Sunday, June 3, 2012

Finding Myself

As many of you may know, these past 4 or 5 years I have really struggled with my weight. I have been unhappy with the way I looked and my joints were super unhappy with me! In March I decided to take control and find myself again. I started a program in hopes that losing some weight would help with my RA and make getting pregnant in the future a little easier. Well, I have now lost close to 40 pounds and I feel pretty fantastic! I am still on my RA medication, but I can tell that the swelling has gone down in my joints and I am hopeful that I won't be COMPLETELY miserable when I do get pregnant..(which won't be for another year or so.. sorry if I got anyone's hopes up!) haha.
Most importantly I feel like I have regained my confidence and have learned new habits of health that will help me to keep the weight off and maintain my healthy weight. Looking at my before and after pictures this morning brought tears to my eyes because I couldn't believe how far I had come.
I was trying to decide if I should post pictures... because of where I work, I sometimes feel like a hypocrite for feeling good about losing weight. But the reality is, I shouldn't be ashamed of the fact that I have taken control of my life and decided to embrace a healthy lifestyle! I haven't been this happy with myself in over 5 years and I kind of want to shout it from a mountain top.
I absolutely love this program and have decided to start coaching and mentoring friends and family that want to find their own optimal level of health. This program is so great and it WORKS!
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If you have any questions about the program send me an email and I'd be happy to tell you about it!
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Friday, February 24, 2012

Long Lost Blogger

It has been exactly a year since I last posted on this thing... that is crazy! I am sitting at my mom's house doing laundry and decided to do a little blog-stalking. Yeah. I know, I'm creepy. There probably aren't many people that will read this but I am going to post an update anyway!

Last year at this time I had just started working as a secretary at my job. I really enjoyed working with the people in the front office but shortly after settling into the position things changed. My favorite co-worker Lindsay changed positions and I just didn't enjoy it quite as much after that. An opportunity became available to go back to what I was doing before moving to the front office but in more of a supervisor/manager role. So I applied and interviewed and got the job! I was excited to be back on the unit, working more closely with the patients and my co-techies. I have been in this position since September. It has been super stressful, but good overall. I tell Matt all the time that I don't want to work period... I just want to play volleyball any chance I get, stay home all day and watch Netflix! What I would pay to go back to Snow College where, let's be honest, all I really did was play volleyball.

Matt is still working as a personal trainer in the mornings and going to school. He is working so hard, and probably pushing himself a little too far! But, if anyone can do it, he can! I'm so grateful that he is willing to put all this time and energy into school so that I don't have to do it! haha... :) His health has been good and he has been getting nothing but positive news from his oncologist/radiologist. We are so grateful for this and continue to count our blessings!

Just a couple days ago Matt and I were talking about the what the near future has to bring. Such as, school, school, and more school... haha! We talked about many other things, like babies! (Side note: I'M SO BABY HUNGRY!) I just have to hold out a little longer and we can maybe start thinking about the whole starting a family bit! I can do it! Right? We also talked about moving out of state for PA school and where that might take us. If only I could see into the future...

Latest Lovelace photos:

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This was taken on Valentines day in our itty bitty tiny weeny apartment.
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Thursday, February 24, 2011

2.24.11

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I've been slaking on my picture a day but sometimes there's nothing interesting to take a picture of... but look at how stinking cute this flower arrangement is!! Someone sent it to one of the patients at Work and I just had to take a picture!
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Monday, February 21, 2011

2.21.11

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Matt got a yam the size of his head tonight at Ruby river!
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Tuesday, February 15, 2011

2.15.11

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Our sweet little Guy had his first grooming experience tonight! He's stinking cute isn't he!? :)
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2.14.11

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Matt brought me flowers to work, good start to our Valentine's day! We spent most of our night at Texas roadhouse and then We went to see Just go with it. Super cute movie! It was a fun night... I have the best Valentine ever!!!
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2.13.11

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Baby kru! Dinner at Glenn And amber's! Couldn't get rid of the red eye... sorry!
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