I spent the weekend leading up to monday shopping. All the frozen fruit is from Whole foods and everything else is a mix of Safeway, Metropolitan Market and weirdly, Target. Target had the best price on Chia Seeds and if you're lucky like me, you can find Almonds on clearance! 

Two Years in a row, I have participated in The Seattle Color Run. run this year was different this last in set up. Last year it ended by the EMP and this year it ended in the park at the Seattle Center. Also, last year at the stations you got thrown powder this year it was colored water! Upsetting at first because that is the BEST part. But there were many wins. My dad and I ran it together, my mom came along, PR'd my fastest mile (11:34) and PR'd my 5k (37:39). Last year i walked most of it and got the time of 47:43. It was super fun though and look forward to doing the Tacoma Color Run in August! 

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I have always been the "fat" kid. I was teased for it and blah blah let's not get into those memories. As a teen I never really tried to lose weight even though I wasn't happy with my appearance. I remember going in for a physical and being weighed. Let's just say the scale didn't go over 300 pounds and the nurse had to "guesstimate" my weight. It was upsetting but I never had that internal want or drive to lose weight. In high school I tried to stay active I was on the bowling and tennis team. I wasn't active besides that and I ate like shit. Have you tried Hot Cheetos with sour cream? No? You're really missing out! Just did the math and that "snack" I had back then was over 600 calories. Fun.

High School

Community College

Summer 2009

Western Years

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2012

Start of 2013 was rocky for me. I still didn't have job and weight was really starting to come off slowly. I continued to work on my diet and workout. I completed The Color Run and soon after scored a Internship at Cody. Cody is an app for the Iphone where you can log and share workouts. I also got a part time job at Evolution Fresh which complimented my healthy lifestyle. In 2013, I did the Color Run, participated in The Big Climb, landed the job at Cody, climbed Mt. Si, inspired others and continued to share every moment of it. 2013 was a pretty solid year, i didn't lose that much weight. I went from 284-254 but I did find a passion that was missing which is fitness and inspiring others to live a healthy lifestyle.

2013

Here we are almost halfway thru 2014! This year started off with The For The Glow  Resolution Challenge. I'm currently at the weight i finished the challenge with 248. I'm still working out 3-5 days a week, I started doing bootcamp classes and try to eat as healthy as I can. I'm about to start yet another For The Glow challenge, run my second Color Run and I have plans to do half marathon at the end of the summer. I'm excited to see where I end 2014 and hopefully you stick around to see where I end up! Here is my progress so far...

2011 vs 2014