My Final Weight Loss Journey

I'm ever so grateful for the 76.4 lbs that fell off this body last year.  I am getting around better yet I still live with frustration, I can get into my car and not have to worry about rather or not Mark put the steering wheel all the way up.  I'm not having to dig myself out my car or his car.  I can get out like a normal person.  I can get up from a sitting position without feeling like I am going to throw myself face down on the floor, I don't lose my balance anymore at Curves and I can move from machine to machine very easily.  I can make it through a store, I can cook a meal without gritting my teeth and I fit once again in my office chair without the arms digging pain into my hips.  I am sure that there are more things that I am grateful for but these are the things that come up quickly in my mind.

Last year when I started the journey I felt like I had to say good-bye to Mike my leader who hung in with me and helped me fight a good battle starting back in 2004.  After building our home and gaining so much weight back I felt like I needed to start anew.  I loved Brenda who I switched to.  She is a fabulous leader but I found pretty quickly that I needed Mike's knowledge of how to make the program work under any circumstance.  I don't lose weight very easily but I am determined.  But when my weight loss stalled with Brenda I freaked-out and picked up the phone and called Mike and told him that I was coming back.  Good thing that he let me!  He sure didn't have to!

Lately I have been trying to stand on my own two feet but he is picking up on the times when I struggle and I hear from him.  It is really spooky.  I want so bad to just hear my Mike-isms (voices he has planted in my head) and do what I need to do and get to goal and for him to be proud that he has taught me so well.  He deserves that.  After  the four years in his class he may be scared that I will miss this up again.  The man thrives on success and he wants every single member to get to goal.  He is such a great guy and leader, I'm so lucky to have him teaching me they way that he has.

Mike, I am going to do this!  I am going to get to goal!  I PROMISE!  Not for you because I know that is not what you want, but for me because I am the only thing that matters.  My friend, you have taught me well, THANK YOU!  Your encouragement gives me the strength to continue on.  I'm excited as to what this year will bring.  I'm glad you are cracking the whip pushing me onward.  You are the best!

With all of this said, Let's get Year Two of this journey going...because this is truly the time of my life!

I’ve been waiting for my dreams
To turn into something
I could believe in
And looking for that
Magic rainbow
On the horizon
I couldn’t see it
Until I let go
Gave into love and watched all the bitterness burn
Now I’m coming alive
Body and soul
And feelin’ my world start to turn

And I’ll taste every moment
And live it out loud
I know this is the time,
This is the time
To be more than a name
Or a face in the crowd
I know this is the time
This is the time of my life
Time of my life

Holding onto things that vanished
Into the air
Left me in pieces
But now I’m rising from the ashes
Finding my wings
And all that I needed
Was there all along
Within my reach
As close as the beat of my heart

and I’ll taste every moment
And live it out loud
I know this is the time,
This is the time to be
More than a name
Or a face in the crowd
I know this is the time
This is the time of my life
Time of my life

And I’m out on the edge of forever
Ready to run
I’m keeping my feet on the ground
Arms open wide
Face to the sun

I’ll taste every moment
And live it out loud
I know this is the time,
This is the time to be
More than a name
Or a face in the crowd
I know this is the time
This is the time of my life
Time of my life
More than a name
Or a face in the crowd
This is the time
This is the time of my life.
This is the time of my life.