Back in August I shared that I was working on losing weight. Ive decided to share the rest of the story. Its a little embarrassing, but here goes. Ive been overweight most of my life. Hate most veggies and love meat and potatoes. The heaviest that I got to, that I know of, is 377 pounds. Yes, really. The end of March of this year I had my yearly physical and weighed 362 pounds. Thats when I finally started to make a change. As some of you are aware, I have been using myfitnesspal to track what Im eating and my weight. I have a FitBit Charge that tracks my walking and sleeping. This morning I got on the scales and I have finally reached 300 pounds. Ive still got over a 100 pounds to go to reach my goal, but I will get there some year. So what Im doing, because Ive been asked before, is cutting down on quantities mostly. Smaller portions, not keeping junk food in the house, packing my lunch every day. Yes, Im avoiding high calorie foods, but I havent eliminated them. I still eat French fries occasionally, I even had pumpkin and apple pie on Thanksgiving. Very small pieces, but I had them. I dont eat a lot of sweets anyway, so dont miss them, but still have brown sugar on my oatmeal every morning. I went from not eating veggies at all to eating raw spinach in my sandwich everyday and carrots in my lunch. Who knew I would actually find veggies I could tolerate? But please dont start telling me what I should try, because I probably wont. Ive gone from wearing 5X shirts to 2X, my sons hand me downs (hes lost weight too). My pants size is too hard to figure out, so Im not going there. I can tell you Ive lost 7 inches in my waist and 3.5 inches in my hips. Mostly I just wanted to share because Im proud of how far Ive come and I refuse to let my embarrassment about my weight control me anymore. At work there is a program going on to try not to gain weight over the holidays. So far Ive lost 9 pounds since Thanksgiving. Thanks for letting me share. Someday Ill even post a photo of myself. 😳
Posted on: Sun, 07 Dec 2014 14:58:03 +0000
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