The Holiday Challenge is a 49 day body transformation contest. The winner will be the person who has made the best and biggest transformation as shown by their posted results, their posted before and after images and their final essay.
The hardest part of entering my first challenge was having my picture taken in a bikini. I hadn't owned a bikini in years! Then I had to post those pictures! I remember looking at those images and I cried my eyes out. How had I let myself go? How had I become so fat? I was horrified, I really looked at my body and I saw the reason for my poor health. I was obese in the worst way....around my middle. Every one agrees that carrying visceral fat around your middle is an indicator of poor health, including high blood pressure, diabetes and heart disease to name three big things.
One good thing about posting those horrible pictures is that I realized the only way to save face and to redeem myself was to post much better after pictures. Now I cherish those first before pictures. They stand as a reminder of where I started on this journey. They mark how far I've come.
Week four of the Holiday Challenge is wrapping up. We post our weekly results on Monday morning. I started the Summer Challenge weighing 219 lbs. I started the Holiday Challenge weighing 186 lbs. I'm now down 9.5 lbs in three weeks bringing my weigh down to 176.5. I'm hoping to be down another 3 lbs this week when we weigh in Monday morning.
It was much easier to post my before pictures for the Holiday Challenge than it was to post them for the first time during the Summer Challenge.
The difference 33 lbs makes is truly amazing! My health is so much better, my attitude is so much better and heck I just look so much better!
I look at these two images and I visualize what the next one is going to look like. In my minds eye I see that it's going to be awesome enough for me to win the Holiday Challenge!
