One month strong

Well, as you all know I just completed my 28 day diet. The results were awesome and I felt SO good when I was done.  I was feeling SO good about what I had done that somehow my wonderful husband convinced me to stop into a recruiter's office to just have a "chit-chat."  Little did I know that, what I thought was going to be a five minute conversation turned into a 45 minute dialogue.  When I got done talking with SFC Frantz, I felt SO good, better than usual, about where I'm standing.

Being that he's the Army's equivalent to a nutritionist he reassured me that what I was doing on the diet was what I NEEDED to enlist.  While we were talking he had me measure myself (being that he was a male, he wasn't able to.) according to the measurements, I only have three more inches to lose! (Yeah, I thought I was one, but that's a whole other story, heehee!)  Never the less, last month on the 28 day I lost a total of 5 inches, 3 of which were in my waist (where I needed to actually lose!)

Here's my game plan: after consulting Kelly, I got the okay to do a modified version of the 28 day diet. Being that I need to integrate the fats back into my body, I am going to do three days on the weeks 1-3 plan, then one day of the week 4 plan.  Not only that, I'm back to full health so I'm heading back to muay-thai tonight after my bootcamp this morning!

I am SO close I can taste it! If I stick to this plan folks, I could possibly be where I need by June!!! However, I'm not counting my chickens this go round, my goal is three inches by the end of the summer. That gives me about 3 and a half months! Of course I want to get there before that, but I have to be realistic, too!

Oh, and the other news about me joining, I decided to go enlisted for three years first. As nice as the money would be to get OCS pay right away, if I can "be in the trenches" for a while first, I'll be a better Officer and soldier in the future.  The other benefit, which makes a lot of sense, is simply, enlisted have more fun! If I go in right as an officer, I won't get to have the fun the enlisteds do! The competition for OCS enlistment is hard! You have to be the best of the best, right off the bat. To be honest, I just want to get my foot in that darn door!

So anywho, that's what's happening. I have one month to be strong, and as I keep telling myself: what's one month to the rest of my life?!

OH, P.S. I did my first 5k yesterday and it went GREAT!!! When I finished I felt like I could go farther!