winding down.

I broke up with my trainer today. It wasn't anything dramatic or scandalous, sorry. It was just all part of the plan. My 6 months of training with her were up. In the past 6 months I took my weight from obese to overweight to now normal, my body fat % dropped like crazy and is now in the ideal range and I'm only off by 5 lbs. from where I expected to be right now. My original goal was off by 10 lbs. but I always had a more realistic goal in my head which was 5 lbs. higher... and at that I missed it by 5 lbs. But my body fat % dropped lower than my original goal by 2%, I'm wearing one pants size smaller than my original goal, so all in all, it worked itself out just fine. I'm always going to be bottom heavy and shaped like a pear so with a little more body acceptance on my part, it'll be all good.

My trainer has told me numerous times that in the 10 years of her career, I've been her favorite client. I've never missed a session, I don't offer up lame excuses, I don't quit, I do what I say I'm going to do and she respects that. I always tell her I'm paying her to dish up compliments and she argues that she couldn't be paid to compliment someone, that's just not her style. She really thinks I rock. I'll take it.

It's now the 3rd day of summer vacation and the kids are already driving me crazy. Perhaps its the new schedule, my lost few hours of freedom each day, the fact that its been a busy few days with hair cuts, dentist appointments, I have a dr's appointment today and had a training session, changing bedrooms, organizing, cleaning... I don't think I could keep up at this pace for very long. I'm sure we'll get into the swing of things right before my surgery (in 13 days!) and then our schedule will once again get turned on its head. :sigh: Change has always been hard for me.

I uploaded pictures today so here's some of the latest:

Last day of 7th grade:
Last day of 1st grade:
End of year preschool program:
How they look to others:

How they look to me: