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Welcome Back!

By my title of this post, I am welcoming both you and I back to my blog. Not too many of 'you' out there, but maybe one day!

So, it's been 8 months since I've last posted. A lot has happened! I have completed my training sessions (after rotating between 4 trainers - good overall, but too much stupid shit someone paying a lot of money for training had to go through), I have been to South America (my first time out of the country), I am officially a junior in college, I completed an awesome internship, I have a great new job at my college and, oh yeah, I've lost exactly 50 pounds and 30 inches!

I originally lost 20 pounds on my own before I got a trainer. With their help, I was able to lose about another 20-25 pounds and a lot of inches. This was key b/c I was not seeing much physical results on my own. Since my training stopped in July, I haven't worked out much, but I've lost about 6 pounds. It's been a year since I started all this. A little longer than I wanted to to achieve my current success, but I'm very pleased with the results!

And now, I've set another goal. I want to lose another 20 pounds and then I'll see where I stand. I hope to lose at least 10 pounds by December and just started working out again today. Since it's been awhile, I'm starting off slow, then I'll bump up my workouts again.

I've been eating healthy this whole time - for the most part. I'll still indulge in more decadant things, like a cupcake or small bowl of ice cream. I've actually been having more of these moments lately, yet still losing weight. Hopefully, I'm not actually gaining fat, but working out will help that.

I look forward to writing on this blog again.

:)

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