4 Weeks Down - #75 Hard

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Not only have I finished one third of the program by this point but I can say that I have succesfully completed 4 weeks now. 28 days. Over the course of the past 28 days I have managed to take a total of 562,425 steps which equates to 251.09 miles!

Holy cow that is a lot of steps and miles.  Looking at the data that way it is kind of amazing that in 28 days I could have physically walked 250+ miles.

I'm very excited that I am on pace to have my One Million Steps in before completing 8 weeks of this program and that will equate to 500 miles.  

Progress is one step at a time.  Keep your mind focused on your goals and you can make anything happen.

This past week I have had a few trying days where I tried to talk myself out of completing my journey.  Tried to talk myself out of going on my final walk of the evening and just taking a nice long nap instead.  But the truth is I do not want to quit.  I have put this much time into it and I do not want to give up and go back to where I was.

As of yesterday Morning I was down 14.5 pounds.  Half a pound away from 15 and getting closer and closer to hitting my 20 pound goal.

With all the extra walking I have been doing and the intermittent fasting I have seen the pounds melt off this first month.

When I look in the mirror I still don't notice the difference but the scale is telling me that there is a big difference and I feel like at any moment I'm going to wake up and be down a pant size.

Thank you all!

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