Do you ever step back and think HOLY ****I lost a person!

I think sometimes we downplay our accomplishments or don't give appropriate credit where credit is due. When speaking of my weightloss, I often qualify it by saying I still have more to lose or some self depricating comment like that. I have lost 140 pounds. ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY POUNDS. One hundred and forty freakin' pounds. I can't believe I'm talking about me when I say that. It is a person. And I've kept it off for a year. It is an accomplishment to be very, very proud of, yet I still don't quite see the immense nature of the accomplishment until I really sit and think about it.  I was looking at the signature line of someone *****sponded to one of my posts tonight--185 pounds lost--and it really got me thinking. ONE HUNDRED EIGHTY FIVE POUNDS!! That is almost unbelievable. What an astonishing accomplishment! And it really made me think of how far so many of us have come. We are freakin' amazing. Really and truly. Unspeakably amazing.

I'm curious if it ever strikes you when you are just going through your day that you have lost weight equivalent to a person, sometimes a heavy person, and just how huge an accomplishment it is. Or do you still feel like it isn't as amazing as it is, like I sometimes do.

This is a call to all my incredibly successful cohorts on the boards--do you realize how astonishing your progress is? Do you? Really?

Thanks for letting me be all introspective lately. Sometimes it is necessary to look inward to figure out who we project outwardly to the world. I'm still figuring that out!!

Slowly realizing I'm pretty damn fantastic,

Denise

 Sometimes I feel really impressed by the progress I have had.... then I beat myself up over the fact that while I have lost the equivalent of an overweight person..... I am still considered obese. That is hard. However, I feel amazing. Sometimes I thin****ep myself in check because i am so afraid that if I feel confident in the loss I won't keep in mind where I was and how I felt. 
Great post by the way!!!!

 I have only lost 45, but still a good amount for only 3 months.   But when I am bringing in the groceries and they feel so heavy I think to myself " I used to carry this around with me ALL day EVERY day how did I ever do it"

Throw a 140lb  person on your back and walk around for a while....I bet you will REALLY appreciate your WL then.  

Congrats on the maintenance, I understand now that THAT is the really hard part.  It encourages me to see people like you.  Good job!

 The other day when I was feeling discouraged my friend Nicol (nferris) told me that I lost an entire Olsen twin. That made me feel a lot happier!

Yes!  The person I lost was an obese one.... and it truly amazes me that I was physically ABLE to carry around that extra 185 pounds!  Yet I still get periodically depressed because I didn't lose "enough"... because I cannot wear a size 8.  It's crazy!!

Lora

Hmmm, 185 pounds...same as in my story...interesting. ;)

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Lora

I am glad you posted this because I don't feel like I have made a big accomplishment. Sometimes I say get over it - you lost an obese person, but most times I feel sad because I am still overweight  and I look chubby when I look in the mirror. I wear a size 10/12 and I still feel like the largest person in the world.

From this day forward, I will start patting myself on the back and acknowledging what has really happened in my life. Now let's just pray I can lose this last 9 lbs. I really would like to lose an even 200 lbs (a moderately overweight person)....LMAO.

Last weekend I was struggling to carry a 30 pound bucket of kitty litter up the stairs. Truly a "holy ****" moment when I realized that I've lost the equivalent of more than 7 of those buckets.

I'm glad you posted this. It's easy to forget what we've accomplished and focus on what isn't perfect. It's hard for me to say, but I am proud of myself. And everybody here, for the hard work we've all done.

I totally mised it when I hit the 100 lb mark.  My post op wl was so slow and difficult that forgot all about the previous five years it took for me to loose the first 50 lbs. 

While I appreciate that my goal weight is half my highest weight plus a few pounds, this still feels incomplete.  I know 140 lbs is equivalent to a second person.  I'm holding steady in the size 0/2 range for most clothing for over a year.  Though significant, its still not enough.  

Inspite of my progress, I don't think I will ever feel whole until I have a ten pound cushion below goal to play with.  I have always and most likeIy always will struggle with randomm rapid weight gain and no wls can fix it.  This leaves me feeling like I'm always minutes away from being back where I started.   

Logically I should see progress and succesful maintenance.  In reality all I see is the cotinued struggle.