Ok, so here I am in Phoenix a week or so ago. With my Aunt's. Laurie and Judy (my cuz Christy is in the back there) Hi Christy Gayle...love ya!!
I am always behind the camera and so I rarely get into a pic if ever. My sweet sista Jen took my camera hostage and started dartin round the place. She got me. But I am not camera shy anyway. Never have been. If there is a camera around I am going to pose and cheeze it up. That's just me.
We are not fancied here up because...well... we were having a pool party/grill out/memorial day bash/my dad's b-day celebration. See here my Uncle Steve is grilling burgers and stuff. He's a master at the grill. We should call him the grill master. Hey Uncle Steve... is it okay if we call you the grill master? Yes! Ok, awesome. You are the grill master then!
So we are in our swim suits. A suit I would not have been in had I not lost 35 lbs prior to this trip. I just would not have put one on had I not made the choice to rid myself of all this unnecessary weight back in January. But I did make the choice. And it's been a good choice if I do say so myself. (*sidenote* I have lost weight in the past, but have never ever been really fit) You see back in December, I had been thinking. Thinking long and hard about how difficult it was to be overweight and unfit. How difficult it was to find clothes that fit. How difficult it was to find the energy to do the things I liked to do. How difficult it was to look in the mirror. Look in the mirror and really like (or should I say LOVE) what I was looking at. I thought about how I did not want to do that anymore. I did not want the unnecessary difficulty any longer. Life can be hard enough on its own without me adding to it's never ending abrupt surprises. So I thought about how if I had a choice between size 16 clothes or size 8. I would always chose the 8's. But yet I was not making the better choice. The choice was mine. So why did I settle. Why do any of us settle? Settle for the exact opposite of what we want? I've come to realize it's because we don't really know what we want exactly. Not really. And.... we are fearful of the spectacular. Yep. We are. Don't argue with me. You know it's true. How dare we be spectacular. That's only for the Hollywood elite and pro athletes. Right? But not us. Nooooooo. And it takes some time to actually figure that out. But one thing I knew for sure. I knew I did not want the extra weight. So I set up a very simple plan to get back in shape.
It went something like this.
Stop eating the bad stuff and burn up the stored calories.
Translation to self : pay attention to what you are eating Sonja and move darnit!
Bascially - change the way you think.
So I've made a habit of exactly those two things. It's working out pretty well. I'm a little over half way to "my personal" spectacular.
I will post more pics of moi in the future.
Which means you'll be seeing a lot less of me more often. Hee hee ho hee ho ha ha. I crack myself up.
Okay, I'm leaving now.
The SLM
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