Scaling to New Heights

Quote of the Day: The groundwork of all happiness is health.

Today is weigh-in day for me for the 90 Challenge I'm participating in over on My Fitness Pal. Each week we have a set of challenges and then we track our progress and weigh-in on Saturdays. If you would like to join the challenge all you have to do is join My Fitness Pal (totally FREE ) and go to this  link. Anyone can join in on challenge at any time, but you have to do it on a Saturday! You can track your calories and exercise on this site, not to mention meet lots of wonderful, supportive people!

Our challenge this past week was the following:

1. Drink at least 5 (8oz) of water EVERYDAY this week 7/7
2. Walk/Jog/Run a Mile 3 out of 7 days this week. 3/3 (Total mileage of 12 miles)
3. 30 Chair Dips 2 out 7 Days this week. 2/2
4. Do 100 toe raises 100/100

Drum roll please....as of 11:15 am this morning I am officially 148.6 lbs, how exciting!  This means since leaving my comfy home with my trainer (Hi Steph!) over at Hitch Fit
and doing this on my own, I have lost another 7 lbs which make my total 43 lbs since August!  It's hard to believe that almost 6 months ago I weighed in at 191. 

Sunday Share

 How did you spend your weekend?  Mine was spent running back and forth to basketball games/practices and trying to dodge all the snow!  Yes, that's right we got pounded earlier in the week with between 8-10 inches and just were hit again with another


I also spent the weekend, doing mounds and mounds of laundry- man so we have too many clothes in this house!  I have taken 6 bags to the Planet Aid box with more to go!  However the fun part of this all has been going through all my " old wardrobe" and seeing how far I really have come in my weight loss!  Even Micah (my oldest son) is really impressed now that we can see the difference!

So I thought, I should share some pics with you so you can see what DETERMINATION and WILL POWER can do!

 These are the pants I wore last May to Micah's 8th grade graduation, these were a size 16 and were tight at the time.  When seeing pics of myself from that day is when my journey started to begin as I was realizing how horrible I felt about how I let myself go.  Now it took me until August to actually start the process!  I am keeping these pants as a constant reminder of how "eating whatever and however much I want" will lead me right back to here!

Now Summer time was another occasion where I steered clear shorts or the dreaded bathing suit.  However with 2 boys playing baseball in 100+ degree temps finally broke me down and I picked up one pair of shorts.  This year I'm looking forward to summer and maybe some cute summer clothes to go with my flip flops!

What's the Skinny?

I started to create this blog last August when I started my journey, but never got it up and running. So for last few days I have been working to make it a place that I can share my continued journey as I struggle through everyday life!

My goal is simple-to share my tips/tricks, recipes, exercises, and my victories & struggles and hope that I inspire you along the way! I would love for your to share as well and hopefully we can support each other along the way!

Hugs,
Christy