Mama's Boot Camp-Henry.

For Christmas this year, mama requested one thing- she wanted to go to a Boot Camp that two of her friends had signed up for.

Aunt Jenni wanted her to take an embarrassing "before" picture looking frumpy and thick around the middle. Mama never got around to it, but this picture is almost as embarrassing. Man, Grams makes a delicious puppy chow.

So for four weeks starting in mid-January, mama took off with her friends 3 evening a week to go work out. She worked out like crazy, tracked her steps on a pedometer (12,000+ steps a day) and followed a low-glycemic, high protein diet.

During that month, she ran her first 5k in almost two years. Her 5k time was 29:52 and that was while she was doing interval training of 1 minute running and 30 seconds walking!

After a month, mama lost 11 pounds. More spectacularly, she lost 4 inches around her waist! Papa thinks it might be the thinnest she's been since they met 10 years ago. Mama says it's because down south she doesn't need that extra layer of fat to survive in case the car crashes into a snow drift and we're stuck for days before someone finds us. But she's still pretty excited that all of her skinny clothes are now too big.

Mama wants to expend a big public thank you to papa for coming home early 3 nights a week so mama could spend 2 hours by herself focused on herself. This is honestly the best Christmas present she ever got!