1 year @ goal - ridiculously long, but with pics!

Hot Damn!  Exactly how many hours a day do you work out?  I vote for a photo with every post from you.  I'm still stunned.  Plastics? Get outta here!

Okay, this I am proud of because I don't kill myself at the gym: I work out about an hour and 10 minutes per day - sometimes an hour and 20. This is my routine: 3-5 minute warm up, 30 minutes weight lifting, 30 minutes cardio, 5 minute cool down, 5-10 minutes stretching. I try to do this routine 5 days per week.

Some weeks I will do the above routine on M, W, F and then on T Th I will do an hour of cardio. The last couple of weeks I am doing the combined routine 5 days per week without any straight cardio days.

OH.MY.GAAAAAAAAWWWWWWDDDDDDDD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Ahem... I'm actually kinda speechless!!!!

I seriously forgot what I wanted to write...

OK ... hopefully John won't read this ...

You look amazingly HOT as HELL!!!  You do those white jeans good my friend ... OMG, I am nervously giggling ova here!  You are looking like perfection to me!!!!

Aye Devon ... let me try to focus for a sec now... give me a sec ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ok ...

I mean this whole heartedly but there is a lot of you that I see in me.  Lucky (in a way) you only gained 12 when you have already caught yourself.  You are learning about yourself & doing your best to figure things out.  That is what I am trying to do. 

I resisted a free lemon AND chocolate cupcake at work yesterday since there was a fundraiser but had some extras laying around ... there is nothing better than a cupcake and it being FREE!!!!  And still, people look at me like, "what's the big deal with a little cupcake"???  They are the devil ... I seriously must have looked like I was acting out in a horror movie because my eyes got all big & scared without taking my eyes off of the cupcakes as I walked away backwards, no lie!!!  It's as if I was afraid the cupcakes were going to follow & haunt me!!!!  Again, I realize it's not so much the cupcake that is the devil but the triggers that come after the fact!!!  I am learning to tell myself that I don't deserve cupcakes ... I just wish they weren't so darn cute looking.  I love all things cute ... dammit.

I guess I just hear of your struggles too which I appreciate BTW because I need to know that I am not alone.  Yet you are a true success & I know deep down in my heart that you will always be a success and continue on when the going gets tough. 

I just love you to pieces and thank you for posting all those pics.  Geez, if I would have known your pics were gonna look like that, I might have kept my mouth shut but heck ... no need for me to say no ... gotta share the eye candy fo sho!!!! 

You rock Devon, seriously ... I wish I already knew you when I met you briefly last year in May.  You barely gave me a passing glance (giggle) ... and now I just adore you too!!!  Luv you!!!!

Mwaaaah! Sorry John, just had to plant one on her!!! LOL!

You are so sweet! I have to tell you, I admire so much about your honesty. You just put it out there for the rest of us to see. I think a lot more people have little struggles and feel ashamed of them. I know that is my natural tendency - to feel ashamed or less than - when I stray from the straight and narrow of my food plan. Both you and Alison serve as inspirations to me on that front.

As far as barely glancing at you, well, that may be true, but I didn't know you and believe it or not, I was still very shy and tentative back then. It was a super big deal for me to go meet all these people I had never met before and especially people who were VSG rock stars. And plus you were with Alison and Alison intimidated me back then. Her posts were always so forceful and straight shooting. She scared me! LOL! - Not really, but didn't that sound good? Seriously, if I could go back to that Saturday in the park, I'd give you a great big hug!

HOLY ****! Look at those shoulders! OMG, yummy!

Screw the BMI chart, you look amazing, honey. Amazing!

The mental part is the hardest. Dammit. ((HUGS)) You will get this, you're already 95% of the way there because you have that understanding and control. That's truly what matters the most. xoxo

You know, it is all that mental **** that gets in the way. The food part would be completely a breeze if the head didn't get in the way and mess it up at times. What's cool about sticking with this over time (as you know) is that the more  we practice doing things that are in our best interest for the long term the easier it gets.

Congratulations!!!!!! plastics, me thinks you need not spoil the perfection!

Wowzers!!!!  You look ahhhhhmazing!!!!!