This week has been a roller coaster!
It's shark week and I've been ravenous. I've been eating like a pig and my weight is all over the place
I actually had a zero net gain for the week which is fine except I'd rather have posted some kind of loss...
Hi everyone! I've come to come play, too! For real, not just stalking!
Today was my second day in a row of 189.x (189.8 yesterday, 189.6 today) (and during TOM at that!) I hit 189.8 a couple of times on my travel scale while I was gone but didn't trust it--but two days in a row after several days at 190.0--I'll trust that!
It's about time :-). But then, it's only been slightly over 6 months (6 months + 5 days), and I'm down 40 lbs. Today, for the first time, for some reason, I actually feel noticably thinner.
There is nothing thin about a woman who is barely 5'2" who weighs 189.6 lbs. There's just not. But my thighs are thinner and move more easily. There's more room in my desk chair, even when I tuck my leg under myself. My hands and arms don't hit my hips when I walk as much as they used to. I can go up and down stairs without using the stair rail. Somehow, 40 lbs is the magic number that makes me feel as if I've accomplished a lot.
It also is the magic amount that moved me from "severely obese" into merely "obese"--I think that's worth celebrating, too.
If I can figure out how, I'm going to post comparison pictures tonight!
189 even this morning--I don't ever want to see a '9' in the second digit place again! My weight hasn't been this low in 10 years--this is about what I weighed when I met my husband 10 years ago!
Fortunately, reaching this point has made me more determined, not made me complacent!
Although my next mini-goal is 184 (20% of original weight lost), 180 is my "can't wait to get to" number!
I had a restaurant meal last night and was worried, salmon and white fingerling potatoes - I never eat white potatoes, and 2 glasses of wine. But then we went for a long walk after before a movie and I woke up at a new low weight! 188.
Still here, after a short holiday, still in the 180s, still running, still eating a bit more than I should but nonetheless still here. Perseverance is a virtue.
Mozzy - indeed we are very similar - Let's do it!
188.8 this morning (after two days at 188.2)--but that means I can really claim the 189 in my ticker!
I don't want to let myself get complacent even if I've made so much progress. I see my brother next month for the first time since February--and I haven't mentioned to him how much weight I've lost. (I say that like I only have 1 brother--I have 3) I was (and looked) so big in his wedding pictures 2.5 years ago--I intend to look much smaller in the pictures from his son's bar mitvah. I'm 45 lbs down from the wedding (my highest weight).
(And since he'll be keeping his son, even if he didn't keep his 2nd wife, he'll be looking at the bar mitvah pictures!)
Ian, I love your new profile picture--I've missed you in the Cool Kids. You are definitely still dropping it like it's hot--I was 20 lbs ahead of you--and now we're in the same place!
