6 days!

I went for my third and last fitting and I've lost a few inches or maybe a few cm. I didn't do a before and after measurement. I definitely can fit in the dress and my seamstress had to take a few inches in. The gym workout worked! The last few weeks, I got new exercise:

soccer lunges: drop hips, straight back leg(don't let it drop), 10x ea. leg
straight arm to punch: 12.5 x 8 each side (set the arm thing at 7)
Max's woodchop: reach across your body to put 1st hand on
twish down at 45 degree angle and drop hips
keep eyes up, off the floor
foam roll IT band before doing
10lbs x 8 each side-move to 12.5 quickly (I think I'm at 15 or 17.5)
muscle snatch: 20lbs x 8
drop down into deadlift position then lift bar to overhead in on smooth, continuous, fast motion,
be sure to keep knees going straight ahead and over 2nd toes
bosu - inverted stand at the slope and squat down, with straight knees, and only use quad to come up

15 days

I'm being keeping up with my exercises for the most part. I tried climbing at a climbing gym about a month ago. I really liked it. I thought I would be scared out of my wits because I fear heights, but it wasn't that scary. My friends belayed me while I climbed. It was definitely a good arm workout. I'm going back after all the wedding crazy stuff is over.

Then I tried trail running for the first time. It was about a 5 mile run in Atlanta. I went to Atlanta about 2 weeks ago for my grandmother's 90th birthday. It was a crazy short trip. I was in Atlanta for 28 hrs. I flew red-eye and got into Atlanta around 7am. Then my cousin and I went for a run on my suggestion:). I like running in new places. It was humid and it actually rained, but thank goodness the lush trees kept us dry. I did fall once. I have a nice bruise on my knee from it. I bruise easily. I have a couple of new bruises. I was helping to setup for church and bunch of metal chairs fell on me. It was quite painful. I had to ice my foot and my upper tibia has a couple of nice green patches.

Here's my first bruise when I first started going to the gym. I banged my thigh on the pull up and chin up machine. Nice green and purple bruise. Ouch!