Final Weigh In

Today we had our final weigh in for our biggest loser competition. Before I reveal the results I want to write down some of my thoughts.

We have been doing this weight loss competition for 10 weeks now. The first 5 weeks I really pushed myself beyond what I ever thought I could do. I was walking 12 miles a day! And though it was hard at first I really started to enjoy it. It made my body feel better and my moods feel better and I liked taking time out for just me. It was also a great experience to find myself becoming stronger and breathing easier and pushing myself further.

About 5 weeks into this I found out I was pregnant. I cut my workouts to 7 miles a day. A couple of weeks later I had to cut them to the 3 miles I do every morning. I also started slowing way down. I could tell I couldn't push myself quite as hard. That was actually a hard adjustment for me. It was hard to slow down.

I still have been losing weight even though I haven't been exercising so much. But I do think exercising that much pushed my body to be comfortable with losing weight because this is the first thing that has worked for me. The last few weeks I haven't been eating any sugar. This pregnancy is proving that sugary things taste, smell, and sound gross. I think that has contributed to my continuing to lose weight. It is kind of nice to be forced to eat good things.

I really want to keep active during this pregnancy, though my last two pregnancies have put me on bed rest. I just don't want to lose my momentum or these muscles I have gained in my calves! I am planning on still exercising in the morning and hopefully I can do it for awhile and stay healthy through this pregnancy.

I am grateful to the group of ladies who I did this competition with. We have become good friends and the help and support we have gained from each other means a lot to me. Some of us still plan to work out in the morning at a gym. It will be good to still motivate each other.

Anyway at my final weigh in I lost 3.5 pounds. Making it a grand total of 19.1 pounds! I am very happy about that! I also was the biggest loser and beat the next girl by 0.1%! Barely! I am grateful for this experience.

So I lost the weight just in time to gain it all back! (: