Documentation of your journey- bloopers are welcome!


So this won't be a very long post but just kind of posing a question… Do you take pictures just to compare them a year or two years or three years later? It's amazing to me the difference that a couple of years makes. Example…

I previously posted this  before and after picture on my page. I remember in the picture on the left, I'd had a baby, she was about two and finishing up breast-feeding, I would have just finished training and completing my first half marathon, and I was just happyto have started running again. I felt great then and knew that I was doing a lot better then I had been in years. 

My weight loss journey began after pregnancy in 2010. I look at the picture that I took just the other day on the right, and I see confidence, EFFING  muscles I didn't know existed, and a single divorcee mama making it. Five years or six years ago I would've never imagined that I'd be where I am today, nor experienced the good and the bad which have been interesting life lessons!

Example number two:

Holy smokes! And realize that my belly was out which is so embarrassing, but on that day? All I cared about was we were doing a fun run for a friends church member or friend. I had the honor of meeting  some  new ladies had some new experiences.  Shockingly, I did Zumba which I personally don't participate in often because I look like the most nonrhythmic person ever, and that's so not cool right? But anyway that's why remember this day.


Final example:

Bloopers! Enjoy all the bloopers in life because everything can't be perfect. I was complaining about not knowing how to pose in my fabulous photographer decided to take a picture of my whining. Yes I to wine. Anyway this is one of my favorite photos now and I just have it now is a reminder that sometimes it's going to just be OK to be just OK. Signing off and getting the kiddo to school.. I'm certain to have more bloopers to come :-)
Subtitled: the power of photography 

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