Hello!
Things are much better since my last post! My few days of sweet cravings and munchies have long gone. I'm doing well and feeling great!
I actually submitted a very brief post last night but I clicked the "publish post" button just as the site maintenance started......it erased the post. It wasn't all that exciting, so I didn't bother to re-enter it once the site came back up. That was at 11PM, I'm not sure how long it takes for them to update the site but I didn't hang around to find out! LOL!
Well, tomorrow is "measurement day". I really am wondering if I hit that big "5-0" mark. I'm excited to find out! I sure hope I did! If so, I'm going to email all my friends and family AND shout it from the rooftops! LOL! We'll know in about 18 hours...no worries, I'll post the numbers in the morning.
I was watching the end of a show called "Fat March" the other day with my daughter. It's not a show I've seen before and we only caught the last 10-15 minutes of the show. The "reveal" part where they show the folks now and what they stared at. It was great! The folks lost between like 45-90 pounds. They had walked over 500 miles in a specified period of time (I don't know what it was as I didn't see that part of the show...I'm assuming a few months though). Anyway,
I was talking to my daughter saying "Wow! I can't believe how much different they look with a 45 pound weight loss. I sure wish there was that kind of difference in me, and I've lost 48 pounds". She looked at me very seriously and said "Mom, there is! I don't know how you can't see it, you look terrific!". How cool is that?! I was so touched I got a bit misty.
The one weird thing about that story and me is...I honestly can't really see it. I mean I know that I've lost weight because of the way my clothes fit (actually the old ones don't fit at ALL anymore), I can see it in my face a bit, I am starting to have saggy skin on my legs (EWWW) and stuff but I can't see a BIG difference. I was sharing this with my friends on my YOAD message board the other day. Is that a common thing? Will I ever see myself thinner? Did I ever truly SEE myself for my actual weight, when I was at my heaviest? It really got me thinking A LOT! I know there has to be a pretty big difference because friends and family are commenting all the time about how great I look and stuff. (It's nice). Hmmmm....I wonder.
Hey, funny story! I was over at my Mom's the other night, briefly as she was trying to get me to take home a peach pie she made---UGH, my mother, when will she learn (that's a whole other story)---and I was walking to my car when she said "You don't have a butt anymore". LOL! She was like "What happened to your butt? I can't believe how much weight you've lost. You've never lost this much weight before. I haven't seen you at this weight in years (her way of a compliment by the way...sigh). I told her "Nope, 15 years to be exact". I haven't weighed what I weigh now in 15 years! (And even then it was only VERY briefly, because I got pregnant when my hubby came back from Desert Storm). Here's the funny part of the story....later that night she called my oldest sister and said "You don't think we have to worry about Shannon do you? Have you seen how much weight she's lost? You don't think she's anorexic do you?". OMG--is that HILARIOUS!?! Am I anorexic...not a chance! ROFLMAO!! I love food, it's just now I'm not LIVING to eat, I eat to live. My mother....she's a kick. Am I anorexic?! I'm actually smiling ear to ear just typing this story again.
Still kickin' butt at the gym. Hubby and I found a new Cybex machine there last night. It's one where the arms don't move. I think I liked it better than the arm one, I think I got a better work out (I made the settings much harder, since I didn't have my arms going back & forth). I burned 683 calories in 40 minutes--it was a keeper. Tonight we have an aerobics class called 50/50. I love it! Hubby goes to that one with me, it's fun!
You know, I was looking at myself in the mirror last night and noticed that my skin is starting to sag on my inner thighs. That SUCKS! All this work and I'm going to be a bag of excess skin (I hope not)!! I'm going to really work on strengthening exercises for my inner thighs, to see if that will help. The rest of the muscles in my legs are rock hard though, so I must be doing something right. I really hope I can firm up some of the skin, I'm hoping I'm young enough (38) that some of it is still elastic. It really would be a bummer to be a saggy bag of skin. I don't want to think about that too much though, I will NOT let it discourage me from my goal.
Well heck, I better get going. I'm in a chatty mood today! LOL!
Have a wonderful day! YOU can do THIS! We are making permanent lifestyle changes that are making us healthier! YIPEE!!
Hugs,
Shannon
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Good luck on your weigh day tommorrow, Shannon!!
I have lost 79 pounds and still look in the mirror and see a VERY FAT man. I will always think I'm a VERY Fat man. It's a bit sad. So you not seeing your own weight loss seems normal. And oh, yeah, the sagging skin. IT SUCKS. TOTALLY SUCKS. Unless you have about $15,000 to plunk down on a body lift and tummy tuck, it will be there to remind you that you once weighed a lot more. Hate to be so negative, but I'm in the same boat and I hate it. I really don't know which looks worse, the sagging skin or a fat body. I can cover the sagging skin with clothes, but everyone can see a fat me under fat clothes. I guess the sagging skin wins.
Rich
Hmmmmm....do the photos help you see yourself differently? You can see the difference in them, can't you? It's astonishing! (Almost too thin).
I wonder if we'll ever be able to see ourselves for the weight we are becoming. It's really interesting what the mind can do.
My inner thighs look like a Shar-Pei dog! LOL! I knew there would be a certain amount of sagging but I hope with lots of strengthening at the gym, I can tone some of that up.
I don't really want to do the surgery route. It's a possibility WAY down the road, one day, MAYBE, but it's really not a main focus for me.
I want to have a healthy body, that's first. BUT that being said, I also don't want to be an ugly bag of skin after all this hard work.
Hugs,
Shannon
I don't see it either. I'm down 43 pounds, and everyone says I look SO much different. I look in the mirror and see me. Maybe I never really saw myself at the higher weight and I still see the little me I was in high school...who knows? I think I look damn good...LOL
Your mom cracks me up! My cousin just said the same thing to me...are you sure you don't have an eating disorder? Uhh...yeah, I've eaten myself to staying over 200 pounds for the last 15 years, dude. I'd call that a disorder.
LOL...now I just can't stop laughing!
Elizabeth
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