It's still a journey 17 months later

Aug 12, 2009

Can you believe it's still a journey 17 months later? For the past month or so I have lose and regained the same ten pounds at least twice. It's so easy to regain but hard to lose the second or third time around. I know it maybe be fluids due to the sodium increase I experience this weekend at our family reunion, and the lack of a BM but ten pounds is still ten pounds. Any way I'm not going to stress over it. School will be starting back for me next week so that will end my three times a day work outs. Can't you tell I'm so sad about that? However, I'm on to my next goal which is to ride my bike across the spillway at Joe Pool Lake. It's four miles across for a total of eight miles across and back. I've been riding my bike twice a day trying to get up to four miles each time. I'm not there but I'm getting there. I plan to complete this task on or before Labor Day weekend. Also, I completed two cycling classes this month. Those are a lot of fun and worth the soreness later.
It's been exactly two years since our last family reunion and man did everyone notice my weightloss. Some of my cousins didn't even know who I was. That was great. We had pictures up from our first reunion in 1991 plus the others as well. Man you can really see the difference even from 1991. The best part was not hearing my 87 year old grandmother tell me I was too large! Another bonus was my daddy kept my three kids while I went to the gym for a three hour workout. That's really major because my daddy don't even talk to kids he just looks at them. I don't know if this was done to help me or because my kids are independent and can take care of themselves. either way it was a joy because they got to spend some one on one time with their papa.
My goal for the summer was to be able to fit into every size 16 I could find before school started or to be able to wear a size 14. Well I go back to work next week and the kids come back the week after. I had a problem with a size 16 average. I couldn't zip them. I was able to wear a size 14 dress this summer. Plus I bought a pair of workout pants size 12/14 (I know they stretch but it's still a 12/14). So maybe it really does depend on how things are made. All of this to say it's been a journey from a size 7X to XL, 36/38W to 16 but it is so worth it.
Today a friend of mines told me to quit looking down at the scale and start looking up in the mirror and somewhere in between the two I will see the beautiful person I've become. I really need to be mindful of this because I weight in two to three times a week but I only record my weight from Sunday morning, Hopefully, I will make it to 220's by September 10 in time for my 18 month check up. Life is good in the weightloss neighborhood!!

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