Zion National Park

This was taken on our vaca at Zion National Park. It was three days of hiking up lots of mountains - wonderful! The first pic is a storm that came up on us when we were hiking Angels Landing.

Great Doctor in Anthem, Arizona

Oh, I forgot that I wanted to give my new doctor a plug.
Dr. Randy Horn in Anthem is awesome. He is a very good doctor, easy to talk to and he takes his time with you. If you need a good doc in Anthem Arizona, I give Doctor Horn a big thumbs up!!

I'm baaaccckkk

Oh my gosh, I haven't blogged in sooooo long!! First I was on vacation and then I got a sinus infection last week. I am finally back working out again after taking a two week break. I signed up for SWEAT's "maintenance plan" - it is a pretty good deal. I was amazed last night how hard it was to get back into exercising. After only two weeks, my endurance was very decreased.
My official weight at the end of the 12 weeks was 157.2. I am not sure how many total inches I lost, they are still looking for my beginning measurements (couldn't find the sheet) - but I know for sure that I lost 5 inches in my waist. I haven't been a 30 inch waist for YEARS! Yaaa
On the downside, most of my pants look like clown pants, I only have about 5 pairs that actually fit me now. Will have to save some $$ to get new pants and/or alterations.
Now, on to the flu-- is anyone else concerned or do you think it is being overblown. This is how I figure it -- if it is being a bit overblown, maybe that is for the best right now when we don't know how virulent this flu is going to be. I mean, if they had instituted these kinds of measures at the beginning of the 1918 epidemic, it probably would have saved some lives, right?

 I have been trying to find a pic of myself at my largest.  This comes pretty close.  This was taken in August, 2008 at Petrified Forest in Arizona.  I'll try to get a good "after" pic of myself to post soon.  I'm now about 2 sizes smaller than this.  :)

I trained on Friday night instead of Wednesday night this week and I met some new people.   I was talking to a fellow "SWEATer" named Rick (you have to tell me if I got your name wrong) and he cracked me up and made me feel good at the same time.  We were doing lunges outside from wall to wall and I was, of course, complaining.  Rick told me that he learned from my blog not to wear thongs when doing lunges.  I had forgotten about my lunge+thong post, so it made me laugh.  And, it made me feel good that a few other people (other than my family and close friends) actually read my prattle.  Rick, I have to say that lunges+thong on a male would probably be way more uncomfortable then lunges+thong on a female, wouldn't you agree?!  LOL

The end of my 12 week challenge is approaching, I am done on Thursday, April 16.  I think (if I can find the money) I am going to do SWEAT's maintenance plan.  I can do 2 personal training sessions per week and I can go to any of their group classes.  I think its a good deal.  

I may not blog too much this week.  We are getting ready to go on a trip to Zion National Park.  I'll post pics from our trip next week.  Stay healthy!