30 gone before I'm thirty...

Okay, so I had a roller-coaster of two weeks, with some major sweet cravings (it was that time last week ladies), but I weighed in today, and was ecstatic about a 6.2 weight loss!!!!!

So, this pushes me right up to the 30 lb. mark, and I couldn't be happier. I don't have to say it, THIS PLAN WORKS, but I want to scream it!!! I hugged the nurse so tight today, and told her that I wanted to run around the room. She backed up against the wall and said, "go for it!"

She complimented me on my mental strength, and assured me that it would help me push forward to reach my final goal. I truly feel like a different person. I am loving the way I feel after I exercise, or put something in my body that I know is giving it strength and nourishment instead of just empty calories.

I drink enough water to be part camel, but it's flushing my system out of all impurities, and it helps me stay full longer. I find that I don't want anything else to drink. No soda, no coffee (what has the world come to?), and definitely when I have went out and had a few beers, I have felt like a dehydrated mess the next day.

I only have 21 left to lose of the 51 I gained last year, and I have now lost a total of 61.3 since March 2007. I am feeling that 75 milestone again, and it is making me very excited!!

Sylvia and I are heading up to Greensboro this weekend to do the March of Dimes walk for babies. This is a 3.5 mile walk in honor of her niece Tessa that was born premature and lived only a short 117 days. It feels so good to be ABLE to do these kind of events, and know that I am not going to pass out or want to quit mid-way through it.

There is a time in everyone's life where they feel a change has to be made. And, for me, this is the completion of the initial transformation I began in 2007.

And, this time, I will become the beautiful butterfly...