Losing Post Grad Weight

I have decided it is time to get back into shape. I don't feel like I have lost control, but I definitely don't feel as good as I did when I was rowing 6 times a week for 7 years!!! I don't necessarily want to become obsessed with the idea of weight loss, but I have made some goals for myself. I would like to lose about 25 pounds to hit my ideal weight goal of 125. Our friends, Jackie and Brian, have been doing this calorie counter on their i-phones to help them track their weight loss. Jackie has lost approximately 15 pounds and Brian has lost about 40 pounds since they started. Mike is doing it too for his own personal reasons. We have been exercising consistently for about 3 weeks now and he went from couch potato to being able to run 25 minutes straight! We've both made healthier eating habit changes (no more regular soda for him, less carbs for me). When I was an athlete, it didn't really matter how much or what you ate. I believe rowing made me make healthier eating choices (who is going to win races by eating junk food all day???), but I was burning so many calories, I got used to eating all those calories to replace the ones I lost. This is the start of our weight loss tracker. If you are interested in making your own personal tracker, you should visit www.mypersonalfitness.com.

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Getting Started...

Mike and I got married in the San Antonio LDS temple on June 19, 2010. We were surrounded by family, including alot of my family that traveled from Utah and his family that traveled from Oklahoma, and enjoyed the time we had spending the morning with them. After pictures, we went back to Austin and that evening, went to our reception. It was so fun to see everyone and the time seemed to go by so fast. That evening, we hopped into our oreo'd SUV (thanks to the Bench family, my brother Mathew, and my cousins, Jessie and Jamie) and took off for San Antonio. We spent the evening in the Omni on the Riverwalk. The next morning, we drove to Port Aransas, and spent the rest of the week on the beach. We wrapped up our trip with one more day in Austin and left for Oklahoma later that week for our open house in Norman, OK the following Saturday.

We are approaching our one month anniversary of marriage tomorrow. I feel so blessed to have Mike in my life. Many people may not know, but I met Mike in Tulsa for a brief period of time at church while I was at the University of Tulsa for school. At that time, we were just friends, and didn't think we would ever see each other again. We met up several years later in Oklahoma City after my promotion as branch manager and well, the rest is history.

This blog will be used to follow our lives as we start off together and learn to laugh through the experiences we have in our marriage. I look forward to the many memories to come!