her now, four years later, and I am still amazed and in Awe at how wonderful she looks.  And then I think, I am going to look like that too!  I am just so excited about what my futures holds. I hope everyone will keep following me on this journey, the support and love has been amazing!  I can't wait to show everyone pictures of how amazing I can look when I reach my goal weight.  For now, I have attached my one month picture for everyone to look at!  I look goofy, I know, but, I can see progress!  I hope you can too!