This time last year I was 4 months pregnant, with a 7 month old and 2 1/2 year old. I was over the initial shock of being pregnant and was looking forward to finding out the sex. There was nothing I could do about my weight and wasn't even thinking about it.
Yestreday, during some down time, I started thinking. While cleaning out storage I ran across an old journal. It was written when I lived in Utah and was trying to lose weight. In the pic I posted under progress pics, I thought I weighed 220, but in fact, according to my journal, I was down to 205. So anyway, I was figuring out weight gain vs. time frame. So in 9 years, I gained 107 pounds
! Granted, I did have 3 kids during that time. So it figured out to be that I gained about 12 pounds a year, or 1 pound a month! I started this journey at 312 and have lost 48 pounds in about 4 1/2 months, I'm down to 264. At the rate I gained, it would have taken me 2 years, to lose that much weight. I also thought, my gawd....what if I hadn't started this journey
? At the rate I was gaining, I would be 317 right now, and in ten years, at age 45, I would weigh well over 400 POUNDS!!
SO today, this year, I am so thankful that I FINALLY saw (REALLY saw) what I needed to do, no HAD to do. And next year at this time, I will be at goal and will be in my maintenance phase!