A happy little update. ;) Muscle DOES make you look smaller! ;)

*A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.*   A. A. Milne ~Teddy Bear

So...!!! LAST month... I was in a 2x...loverly people kept tellin' me I was losin' and those clothes were lookin' big......WELL.. now.. 1x! Not a lot of weight movement on the scale, but the body is changing!!!! Sometimes that's all that matters!  ;) And more inches are melting too! Woot! I went through again and measured, lost a few MORE inches, PLUS found my measurements for strange places like between the bust and waist ( an evil flubber roll..but I've lost SIX inches... since FEBRUARY! ahhhhh. I adore my workouts! ;) ...in adding up those other measurements which I will list in another blog.. it was... ready? Over FIFTY inches lost!!!!! Ahhhhhh!


I got rid of a huge bag of clothes as well.. many of them SWIMMING on me!!!!! SUCH an AMAZING feeling!!!! THEN this weekend some wonderful ladies and I were chatting away before our Northland Fit Club...and I said how much I still had to lose @ minimum.... weeeeeeelll. ALL THREE of them...were like NO WAY! You can't possibly have that much to lose! SO... I am LOOKING thinner then my physical weight ;) Ahhh... muscles building beneath the flubber make me happy! SOME DAY there will be NO more flubber in the way and those muscles will be showin' in their true glory!  ;) heehee...


Anyhow..just a quick update;) But some exciting things happening for this Turbo Bear!!!! :) Stay tuned my loverlies, stay tuned!!!!

Walking in Confidence! LET YOUR LIGHT SHINE!!!!!!!!

*A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.*   A. A. Milne ~Teddy Bear

 It is interesting to me.... browsing you-tube... I have seen a few videos of girls that have done what I am on this journey to do, lose about 150 pounds or more total...... From their first vids @ their highest weights to further into their journey...the thing I am noticing the MOST....., even more then how amazing they look, is the change in their CONFIDENCE! Some of them start out almost shy.....and as they go along, they are getting pretty darn sassy ;) LOL. I love it, because as the Flubber Suits are being melted off of them through their exercise and nutrition changes they are like a Butterfly emerging from their Cocoon! Their true UNHINDERED selves are coming to the surface!

For me, I actually noticed a bit of this in MYSELF this past few days...I am usually insanely picky about going ANYWHERE without my make-up and hair done... because it's always been the thing I have control over.... now the other day after work, I went out to one of the big chain stores...and had no make-up other then foundation and I think some faded lipstick. lol... hair was up in a twisty thing, and wearin' my work clothes and a sweater that's getting too big on me ( one of my * new* 2x's from a month ago! woohoo! ;)...there were about 5 gazillion people in the store. lol. Go figure, right? But in I went...

Now at one point... I began to feel some of those old , rotten feelings of being super self-conscious trying to rear their ugly heads...BUT...here is the thing. I STOPPED it. I saw myself in the mirror, and instead of saying, * Holy cow... you look TERRIBLE! look at that flubber! Look at that hair! YIKES!*.... I said...* Ok WAIT. You know what girlie? You've lost FIFTY-FIVE pounds! 38.25 INCHES! STOP. So you look a little less then perfect today. It's Walmart for pete's sake, and who cares?! *

I know it may sound a little silly.. but for ME.. this was a  HUGE mental change. Some of those nasty bits of the insecurity stronghold I have held onto my entire life are fallin' off me left and right along with those pounds and inches!  (on a side note, a really WONDERFUL book about how we talk to ourselves it *Battlefield of the Mind * by Joyce Meyer... VERY powerful!). And guess what? TODAY I did the same thing. We had our awesome Northland Fit Club this morning ( burned about 700 calories in an hour! woot!) .... I hadn't even washed my hair this morn' when I showered....just stuck it up in pigtails...was wearin' my workout pants, and a sweatshirt ( and once again, this 2x is getting baggy! I know, cause both my fellow fit-club coaches told me so! ahhh!:)  and once again... no make-up! But what did I do? Off to Walmart, off to look at costumes....I was up by those stores and simply did NOT care! I even bought the most GORGEOUS dress.... it is a size 8/10.... it was 5 dollars..lol.. lovin' the thrift stores... it's gonna be a looooong time until I could possibly fit into it, but this is my * Goal dress* A beautiful, shimmery, gothicy little black dress... TOTALLY my style and TOTALLY something I would never have been able to even CONSIDER I would ever get into. BUT.... I am NOT stopping until I reach my healthy goal! It may or may not be the right size by then, but for 5 dollars to hang on my door to remind me what I want to look like and FEEL like...( a REAL woman! Not a marshmallow! ) it was SO worth it!

As I have said a few times... this change is not just physical! In fact, it MUST start with your mind. Because until your mind us ready to commit, your body will not cooperate. You will not stick to your plans. But once the mind is SET. NOTHING...and NO ONE can STOP YOU!

am I 100% comfortable in my skin? Of course not. But I am MILES more confident then I ever have been before. I have the MIND-SET of a HEALTHY FIT person...and so that is what I am becoming! It may take many  more months for that to completely come to the surface, but it is the truth! And you know what? People are starting to notice I am coming out of my shell. And it is a WONDERFUL feeling! 

I'm DONE with being a wallflower, and am on this journey to let my true sassy, confident self shine! God didn't make me to hide my light under a bushel! He created me to love and support people, to encourage them, and to actually ENJOY my life! He has plans and purposes He made just for me, that I am SO done letting fear, failure and fat steal!!!!!  ( just as He has for YOU! YES every single ONE of you! ...not matter WHERE you are at in your journeys.. you are SPECIAL and PRECIOUS! )

GRRRRRROOOWWWWWWWLLLLL says this Turbo Bear! LMAO!

Let's ROCK our lives my readers... GET UP and WORK it! Fat is only a shell. Don't hide behind it anymore! It won't happen overnight, but oh YES, it CAN and WILL happen if you are determined!

LET YOUR LIGHT SHINE!!!!!!!!

Measure your progress by the INCHES!...NOT just the SCALE!

My current progress? 55 pounds lost has equaled 38.25 inches OFF my body! Crazy!

I will be posting another you-tube video SOON showing this in a visual way, but have been having trouble with my goofy camera and computer ;) ...But for me, adding it all up this week, I was astounded! It made things SO much more tangible! When you start at the weight I did, sometimes it can be frustrating that the change does not seem nearly as dramatic as someone who *only* has 50 or 60 pounds to lose.... ( Though I am certainly NOT demeaning that struggle by any means! Be PROUD of ANY sustained weight loss!) However VISUALLY it's a totally different creature...so you need something else you can base your hard work upon...USE the measuring tape...and a scale with a bodyfat percentage to gauge how you're doing......you WILL be shocked and pleasantly surprised!!!
 
Stay encouraged, stay COMMITTED , and stay positive! You ARE changing yourself for the BETTER and should stand with head held high! Count every inch a victory my loverlies.... I certainly am, and know every thing I do daily keeps me going towards my goals of a FIT Turbo Bear!  :) 

~ Aimee :)

*A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.*   A. A. Milne ~Teddy Bear