Motivation

Pinterest has many pins about motivation.  Some are subtle like others are not so subtle.....
   As we are planning the wedding and I started looking at dresses and looking at my self in the mirror, I realized that I did not want to look like this at the wedding.  I could just imagine the pictures of my beautiful, trim family and me--with those same 30 lbs hanging around my waist.  Those lbs were a result of many factors just like they are with all of us.  We don't just wake up one day 30 lbs heavier.  Although it does seem that way sometimes.
Again, Pinterest has changed my perspective.  I have a board dedicated to "Because" this is where I put those pins that mean something to me, but I really do not want the world of pinners to know they mean something.  Thus the label.  But better than pinning, I get to read at will all of the pins from the pinners I follow, the popular tab and the everything tab.  I can mentally translate those saying, pictures and attitudes to myself and my life.
With all of this weighing heavily on my mind: the wedding, the 30 lbs, the pins, the dress and again the 30 lbs; I hired a personal trainer.  Oh my, that was a hard thing to swallow.  Me--needing someone to push me around and make me hurt myself.  Well let's face it if I were in charge of my workout I would contemplate and over think and become so bogged down with self doubt and exhaustion that I would never get off the couch.  Except to go Pin some more on Pinterest.  Now, a personal trainer pushes me to do more. She has a plan laid out and all I have to do is follow it.  She takes the confusion out of the process.  Do I hurt all over? Yes!  Is that a good thing?  Yes!.  Here is the question you are all wanting to have answered: have I lost weight? Yes!  Just over 8 lbs in 3.5 weeks.  And that is through a work trip to San Diego and the Christmas holidays.  So, I am excited.  It is not easy. But, I will continue and keep you updated on progress.