100 pounds are off of my body for good! YAY! That's 400 sticks of butter. Gross. I thought I'd cry or hoop and holler when I saw 180.0 show up on my scale but I didn't. I felt rather numb. Super happy, super excited, it was so great. I told all my best peeps. And then moved on with the day. Since then I have gone back up a pound due to a combination of exulting in my victory by eating bad food and retaining water. But oh wellz, it'll come off in a day or two if I amp up my water again. Now I have to figure out what I want my goal weight to be. My next goal of course is the next 5 pound mark, so 175, and then 169, which is the weight I need to be to fit into the "normal" weight category on the BMI scale. So for sure 169 is my goal. And then maybe another 9 pounds to hit an even 160? I don't know. I feel thin until I look at my health magazines and see people who are actually thin and I realize I easily have another 20-30 pounds on my frame that could go, but it will for sure take a good long while to get rid of it - these last pounds have been here the longest and are the most stubborn. Plus, the body likes to keep a cushion. But I'm going to keep running and sticking to my protein-rich diet and avoiding the junky food during the week and only indulging on weekends (which is my most successful plan usually). I'll get there eventually. My surgiversary is in just 6 weeks. I'd ultimately like to be 169 by then but we will see if that happens. I'd be happy at 175 on that date. Heck, I'm just happy now :) I'm in a size 10 and that is soooo crazy to me. I went and tried on size 10 jeans at the store and I could fit into all but the skinny jeans. Super exciting.
I'm running an 8k race on Sunday. I have no idea what the heck got into me. I have never run 5 miles at one pop before. But I'm going to on Sunday I guess! I felt the desire to push myself and run further than I ever have before so why not? If I have to walk a little in the middle then I will. But my strategy is to just take it easy and jog and try to not walk or stop at all and finish in a little over an hour. We'll see! If it's hot, it will be a lot harder but it's supposed to be a cool morning. I'm super excited and plan to do a bit of a training run tomorrow night, see if I can do 4 miles and how tired I get. Then I'll know how to pace myself. I'm so excited!! I wanna run the whole thing, I wanna do it, I wanna cross the finish line knowing I just did something I have never done before and I am a ROCK STAR :) So we will see! I love that I can even try. I love that I get a lower life insurance rate now too. I love that I am not the fattest person in the room everywhere anymore. I love that my resting heart rate is 58. I love that my thighs are hard as rocks (except for the excess skin, ew ew ew ew) and my calves are super strong. Yay weight loss :) And I'm excited I still get to LIVE and have mini donuts on Sunday after my race. Yummmm.
