100 pounds gone and not stopping!!!

The day I saw 100 pounds lost on my bathroom scale was one of the happiest moments of my life!!! Right up there with the day I married my husband and the birth of my 3 children. Ok, maybe not quite there with those times, but still really important. I had been chubby (ok, ok, not chubby, but fat) all of my life. July of last year a picture was taken of me in front of my mother-in-laws stove. When I saw that picture it was like a huge mental head slap, holy cow, I'm not just thick, I'm obese!!!! My rear end was as wide as the oven and my head looked 20 sizes to small for my body. The fact that I was standing next to my not quite 5 foot, 98 pound mother-in0law didn't help the seemingly ginormousnous of my hefty figure. It was like I had some blinders on all of these years that because I actually did move around and didn't sit on the couch all day that even though I was consuming 4 person amounts of food idea that there was no way I could be obese, just merely a tad overweight and big boned. Ugghh, I hate that phrase, big boned. I must've said it a hundred times. Well, last July I decided to do something about it instead of crying about it and started making changes. Weight loss is such a complex thing, I started with a liquid diet that I had heard about and though I did lose some weight quickly, it is not a sustainable diet. So then I opted for the low calorie. So I started eating 900 calories per day. BAD IDEA!!!! DO NOT DO THIS!!!! It was super unhealthy, my hair started falling out, I lost my appetite completely, and the halitosis that comes with that big a defecit is TERRIBLE!!!!!! Very dangerous. SO then I finally settled on a 1200 calorie diet, balanced and containing healthy amounts of protein, dairy, whole grains, fruits, veggies, and healthy fats along with some moderate exercise. And it worked(s) like a charm!!!! So now today, after 14 months of sweat, research, dieting, PRAYING, and a lot of physical and mental hard work I get to bask in this 100 pound loss!!! Yay!! I still have 28 pounds I am working to lose and lemme tell you, it is not easy. I'm kind of mentally drained from the weight loss journey and I have been slacking off, but hopefully I can find that motivation again and keep on pushing to my goal weight of 145. Happy girl