Weight Loss Victories
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Yeah, I did my best to hide from photos in general, but I tried not to go as far as deleting them. I remember being upset as a kid when my mother would rip up photos of herself.
(and thanks!)
Oh I hid from the camera like I was in the witness protection program and purged any trace of my existence.
I know what you mean, there are very few pics of me - I'm always the one behind the camera. My wedding photos from 4yrs ago at my heaviest are truly awful but at least I have a before shot 😂1 -
30 lbs lost as of today. it's weird that that feels like a lot and also like not that much. I have another 60-70 to go. I'm not exactly sure how much because I don't know what that will feel like.
while I feel lighter, my clothes feel better, and I've felt good enough to be way more active, I don't feel all that different physically. does that make sense?
I'm glad to be losing at a safe, healthy rate, but it's weird.7 -
Congrats on 30 lbs! That's great.
I feel like sometimes it can be hard to see the change in yourself. For me, it helps to compare pictures.1 -
30 lbs lost as of today. it's weird that that feels like a lot and also like not that much. I have another 60-70 to go. I'm not exactly sure how much because I don't know what that will feel like.
while I feel lighter, my clothes feel better, and I've felt good enough to be way more active, I don't feel all that different physically. does that make sense?
I'm glad to be losing at a safe, healthy rate, but it's weird.
It absolutely makes sense. I have always felt that way. For me some of it is because that in relation to how long I have been heavy this weight loss has been quick and dramatic so far. I don't say that very often because it takes months and years and you need to be patient but once it gets rolling it seems to un-snowball. It is hard to accept so sometimes it is like a have phantom weight still there.
The other for me is this fakakta skin situation. I still feel 100 pounds heavier and I can't find clothing that covers me well enough so I am stuck in what I have been wearing for way too long because I can't stand it. My shirts might as well be called muumuus now.
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2.5 mile walk in the Riparian preserve this morning...at slightly more than 20min per mile. Wow, what a DIFFERENCE!7
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I just had a feel good non scale/scale victory. I usually weigh myself after waking up in nothing but my underwear. I have a digital scale in the bathroom. That is when I found I get my lowest weight readings for the day. We have a little gym at work with a doctors office like slide weight scale. It goes up to 400 pounds and today was the first day that I didn't tilt it out with full work clothes on. Steel toe boots and everything else too 😎🤙8
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I’m not keen on resurrecting a really old thread but I didn’t really want to start a new one on the same topic and thought that you know, this thread had some good info sow maybe it SHOULD get bumped.
Deep breath:
I HIT MY GOAL WEIGHT THIS MORNING TO RECORD IN MFP!!!!!
And since I‘be been there for the last 3 days, the happy scale trend is also under 220 lbs!
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And this time I don't feel too bad about saying "I TOLD YOU SO!!"
Congrats x 100!!2 -
Now to try to mentally change gears and get myself to slow down to maintenance. THAT'S going to be fun to try to get my brain to agree to.....
I want to hopefully by the end of October be sitting around 215 to give me that 5 lb buffer for water weight fluctuations during November and December, but honestly, I'm not going to push for it. I'll be whatever I'll be at the end of the month, and that's where I'll attempt to maintain at until the new year.
I am going to go ahead and change my long term goal today, though - new goal: 180 lbs.
It's just completely mind blowing, flabbergasting, unbelievable, and incredible that I am actually setting that goal - 180 lbs was that big pipe dream, like daydreaming about winning the lottery (even though I don't play the lottery lol) or somehow finding out that Lewis's different worlds really DID exist and finding my own wardrobe to disappear into lol- nice to think about once in a while but never truly ever considered it to be within the realm of possibility. I mean, I never really thought I'd ever see 220 lbs, either, let alone Onederland. And to do it without surgery? I never thought it would happen, really, even when I started into losing weight.
Just like I never seriously considered I'd get into a size 18, either. I figured I'd be doing well to get to a 22, and yet I've blown right past 22's now, am fully into the 18's and actually flirting with 16's. In another 40 lbs, I might even see 14's!
Now, though, it makes me wonder - why if I have the willpower to lose a massive amount of weight, why can't I get that willpower to work in other areas of my life that desperately need changed?3 -
bmeadows380 wrote: »Now to try to mentally change gears and get myself to slow down to maintenance. THAT'S going to be fun to try to get my brain to agree to.....
I want to hopefully by the end of October be sitting around 215 to give me that 5 lb buffer for water weight fluctuations during November and December, but honestly, I'm not going to push for it. I'll be whatever I'll be at the end of the month, and that's where I'll attempt to maintain at until the new year.
I am going to go ahead and change my long term goal today, though - new goal: 180 lbs.
It's just completely mind blowing, flabbergasting, unbelievable, and incredible that I am actually setting that goal - 180 lbs was that big pipe dream, like daydreaming about winning the lottery (even though I don't play the lottery lol) or somehow finding out that Lewis's different worlds really DID exist and finding my own wardrobe to disappear into lol- nice to think about once in a while but never truly ever considered it to be within the realm of possibility. I mean, I never really thought I'd ever see 220 lbs, either, let alone Onederland. And to do it without surgery? I never thought it would happen, really, even when I started into losing weight.
Just like I never seriously considered I'd get into a size 18, either. I figured I'd be doing well to get to a 22, and yet I've blown right past 22's now, am fully into the 18's and actually flirting with 16's. In another 40 lbs, I might even see 14's!
Now, though, it makes me wonder - why if I have the willpower to lose a massive amount of weight, why can't I get that willpower to work in other areas of my life that desperately need changed?
Same reason I applied the tools to other areas of my life but did not apply them to weight loss until recently I suppose.
Some of it is my "living in a toilet bowl theory." Sometimes you don't realize how much it stinks until you get out of the toilet bowl for an objective view/smell.1 -
bmeadows380 wrote: »Now to try to mentally change gears and get myself to slow down to maintenance. THAT'S going to be fun to try to get my brain to agree to.....
I want to hopefully by the end of October be sitting around 215 to give me that 5 lb buffer for water weight fluctuations during November and December, but honestly, I'm not going to push for it. I'll be whatever I'll be at the end of the month, and that's where I'll attempt to maintain at until the new year.
I am going to go ahead and change my long term goal today, though - new goal: 180 lbs.
It's just completely mind blowing, flabbergasting, unbelievable, and incredible that I am actually setting that goal - 180 lbs was that big pipe dream, like daydreaming about winning the lottery (even though I don't play the lottery lol) or somehow finding out that Lewis's different worlds really DID exist and finding my own wardrobe to disappear into lol- nice to think about once in a while but never truly ever considered it to be within the realm of possibility. I mean, I never really thought I'd ever see 220 lbs, either, let alone Onederland. And to do it without surgery? I never thought it would happen, really, even when I started into losing weight.
Just like I never seriously considered I'd get into a size 18, either. I figured I'd be doing well to get to a 22, and yet I've blown right past 22's now, am fully into the 18's and actually flirting with 16's. In another 40 lbs, I might even see 14's!
Now, though, it makes me wonder - why if I have the willpower to lose a massive amount of weight, why can't I get that willpower to work in other areas of my life that desperately need changed?
Same reason I applied the tools to other areas of my life but did not apply them to weight loss until recently I suppose.
Some of it is my "living in a toilet bowl theory." Sometimes you don't realize how much it stinks until you get out of the toilet bowl for an objective view/smell.
or I've been in that toilet bowl for so long I have no idea how to get out of it lol
You might be interested to know I did actually send in a contact request form to the company's life resources program. Now I just have to dig up the courage to actually discuss the whole career issue/depression problems with them......2 -
Congratulations @bmeadows380 !!0
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Bmeadows I knew you would do it!....I have come to the conclusion you can do anything you set your mind to!...congratulations my friend!...I am so excited for you and so proud of you!....
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Congratulation @bmeadows380 ! I'm so stinking happy for you!!
And yes, girl, you have gained so much self confidence and self knowledge from this weight loss journey there's no reason you can't use those tools to help you in every area of your life that brings you down. You have learned just how strong and determined you are. Go out and use that power to make your world a better place!!
I'm so proud of you!!1 -
Congratulation@bmeadows380! What an amazing achievement!1
