How changing my pants changed my day....

See graphic on right...Yeah, the one about the hair, I have changed my hair numerous times over the years, but this morning it was not about the hair...it was about the pants. I was rocking my purple fuzzy it is the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown PJ Pants and I am off today and I did not get my total lounge day on Tuesday....sooooo I can take it today.

I almost let it happen, I almost let the day get to me and just NOT. See it is week 3 and day 3, and I was willing to just no, nope...not gonna do it. Then, I changed into work out pants...and all of a sudden, no became a maybe.

That maybe changed to an absolutely I am going to not only work out today, I am going to blog about this feeling right here, when I stepped into the bathroom and seen myself in the mirror. This was no over sized sweatpants and sweatshirt, this was no random tshirt grabbed from the mens department and shorts from the plus size department.

The pants were a pair of my Katie K active, and the shirt was a straight size 2x from Old Navy, not their plus size, but their regular available in store sizes workout tank. Then I walked out of the bathroom and my adorable, who I fight to set the example for mini said the most profound thing to me....
"Wow Mommy, you look beautiful. Are you going to wear that to work?"
"No baby, I am not going to work today, but I am working out after you get on the bus."
As we walk to the bus stop, she says "Mommy, have a good workout today. I hope your muscles get big like mine..." After that, who wouldn't come home and workout?

My six year old...my SIX year old changed that maybe into a "Effin Yes I am working out today!!!"

I mean how could you not get pumped after that pep talk!

Then I also got to thinking about something else...completing something.  See I was the girl that quite when it got to hard, to long, to this or that. I never thought I would push through to finish anything.

Yeah I finished a few workout programs. I did this or that...I just threaded water. I just barely survived the programs...but what did I know about finishing anything?

I then started school in 2014...yup 2014. I started working on a bachelors and I dug in and said okay, I will not let my GPA drop below a 3.5. I wrapped my last class this past Monday. My GPA currently without the last class is a 3.79. So not only did I finish something, I exceed my goal.

Now here is where the story gets interesting. Just because I started school did not mean that life, the universe, and God let me have those plans and focus just on that. Oh no, that would have been too easy!

So in those four years let me give you the brief rundown.
1) I was a STAHM with a toddler and a heavy volunteer schedule
2) I had traveled a few times
3) I lost my father
4) I moved
5) My husband transitioned out of the military
6) I went back to work
7) Did I mention my husband got a job right away, but wait he was on third?
8) He started school
9) I went back to work
10) I went into part time management instead of just a few shifts a week....
11) Many summer vacations and weeks and days off of school for the mini....

This is just a synopsis. This does not include all the days where I didn't wanna, threw a fit and then just did the work...This does not include all the late nights, early mornings, and all of the tears that went into the four years.

It was messy and complicated and just plan ugghhh some days, but it was my journey and I got it done, one class one day at a time. So it is time to apply this thought process to the other areas in my life. It is time to dig in and make it happen. Like seriously make it happen.

I have had some setbacks in the weight loss, today I am weighing in at the same weight I was at the last appointment before I had Abbie. Yes, it is not about the weight loss, but 7 years ago when I met my husband I was in the 280's...he watched me balloon up to 350...and then work my way back down to now.

So, now what is next for me? Well I am starting Grad school in January. Like there was no thought that went into it. I finished the one degree and on to the next, so I plan on doing the same in my fitness. I have a six month plan and at the end of that, I am going to Disney.

So, the fitness looks like finish Liift 4, which is the longest program to date I have fully committed to doing the whole program. Then I am doing 3 rounds of Shift Shop Proving Ground, and then Transform 20. Now, I am not doing this alone and I did not come up with this plan on my own. But with the help of the team and the coach, I will succeed in this.

Makes me think back to the team projects that I hated in school, where we all worked together....I know y'all remember those posts. I am batman, I work alone....yeah not in this. In this I work better as part of something bigger than me.

So as I bring this to a close, I am working on planning out the next six weeks of blogs, I am working on a full review of Liift4, and I am working on the 6 year anniversary of this crazy little side project of mine! I also am about to be working more and still creating a balance of me time, family time, and getting geared up to go back to being a student.

Keep an eye out for Sunday Coffee and the weekly wrap up as I get back into a rhythm here, but for now I need to sign off and get ready for a business dinner...until Sunday Morning....