Que Sera, Sera, Whatever Will Be, Will Be

This last weekend we were in Stouffville for the Misty Meadows Tea and craft sale. My family put on the sale for my Grandfather who writes children's books. He's published them in a different format and was doing a book launch. The setting for the books is the farm where the sale took place. The stories were ones that my Grandpa told us as kids about the animals that lived in the aria. In this case I think he needs to write a new one with a coyote or two. It went quite well for him and the family is very pleased.

We got to visit with family and attend a 1st Birthday party for my cousins little guy who is super cute and such a happy little man! All in all I had a very pleasant and indulgent weekend. Lewis family meals are never on the small side and if I do say so myself we are pretty good cooks! This might be a part of my problem. Food is good, and I want to eat it! So I did. I had hamburgers, pasta salads, veggies and dip, some potato chips, squares, gummies and even a glass of wine. I came home fully expecting to have gained a pound or two and I was OK with that. I know that this is how Lewis gatherings go and I don't plan to avoid them for the rest of my life, nor should I. I was shocked to step on the scale Monday morning and discover I had not gained at all. Sharing this fact with Randall he brought up something that I hadn't thought about.

Randall reminded me of the simple fact that muscle burns more calories than fat. This is something that I knew but hadn't thought about when it came to myself. I know I've been building muscle. I can see and feel it. I know that this process was made much simpler by using ViSalus because of how I felt when I was lifting weights and doing cardio at the gym years ago. I did loose weight then and I did build muscle but it was a much harder process. Even with the greater effort I didn't feel as strong as I do now.

I think this is part of the beauty of the ViSalus products. They do assist with building lean muscle mass and that muscle will only help you burn more calories and make your weight loss process even easier. I believe I have gotten to a point where my metabolism is actually starting to speed up on it's own and this is exciting for me! The 90 days will be enough time for me to turn choices into habits of eating better and getting more exercise. I am really happy with the the process of my transformation so far! I'm feeling strong, healthy, attractive and even more emotionally stable.

I have known I needed to work on my self esteem for a long time and really started taking a more serious crack at it during lent this year. I was able to get to a place where I had a more realistic view of who I was and how I looked. This new challenge started as a way to fix some of the things about myself I knew I could improve on. Strangely it has made me feel better about how I was before the weight loss. I'm fine with how I am at this stage along my journey and have even realized that my weight goal might not be realistic with the addition of the muscle weight I have been putting on. I'm fine with that and have made peace with the number on the scale. I has been a little difficult to realize that in order to get down to the weight that my BMI considers "healthy" I would possibly have to loose lean muscle mass and that would not, in fact, be healthy. I'll just have to wait and see what happens and how my body will react. Strangely enough, I'm okay with that.