Can I get a WOO HOO?!? :-)

So I'm like really, really excited (and I just can't hide it... cheesy, I know :-) and I wanted to share with ya'll.

Tonight in my body works class (that's the twice a week toning & sculpting class I take), our instructor had us do push ups using hand weights as leverage. She demonstrated an actual full push up but most people went to their knees to do the standard "girly" push ups, as is what I would normally do.

Since I was holding my body up on the hand weights, I got brave and decided to try the normal pushups. Never done those before, I was always too embarrassed to even try. But guess what? I DID THEM!!!! BOTH sets of 10 push ups.... NOT the girly on- my- knees push ups but the real push ups! I'm so flippin proud of myself! Like this is HUGE for me.

But wait! That's not all.....

So we had to do side planks again. But not just the regular side planks. Oh no, normal side planks aren't what Jackie wanted us to do. She wanted to make these harder. She wanted us to do the tough girl side planks. Not only were we holding our bodies up on our forearms, but had to do shoulder raises WITH hand weights....WHAT? HUH?? YEAH...that's exactly what I was thinking. So as she's counting, I'm praying & begging to whoever will listen that she won't make us do an ungodly amount, like 20 or 30. I mean, we still had to do the OTHER side too. Anyway, after we finished -- it was just 10... yay!-- the first set of side planks with weights, Jackie made eye contact with me and said, "Good job!".

It was such a huge compliment and an even bigger validation for me! I felt like a million bucks. I really did feel like I was walking on sunshine. My genetically blessed, tough as nails, Argentinian hottie instructor made it a point to look directly at me and tell me "Good job!" It really hit home that I HAVE come a LONG way. Not just by the numbers. Ok, 108 lbs lost. Several pants/dresses/sizes lost. Numerous inches lost .... yeah... BUH-BYE old me.

But now I KNOW I have made physical and strength improvements as well. Isn't that the icing on the cake?