To your left, you'll see a picture of my biggest idol: Tara Costa, and myself. I designed a T-shirt saying "WWTD?" in her honor with one of her favorite motivational quotes on the back. When it finally arrived I posted a picture of myself wearing it on her Facebook Fan Page to tell her of the dedication. She actually commented on it "I WANT ONE!!!! PLEASE!!!!!" And I was stoked! Since she had a 5k and Fitness Fair coming up, I told her I would give her one there. So I made up another one and ordered it for her in her size.
Today when I go up to talk to her, she points at my shirt and says "OH MY GOD! THE SHIRT!" And I reach into my purse to give her hers. I wrapped it in tissue and had a card wrapped up with it. I give it to her and I tell her "I hope it's the right size. They run a little big." And she opens the tissue up like a kid at Christmas and calls her boyfriend over to check it out. I wish I had gotten pictures of her getting all excited about the shirt. She thanked us all for coming and we introduced ourselves. Then I got this picture with her.
Later we were just hanging around and checking out all the booths giving out free stuff. There was a raffle going on so I bought 7 tickets for $5 and wanted to stick around until they called out the results. It was about noon so I figured it couldn't hurt to stick around for another hour just to see the results. We went over to the booth to check out the prizes that we could win and when we were looking over the stuff, the ladies commented on how great my shirt was and I told them I had created the design and got it made. They loved it. I asked if the prizes were all local gift certificates because we weren't from the area. They asked where we came from and we told them Princeton. They were all impressed we came so far!
I was really hoping for this one gift basket of Biggest Loser stuff like a scale, protein powder, a tshirt, etc. I wound up buying TWO door prizes! I won a one-hour personal training session at Lucille Roberts and a gift certificate for a CPR certification class. I'm not sure what I'll do what the CPR class thing but Johanna and her twin were talking about taking a class just before the drawing so I offered it to them. Who knew I would get my mother's genes for winning stuff!!!
So after I had won my two prizes, Tara's mother came over to talk to us. The ladies manning the table earlier had told her that we came all the way from Princeton and she thanked us for coming so far just to be there. We told her we were all very excited to meet Tara b/c she was such an inspiration and I had to give her the tshirt so it was totally worth it. She seemed truly touched. She told us how she had lost 80 lbs because of her daughter's incredible determination.
Kathryn and I drove home feeling like it was an amazingly succesful day. And we just finished my second cheat meal: friendls burgers with fries and over half a pint of ice cream.
Today was an amazing day and I feel like she's rekindled an already burning fire to succeed with all this fitness work. I can't wait to take this energy and work it at the gym tomorrow!
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