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What's in a number?

Thursday, September 16th 2010

Numbers are very important to me.

On this LCJ they’ve become the way I measure my success and my failures. They’ve become my constant reminder that I am trying to make some changes in my life that will hopefully get rid of the fat that I’ve carried around for most of my life and get rid of it for good. Numbers have become both my saving grace and my worst enemy.

Here are some of those numbers:

270 - my highest weight ever.

28 - average hours spent per week playing World of...

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Meet Natalie and Olivia

Saturday, September 11th 2010

Today's run is dedicated to our very own Natalie (Thorneapple) and her niece Olivia!

Olivia was diagnosed with Leukemia when she was 2 years old. It was a scary time for all of us, but most especially for my brother and my sister-in-law. Olivia is their youngest child. As a baby she was a very vivacious happy baby and the spitting image of her sister Anna. Then she started getting sick. She was taken to the doctor and after a battery of tests they diagnosed her with Leukemia.

After tha...

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Friday, September 10th 2010

Dear Body,

When you and I committed to this journey back in December it was the absolute most important decision we’ve ever made together. Absolute most important. Remember how we used to laugh and joke about “oh it’s going to take forever to lose weight” and we would swear under our breath as we took the stairs that first week thinking “this is never going to be worth it”.

Oh and let’s not forget all the times we wanted to shove crap food in our pie hole but instead reached for...

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Better or Worse...

Thursday, September 9th 2010

One of the great things about having Godfather as a trainer is just when you feel like giving in, he says something that just clicks. On Wednesday I walked into the gym thinking I was going to have a somewhat mellow hour. I was super exhausted and pretty sore after a Tuesday filled with an hour session with him and then returning that evening for my first ever Boot Camp with my friend Jessi. Godfather pushes me to the limit each and every time. Add to that boot camp and Tara = TORE UP! I had p...

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San Francisco (aka putting my life into action)

Monday, September 6th 2010

A funny thing happened while on this LCJ.

I’ve learned how to live.

One of the most amazing things about waking up one morning and deciding that weighing 263 pounds was not where I wanted to be any longer is figuring out that this stopped being about ONLY losing weight fairly quickly and became more about just living life.

The last time I went on vacation it was to Ohio to visit my friend Michelle back in June. I’d been on this journey for about 5 months and down 50 pounds. I t...

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