Bikini season

Our vacation is only 23 days away so in order to prepare this year I agreed to join DietBet with my friend Michelle to challenge ourselves to get fit before bikini season.  The principle behind DietBet is that you pay $30 per bet and  you compete with others in your bet to lose 4% body weight.  If at the end of the bet you have lost 4%, you share the pot with the other winners.  Last month Michelle won but I missed the mark by 0.8lb!   So this month I am determined to not only win, but keep going until vacation.  

The bet ends tomorrow and I am already below my goal weight so I am confident that I can achieve this DietBet goal.  For added inspiration, I found this picture today:

I cannot wait to be laying on a beach in the Caribbean, soaking up the sunshine and enjoying time with my two loves!  Time to start shopping for a few new bikinis!  

Invisalign - 50% done

I am on Tray 12 now and over half way done with my Invisalign treatment!  Hooray!!

Here is the before and current photos to compare:

Around Tray 6 or 7 I went in and had the "buttons" installed on my teeth.  They are very hard to see in this picture but I promise they are there!  I did not realize at the beginning of treatment that I would have buttons or that they would be on my front teeth.  I probably would have discussed this with the doctor to avoid the front teeth had I known but I am stuck with them now.  Buttons are just that, little knobs or buttons on your teeth that help them move according to the trays.  The trays also have little bubbles on them to make room for the buttons.  Bubbles and buttons - how cute!   At first they were very annoying to me but as with this whole endeavor, I have become unaware of them with time.  

During that same visit they also "slenderized" my one tooth where the "Gap" arrow points to in blue above.  Since it was done, I noticed the gap was getting bigger.  I spoke to the hygienist about it today and she said that one tooth next to it is crooked so it will need room to move over.  Again today they "slenderized" another tooth so the gap is even bigger.

I am very pleased with the movement of the snaggle tooth!  As you can see in the picture above, it is coming out of it's hiding place and moving into it's correct position.  I am hoping it will be straight by the end of June as my treatment plan is suppose to finish the first week of July.

I have not been diligent enough with wearing my rubberbands at night so I need to do that.  If you look closely in the right hand corner of the bottom picture you can see a silver button way in the back.  The bands connect from that button to my front bottom teeth to align the bite better.  I need to get started with this because currently my bite feels very awkward!

I am LOVING the Acceledent and would highly recommend it to anyone with braces or Invisalign! If it weren't for the Accelendent I would only be on tray 6 of 21 with 30 weeks left to go!   It's quick and easy and it really helps with the pain when I put a new set of trays in.  I highly, highly recommend it!

Please feel free to comment below if you have any questions and I will be happy to respond.