The MAGIC of Kind words...

It is amazing to me, how much emphisis we put sometimes on the words of others, and the way they make us feel. Kind, and I imagine the same with unkind words.


At the gym this morning... I was in my PUMP class, just like I am every single Wednesday morning at 5am. As i was setting up my things for the class, I had FOUR Different people come up to me... people that i don't know necessarily, but that i see often at the gym every morning... and tell me how proud they are of me & how i have inspired them as they have watched me work so hard & how great I look. !?!?!?!??? After the class was over with, THREE MORE came up to me and were saying things along those same kind lines! I was really so shocked, and even started to be embarrassed! Ü People who i don't know... took the time to talk to me and uplift me today! It helped me to feel like i was on cloud nine! I was so complimented! Their kind words helped me to want to work even harder and keep working towards the goals that i have set for myself! If i can do that-accomplish my goals-and inspire others along the way... wooowhoo! It was wonderful the way their words made me feel! I needed that! Ü I felt amazing!

Also, last Wednesday... the instructor of my Wednesday class pulled me aside and asked if i was keeping up my running. I told her of course that i was. She then asked me if i had heard of the Race 'Wasatch Back'. I told her that i had. She then asked me if i might be interested in being part of a team for this years race!!!! WOW! I was so excited! Then i got nervous! but then excited again, as it might be a new FUN challenge! This was a big deal for me. Out of all the people that i see in the gym every single day, for some reason... she picked me to ask to be a part of her team. The more that i have looked into it since, I am finding out that this is a pretty big deal. So I am Very complimented. How kewl that she would ask me!!

She said that she needed to check with one other girl, before she knew for sure if they needed me to be a part of the team. She said that she would let me know by Tuesday or so. I am starting to really hope that she needs me to be a part!! That would be so kewl!

Here is a Great video that explains a little bit about what it is:




Ok, so part two of my morning....

In my mind sometimes, i am still the same i was about four months ago. I have had a closet FULL of things, tucked waaaay in the back of my closet.... saving them cause i just HOPED that SOMEDAY I would be able to wear them. You know those clothes... the ones that you don't want to give away cause you like them... but they are in the WAY back corners of my closet cause they were the clothes that i couldn't 'SUCK IN' enough to be able to either zip them up or button them up!!! UG! Some of them practically new, but I couldn't wear cause they were too tight!

Ok, so... I think, maybe i should try.... so I start digging DEEP! Deep into the depths of my closet in search of things that i have not seen for a Very long time!. As i get to the 'bottom'... OH! I remember this! Sweet! this is CUTE! Oh yeah... these pants! Some of them still with tags on! So, i grab them out and put on these Adorable brown pants that i had purchased at Old Navy. OH MY GOSH! Even with them all done up... buttons and zippers and all... they fall STRAIGHT DOWN! It just makes me giggle with JOY! I can't hardly believe it! A pair of pants that I couldn't even wear because i couldn't even get them pulled all the way up around my hips, let alone zip or button them! I have skipped right over the stages where I could have worn them! Now i can't even get them to stay up!

My brain is having the Hardest time wrapping itself around all of this! It just seems so unbelievable! I know in my mind how much better i feel physically... In fact, I believe that i am in the best shape I have ever been my entire life... but the whole 'appearance' thing... it is still so crazy!

I officially can not fit into ANYTHING that i have in my room to wear! I am going to clean out my closets this week... and have a great big garage sale! I am never buying those sizes again!


It is Mother's day this Sunday... I think that I am going to treat myself to some new clothes! Something that i have not done in a Long time! It is now actually more out of necessity--rather then a treat! Ü