Survived the first week

First week of serious diet and exercise... Wednesday was the first session with a personal trainer... oh my! there are two major things I learned during this workout....
1. I am so much stronger than I ever would have imagined.
2. I can exercise and not hurt myself!

Don't get me wrong I hurt I have muscles screaming at me that I did not even know I had. and those I knew about are angry angry angry! however there is a very big difference between sore and hurt! or better way to say it is between hurt and Injured. I hurt but am not injured. I did not know if that was possible. What I learned is that lots more was possible then I ever would have believed possible. for example... I did 50 push ups! yes that is not a typo I did 50 (fifty) push ups! I did 60 crunches, 50 squats with while lifting a 10 pound weight over my head! and more! I was totally amazed! Then as we are finishing our first session she tells us that she wants us in the gym 3 times a week outside of our two sessions a week and when we are there she wants us to do interval training on the treadmill. 50 minutes worth of interval training. 2 minutes at 3 then 1 minute at 1 then 2 minutes at 3 and then 1 minute at 1 and so on until we have done that for 50 minutes! I thought Ya, right! four weeks ago I could barely make it around the block at a moderate pace! but guess what I did tonight!!!!! you got it 50 minutes on the treadmill doing interval training! Now don't get me wrong... I know I can do nothing but by the power of God. I know that It is in my weakness that His stregnth is made perfect! I get that I know it is Him... All Him! but man oh man how amazing is this! that He is using my body to do this. Me! that is so very very amazing!!! What an adventure this journey is!

Blessings everyone I am off to find the ibuprophen!

March Update

Wow!!! what a month this has been... since my last post. the Extreme Makeover Conference took place in Redington Beach. It was a wonderful success. When we decided to do this conference we said that if only we came and we were able to just meet and practice and talk though things we would all be happy. Well then we decided that it would be wonderful if we had 10 people there. we would feel very blessed and have a wonderful time meeting each other and practicing our speaking and presentation skills. Well there were over 40 ladies in attendance and the evaluations that they filled out confirmed for all of us that this is something we need to pursue further. I do not know exactly where it will all lead to, however the journey is amazing! here are a few of the highlights.

The Tupperfit challange has begun and yes of course I made one of the teams. I don't even know why I thought there was a chance i would not. It is just amazing to me how God has me on this path. The really cool part about this is that i found out the night before the conference where i was giving my testimony about this extreme makeover God is doing in my life! Isn't God just amazing! So on Wednesday March 25th. I will start working out with a personal trainer and hopefully will find a new me hidden inside all of this extra weight i have been carrying around my entire life!