Monday, October 1st
  Hello Everyone, I wanted to give an update on how things are going. Things in my life are going great! I can't say enough about how wonderful I feel physically! I feel 20 years younger. I can take walks and run up flights of stairs without getting out of breath. I've been able to go to Busch Gardens with my girls and walk and walk all over the park and I felt great, no sitting all the time and even the day after, I wasn't sore or anything like that. I knew that losing weight would help me feel better but I never thought that I could feel THIS GOOD! I am able to live a new type of life and I'm loving it. Since my last update, about a month ago, I've lost about 4 pounds. I'm at a point of trying to maintain where I'm at and not wanting to lose much more but so far, I haven't been able to completely stop losing.
  Emotionally, things are going good right now.I'm confident in who I am and everything that I went through, about a month ago, has made me a stronger, better person. My husband and I are working on building a closer , stronger relationship with God and trying to find and live out God's plan for our life. I'm still homeschooling and I'm still teaching 10th grade girls at church and I absolutely love it!
  This week, we are actually having my entire extended family over for a get together and my mood is great and I'm so happy to be able to do that.
  And, I still need to go shopping, I'll get there, planning on going in a couple of weeks, can't wait : )
  I want to encourage you to take care of YOU. As moms, we seem to always do for our kids and others so much and sometimes have no balance at all and give all to everyone else. What happens is you are secretly unhappy with you and whether its losing weight, or just getting in shape or maybe just starting a hobby, I want to encourage you to make sure you are taking care of you.
  And, I wanted to share this, I was watching Rocky 4 the other day, Yes, I LOVE ROCKY MOIVES : ) and it hit me...I have so far to go. This journey is not over yet. It's time for phase 2. I need to get in shape, work out, and tone up. So, that's my goal. Again, it's all about having balance in your life. Just like we all eat breakfast in the morning. To me, we need to all start our day communicating with God through prayer and reading the work of God and we need to fit in a workout of some kind. I'm just as busy as everyone else and this will be hard for me to but it's my goal : )
Jan