I don't usually round down half pounds. I prefer to see them as a head start on the next week. But today I'm prepared to make an exception. There is
absolutely no way that I'm rounding 199.5 up to 200
There were times when I never thought I'd make it this far. Not so much at the start, because although 61lb is a lot to lose, it was kind of an unknown quantity. I had no idea how easy or hard it would be, so I had nothing to judge it against. No, the time it seemed almost impossible was when I was about 230 and I realised I was only half way to this milestone (which in itself is only a little over half way towards what I'm hoping to be). But I just kept on doing what I was doing, day after day, and time passed, taking the excess pounds with it.
At one point when I was getting down about my lack of progress I realised that even if I didn't care what my weight was, I like what I'm eating at the moment, and I like the exercise I'm doing, so where was the hardship in just carrying on doing it and waiting for things to happen when they were good and ready.
And do you know what I did to celebrate? I ran 5k.
Because I can, and at the end of the day this whole journey isn't just about my weight. It isn't even mainly about my weight. It's getting my body into shape so that it
works properly. I'm possibly prouder of the fact that I can run 5k in under 30 minutes and 10k in just over 60 than I am of the fact that I've lost 61lb doing it. it's great to be losing weight too, but I'd rather be fit and healthy than skinny.
I'm planning to do some progress pictures later, as I found some horrible fat photos on my hard drive the other day which should provide quite a contrast
My weight starts with a 1!
Congratulations YP1!! 
I hope to join you there real soon!
