Rise Above the Bar

12/25/2025

07/02/2024

I only look back to see the progress… this week I ordered a tee shirt and I know my mother laughed as I pulled it out of packaging as the expression on my face was one of that I could have passed out. My first thought was they send me a kids tee shirt I cannot wear this! To my surprise it fit and was super cute too. I looked back to see where I was last year on scale and I am down 10 pounds. Sometimes I am too hard on myself and need to celebrate me more.

07/01/2024

I love this … it screams fixed mindset sometimes the only roadblock standing in “our” way from “growing is our own self.

06/01/2024

Breakfast and snack to go… less eating out and decreasing refined sugar.

04/17/2024

My lunch is healthier and tastier than yours thanks to Honest Living.

03/27/2024

In the famous words of Albert Einstein “Life is like a bicycle; keep ‘moving’ on to maintain balance.” As of today, I have lost and maintained keeping off 18.8 pounds since the first of the year.

03/22/2024

Truth is I still get frustrated when I see myself in the mirror. I still see the amount of weight I have that needs to be lost, but I honestly discredit how hard and how far I have come. In 2017, this was an unhappy, unhealthy version of my myself. I have come so far since 2017 inside and outside.

03/20/2024

Ever wonder what determined looks like! I walked 10,000+ steps on treadmill. I jogged at least 4,000 steps. It’s a start…my healthiest weight was when jogging and getting in two a day walks.

03/19/2024

Down -0.4 almost half a pound, but I celebrate that I had breakfast and lunch even a small dessert. I’ve also drank 22 ounces of water and Zero Ginger Ale today. So, I would call it a winning week just going to get better from here on. Well on my way to 15,000 step goal for today. Also maintaining -16.8 pounds gone.

03/19/2024

Winning morning starts early…what’s your routine?

03/19/2024

I have 33 pounds to lose… in case anyone does not know I have a love hate relationship with this last 30 pounds. I’m not joking I must eat the right foods daily, get enough sleep nightly, join the 5AM club and walk, walk and exercise in between while drinking 60+ ounces of water to loss a pound! So, alarm set, exercise clothes for week packed, all shoes packed in car, healthy lunch prepared and smoothie for breakfast ready to make. I am committing to WW meeting tomorrow. I can and will do this. Goal 140 just ten pounds more than I graduated 24 years ago. I feel good at 160-150 and am my best leanest self at 140. So here’s to recommitting!

02/22/2024

Who is that girl? At almost 200 pounds and only 5’1 in a depressed state of mind and body. I have come a long way…from the inside and out. Look at that goregous radiant smile of a girl that is proud to be recommitted to her health, fierce as fire, carefree with confidence and grateful to God that he brought her through it all.