Can't Believe It Is Already Thanksgiving!

This year has flown by once again. I have done many things for my health and well being. The HCG diet worked really well for me and I want to get back to it. I lost the weight I had previously gained but 255 lbs seems to be the trampoline weight for me...meaning that once I get down there I bounce back up. Right now I am at 269 which isn't my heaviest weight by any means but those 14lbs. do make a difference.

Let's see, in March I rode the 30 miles of Tour de Cure and I don't think I had anything then until the Gabe Zimmerman Triple Crown which included a downtown 5K in June, an 8miler in Saguaro East in September, the A Mountain 1/2 marathon in October and now we are preparing for the Tucson 1/2 Marathon in December. I didn't do El Tour De Tucson this year which disappointed me but I just wasn't ready to do it and as it turns out the day was a bit cool and blustery so I probably would have been miserable ....there is always next year.

My new job started in February and I had canceled my membership at Ladies Workout express because I thought I was working out enough on my own. After losing the roof on my house and being displace from July - September I decided it was time to get back on the bandwagon...so now I am an official member of the YMCA (which I love) and so am just trying to figure out how to have a good balance of exercise and nutrition so that my weight will come down. I have been thinking a lot about the fact that I weighed 160 lbs. in high school. I felt so overweight at that time which is still heavier than "they" recommend, but it humbles me to know that I would still need to lose 100 lbs. to be that weight again. I wish I had understood then that I was just right for me.

I am trying to work on my idea of what/who I should be in all areas of life. Finding the balance and understanding that my life is what I make it. I am in control and I am the only one who can make the changes that I want. I have a great support system in my family and friends, and I just need to keep moving ahead. It is in my sights though to reach 160 or even 180 lbs. I have successfully kept 60 lbs off...keeping 100 more shouldn't be out of my realm of thought. I feel like there has to be some way to make my body release this weight and HCG seemed to do the trick...so I have to get back to that!