Stats Update!

I was chillaxin' watching my FAVORITE show, NCIS tonight, and just looking through my blog, and I realized I haven't just updated my stats for a while.  So here folks are all my stats.  I started this diet April 1, 2009.  So in about 10.5 months here is what I have accomplished:

Weight:
~Started at 244  
~Current: 178- total pounds lost, 66

~Inches lost total:  39

Body Fat:
~Started at over 40%
~Current: 29%

Pant size:
~Started at 14/16  
~Current: 8 (and I have lots of wiggle room!)

Shirt Size:
~Started at XXL womens; XL mens
~Current: M/L womens; M mens


Energy Level:
~Starting: Could barely walk the stairs
~Current: Doing running cardio classes  ( hour long!)

Other things I have noticed:
~ Appetite has decreased majorly
~ Confidence has gone through the roof
~ Able to help others with their goals
~ I love getting up in the morning, even for the 6:45 am cardio class!
~ Every day offers something new and exciting!

I could probably go on and on! To have accomplished this in a little over 10 months has not been an easy task to say the least!  I've gone through several plateaus, some of them 2 or 3 months at a time! I've wanted to quit and give in to the chocolate cakes, cookies and all the best sweets ever!! However, I stayed strong! I have about 40 more to go, and I have faith I'm going to be able to continue!

To all of you, thank you for reading my blog! I write to inspire all of you! Whether your goals are weightloss, or to accomplish something you thought you couldn't do, I'm here to tell you that you can!! And thank you all for keeping me honest, and helping me up when I am feeling down! The lows were pretty low, and you all helped me up!  Thank you, thank you, thank you!! I hope you all continue to follow my journey, I'll keep going as long as ya'll keep reading!!

If you're lacking motivation, here are a few more quotes that I love! Feel free to take them and use them at your will! Just don't be afraid to accomplish your goals!



You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt (This is my FAVORITE!)

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.
-- James Allen


Even if I don't reach all my goals, I've gone higher than I would have if I hadn't set any.
-- Danielle Fotopoulis


The credit belongs to those who are actually in the arena, who strive valiantly; who know the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spend themselves in a worthy cause; who at the best, know the triumph of high achievement; and who, at the worst, if they fail, fail while daring greatly, so that their place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
-- Theodore Roosevelt


Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
-- Mark Twain