My Own ad

I got my own magazine ad. It's kind of a funny story of how this picture came about. To funny not to share. I got a call from the company that they wanted to use my picture for the Wellbella magazine that's available at GNC.
We went back and forth with the story because its important to me to make sure that the truth is told. To many times we see crap in magazines and wonder if it's real.

I was in Boston on a business trip. I was at an event that involved wine and I had had a couple glasses already. I had answered my phone and the person on the other end was asking me if I could send a picture right away. How was I suppose to do that? My phone?

Ok, after 3 glasses of wine who can I ask take my picture? Because I certainly was not going to doa selfie. My friend Terri the friend  said she would help me, she only had 2 glasses of wine. We found a plain wall next to all the wine and took about a dozen shots to see what we could live with. Then, I had trouble sending the darned picture. I ended up forwarding the picture to another friend of mine Sojo and she sent it off for me. They mailed me a few issues to share with my family and friends.But, looking at the picture I had to make sure that it wasn't altered. It look weird on the white background.
So, I posted both pictures to show that no one messed with it and its really me.

Motivation on Facebook

I spent so much time on the hCG Activator Face Book page that it seemed like it was family. During my weight loss journey I had to find ways to keep me motivated and Facebooking about healthy stuff was it. We all have rough days and sometimes want to eat a bag of cookies and call it a day. But we can't do that if we want to succeed, and damn it I was going to win after so many failures. I continuously read about health and wellness and learned what I could about food and the nutrition of it. I stayed on the page to avoid getting up and walking to the fridge for a snack, to fight boredom.
My weight was coming off and I refused to ever gain it back, I was feeling so good I was on fire. That's the beauty of eating clean. You feel what food can do in many ways. It can give you energy or it can make you sick.
When I first liked the page it only had about 200 people on it. Now, it's way over 5,000 and the number of success stories using hCG Activator is growing. SO many people were quick to say I was starving myself, I wasn't following the food guidelines or I was killing myself. SAYS WHO? Well, I'm here to tell you that those people can all suck it. I may not have been eating a lot during the program but I was eating much healthier than on any DIET. Before I would skip meals, drink diet soda,eat "lowfat" processed carbs because it said it was good for me on the box only to lead me to binge later. I was eating processed DIET snack bars, Low fat cookies or highly processed wheat bread. We are being lied too. The big thing I learned out if this whole thing is to eat unprocessed foods as much as possible and portion control yourself. Ok, off my soap box. I love having this conversation with anyone that is willing to talk to me about it. I get pretty wound up.
Anyway, I was spending so much time on the page that I was asked to become a success coach. I  talked  about my motivations and shared what I did to win,  Not only do I get to hang out on the page and read success stories from others but I get to help and that really motivates me. Oer 2 years Later, I'm still there doing what I do best. So if you done feeling like crap, give me a jingle we can talk about it.

Super Mommy

I took a couple months off of boot camp thinking that I would keep it up on my own. Well, that couldn't have been further from the truth.  I went back for a few weeks and thought I could walk into this like I never left.  About 30 minutes into it I wanted to fall over.Where is this muscle memory that I keep hearing about? I'm so frustrated that it feels like I'm starting over. But week 3 I'm still going and my fitness level is coming back.

We women do it every day. We jam pack our days that we rarely take time out to take care of ourselves. I made the decision that I had to get back to it. I missed the exercise and the way it made me feel both physically and mentally. My husband stepped up and helps with dinners and lunches so I can feel my best. Because face it, no one likes a cranky mommy.

Keeping it up

I love this group of pictures as it shows my progression from 262 to 185. You can see by the date that this is 2 years ago, Still holding strong and I learned so much about health and nutrition that I have no fear of ever gaining weight back and I don't eat low-fat or DIET anymore.