Down 102.5 lbs from hightest weight!!!!!!!!

May 15, 2009

Hey OH fam! Sorry for playing Casper the friendly ghost for so long. But I’m pleased to announce that I am officially down 102.5 lbs! I’m sitting pretty at 256.5 (BMI 37.9) as of this morning with 86.5 more lbs til goal. Might I remind you I started this journey at a miserable 359 lbs (BMI 53).    One of my short-term goals was to be 240’s-ish by Memorial day which is only less than 1 week away but I’m happy regardless of whether I make that or not. I’ll be flying to ATL that weekend to see family I haven’t seen in a while so I know they’ll be shocked to see the smaller me. I’ve been getting compliments left and right. I think the funniest ones come from my co-workers. One of men in my office just stared at me with a confused look on his face one day and said, “you’re a lot skinnier these days.” From others I get, “you’re wasting away!” One of my co-workers (who has had much gradual weight loss success herself through weight watchers) actually guessed my weight to be 210 lbs. I said “I wish, but not yet!” Guess I can attribute that to all the hours I’ve put in weight training.   

Anyway let me up update you on what I’ve been up to since my last post in Dec. Not much happened in Jan that I can remember. I believe that was the month of my 5^th fill. In Feb I met up with another OH member SexyVT and we went on a group ski trip and had a blast in a half! She is also doing her thang and losing weight. We’ve already planned our “skinny shopping trip,” and have come up with a list of stores in which we plan to do some major damage in. I also got a slight unfill in Feb because I was having major trouble getting and keeping my food down. The scale did move a lot more but the pain during meal times was unbearable…No big developments in March, I had a routine follow-up and doc said I was doing great and was very impressed. 

April was my bday month and one of my gifts to myself was the apex bodybugg.    This expensive piece of technology is an armband that I wear all time and keeps track of the number of calories I burn throughout the day. It comes with an online program where you upload your data from the armband and can set your goals, enter your meals and basically monitor your overall progress. Entering the food I eat on a daily basis I find to be waaaay too time consuming since I would rather be studying for my GMAT. So I personally only use it for calories tracking. It’s great cause I find my self being very innovation with my exercise routines, taking the stairs more where ever I go and working harder at the gym or at the park. My daily activity target is 3250 cals/day which I thought was ridiculous at first but soon realized I could do it everyday by pushing myself a little harder. An hour of combat, or high impact aerobics followed my weight training or a solid hour of high intensity cardio on the treadmill and cross-trainner always helps to get me there.   

As far as this month goes I’ve been doing a lot of shopping! All of my clothes (including my formally skin tight and not right clothes) look like trash bags on me. So in the mist of this deep recession I had to track down some coupons and hit the stores. I’ve brought a lot of clothes a size smaller since I still have a lot more to lose. I think I may have gotten ahead of myself with a pair of skinny jeans but I’m almost in them…maybe another month or so til I can really rock them.   

So there you have it OH the past 4 ½ months in a nut shell. I planned on being at goal by my 1 year bandiversary on Sept 25^th. But I have a lot of work to do and a short time to do it in. But I’m up for the challenge. I’ll be sure to keep you posted along my journey. Until next time…always keep your eye on the prize!!!!! Also I’ll be posting some new pics as soon as I get a chance!

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