Hi Tammy!
Our oldeat son is getting married this coming August. When he and his fiancee got engaged in June of last year I recommitted myself to losing the rest of the weight that I had begun to lose a few years earlier. (My heaviest was 275 in 1999.) I thought that having two years to lose the weight would work out great. We have our own wedding picture hanging in our living room, and I got the idea of trying to reach 160 lbs. which is what I weighed on my own wedding day. I just happened to be 260 when I recommitted myself, so that would mean a loss of 100 pounds. It sounded like a nice round number! (And I certainly was ROUND!!!)
My son and his fiancee are both athletes, and both have run marathons. My son's fiancee qualified for Boston and ran it last year. I am no athlete, but I thought that a bonus wedding present for them would be showing them my efforts to lose weight, getting stronger and healthier and in better shape, and hopefully looking good in their wedding pictures in a few months.
My first fifty pounds came off pretty well, but this second fifty is really tough! I am just not used to the smaller amounts that people must eat when they weigh close to 199. I'm also finding it hard to exercise as much as my body seems to need to continue to lose more weight. My body REALLY seems to like weighing what it does!!!
Another interesting thing is that I am already wearing size 14-16 tops and recently bought size 18 jeans. How is it possible that at 160 I ALSO was wearing size 14-16 tops and jeans just a size smaller than I am right now? I just don't get it!
I mentioned in an earlier thread that I haven't been motivated as much to lose this last fifty as I had been to lose the first fifty. I'm very large-boned even though I'm average height (5'6"). I also am losing weight all over my body due to all the exercise that I am doing.
Maybe I set my weight loss goal TOO HIGH...
Maybe if I could somehow get my rear in gear to lose these eleven pounds and finally see that scale M-O-V-E I might think differently.
What do ya think?
Cheryl