Tag: fitness

You guys!

Look at these guns baby! 36 days into the 100 day pushup challenge and I’m seeing results. 3 minutes planking is also helping!

My favorite part? Whatever that muscle is called that’s developing on the top and outside of my arm. Its freakin’ awesome!

My day is made!

Happy Thursday friends!

This has been an excellent week for my ego…

People who I haven’t seen in a long time were creepin’ on my Facebook page. I haven’t uploaded any photos for awhile and my profile pic has been the same for about two months. But a former co-worker wrote this on my wall, out of nowhere! 

“Melissa! You are looking fabulous!! :)) Hope all is well!”

Then, another former co-worker commented on an picture of me and said:

“Holy cow melissa ur f’in hot. Hope all is as good as u look.miss u much…”

Then, when I wrote on a friend’s wall for his birthday last night, and he wrote this on my wall early this morning:

“Holy crap! Youre so svelte and a celebrity lookalike”

Needless to say, I’m feeling pretty good about myself. This has NEVER happened to me before! I was feeling kind of down, and this gave me a great ego boost!

This is pretty cool

I have been invited by a friend (and Nebraska state Senator!) to be on a panel for a Young Women’s Leadership Forum next month. Its for teens and college girls and one of the topics selected by the teens to discuss is body image and the media.

She asked me to be a part of it because I work in the media and she said I lost my weight the healthy way.

I was honored! The panel meets October 17th and I happen to have that day off because I have to work that Saturday for football. So I told her I was in! I am guessing that I will have to bring some of my before pictures. Before I made this blog I would have told you that terrified me! Putting pictures out there of me when I was fat? No thank you! But now, after such amazing support from this community, I don’t mind at all. If I can change one person’s life, that will make it all worth it. Losing 144 pounds (that’s right, I’ve lost 2 more pounds!) has been one of the most rewarding experiences in my life. I just hope I can inspire others to make the same kind of changes.

So that has made for a pretty good day. I hope your days are going well too friends!