My official weigh-in at yesterday's TOPS meeting set me at the lowest weight I've reached in the past 12 years. Here are a few comparison photos:
On the left is close to my highest weight of 360, which was taken several years back. The middle photo is this past January when I was about 267, and the one on the right is last month when I was nearing my current weight of 242. I've lost a total of 118 pounds and only have 22 more to reach my lowest adult weight ever. Anything beyond that is uncharted territory, but I know I can do it.
I'm currently averaging about a five pound loss each month since my reboot in March and hope to get somewhere down to the 2-teens by the end of the year. Here's a chart showing the the progress of my last 25 pounds:
And here is the
app I used to create the chart.
Also for the first time in 12 years, I'm in a size 20 jeans. I'm not even sure what size I got up to, all I know is that I couldn't even find jeans big enough for me in the plus-sized stores so everything I wore had to have an elastic waist. The last time I hit 220 I was in my early twenties and wore a size 14/15, and reaching that point again would make me absolutely ecstatic. We'll see what happens in the coming months.
ETA: New comparison set! Another photo of my old self, with a new one from yesterday:
I decided to go window-shopping after initially making this post, thus the new photo.
I'm super-excited since I tried on a ladies' XL and it fit me! I also tried on an 18 jeans and was able to fasten them!!! I nearly fainted.
In the left photo, I'm wearing a men's 4X and some sort of elastic-banded pants, the only ones I could find off the rack that would go around my stomach at the time.