I really really love my gym! When I teach my Group Power classes this is the studio I teach them in. Just beautiful!

If you’ve followed this blog for any length of time you know I’ve struggled with food all of my life.

I come up with weight loss plans, I post about them, and then for whatever reason I don’t follow through. I need concrete goals. Just eating clean and healthy because it’s good for me is apparently not a good enough reason. But,the thought of being mostly naked on a stage in front of a crowd of people is, so far, proving to be a good enough reason.

In July of 2015 I was obviously feeling a strong desire to do something about my weight and health. I posted these photos of myself along with all my Fitbit Statistics. My Fitbit has since gone belly up and I’m not planning to replace it.  It was driving me insane (the whole step counting thing)!

One really interesting thing about these photos is that I weighed ~145 lbs. when I took them. Two days ago (Thursday) I weighed in at ~140 lbs. The pants I was complaining about fitting into in that post are loose on me now. You would think that 5 lbs. wouldn’t make that much of a difference. But, I don’t think the difference has much to do with “weight” loss. I’m convinced it’s all about fat loss. Everything is different this time! That # on the scale really doesn’t mean much. Mentally, it’s still a “thing” for me. But, the meaningfulness of that # on the scale is starting to fade for me.

The following photos are hard for me to share but it’s part of the process and I want them for me as much as I hope they might help someone else.

So, here goes:

I’m not ready for color photos! Everything looks worse in color!

Goodnight.