12-15-12 Month #11 Progress Report & Pics!

Friday was my 11 month PINK anniversary...and I got a VERY special anniversary present that morning....the scale finally showed a 100lb weight loss!!! My starting weight was 319.2. This morning the scale showed this:
That was pretty awesome! I had made a goal of reaching 100lb weight loss inside of a year....and I did it in 11 months! I still have a way to go.....but wow, I know I will get there! 2012 has been an amazing year. I went from being a morbidly obese woman that could barely walk from the fridge to the couch without breaking a sweat.....to the me that I am today, jogging 2 miles on the treadmill, running a 5k, eating healthy, being healthy! This is my 100lb comparison:
 
My next mini-goal.....to get to onederland! Less than 20lbs away....I can't wait!  Love PINK!!!!!

12-8-12 Finished my first 5k race today, it was AWESOME!

Well, I did it! Jogged/walked in my first 5k race today. A year ago I could barely walk from the house to the car....and that made me wheeze and cough and breathe heavy for a little while. Now, 11 months into the program....I just did a 5k. So close to 100lbs gone...and jogging! Unbelievable!

The coolest part was feeling like a participant in something instead of being a spectator. It was so special to feel like I was not going to watch from the sidelines, I actually participated! My hubby did this with me....and even though he could have ran faster and finished earlier, he didn't...he stayed with me...walked when I needed to and jogged at my pace. It was so awesome....really great feeling of accomplishment today!

11-23-12 Thanksgiving Comparisons

Yesterday I was dragging my family outside for Thanksgiving Day pictures....which is comical because every other year.....they had to drag me! I would hide as much of me as I could behind my other family members...as if that hid the fact that I was HUGE! This picture is me on Thanksgiving Day last year, side by side with a picture of me from Thanksgiving yesterday.

Then I started digging through Thanksgiving pictures from other years and came across this one, which shows that my husband and I have come a long way!

Another way to tell how far I have come....yesterday before we went to my parents house for Thanksgiving....I jogged/walked a 5k on my treadmill....seriously....me....exercising on a holiday! I am not fast, but I finished it.....47 minutes. Also, my weight loss officially hit 99lbs Thanksgiving morning! Of course, I probably took a step backward by eating the Thanksgiving meal....but I will get right back at it today!

11-14-12 10 Months In...feeling happy! 95lbs gone!!

Well, it is that time again, the time to measure my progress...my monthly anniversary. 10 months of PINK, 95lbs lighter....feeling pretty good about that.

This is where I tend to start giving myself negative talk....if I would have exercised more....if I hadn't had made a few bad choices on my food....I could already be down 100lbs or 120lbs. Well, not today. Today I am giving myself a pat on the back....95lbs in 10 months is a pretty great accomplishment.....I'll take it, because I have earned it. Have I been perfect every day? Not even close! But I have never stopped...and I have never given in....and I am not going to be the fat girl that I have been my whole life. I am not going to let the fat version of myself dominate my thoughts, or my actions.

I still HATE to exercise, but I do it 6 days a week almost religiously now. I have found what works for me, and it is early morning....get up, get it out of the way and go on about my day. Some days I exercise again in the afternoon....but whether I do or not, I have at least done it once that day. I don't think I will ever be the girl who says she loves to workout....but I am the girl that knows she has do it, so it gets done.

I have changed, that is for sure. I do have more fitness type goals....like I want to be able to jog in 5ks, not walk them, but jog them. I am working on that, but it will take me a while. I am doing the couch to 5k program and I am on week 4....for the second time. I do not think I am ready yet for week 5.  I can jog for 3 minutes straight right now, the 5 minute jogs still get me....I get through them, but it is tough.

I signed up for the Dirty Girl Mud Run in March, an obstacle 5k for women only, not timed, just for fun. I am very excited about it. I have never in my life done anything like that. I bought new jeans and pants this month....size 16, regular store. THAT felt amazing. Being limited to the fat girl stores feels bad, feels second rate, feels like failure to me. Being able to go into a regular store, to the regular sizes and buy clothes....it was very liberating. I want to wear even smaller clothes, I want to be so firmly into regular sizes that I don't have to wonder if it will fit, but rather which size will fit.

So last month my weigh-in was 230.8. Today I weighed in at 224.2. That is 6.6lbs for the month and a grand total to date of 95lbs. I am 5lbs from my next charm on my weight loss charm bracelet. and 5lbs away from 100lbs lost. I still have a way to go, but I am so much closer to the finish line than the start line, and that feels amazing. My mini-goal is to lose 100lbs inside of a year....I have 2 months left.....think I can do it?

10-15-12 New Scale (weighs heavier, boo) Month #9 update!

Can't believe another month has come and gone. I would have to say that being pink is easier in some ways and harder in other ways. I think I mentioned last month that my husband is at his goal...which is great for him, but he is not being as strict, which in turn has given me cause to be less strict. I have tried to rein that in, I see him eating "extras" and instead of joining in, I have to step back and look at the big picture....which is that I still have a long way to go.

The part that has gotten easier (believe it or not) is the exercise.....my demon! Buying the treadmill and having easy access to it all the time has definitely helped. I get on it almost every day for at least 30 minutes, sometimes an hour or more. I have walked a couple of 5Ks on it...which felt like an accomplishment. I try to make sure that I don't give myself room to make excuses for not getting on it. I have found that working out before I even shower for the day is the easiest way to be successful. Once I have showered and dressed for the day I am much less likely to get on it.

So we bought a new, fancy scale....it does water percentage, body fat percentage, and bmi. I love it....but I also HATE it! I hate it because it weighs me 5lbs heavier than the scale I had been using. I know that it is more accurate, because it closely matches the scale at my doctor's office. What that meant for me is that while I thought I had lost 5 extra pounds, I haven't....so when I thought I reached 90lbs gone....i haven't. I decided to right the wrong this month and record my weight as it is on the new scale....which means that for the month I only show a loss of 4.4lbs. For a total of 88.4. So while I am coming up on my 90lbs...I have not officially hit it yet. I have come to terms with it, and I am going from this number (230.8) moving forward in month #10. Still hoping to hit 100lbs inside of a year, 11.6lbs to go and three months to get there!

9-27-12 Pounds Lost + Goals Met = Reward Charm Bracelet!

Rewards....used to be chocolate, ice cream, sweets, savory....really didn't matter....food of any kind would work! Since going PINK....rewards look very different. A lot of my PINK friends have reward systems. A popular one is a charm bracelet. I chose to to get a charm for every 10lbs lost...officially hit 90lbs today and thought I would share my bracelet story.

The airplane - because it was a big deal when I flew in April and could actually buckle the belt.

The 2012 charm - my year of change.

Two Peas in a Pod - because my hubby and I are doing this together.

The strawberry - to represent healthy eating.

The heart - because I am doing this for my health, to maintain a healthy heart.

The tennis shoe - because I actually exercise now.

The star - Because I STARted this journey.

The wishbone - because it was my wish to lose all this weight/

The turtle - because slow and steady wins the race.

I LOVE IT! So happy that I went for it and finally got it! Only 5 more charms to go (50 more pounds) YAY!

 

9-17-12 I need to think about why I started! I can get there from here! 7.2lbs for Month #8.

I am a few days late writing my monthly journal entry. Lots going on lately....and I have been less successful at staying on plan every day of the week.....weekends being the most difficult. My hubby has lost over 100lbs and is finished losing....so now he is less conscience of being PINK all of the time, which leads me to be less conscience of it as well...mostly on the weekends. I am not blaming him, it is my fault, I need to control it better, but it was easier when he was as diligent as I still need to be.

8 months....84lbs! Not bad, but I did pull my lowest monthly total to date this month. 7.2lbs lost this month. I am disappointed and I know that I need to step it up.

We did get our treadmill and I have been working out more, which is a good thing. It is almost a habit to get on it first thing in the morning for 30 minutes before I shower and go to work. To be honest, the regular exercise probably helped my monthly number....it would have definitely been even lower had I not been working out.

Here is to the start of Month 9.....and I am sure to be PINKER than I was in month 8! I do not want to let all my hard work dwindle and let myself feel like I am never going to get there.....because I am going to get there!