Almost to 100

3 more pounds to go and I will have lost 100 pounds. Wow, that is almost hard for me to even imagine. It is amazing how good I feel after shedding 97 pounds! I get asked all the time, "Do you have more energy?" "Do you feel lighter on your feet?" Shoot, that much weight is hard to imagine. Yes, I have more energy, I don't think I "feel" lighter on my feet but I do feel different. I walk up stairs and I am not winded, I teach for a few hours and my joints do not hurt from being on my feet for so long. It was a $15000.00 investment and do you know what the cool thing is? We put that on the credit card and we now owe $1000.00. God has been so faithful. I will let you know when I hit 100 and we can all celebrate together!!!

Biggest Loser Pose

Ok, If you have not looked I think you have to. Scroll down the page and on the right side are 4 pictures. One when I started at 387 pounds and the one that was taken tonight at 295 pounds, Wow, what a difference!!!! I have not posted the side view but wow, maybe I should, you can really see the difference. I go in for a band fill tomorrow so I will have an official from the doctors scale weight which I will post. Thanks for the support!!!

Eating Right

This still remains the biggest challenge, eating right. Not nutritionally, I think I am getting that one down, what I mean is how I eat and how much I eat. Last night I was eating a piece of chicken, about 1/2 way through I was starting to get a comfortable, not full but I could have stopped eating, but I didn't. Why? Because it was there. There was still food in front of me so I continued to eat it. After eating I was very full and wishing I would have stopped. So why didn't I? I don't know why, it was there so I ate it. I have to learn that it is ok to put my fork down and say, "enough". I will get there, it is just going to take some work. The other struggle I have is eating too fast. I am supposed to eat very slowly, chew my food really good. If I am not thinking about it I don't do it and I end up eating too fast and to much. Every time I eat I have to be able to sit down and consciously think to my self, sloooooowwww dowwwnnnn. So, that is my struggle at the moment. I did finally buy a new belt the other day. I kept adding holes as I am shrinking and the belt was really getting too long. It is a good problem to have!

Celebrate 299 Come On!!!

Yep, I did it!!!!!! I got on the scale this morning and opened my eyes and there it was 299.0. I really felt great, I mean shoot, I didn't thin that I was going to get there. I mean I knew I would but... just that feeling, I was discouraged. I noticed that when I get discouraged I want to eat and literally the thought of, "I can't do it so what difference does it make, go eat something" comes to my head. I pressed through and 299!!!!

The Wall called 300

Seriously, can you believe it??? 300 pounds and I hit a wall, not a plateau, oh no, this is a wall! I know I will break through it and will see the 290's very soon I just feel like I hit 300 bounce off, hit again, bounce off, aaaahhhhh...... I think this just makes the celebration of reaching my mini goal 0f 299 that much more better. I will keep you posted and we will celebrate very soon... I hope...

The Scale is Laughing at ME!!!!

First of all, this has been a very stressful week. Stress and weight lose do not go together. While I was on vacation I lost 5 pounds, I get home from vacation, go through a very stressful week and lose 2 pounds, oh joy. But that is not what this post is about, it is about the scale laughing at me this morning, that's right, LAUGHING. 299 is a mini-goal. This morning I get up, go into the bathroom, get on the scale and it was just like being on the biggest loser, I swear it, the scale reads 298.6, 301.1, and then stops at 300.0. I mean seriously, 300.0, not 300.1 or .4 but .0, come on!!!! It is not that I am unhappy about this, I am excited about it, I have lost like 87 pounds now but how often do you get on a scale that measures you by the point something and you get .0? Well, 300.0 it is which means that tomorrow... 299!

The Race to 299

I don't know if it is a race but I am watching the Biggest Loser and "Race" just made it sound cool. 299 is a goal, not THE goal, but a goal, a big one actually, and I am almost there.... I am a little afraid to weigh myself over the next couple of days. I am afraid that I won't get there as quick as I want. Getting on the scale and seeing 302, 303, 301, would be disappointing. It might sound silly to you but that is how I am feeling right now. I mean shoot, 299 would mean that I have lost something like 80 some pounds, that's a lot. Of course the official scale is at the Doctors office and I get my next fill on April 21 and I am pretty sure I will be under the 299 mark by then, I hope, with no plateau, I hope. Did I mention I was a little scared? So, the race to 299 is on and I will be VICTORIOUS!!!!!

home from Vacation...Another Month

We just got home from 5 days away and now wish we were still gone! You know when you leave all of the issues at home, go away for a week and come home, you hope your issues have disappeared, nope, there they are just waiting for you to pick up where you left off.... Vacations have a way of adding pounds. Your schedule is off, you eat out, or you munch because you are sitting around. I lost 5 pounds while we were gone!!! I am sure it had a lot to do with the hiking we did and watching my food intake. You don't have to gain weight on vacation and still have fun.
Now that March is over, I lost a total of 18.8 pounds which is still almost 7 pounds more then my monthly goal.