6 months!

I can't believe it's been 6 months since my surgery, wow the time has flown! I am still losing pretty slowly but I have started working out every day again and have really enjoyed feeling the strength building. I am working on Jillian Michael's 30 Day Shred, and it will probably take me more like 40 days cuz I allow myself to mix it up a bit if necessary, but still, should shave off some inches. Tonight I didn't work out but instead re-arranged all my furniture and hard-core cleaned in the process so that counts as a workout. My back and abs are already sore from pushing and pulling and lifting heavy furniture around, oh ya, and I brought a treadmill up my steep stairs. So ya, I got a workout :)

I took pics tonight to mark 6 months. I was in my workout clothes cuz I had INTENDED to still work out tonight after all that cleaning/re-arranging but I didn't. Anyway. So here is me. I can't really believe it.


I wish I had taken full before pictures but I didn't. But a little comparison, here is me a year ago on the left:


Down 82.8 pounds and counting. I don't care if it takes me another year, I'm getting another 37.2 pounds off!

324 sticks of butter gone, 155 to go!

I hit my goal this morning, just 4 days later than my goal date. Getting the flu helped I guess, I weighed in at 198.9 this morning, that's 81.1 pounds gone! That's 324 sticks of butter. Off of my body!
I went to buy dog food the other day and I get a 40 pound bag. I had a hard time wrestling one big bag, it was weird to think I used to carry 2 of them on my body all the time, everywhere, always.

I bought new pants yesterday and a button down shirt and it's so awesome to be able to tuck my shirt in :)

So far I have successfully avoided sweets/junk food/snacking and I have been pushing the protein like I'm supposed to. One day at a time, I love the new year - new start!

Missed it by that much

Wellz, if I had not had a goal, who knows where I would have gotten? So I'm looking at it positively and am I basically super excited to have come within 1 pound of my year-end goal. I was at 201 on New Year's Day, 1.1 pound more than my goal weight of 199.9. Based on how the middle of the month was going, I consider it a huge victory. I am down 79 pounds and 35 inches from where I was at the beginning of 2011. I never thought I would ever be able to say that, I really didn't imagine that I'd really do it, it was too good to be true. But here I sit, in my size 14 Gap pants and Large sweater, remembering this time last year when a 24 fit comfortably and I could never wear a shirt smaller than a 2x. What an incredible year :) And I'm not done.

My goal for the first half of this year, leading up to my 1-year anniversary of surgery on July 18th, is to lose another 35-45 pounds, and get toned and in better shape. I have seriously slacked on the exercise routine and while that is bad, it is actually good cuz I have lost some muscle. Sounds bad, but, my calves have always been huge and ALL muscle. I finally lost 1.5 inches on each calf so I'm glad about that.

So, onward, me and Jillian Michaels gotta be friends again and I have to get my treadmill in and running and hit the ground running, literally, in 2012.