Can anyone say "Stronger?!"

So, I can officially say....getting stronger!

Ab Ripper X is getting easier to do each time.  To clarify, it is by no means "easy" but I can now actually do it all and not have to quit at different points through the workout. 

Legs tonight was tough.  We missed Yoga X yesterday.  Dan was exhausted and crashed around 7:30 pm and slept through the night so we are going to pick up Yoga X tomorrow and do Kenpo on our Rest Day Sunday. 

Each day I glance in the mirror, check out side views and so on.  It's hilarious.  Some days I am frustrated and annoyed by the lack of progress...I suppose I am impatient.  I remember being fit, and now that I am working so hard again, I just want to BE fit already.  :)  But, other days I wake up and catch a glimpse of a muscle that surprises me or notice a change here and there.  Today I lifted my arms above my head to stretch out a sore muscle while standing in front of the mirror getting ready and I noticed immediately my top two abdominals showing.  Well what do you know.....after having a baby, revealing those suckers in ANY way is happy times!  I was not even trying to accomplish this, it was pure coincidence.  YAY and YAY YAY.

It is so encouraging to feel stronger.  I know that month 60 and month 90 bring greater results than the first 30 days visually because your body has been prepped and muscles have strengthened and they begin to show.  It's great to think that by Halloween we will have been through the first 90 days and have totally changed our bodies in 3 months.  Then, by Christmas we will just about be finished with round two.  And Christmas simply does not seem that far off.

...I have two people to shoot this Sunday and Monday and I am very excited about that as well.  It's great to have things that inspire, motivate and push you to be a better you.

I am trying to remember to keep God first in my life.  Focusing on His purpose for me, for my family, and His desire for how I touch and reach others.  Sometimes I feel like the simple 'busy' in life gets in the way of a closer walk with Him.

I don't want to let that happen ever again.  Some of the toughest struggles in my life, the biggest mistakes and the hardest let downs ALL came when God was not center of my universe. 

My simple prayer this Sabbath evening is "Lord, make me healthy, fit and strong.  Let the desire to be these things not become about the visual, but about being the best me I can be for You.  Make me the best Mother to my child and stepchild and the best partner/potential wife that I can be.  But most of all Father, make me the best daughter to YOU."  Amen.

And Goodnight.