I am so excited to have this blog to share my journey! As you can see from my sidebar picture...there used to be a lot more to this Dashing Diva! In fact, 130 pounds more - but over the past 2 1/2 years i have changed....my eating...my moving...my belief in myself...my life...
From this journey i am now at a point with my body that a little 'tweaking and twanging' need to happen...'need' as in I need it, not that the world needs it, or should care about it..but i care - about all the hard work i've put forth - none of which i regret because this 'work' has taken me to new, unforeseen heights!
What is this 'tweaking'? Plastic surgery. To be exact - a circumferential body lift and a thigh lift. This event takes place 3 days from now, so my first series of blog entries will be chronicalling what is happening to me. The pain, the healing...the glory (let's hope!).
The surgery is only step one...a mere speed bump on the trip to my BIG goal of 2010....
I know...you're on the edge of your seat...
I have decided to compete in a Grand Master Bodybuilding competition in the fall.
This is huge...for me...or truly for anyone, but i want this so bad i can taste it. Do i want it so bad in order to win? Actually no. This will be my first foray into anything like this...although i am no stranger to a stage, this is a stage with barely any clothes on (kinda huge for someone who tipped the scales at 300lbs...) but just to know in my soul that i went from 'there' to 'here'.... WHO WOULD HAVE THUNK IT??!!
So the theme song for this year will be Billy Joel's "You may be right, I may be Crazy"....
....how fitting... :))
Welcome to my blog... thanks for stopping by!
You are such an inspiration! I just finished my first LE workout (Precision Nutrition) and almost quit! I had a back injury a few years ago and lost my muscle-tone and strength in my thighs. All those lunges, I could barely walk I was shaking so badly! I used to be a dancer! I look at you and how far you have come and where you are going and know that inch by inch I can get there too. Thanks for this wonderful blog and thanks for sharing such an intimate part of your life.
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Thanks so much Miriam! Good luck with the LE program....it is an amazing program with awesome people and results!! You WILL get there - don't quit! (..and i hate lunges too!!!! lol)
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