AWESOME WORKOUT!!!- making me cry and stuff :)

Warning: I am going to ramble on a lot in this post. :) First of all, I just wanted to say how AWESOME I'm feeling, and I haven't even lost 10lbs yet. Just a little over a week of "changes" in my lifestyle, and I can just feel the improvements. Tomorrow will be 2 weeks since I made the "3-week Jumpstart" goal, but it will only mark 1 week that I have actually been doing it. Eating good and working out. The eating good has definitely taken longer to take part in, but again, I can already tell a difference and so grateful I finally started! I've already cut off almost 5 full minutes off of my 3mile and last night I ran about 20min of it, compared to about 5 minutes (combined) a week ago. I really wanted to eat everything in sight last night when I got home from work. It was cloudy, chilly in our house with a nice breeze coming through the windows. AKA a perfect evening for sweats and snuggling and snacking and lazying around. (Really all favorites of mine, hence my current condition ;) ) But instead, I had a small snack and forced myself onto the treadmill. And boy am I glad I did. A medley of walking 4.0mph, running at 5.5 & 6.0 mph, and walking at 3.5mph with an incline. I haven't worked with the incline much on my treadmill but I ended up at 7.0 when things were said and done and let me just say, IT'S A TRUE CALORIE BURNER. I worked harder than I have in years during last night's workout and it wasn't even planned. I just felt the urge to keep fighting and working harder. I even found myself saying aloud, "Come on. Come on. Come on." And that's what I did. At the end of my workout I threw my hands in the air and shouted "WOOOOO!!!!! WOOHOOOO!!!!!!!" Not realizing how loud the celebration was and my children came running, "WHAT MAMA? WHAT?!" LOL. I couldn't help it. I was just so excited. Something similar happened to me Saturday, when I did The Biggest Loser Cardio Max workout, I also had an unexpected reaction. It's a good thing the boys were at their Grammy's this time, because I was unsure if I could even do this whole workout. And just about the time I felt I couldn't go on much longer, trainer Bob said, "Alright. Drop the weights. You just made it through your first Level 1 Cardio Workout. And what did I do? Just completely lost it. Burst into tears. Uncontrollable tears. But here's the thing, they were tears of joy. I was just overwhelmed with just so much joy and I was PROUD of MYSELF for the first time in, well a long time. I had a moment with myself, and celebrated with myself. And after a couple minutes started laughing at myself. "You silly friggin' goose." :) Needless to say, there are quite a few emotions attached to this journey, and they are just starting to be uncovered. The latest one? DETERMINATION. It's so awesome to be living out something I've been wanting to do for so long. So thank you again for your amazing support, prayers, and words of encouragement. It's really helping me stick with it, and I hope I can do the same for you!