An awesome week, an awesome month...

I have so much to be thankful for, but there still is a small bit of me that just doesn't see fulfilled.  I am on the road to fulfillment to find what gives me joy and peace.  I've really come to find that my friends are an important part of my life.  I knew that 5 years ago when I was in Wisconsin doing it alone while the hubby was in Michigan starting a new life for us.  My friends were the ones that I vented to, asked for help, who came with coffee in the mornings that the baby didn't sleep, congratulated me on my littlest losses of weight.

I gave up talking to a lot of friends over the past 5 years and now I really am sad that I allowed that to happen.  I guess I hold resentment to the fact that I allowed myself to be fed guilt that I would not be showering my attention completely on my family.  My friends that I have talked with the past month have noticed a change in me, have noticed that I no longer and the bubbly person with a smile that comes naturally.  These same friends have helped with suggestions for my weight loss journey.  My whole new life as a fit and moving woman.

SOOOO onto the good news of the week. Last week I saw a loss of 4.1# and for the month of October I lost 12.1#s.  Yeah me...doing a little dance over there and patting myself on the back.  Don't mind me.

Ok so changes this month to diet were cutting out all refined carbs and processed foods.  Yep that included the Halloween candy that found itself into the house by my 5 little monsters.  I've eated  a lot of protein while still getting my veggies and greens in for the day.  Lots and lots and lots of water.  Oh and did I mention that there was no chocolate???

The other thing that I changed up was doing HIIT on the spin bike or tabatta training on the spin bike.  I logged over 300 miles on the spin bike in the month of October.  I have found a huge success with moving towards this type of training. I am hoping through the month of November to switch up my equipment.  I have been using so far this last week the treadmill for killer HIIT , the spin bike for moderately hard training and today the elliptical...much harder to do the training on.  Have been also incorporating strength training about 3 days a week.

So excited for the changes that future allows and the fact that the past can be moved on from.