Tuesday, January 16, 2007

Pay Off

I have been working my butt off the last couple of days. I have finally gotten motivated to add more exercise to my weight loss efforts. I am grateful that though it has not felt good always....it is hurt so good :) I am grateful to say I lost 3 pounds this week! Wooohooo, I am now at my lowest in years. I have to tell you my exercise success. I could only do the elliptical trainer for 2 minutes last week. It is soooo hard! Well, last night I was able to do it for 12 minutes straight. I was thrilled. Pretty good progress for just one week. It helped to have some competition. Allen put me to shame earlier in the week as he did it for 10 minutes when I could only do it for 2 minutes. So my goal was so catch up. Allen didn't lose any this week, but he is exercising a lot more this last week too. Must be all that muscle :) Man, he is cute!

6 comments:

Cari Mohler said...

AWESOME!!! WHAT TO GO MONICA!!! :)

Troy & Sherry said...

yahoo! i told you so :)
i need to get with it as well - i am so proud of you my friend!

Scott and Beth said...

That is awesome! Isn't crazy how easy that elliptical looks, but how hard it really is? One time I did it for like 16 minutes and when I got off I almost fell over.

Monica said...

Thank you Thank you (bowing of course :P)

Yeah, I had no clue how torturous those things were until we bought ours at a garage sale last summer for only $25. It was in perfect shape. It was quite the find. Especially now that we are able to actually use it for a decent amount of time.

Karen said...

YOU ARE AWESOME!! I am so proud of you for getting through the tough time you were having, and isn't it the best when you seen it on the scale!!!
Wahoo!!

Monica said...

Thanks Karen. You are so right. There is no joy like seeing your weight down from the week before especially when you have been trying. When I do it half heartedly I ask for a miracle :)