I did it!!!!!

It's been 109 days since I started doing this, and there were several times when I thought I'd never make it, but today when I stepped on the scale, I made my goal of losing 50 pounds!  I've lost 17.36% of my body weight.  I didn't do it by going on some crazy diet or working out 8 hours a day.  I ate sensible foods, in moderation, and I worked out 30-45 minutes 3-5 days a week.

I'm living proof that it can be done!

Here's my next goal:  I want to lose 40 more pounds by October 20th.  That will be a total of 90 pounds in 235 days.  That's 126 days from today to lose 40 pounds.  I'm taking the next week off of training, and then I'm right back at it.

3 pounds and 7 days to go

I have 3 pounds to go to reach my goal, and 7 days to get it done.  I'm sitting here, just hoping that my efforts will result in success and not in failing to reach my goal on time.  I know that I've done an amazing thing, and that I have every right to be proud.  And I won't be less proud if I don't quite make the deadline for losing 50 pounds.  But I really really want to.  Whenever I've set a goal for myself, I've always achieved it, with the exception of losing weight.  I've never succeeded at losing weight, and I want to so very badly.

Today my trainer asked me what my reward would be for meeting my goal, hoping it wasn't a night out a Claim Jumper's.  Well, they're totally yummy, but my reward is for something much neater.  It was so amazing at the doctor's office to step on the scale and NOT have to slide the bottom weight thing over so far.  Usually I've had to put it in the 260 slot, and then move the top slide thing almost all the way to the right.  This time, it wasn't like that.  The bottom weight was at 240, and the top weight was barely away from the left.  I'm so much looking forward to not having that bottom weight even in the 200s.

Anyway, that's my reward.  Totally silly, and totally meaningless to most people.  But to me, it's so amazing that I was almost in tears at the doctor's office.

Day 100

It's been 100 days since I decided that I wasn't going to remain fat all my life.  Since then I've lost 46 pounds!  I've done it by eating well and exercise.  I'm amazed at some of the changes and thrilled by others.  I find that I don't even like the foods that I was enjoying before I started.  Most of the junk food that I "loved" was really disgusting.  I really like salad, although I do vary it regularly so that I don't get totally bored by it.  I am surprised that I don't even like drinking sodas any more - I never thought that would happen.  I'm amazed at how much more attuned I am to my body.  I know more about myself than I ever thought possible.  I'm totally stunned at how much I'm able to do with my trainer, and how much doing crunches hurts my abs!  But despite it all, this is my new life.  I am going to graduate from OT school, not just wiser and more capable, but fit and healthy...a whole new woman.  That's my goal, and I'm determined to be successful this time.