I almost forgot I even had this blog!! I came on to start a new one but I guess since it seems it is a neverending journey, I'll pick up where I left off!

So on August I joined a website called myfitnesspal.com from 8-7-10 to 9-9-10 I lost 13 pounds! I love the site! It is like weight watchers meets facebook! But unlike WW its free! I have started this journey many many times. I have been fat my whole life! And well quite frankly I don't wantto be anymore! NO I mean I really don't. I think my age is a huge factor in this I just don't want to waste a minute of my 40's being overweight! I think there is some sort of cross roads you come to noone wants to be fat but before a big birthday like the Big 4 0 I think you make a decision, give up and just decide your fat for life OR you do something about it. Not just the counting calories and excercise, but you have to face it and really wrap your brain around the task at hand! I feel like for the first time in my life I didn't just pick up and start another diet. The difference about this time is hard to put into words, but it's not like words have ever helped me do this anyway! I guess before I always had it in my head ok I got to lose 50 pounds AND THEN I can eat cheeseburgers and fries again. This time I know better, and those kinds of thoughts have not even entered my mind. Now I have thought like When I make it to goal this excercise will be so much easier than it is now! I have finally realized what a "lifestyle change" truly means. THANK GOD!! So I have 1 1/2 years until my 40th bday I am hoping I can have A LOT of the actual weight loss done, by my 39th bday and use the last year of my 30's to excercise, firm up, find news ways to workout that I may have not been able to do when I was heavy. Perfect the art of maintaining my weight. Even writing these goals now I feel no 'wishful thinking' in my thoughts! This is my plan and I am already taking the steps to execute them and reach my goal. I know I can do this in a way I never "knew it" before!

Brown-Teman & Christiansen - A Century of Caring: Obituaries

Brown-Teman & Christiansen - A Century of Caring: Obituaries: "


Eunice Sovereign
(December 3, 1908 - September 18, 2006)

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Mrs. Eunice Helen Sovereign, 97 and 3/4 years old, of rural Cedar Springs, passed away Monday morning, Sept. 18, 2006 under the loving care of her family and Hospice of Michigan at her daughter Judy’s home near Pierson. The daughter of Harman D. & Lucy E. (Howard) Streeter, she was born on Dec. 3, 1908 in Cedar Springs. After graduating from Rockford High School, she worked as a telephone operator until marrying Herbert C. Sovereign on Dec. 19, 1934. Together, they raised four children and farmed over 100 acres in the Harvard area. She was a long-time member of Oakfield Baptist Church, was an avid reader (especially the Bible), and enjoyed puzzles. Eunice was looking forward to celebrating her 98th birthday, having already started hinting at birthday gifts.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Herbert C. Sovereign on Oct. 26, 1977; a son, Jack Sovereign; and three brothers, Lloyd, Howard, and Glen Streeter. Surviving are her two daughters, Joan & Jack Cottrell of Muskegon, and Judith & Jake Sheber of Pierson; a son, James Sovereign of Newport; a daughter-in-law, Thelma Sovereign-Taylor of Cedar Springs; two sisters-in-law, Dagmar Streeter of Charlotte and Berniece Streeter-Parker of Grand Rapids; 11 grandchildren; 11 great grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.
Funeral Services will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Thursday, Sept. 21, 2006 at Oakfield Baptist Church (corner of M-57 and Wabasis), Oakfield Township, with the Rev. Richard D. Whittenburg, pastor of Oakfield Baptist "

Lifestyle Changes Rule!

Well just checking in... uh to my blog?!? Anyways still working out. I have got to pick up in my alternate day work out. I have noticed some small changes in my body such as, my arms I have a muscle! And my legs I feel the muscles on both sides of my thigh. I was showing my husband just this weekend how my stomach is starting to change shape. My torso is getting smaller but I was showing him how the fat is grossing me out with how it has morphed as well. Hard to explain but tonight it came up in class, weird but that is how God works. And He is with me on this journey, so my answer to what is happening to my gut was...more crunches!!!!!!!!!!Percita explained why it was happening because of all of the crunches we do that work our core and abs the shape is evolving so we (i wasn't the only one in class that had this concern or problem happening)must work the lower part of our torso as well. Made sense and she has a new machine that she showed us was the perfect piece of equipment for the job. Knowledge is power;)
Enjoying the aches and pains ride!!

2 more inches gone!

Well I have joined up with a trainer at the gym. I am going into my 3rd month with her. "Her" name is Percita. She is awesome! Since I started with her I have lost around 6+ lbs but more importantly...inches! At last nights weigh in I had lost about a pound, 2 inches more inches in my waist, an inch on my arms and legs.
A pair of jeans I had bought for new years that were a little tight when I bought them, and then couldn't really even wear because they were just to tight in March, are now the only pair of jeans I have left that aren't to big. And... they are even a little too loose. Whoa!!!! I feel good and looking forward to a very active summer. Enjoy The Ride!!!!

I stand alone

Well I am so irritable I can hardly stand myself! PMS sucks for everyone, yourself and the people around you. I weighed in with percita before my workout I went down about another lb. Pretty good considering I know I have water weight this week. Which brings my total weight loss to about 30 lbs since I started this journey. Many inches also. I can hardly "weight" until I have before & after pics of my very own.
Going to watch the game in a little while GO LAKERS GO!!!!!!!!!! Then I will go do mt cardio at the gym.

* I just wanted to say thank-you to other bloggers who post so many wonderful pics to save, and enjoy as my screen saver, and post to my own blog to help describe how I am feeling when I make a blog entry. I have collected about 100 pics I love them!!!
One of my favorite blogs is Paris Daily Photo; by Eric, an amazing photographer!

STILL HERE

Well its been a while, but I am still going at it! I have started working with a trainer 3X's a week for about a month now. I have lost, at last count a week ago,4 lbs and almost 3 in in my waist. Doing good keeping at it!

Todays exercise:
1 hour class with PERCITA!
muscle work


Jena

Day One of Year 34

Well my birthday was yesterday I went to my meeting with the its start over day and... Happy birthday to me I lost 3 lbs! I feel differently about this bday older but I am on my way to feeling much better about myself. More later Enjoy The Ride~~~~Jena