Wendy_Marie
08-26-2011, 07:17 AM
Not very often that a mistake leads to Good News but this is the case for me this morning...I have been reporting to everyone who wants to hear about it, and some that don't..about my weight loss since the first of the year and while I have plateued until this past week. I had believed that my top weight was errr, umm 254 lbs.
Back Nov 2010 I was in a depressive funk that I couldn't seem to get out of....At that point I hadn't dressed more than a handful of times in well over two years...I had some medical issues which kept me from being active at all, so all my time awake...(Wasn't very often.) was spent on the couch in front of the television or in the kitchen with my head inside the Fridge.
Had an epiphany one day and realized that I was no longer living life only surviving and perhaps postponing until the inevitable came to find me...so two things happened that day....First off I made up my mind that it was time to lose some weight..secondly I found a private moments and put on some girly clothing, walked out the front door and just got out for a while...a life changing event for me.
As of this morning my scale seemed to like me very much :battingeyelashes:and when I stepped on it I saw the numbers 212 and I was elated because I have been stuck at 216-218 for the last month....and no amount of watching what I ate seemed to be working, it had been too hot to go out walking so this was incredible.
Up to this morning I have been telling everyone that I lost 40 lbs this year and this was my belief...Last night I found a file I had created buried deep and hidden on my hard drive so no one else in this house anyway could find it and it contained a journal I had began just after Thanksgiving 2010....there were only 5 entries in it but in the very first one I found the mistake which equals good news.
In my very first paragraph on the very first posting I had recorded my weight as 264lbs...and again the very next day 264 lbs....so now, even though it saddens me to think I had let myself go from a 185 lbs in Jan 2009 to 264 lbs Nov 2010, in less than two years...I was even happier because I feel now as though I have my old will power back and have documented proof as reported in my journal entry that I have now indeed lost 52 lbs and am finally back to dropping weight again....I forsee shopping in my near future.
Hopefully the doctor I see Tuesday the 30th for HRT will be as happy with this news as i am.:D..can't wait now to be able to report that I have hit that elusive 200 lb mark for me, and then my goal of 170 lbs will be in sight.
sorry for the length of this...can you tell I am happy this morning?
Back Nov 2010 I was in a depressive funk that I couldn't seem to get out of....At that point I hadn't dressed more than a handful of times in well over two years...I had some medical issues which kept me from being active at all, so all my time awake...(Wasn't very often.) was spent on the couch in front of the television or in the kitchen with my head inside the Fridge.
Had an epiphany one day and realized that I was no longer living life only surviving and perhaps postponing until the inevitable came to find me...so two things happened that day....First off I made up my mind that it was time to lose some weight..secondly I found a private moments and put on some girly clothing, walked out the front door and just got out for a while...a life changing event for me.
As of this morning my scale seemed to like me very much :battingeyelashes:and when I stepped on it I saw the numbers 212 and I was elated because I have been stuck at 216-218 for the last month....and no amount of watching what I ate seemed to be working, it had been too hot to go out walking so this was incredible.
Up to this morning I have been telling everyone that I lost 40 lbs this year and this was my belief...Last night I found a file I had created buried deep and hidden on my hard drive so no one else in this house anyway could find it and it contained a journal I had began just after Thanksgiving 2010....there were only 5 entries in it but in the very first one I found the mistake which equals good news.
In my very first paragraph on the very first posting I had recorded my weight as 264lbs...and again the very next day 264 lbs....so now, even though it saddens me to think I had let myself go from a 185 lbs in Jan 2009 to 264 lbs Nov 2010, in less than two years...I was even happier because I feel now as though I have my old will power back and have documented proof as reported in my journal entry that I have now indeed lost 52 lbs and am finally back to dropping weight again....I forsee shopping in my near future.
Hopefully the doctor I see Tuesday the 30th for HRT will be as happy with this news as i am.:D..can't wait now to be able to report that I have hit that elusive 200 lb mark for me, and then my goal of 170 lbs will be in sight.
sorry for the length of this...can you tell I am happy this morning?