My Turn to Overshare My Adventure

Thank you so much!

My bestest NSV (non scale victory) since I last posted here is that my husband joined me on MFP about a year and a half ago. He has shed a lot of weight, from XXXL to XL. I was admiring his tiny butt and crazy firm calves just yesterday. He’s still in “obese range” last time he weighed (months ago) but has a triangle shape with huge broad shoulders and everything else tapers down to his delicate ballerina ankles lol.

His health has improved vastly, he‘s off the diabetes meds, and best of all, he gets upset if he can’t exercise. Win!!!!!!!

We do aquafit together several times a week and it’s awesome that we can share a workout, and to watch my ordinarily dry husband turn into the class clown in the water. Everyone thinks he’s awesome and yeah, he is.

One of our kids also does MFP now, too, though she doesn’t follow it as tightly as we do.

I’m holding at 142 these days, versus my very frail looking “too-too” low of 127, when I had lost all my muscle. The extra weight is definitely all muscle, because it’s very visible now. All I have to do is a couple of bicep curls and everything starts popping all over. This gym has mirrors and it’s endlessly fascinating to watch this stranger in the mirror. I bet they all think I’m the vainest person on the planet, lol.

My beloved trainer retired, so I moved from her old school “metal gym” to my husband’s gym, which has an older clientele, but has ah-mazing amenities. I tried one of the trainers but he wouldn’t challenge me so I figured my days with trainers were over. But then one of the female trainers actually approached and asked if she could train me. I told her only if she wouldn’t baby me, and push me harder if I moaned.

OMFG. This gal is methodical and mildly sadistic, as in “Walk that off” and then adding extra plates while my back is turned.

I’m enjoying her workouts so much, I’ve backed off of so much yoga, and have added a couple of solo weight sessions a week, and some “Muscle Madness” cardio classes. I’ve also added mat Pilates back once or twice a week, after remembering how much it helped my hip pain, which flared after our weird spring weather.

I still do hot power yoga four or five times a week, back to back classes every Saturday morning. And I finally got that chin stand goal- and a flying pigeon, too. Now working on full grasshopper and allllmost there. Cannot balance on one leg to save my life, but arm balances? Pshaw. No problem, thanks to weightlifting strength. I love them.

Lifting and yoga are super complementary disciplines.

September will be my five year anniversary of beginning this whole weight loss and exercise thing, and next year, five years of being at goal.

People have forgotten I was obese, which is weird to me. I even had an argument with a woman in yoga class last week who insisted I’d never been overweight in the eight years we’ve come to that studio, and was exaggerating.

I’m absolutely determined not to be one of the “put it all back on in five years” statistics, so five years of maintenance is my current goal.

Weight loss is life, health, attitude, everything changing, and it’s something we can take ultimate control of by and for ourselves.

@Sparkuvu You’re back in the game. That’s all that matters.

If we waste our time on what was, we have no time to enjoy the present or energy to give the future. Lordy that sounds trite, but regrets are an utter waste of time.

What we we’ve experienced conspires to make us who we are today. And today is a pretty darn good place to be, as long as you don’t waste today chewing on yesterday.

If I sound like a sixty year old grandma, because that’s what I am. Older and wiser, and sixty years to freaking “get” it.

Go out there today and kill it for tomorrow’s sake, sweetie! 😘