Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all my family and friends. I am feeling so blessed this year. This year has just flown by. I can't believe 2011 is almost over. 1 week left and it will be 2012. As I reflect back over this year and as difficult and hard this year has been, I can't help but thank God for all the many blessings that He has bestowed upon me. I have a family that I adore and that adore me, I have a roof over my head and food in my tummy. There are so many families that are struggling or that are homeless because of our economy. I graduated with an Associate degree this last March, I have turned my life around to become healthy and happy. I have friends that have stuck by me and supported me through some very difficult situations. I am starting to learn to celebrate not only the big things but also the little things that come my way. Most importantly that I have a Savior that sent His only begotten Son to die on a cross to save me from my sins. Thank you Jesus for dying a painful, horrible death to only raise from the dead 3 days later to save me from my sins.
In saying all that the beginning of this last week was very difficult start to the week. I mentioned back in September a situation that I had with a guest that wasn't very pleasant. He eventually was asked to leave after about 4 weeks. Well last week he returned for another 4 weeks. I FREAKED out on Monday when I saw him. It brought all those scary ugly feelings. I was PISSED to say the least. Then to make things worse, on tuesday Micaela put me in the same hiking van as this guest. I FREAKED out even more and started bawling. A friend of mine Renee went and talked to Micaela and told her that I was pretty upset about that. My friend Rob who was here for the week decided to go on the hike with me that day to protect me. I was so grateful to him for that. It all turned out beautifully.
I lost another 2.2 lbs this week and since it was my 4th week back I got to measure in and since 4 weeks ago I have lost an additional 6 inches. That is a total of 62.5 lbs and 34.25 inches since returning 4 weeks ago. I still am in awe of my weight loss. I only have 7 weeks left before I leave the resort and head back home. I don't want to leave. I'm starting to freak out about it a little it.
So as you can see, I have so much to be thankful for. I am truly blessed. I want to say again, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. May your 2012 be filled with love, joy, peace, and happiness. Dream big and go for the win. I believe in you, you have to believe in yourself.
Sunday, December 25, 2011
Friday, December 16, 2011
Road Trip to Palm Springs to Celebrate Alex's 30th Birthday. Happy Birthday Alex
Hey Family and Friends,
I have been meaning to blog for the last 3 or 4 days but I have been so exhausted that I haven't had the energy to blog. Sorry about that. Last weekend I went to Palm Springs to visit a friend of mine that was here at the resort with me back in October. It was her sons 30th birthday on Saturday, Dec. 10th so she through him a huge party. I had a really great time. This week has been a very frustrating and disappointing week. But as frustrating and disappointing as it has been, it also has been a aspirating and life changing week. It all started on Tuesday evening. I had the greatest pleasure of being invited to attend the Biggest Loser Finale. Talk about Life Changing. The finalists looked AMAZING. I had so much fun. After the Finale I was invited to attend the "After party at the Sheraton Hotel in Studio City. Most of the past season contestants and the current contestants were all there. It was a really nice time. I got to meet a few of the contestants. Some of the management from the resort including the 3 owners had meetings at the Sheraton earlier that evening so they were there for the after party. Michelle, who is one of the owners of the resort was taking me around to several people and showing me off to everyone and having me show my before picture. I do have to say that did make me feel good. I didn't stay very late at the party because I knew I had to get up early Wednesday morning for all the days activities. As AMAZING as Tuesday night was, there was Wednesday. Wednesday I had my V02 with Tonia. The V02 is a test that you can do that determines what your target heart rate should be to burn the most calories and to condition your heart. You get on a treadmill and you walk/jog on it until you reach your 85% max. We ended up doing it twice because the first time didn't come out right. The second time wasn't really any better. I did one in August when I first got here and it was decent. As you increase your strength and endurance your target heart rate should go up. Mine went down from August. I was really frustrated and disappointed. Tonia said that she thinks it's because I haven't been working to my potential. I haven't been working to my potential because she has stopped me from working to my potential because of my knees and foot. I am feeling really discouraged and lost. Thursday Tonia and I had our training session. She told me that the "Nice" Tonia was no longer around. That it was time to pick things up and hit it hard. So that's exactly what she did. She killed me. She pushed me more than she has ever pushed me. She knows what my goals are and wants to see me reach those goals. As frustrating and disappointing and upsetting as this week has been, I have to say that I am so thankful and appreciative of what has been given to me. I woke up early this morning and went to weigh in. I lost a whopping 2.8 lbs this week. That is a total of 60.3 lbs. I was so excited. I didn't think that I was going to loose anything this week because I missed a lot of classes this week due to appt. and stuff. It made my day. It was like it was God's way of blessing me and showing me that He is there rooting me on and loving me not matter what. I had another appt. today with my Orthopedic Surgeon. He gave me an injection in my right knee of Synvisc. It's a collagen gel that is suppose to help lubricate the knee. It's not guaranteed that it will work. We shall see. I have to get two more shots. I am hoping and praying that it works. If it works in this knee I probably will do it in my left knee also. Its really expensive though. Well, I am exhausted and am falling asleep as I type this so I am going to say Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all of you. May God bless each and everyone of you and your families. Each of you are in my thoughts and prayers. I love all of you so very much.
I have been meaning to blog for the last 3 or 4 days but I have been so exhausted that I haven't had the energy to blog. Sorry about that. Last weekend I went to Palm Springs to visit a friend of mine that was here at the resort with me back in October. It was her sons 30th birthday on Saturday, Dec. 10th so she through him a huge party. I had a really great time. This week has been a very frustrating and disappointing week. But as frustrating and disappointing as it has been, it also has been a aspirating and life changing week. It all started on Tuesday evening. I had the greatest pleasure of being invited to attend the Biggest Loser Finale. Talk about Life Changing. The finalists looked AMAZING. I had so much fun. After the Finale I was invited to attend the "After party at the Sheraton Hotel in Studio City. Most of the past season contestants and the current contestants were all there. It was a really nice time. I got to meet a few of the contestants. Some of the management from the resort including the 3 owners had meetings at the Sheraton earlier that evening so they were there for the after party. Michelle, who is one of the owners of the resort was taking me around to several people and showing me off to everyone and having me show my before picture. I do have to say that did make me feel good. I didn't stay very late at the party because I knew I had to get up early Wednesday morning for all the days activities. As AMAZING as Tuesday night was, there was Wednesday. Wednesday I had my V02 with Tonia. The V02 is a test that you can do that determines what your target heart rate should be to burn the most calories and to condition your heart. You get on a treadmill and you walk/jog on it until you reach your 85% max. We ended up doing it twice because the first time didn't come out right. The second time wasn't really any better. I did one in August when I first got here and it was decent. As you increase your strength and endurance your target heart rate should go up. Mine went down from August. I was really frustrated and disappointed. Tonia said that she thinks it's because I haven't been working to my potential. I haven't been working to my potential because she has stopped me from working to my potential because of my knees and foot. I am feeling really discouraged and lost. Thursday Tonia and I had our training session. She told me that the "Nice" Tonia was no longer around. That it was time to pick things up and hit it hard. So that's exactly what she did. She killed me. She pushed me more than she has ever pushed me. She knows what my goals are and wants to see me reach those goals. As frustrating and disappointing and upsetting as this week has been, I have to say that I am so thankful and appreciative of what has been given to me. I woke up early this morning and went to weigh in. I lost a whopping 2.8 lbs this week. That is a total of 60.3 lbs. I was so excited. I didn't think that I was going to loose anything this week because I missed a lot of classes this week due to appt. and stuff. It made my day. It was like it was God's way of blessing me and showing me that He is there rooting me on and loving me not matter what. I had another appt. today with my Orthopedic Surgeon. He gave me an injection in my right knee of Synvisc. It's a collagen gel that is suppose to help lubricate the knee. It's not guaranteed that it will work. We shall see. I have to get two more shots. I am hoping and praying that it works. If it works in this knee I probably will do it in my left knee also. Its really expensive though. Well, I am exhausted and am falling asleep as I type this so I am going to say Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all of you. May God bless each and everyone of you and your families. Each of you are in my thoughts and prayers. I love all of you so very much.
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Time To Celebrate The Little Successes In My Life
Hello Family and Friends. Today has been an AMAZING day. A little update before I go on. Because of my knee and foot injuries I have been advised by my Orthopedic Surgeon to not due my 5K. I would be lying if I said that I am not upset and disappointed by this, but I know it's for the best and it's not like I can't ever do it. I have started physical therapy for my knees this week. Tuesday was my first appointment. I was AMAZED at how my knees felt after my appointment. Actually felt no pain. I have to say it was so nice. So back to my AMAZING day. About 1 1/2 - 2 years ago I was diagnosed with Diabetes. I knew that I should take his seriously and do something about it, but I really didn't take it seriously. My health over that time slowly started declining. Until July 31st, 2011. I decided to start taking it seriously. I left my family, friends, animals, etc behind and headed to the Biggest Loser Resort. This place has forever changed my life. Well, as most of you know, I went home two weeks ago for a short trip. Well today I had a conference call with my Nurse Practitioner to go over the results. I am ecstatic to announce that in 17 short weeks I have reversed my Diabetes and no longer have it. I was taken off two of my medications today by my Nurse Practitioner. I am so blessed.
Friday, December 2, 2011
Venturing Back To Malibu & Happy Thanksgiving
Hey everyone. Sorry I haven't posted for a couple of weeks. The last two weeks have been a blur. Went home on the 20th of November for a couple of days. It was really good to see my family, friends and my dog and cat. Had a situation with my mom and dad that was not good, but I handled it really well. Just made me realize that if I want to continue this journey and this lifestyle that Spokane is no longer my home. Confirmed to me that I need to distance myself from unhealthy situations and relationships. It just blows me away that people can say things, especially family members that they think is being helpful and honest only turns out to be hurtful and devastating. I left on Wednesday morning to head to Salem, Oregon to spend a few days with my best friend from Jr. High and High School. I spent Thanksgiving with her and her kids and some friends of hers. It was really nice. I had a blast with her and her kids. I left Saturday morning to head back here. The weather was perfect. Roads were perfect. No issues at all. I really enjoyed the alone time. It gave me a chance to really reflect on my journey and what I wanted to do. I arrived back to BLR on Sunday afternoon. It was great to see everyone here and to be back at the Resort. Trained with Tonia on Monday. Still having issues with my knees & foot so we pretty much did upper body and strength training. I started to have a training session with Tonia on Tuesday afternoon, but I started getting sick so Tonia canceled our session which was ok because I had a dr appt with my Orthopedic Surgeon later in the afternoon. So I met with the surgeon and he checked out my right knee which has really been bothering me lately. He suspected a torn meniscus in my right knees so he sent me for an MRI. He also took another xray of my left foot because he suspected a stress fracture. Negative on the xray. The MRI took a couple of days for them to make the report. Had another appt. with the ortho dr. to go over the results of the MRI today. No menisci tear. YAY!!!! Which means no surgery. YAY!!!! He did say that my knees are being abused intensely. He said that if I could stop abusing my knees that would be great for me. I started laughing and said that for the next 10 weeks that won't happen. So the alternative is only using the pool and the recumbent back. So no 5K for now. He did say that if I wanted to do a bike race or ride that would be a great idea. I am so frustrated with this whole thing. I am getting so tired of all the road blocks that keep coming up and getting in the way of me reaching my goals. I know this is happening for a reason, it just stinks. I weighed in today. I lost only .3lbs this week. Last week I maintained, which I was ok with because I didn't do any exercise while I was gone. I just thought that I should have lost more this week. But I did notice this morning that I have lost more inches in my stomach area. Trained with Kareen on Wednesday and then again with Tonia on Thursday. Hopefully, we can come up with a program that will allow me to reach my goals and get me to my goal weight by the time I leave here in February. I just don't want to lose focus and perspective on why I am here and what I want to accomplish.
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