Rejoice!

I'm so excited! I planned to be fit by 30. On my summer vacation, I returned to the US and hired a personal trainer to kick my butt into shape in the month and a half preceding the big 3-0. His name is Doran Eason and he did his job.
We started working out on Friday, July 11. He put me on a crazy vegan, carb free, alcohol free diet. Those of you who know me know that I love carbs and meat while drinking heavily, so this diet made me very sad. It was only supposed to last a week, but I've kept it up (more or less) the entire time I've been here. In addition, I was taking an herbal supplement to clean my colon and liver. The nail in my listen-to-your-trainer coffin came during my weigh in. I weighed a whopping 140 pounds and had 34.1% body fat. According to the height/weight charts that the NIH publishes, I was overweight. Doran agreed and told me I needed to lose 40 pounds. I haven't been that thin since high school! I wanted to cry.
I worked out with him 3 times/week and went to Bikram yoga on the other days.
My hard work paid off. Doran weighed me after our workout on Monday. I'm down to 128 pounds and 31.8% body fat. Hooray!
That means I lose 12 pounds and 2.3% of my body fat. It feels good! I just have to keep it up!
The photo is of Doran (trainer extraordinaire!) doing a pull up- working it out!