They Day after you achieve a major goal?!

What do you do the day AFTER you achieve a major goal in your life?  You do the same thing as you did before.  You keep on keeping on.

Before this year, I liked to think I was a goal oriented person.  I mean, with my husband's help, we saved over 6 months worth of living expenses in just under a year when both of us were working.  Living on a budget!

But I never thought I would ever be my definition of "skinny".  I looked in the mirror and saw myself as beautiful and thin, but when I walked out in public, I knew I was obese.  So I made a decision.  It wasn't like just waking up and making a decision to get out of bed.  I made a BIG decision....like a decision to have a baby or NOT have a baby;  like a decision to dump your boyfriend of 3 years;  like a decision to give up something for lent (and really do it).  I made the decision to change my life.....forever.

I made the decision that I was going to lose 70 pounds.  And get to my "goal" weight.  And never go back.

Now, the day after winning "The Biggest Loser - Wickenburg" (that's a town in Arizona), I have lost 66 lbs and 5 dress sizes.  I went from wearing size 20 clothes (well mostly really tight 16s or 18s), to wearing nice fitting size 10 clothes.

Am I skinny?  Probably not America's standard for skinny.  Definitely not Hollywood skinny in any way.  But I am FIT and healthy!  And I want to stay here....or within 5 pounds of here.

I still want to lose 3-5 more pounds.  And if I lose more, well that's just cake (or not cake). ;-)

So it's the day after I finished the most challenging 20 weeks of my life, and I am at work.  So I better get to doing my work.

Have a great day friends and family!  And keep doing what you're doing.