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Months 7-9 Slacking
May 03, 2014
Wow time fly's. I am clearly being a slacker on the blog. I'm just starting my 9th month. I can hardly believe It has been 9 months since I had my DS already. I'm so close to a year out. I'll be honest. I hoped I would see myself as a lot skinnier by now. I still just see how far I have to go. Even though I know the progress I have made is HUGE I just can't stop focusing on how far I still have to go. Still so thankful for my DS and I am so much happier with myself now that I have lost so much weight.
Now for the month break down and all of my slacking excuses. When month 7 came along I was feeling like I hadn't lost enough or looked different enough to even bother with updating pictures so I didn't and that lead to me not posting. I was going to at least post about how I was feeling and then just never did it. I haven't run into any new issues in the last few months. Still feel like a normal person who can't eat much. Still missing carbs, but doing my damnedest to stay under 50 a day. I can pretty easily do it these days at least but still want so many things that are so many carbs.
Alright the month break down. I at least still write my weights down on a little calendar so I can tell you what my weight progress was. In the last post at 6 months I had lost 121 pounds so far weighing in at 258. The weight started dropping so slow and I know people hit stalls and say you still lose inches and I felt that in my clothes but couldn't see it in the mirror so it really doesn't please me as much as scale movement does. Anyway at 7 months (March 2nd) I weighed in at 249 making my total weight loss 130. So I lost 9 pounds in month 7. Month 8 I has so much going on I seriously slacked on writing down my weights. I don't have anything to report at the beginning of April or pretty much that entire month because of it. We have been in the middle of moving, finding new jobs, and finishing a semester of school so I've been super stressed. So I can give you a weight to start off month 9 and that is today's weight of 229 so I am officially down 150 pounds today.
230 was my next goal because it is the last weight I remember from growing up because I remember saying that was my weight when I got my drivers license. So I'm officially under what I was at age 16 :) everything after this is lower than I ever remember being. My next goal is under 200 pounds so I have 30 pounds to go. If I can keep dropping 10 pounds a month I would hope to be under 200 in 3 months so I guess that is my year weight loss goal. That would be 180 pounds lost in a year.
Alright so here's the updated comparison pictures. I did take one in the 8th month planning to post an update and then still never did. Oh and I'm starting to notice bones. My collar bones stick out a bit and my shoulders are sort of boney. I kept poking one thinking I had a lump or something and after a while I finally realized it's just bone. It's funny how you start to discover things like bone.
I did end up having to get a new sweatshirt because I was looking ridiculous in my old one. It swallowed me whole and was practically to my knee's. I bought an XL in mens and the following picture is right after I got it. I think this was early in month 7 because it is already pretty big on me. I find I actually like to try on clothes these days because I never know what size I wear now and lets face it even though I have more weight to lose I look a million times better 150 pounds lighter. I bought the suite outfit for job interviews. I actually felt sort of skinny in that picture.
