Surprised Myself!

The past few weeks, I've been working out, pretty moderately. I've been running for about a half hour in the mornings with a 15-minute bike warm-up {stretching in-between...I love stretching} and many days finishing up with 15-minutes on the stair stepper.

Growing up, I played sports year-round. Soccer, basketball, dance, baseball/softball, track and field...I even did a year of gymnastics. High school meant soccer in the summer/fall, danceteam/basketball in the winter, and t & f in the spring, so I was constantly conditioning my body. I did it because I loved playing. I wasn't very good, but I didn't care {until I met certain asshats in high school} and even then I just kept playing. Because I enjoyed it.

Cue college. Because of said asshats, I decided not to play soccer in the fall. I didn't think anything of it until I met a few of the players and then I was kinda bummed I hadn't pursued it more. Oh well. Same with basketball. I did, however, join the pom squad {danceteam} and did t & f in the spring.

Anyways, cue college again. And a meal plan. And buffet-style eating. And three years later, after being introduced to that and not exercising, hellllooooo extra 40+ pounds. Now, I wasn't a small girl to begin with really {although, looking back, I was pretty normal. And what seems skinny to me now!}, I like to say that I have a farm-girl build: big shoulders and big hips, with plenty of natural muscle. Pack on those 40+ pounds and it wasn't good. I was nervous about exercising now because I was afraid my body wouldn't lose the weight easily since it wouldn't be as hard-core as back in the day, plus I was waaaay more into eating and chocolate now.

I was wrong. Like I said, past few weeks I've been working out, four or five or six times a week {when it fits in my schedule} and I've been eating a lot better - smaller portions and healthier options.

So far, I've lost 17lbs! I didn't have a scale and I thought the one where I work-out was broken so I wasn't really worried about it. I just knew I felt better and I thought I was losing weight, so I wasn't too concerned. Well, now someone showed me how to use the scale and I was like WHAAAT! I was pretty shocked. But happy :)

And that same day {Sunday} when I figured out how many lbs, my dad told me I looked like I had lost weight and the next day, a guy at work I haven't seen in a while asked if I had lost weight and said I looked good! Ummmm, cue happiness!!

Now 17lbs is not a lot a lot {to me} but that's also because I would ideally like to get down to about 150/140 {I'm about 5'8"} so I have a ways to go as I'm currently at 193lbs {did I really just post that for the world to see.....gulp}, oh well, now I'll be extra motivated!

Lots of happiness in this girl's life currently!!! :)