Couch POTATO to "MARATHON" HONEY! :)

Originally Posted by cate


Hi sweetie, how are you going? Have you that new dog yet? Spring has sprung, here in Tassie, & I’m feeling good. It is such a great feeling when winter is behind you(but not literally, ie on my derriere) for another year! I have come out of winter less than I weighed before, mainly I think from riding my stationary bike most days. YAY! Hope you’re feeling good my friend,

~lots of love, xoxo Cate
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Cate, you cutie! Awww so glad that the winter is behind you, for us it's barely going to start settling in. You just reminded me of the days when I didn't have the liberty to leave work early and workout all I wanted, and I prayed for that. Now, I have that and so take it for granted at times. I've been in a really pensive grateful mood all day and even shed some tears. I appreciate these days, bringing me back to basics. Possibly, why I even got the idea right now to log on. Miss you, Cate. :)
 
Wow!! Good job!!! I am close to the same stats as you started with. I am 5'4 and my heaviest weight was 168. I lost 24 pounds once but gained nearly all of it back and am starting again. I am currently at 161.2. It's great to see someone close to my stats that was able to do it!!
 
Hey there! Great getting news from you. You sound busy and the challenge sounds so inspiring.

And yes, I LOVE Tony. He's such a funny boy!


As for the P90X- week one went great and week two has been excellent. I was pretty sick with a bad cold but still managed to do ALL my workouts and eat right.

Going into week three, I'm already SO impressed with the results; I just wish I would have done this sooner- I love it so much!


As for crazy outings ..I still have plenty of them. My adventures are very shocking...and so much fun:biggrin: They're a big part of why I'm so motivated: being naked in front of so many people is good reason to keep very fit!
 
Alta!!


Nice to see one of my very first buddies on here!


My sons did p90x this summer to get them ready for high school football and they really really got fit and beastly.


Maybe if I can get about 20 or 30 off I will try it. I am about 5 or 6 above where I was back in 09 (my gosh has it been that long?)
 
Hey yourself, girl!


I hope you'll come back around soon and tell us all what the heck you have been up to lately!


Things are great with me. I can't believe that I'm already in week 10 of P90X. Crazy! It has totally changed my life....srsly.
 
Rox~!! That's so awesome to hear! That's exactly how I feel about all the Beachbody programs!! They have transformed me to the fullest! I'm doing the Les Mills Combat one right now!

:) Loving it!!! I can't wait to see your pics!! xoxox
 
Awww thanks Cate!! I want to make it a point to come back in here! One goal I have this year is to get back to blogging and this place always brough out the best in me!!

I have all these recipes to share and want them all in one place! haha :)
 
Well, I'm back! Today I realized that a huge part of my home was just being OPEN and honest about the struggles that I encounter. I think somewhere along the way in the journey of the past years, I felt that I had to be more conservative and not share all the ups and downs that I go through.

I wonder why?

I wonder where exactly I lost that peice of me that didn't care to just be 100% open with everyone. Well, as I was reading this book about "Daring to be different" as one of the topics, I realized,.... that what makes me different is my OPEN heart.

That's why I loved coming here. This was my home to do that! This was my place of comfort of no judgement and no holding back and just allowing myself to be open with the screen and the words that flowed out of my mind and thoughts. I was looking today at a wonderful Instagram girl that I follow and her LIGHT radiates! I realized, "Wow,...I hear that often from clients now that come in my office that get to know me 1 on 1", but the rest of the world, I stopped sharing as openly.

Maybe in fear of being judged that I'm not perfect? That sounds absurd even saying it because no one is. We are all just humans made in the image of God and the loveliness that emanates from us all is SO divine. It's weird because even the people that I connect the most to are the ones that do share their struggles.

It makes me just want to get back to being "me". Being "free". That's what the core of this was all about for me. To find the path to freedom whatever that path may have been. To this day, I don't know what the world holds for me, or how it will evolve into a different meaning of life as the days transpire, but what I do know is that if in fact we can't come to the place of being authentic and just allowing of ourselves in whichever form or struggle we go through to share, that neither we nor anyone else can learn from our own experiences.

That's the space I'm in right now. The mindset of just allowing the words to come and the lessons to flow. That I accept myself and that is all I need. No longer do I need to hide behind a facade that life has become easy, because it hasn't. Life is GREAT because I've learned to dance with the flow of the divine turns that it brings.

You all are such beautiful souls in the world. I'm blessed to even have the ability to interact with you all! I forgive myself freely now, I release and I let go and I allow myself a new beginning.

As could we all. <3
 
After login failures and a password reset, I'm back to! Don't know if i'm going to start a thread or not, but i know its good to see some old faces here!
 
Awww wow everyone!!! It's so welcoming to see all these great faces!

Today my heart weighs heavy. I'm still going through really rough sad periods of my recent break up of 8 years and some months. It's SO TOUGH. I cried this morning. I have someone new in my life already but it doesn't make it easier some days. I have trouble with my family accepting my new decisions and has left me at a disconnect with what is seemingly all the people that matter.

At times, I miss him and want to go back to him, but am fighting to not. We weren't married and after all those years wondered if it was ever going to come. It's hard to love someone and to know it's all "good" but wonder if I'm setttling, so I left him at the end of March. We broke up and one month ago he out of fear of me moving on completely proposed the idea of marriage. I dont think it came on the terms that I wanted from a love base....and some days it's hard to motivate myself to whip myself out of the spirals.

On another note, I'm happy with my new relationship for tons of reasons. They are complete opposites. On another, I'm just so nostalgic and catch myself comparing and crying often.

This shit SUCKS. Not gonna lie. I feel like crying right now.

Sorry to be such a downer today.
 
Alta - I'm not sure that I've ever written in your diary in the past, but I was in a similar situation a few years ago and want to tell you that IT WILL GET BETTER! I was with my boyfriend for 7 years and knew I was settling, so I broke things off and shortly after began a relationship with the wonderful man I am still with today, 2.5 years later. It's incredibly hard to deal with the extreme happiness of the new relationship while you're still mourning the loss of the last.... But eventually it gets easier. People may think that once you've got a new man the hard party's over but that's not true at all, and in some ways it just makes the process more complicated. It may take a while but you will be a better person afterwards.
 
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