Celebrating: Crossing into the 200’s! Defeating the troll under the 300-pound bridge! Achieving my end-of-the-year goal! Call it what you will, I’m under 300 pounds!
Grateful for: I had really wanted to take a picture of my purple toesies framing the 299.8 point. However, I must have hit that point somewhere around Wednesday night after spending [...]
Celebrating: Crossing over from BMI’s “Severly Obese” into just “Obese.” Yay!
Grateful for: I wrote earlier about an increase in [otherwise healthy] carbs and my trepidation over weight fluctuations this week. Well, the mystery seems to have been solved when I experienced another ovarian cyst rupture yesterday at work. Thankfully, this one was only about half [...]
Celebrating: 50 POUNDS GONE!!!
Grateful for: I’m sorry — maybe you didn’t hear me. I’VE LOST OVER 50 POUNDS! (Okay, also I’m grateful to have broken past 40 BMI points.)
Starting weight: 354.6 pounds
Last week: 306.8
This week: 301.6
Change this week: -5.2
Total change: -53.0
Next milestone: 55 pounds gone
This week’s mantra: Hold on tight and enjoy the ride.
Celebrating: Being able to wear a 2X t-shirt! (more on that later)
Grateful for: payday yesterday. Phew! That was a close one!
Starting weight: 354.6 pounds
Last week: 309.0
This week: 306.8
Change this week: -2.2
Total change: -47.8
Next milestone: 50 pounds gone
This week’s mantra: Oh my gosh! I can do it. I can do it. I can do it. [...]
Celebrating: 45 pounds gone!
Grateful for: all that I am learning about myself in this process.
Starting weight: 354.6 pounds
Last week: 311.4
This week: 309.0
Change this week: -2.4
Total change: -45.6
Next milestone: 50 pounds gone
This week’s mantra: Achieving goals is good; there is no need to sabotage them.
Celebrating: 40 pounds gone
Grateful for: living in a body that knows how to heal itself.
Starting weight: 354.6 pounds
Last week: 312.0
This week: 311.4
Change this week: -0.6
Total change: -43.2
Next milestone: 45 pounds gone
This week’s mantra: put the so-called energy bar down and back away from the table.
Celebrating: 5.6 BMI points and 12% of my “starting” weight gone!
Grateful for: always having room for improvement.
Starting weight: 354.6 pounds
Last week: 313.6
This week: 312.0
Change this week: -1.6
Total change: -42.6
Next milestone: 45 pounds gone
This week’s mantra: Losing weight is nice, sure, but let’s focus on fitness.
Celebrating: 40 pounds gone!
Grateful for: having my internet access back this week.
Starting weight: 354.6 pounds
Last week: 315.0
This week: 313.6
Change this week: -1.4
Total change: -41.0
Next milestone: 45 pounds gone
This week’s mantra: As silly as it sounds, this week I want to focus on FITNESS and FLOSSING. (Of course, this morning I had a little waxing-at-home [...]
Celebrating: Recovery from medical emergencies.
Grateful for: Eggs. I dunno, I just feel affectionate toward their protein-y, yellow-y, jiggle-y goodness today.
Starting weight: 354.6 pounds
Last week: 325.8
This week: 315.0
Change this week: -10.8
Total change: -39.6
Next milestone: 40 pounds gone (just 0.4 pounds away!)
This week’s mantra: 10 pounds? Man, that was a big cyst.
My favorite brother was in town this weekend to help me work on a video project. Naturally, I tried to stay with my “mostly right” line of food choices and accepted the fact that entertaining my brother would likely result in a small gain on the scale.
So, you can imagine my surprise when, on Saturday [...]