Alright, so I figured I should make a pre-Thanksgiving post so that when I've completely gorged myself on pumpkin pie and yams this week, I'll know what a bad girl I've been.
I weighed in yesterday at 191.8. Yay!!!!!!!! So from my highest point at 214, that's a total loss of 22.2 pounds.
I forgot to move my pebbles around, so sorry no picture, but when I dip into the 180s I'll take one I promise. I also need to get one of me in my size 16 jeans. They're too big! Annoyingly so! Unfortunately, they're not too big everywhere, so I don't know if that means I can go down a size. I can put my 14s on, but it's not pretty, or comfortable in some places. With my 16s I have to cinch my belt so tight to hold them on, it makes it pucker all weird in the back and stuff, and I could get them off without unbuttoning them or anything. But my hips are still too wide to go smaller, really. So I guess this is the weird/frustrating part of weight loss. I'm too small for the jeans I have been wearing, but not small enough to go down a size, so I don't look good in any of them. But hopefully that will work itself out soon. And I'm too cheap to go buy a pair that fits me right now because I don't plan on staying at the size I'm at for long.
The 180s are the hardest part for me since that's as far as I got, and where I've been for the last couple of years. I think I was at 187 on my wedding day, so it's really my "mostly healthy stage" in my mind. Obviously if I'm really supposed to be at like 136 (that's a 22 BMI), 187 is way above mostly healthy, but that was the reality I had to accept before I knew what to do about it. Also, when I did Weight Watchers before, I bottomed out at 180, but never went even a tenth of a pound lower than that. Even getting to 180 took me ages and ages longer than any of the other weight.
Since the 180s are so hard for me, I figured I would set myself some temporary incentives to get myself excited. So when I get to 185 I get to have my hair cut. If this happens by Christmas, I might even color it too. It's getting really long, which is great since I've been growing it out, but I've been almost a year since I've cut it and the ends are starting to split. I think my hair has been healthier since I've been starting all this, largely thanks to the multivitamin I've been taking and getting my thyroid under control. Hypo-thyroidism makes your hair really dry and brittle, which curly hair is naturally anyway, so mine was really bad.
Then when I get to 179.9 and finally see a 7 in the tens slot, I get to buy myself a pair of shoes I completely don't need. I figured that was a good girl goal, and hopefully it will get me through this pretty tough stretch.
So there you have it. Success, goals, and hopefully I won't stuff myself like a turkey for Thanksgiving.
