Last night in bed, my husband felt of my upper arm / shoulder and was stunned at and impressed by the firmness. I am really building some strength and shape.

And today at work, yet ANOTHER of my female coworkers commented on how good I am looking. That makes 3 or 4 of them in the past 6 months? It's kind of warming to know people notice.

well...everytime I scroll thru a thread and see your pic, I think to myself "dang, she's a sexy chick!"

Tonight at the gym I was doing seated dumbell shoulder presses. I was actually looking at myself in the mirror - something that I'm so used to avoiding - and I noticed that my boobs are actually looking defined and sticking out further than my stomach! I'm actually starting to get a waist! :)

When I stand with my legs shoulder width apart, my thighs dont touch!!! and not even close to touching there is like an inch of space between them! Woot!

It's no longer an effort to get up off of the floor. Because I do wee person daycare I am up and down all day. I USED TO crawl to the couch and use it to hoist my self up... now I just get up!!!

Oh and I can sit TAILOR STYLE on my couch!!!! I can't remember the last time I could do that.

I noticed yesterday that I don't have to stretch the seat belt out as far to get it to buckle.

I was able to speed up my treadmill from 3 mph to 3.2 for a full half hour. Small victory, but going in the right direction.

Great work, people!!! It's all worth it!

Fasting blood glucose today

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cfmama--I am impressed you can get off the floor--any which way. I don't get down on the floor because I'm terrified of getting stuck and needing help. When I was in college I took a modern dance class and learned a technique for getting up from a cross-legged position with no arms whatsoever. Sigh. never again.

I have a problem with going into the gas station and picking up junk food when I don't have my kids with me, a habit that I have been trying to break.

I got a craving for some oreo cakesters and I had the WW points so I could have eaten them if I wanted to. I went into the gas station, looked at the package (they were like 370 calories or something ridiculous) and I just decided that I really didn't want them and I just put them back on the shelf and left.... my craving was gone. The lady working must have thought I was crazy.

I've never been able to walk away from food like that before... it was such an amazing feeling.

I can see a 'slight' change in my face....only i can see it, but I'll take any change I can get right now. Besides....just like anybody, we have to start somewhere, right?

Interesting story... Not sure if it's a NSV or not, but it felt like one. Well, basically, in the past whenever I've been in any situation where the people around me are discussing weight (or particularly, discussing overweight people), and I'm expected to join in the conversation, I've always felt extremely awkward--like everyone in the room is looking at me and thinking "We're talking about HER right now!" Well, a couple days ago in my Gender Studies class, we were discussing some readings that we had done about women's body images... And I didn't feel weird about it! I felt a tiny twinge of embarrassment when someone brought up "obesity," but all of a sudden I thought, Hey, the people in this class never even knew me when I was obese. They're NOT looking at me right now. Because I'm not obese anymore, and when a person is talking about "obese people," they are no longer talking about ME. It's so hard to wrap my head around that! Heh. This is definitely a benefit of my weight loss that I didn't really see coming, but it felt GREAT. I can't believe that I was able to feel totally comfortable in that kind of situation! In fact, I was all prepared to share my "story" with the class (which would have been HUGE for me to announce something like that to a whole roomful of people!), but there was never really an appropriate time of the discussion to bring it up. Still though, it was so surreal to actually felt like I was blending in with everyone else for once. :^:

I can see my cheek bones again!:flow2:

I can walk 11 minutes down the hill to the supermarket, shop and come back up again without my hips and back killing me! That's in only about 8lbs, who knows how good I'll feel when I do it 10 times more!