Week 80

Start weight:  243

Current weight:  146

Start Jeans size:  18/20

Current Jeans size:  Squeezed my ass into a 4, yo!

 

Starting to lose pounds again after hovering around 150 for, I think, at least a month now.  My clothes were fitting looser and looser though, so really I don’t care much about lbs, but then as an American woman, I’m conditioned to obsess over my weight.  In 1998/99 I weighed 142 and wore a size 10.  In 2012 I weight 146 and wear a 6 comfortably.  If that’s not a testament to working out consistently, I don’t know what is.

 

On a somewhat neutral/down note, I was just diagnosed Type I diabetic instead of Type II.  They had taken me off novalog (fast acting) to try me on a type 2 oral med, but it’s not working and the test for type 1 came back positive so…yeah.  Not upset about it but it is, what it is.  They’re going to change my meds again and I’m going back on novalog.  I’m fine with it, for the most part.  Just means my pancreas hates me and produces no insulin whatsoever.  Fuck you pancreas, I don’t need you anyway.

Week 77

Start weight:  243

Jean size:  18/20

Blouse size:  3x

 

Current weight: 148 +\-

Jean size:  6

Blouse: medium

 

Size 6. Last time I wore a size 6 was the 7th grade, probably the summer before.  I had no idea I would be able to get this small.  Hell, I never thought I’d lose more than 30 pounds.  The last dozen years or so I’ve hovered around 200 and it was normal for me.  Size 16, give, never really take, but I had gotten used to being that heavy at 5’3.  What am I supposed to do now that I’m smaller than my 11 year old self?

 

I still look down at myself and feel big.  Not that I have an eating disorder or anything – I’m eating normally and work out 5 times a week which might be excessive but it’s relaxing as well. I still look at black draping clothes first and don’t look at myself and think small.  Years of conditioning I guess.  I still trip out when my neighbor laughs and says “Roz, you’re small.”

 

0_o

 

And the weirdest thing?  My inner thighs don’t touch.  I noticed it yesterday and told mike. He said he noticed that morning, too.  Being thinner is weird.  But I’m enjoying the hell out of it, hehe.

 

 

Week 72

Start weight:  243

Current weight:  149

 

 

Definitely a size 8.  I’m at that plateau again where I’m fluctuating 3-4lbs but the doctor has me down as 149 so I’m going with that!

 

Ive decided I’m wearing the cute dresses I’m buying because…why else buy them?  I’m not working nor do mike and I go out much, but they’re not clubby dresses (well one is) so I’m wearing them.  The clubby one I can wear to my neighbors when we drink.  She and I like to dress up and show cleavage so why not, right?

 

Been getting a lot of compliments, but not about my figure.  A lot of my friends have been telling me I motivate them to Workout and get healthy.  That’s probably even better than an idle compliment on my no-so-sizable brown butt.  It’s really encouraging for me to be an example, a good example at that.  My neighbors work out with me, the hot neighbor told me I motivate him, too. Honestly…I just don’t want to go back to the +100 pound me again.  Why squander what is essentially a gift?  I’m healthy, I can play with my kids, my husband loves me regardless, but seriously he is so dirty now and I’m comfortable with my body to appreciate that dirtiness hehe.  I’m almost 40 and could not be happier or healthier.

 

It was a long journey, and it’s not over yet, but at least I look good walking the path with my family instead of hitching a ride because I’m too heavy to enjoy it.  😀

Week 72

Start weight:  243

Current weight:  151 (-92lbs)

Jean size:  8

Top size:  medium/large

 


So FINALLY able to start running again!  Took me 7 months to get used to this altitude but I was able to run straight for 1 mile and did it in 13 mins.  I was running about 2 miles in 20 mins, but it’s a process!!  Didn’t feel like my lungs were going to explode, either.


elliptical for 30 mins

Running – 1.5 miles in 20 mins

Walk @3.7 with 3.5 incline for 10 mins


No marathons yet, and I’m. Of sure that really a goal, but I’m just glad I can run again.  I really missed it.


Week 69

Start weight:  242

Current weight:  150 +/-

 

Wore my tankini out to the pool today.  Short shorts and everything.  Taking off my shorts was like wearing my underwear in public, but after a while I was like, ‘Fuck it!’  Had a crazy work out with my neighbors – I should probably explain that, huh?

 

We live in Colorado Springs, CO now.  We moved over here right before Christmas after Mike got back from Korea for good.  We found a place near our friends Preston and Dorissa from Alaska and bought a house!

 

 

Our new house, our neighbors, Mike and I, and my best girls.  Mari, Shanna, and I have all started going to the rec center here in the neighborhood together and enjoying the pool after our hard efforts.  We love our new life here in Falcon and have fun weekends hanging with friends and doing family things all over the area.

 

I share meals with either Catherine or Mike, still work out 4-5 times a week, and wear short shorts around the house.  A couple times I’ve gone out in public with them and I say why the hell not?!  We’ve been in our house since Jan 27th, and since it’s a new development, get new neighbors almost every month.  The kids are happy, Mike loves (his words) Colorado, and I could not be happier. =)

Week 68…still

Start weight:  242

Currently weight:  149

 

I KNOW, RIGHT???  I love getting on the scale and seeing a smaller number every single time.  I swear I never thought I’d break 150, but now I can actually see -100lbs so clearly.  I mean seriously, it’s within reach!!!  7 pounds.  That’s it, 7 pounds.  I AM FREAKING OUT!!!

 

I showed Mike my comparison picture from the post before.  I asked him if he remembered me that way and he just looked at it and was like, ‘Actually…no.’  I don’t remember being that big or looking so unhealthy and old.  I look so old, geez.

Week 68

Start weight:  243

Goal weight:  143 (-100lbs)

Currently weight:  151 (-92lbs)

Jean size:  Before – 18-20  Currently – 8 (Gap jean, yo!)

Top:  Before – 3x  Current – M to L depending on the boobage

Breast size:  Before almost 40-42DD  Current 36DD

 

So yeah, got on the scale this morning and managed to lose 2lbs over the weekend.  It’s gotta be the water pill they put me on for my blood pressure, which is high, for some inexplicable reason.  Lose almost 100 pounds and of course my blood pressure is out of control.  (rolls eyes)

 

Been working out at least 4x a week, doing a full hour of cardio.  Need to start incorporating weights again, but at this point I still can’t run because of this crazy high altitude.  7k+ feet does a job on your lungs, even after doing a solid hour of cardio 4-5 times a week, yo!  I can really see a difference around my mid section now – where it looked like it was really wanting to sag, it’s now starting to smooth out so that tummy tuck goal at 100 doesn’t seem so important anymore.  Thank god brown don’t crack!  A breast reduction – definitely would take that.

 

Just celebrated my 19th wedding anniversary with Mike.  Since I’ve been losing weight, he’s dropped about 25lbs himself.  He was an XL but now he’s down to a L.  Jeans he was 36/30 but now 34/30 and it’s a little baggy on him still.  Pretty cool to be watching our eating and having workouts in common.  Definitely is very encouraging plus he looks smexier now too =D  Been working out with my neighbor Mari and it’s kind of neat to look at her, she’s a size 4-6, and know that I’m only about 10-15lbs heavier than she is.  O_O  She had a size 8 tankini she made me try on and surprisingly it fit nicely.  My boobs were out of control in them, but she said that was the point.  Tried more tops at Old Navy this weekend – think I’m comfortable with an L-XL to accommodate them.  It’s just too out of control otherwise lol.

 

Other than that, feeling extremely good!  Working with my Internal Med doc on my diabetes, but it’s a process.  My blood pressure is starting to come down a little with the addition of the water pill, so I’m relieved.  The kids are healthy and life is good.

Week 59…yeah yeah, I know, I need to update more.

Starting weight:  242

Currently weight:  158 +/- 3lbs

 

I know the +/- is bullshit, but I wanted to say I weighed in at 158 hehe.

 

So this month marks a year of working out straight, every single week.  We’re in Colorado Springs now and we have a rec center just down the street, so I’m not working out 5 times a week like I was starting to, but I’m in there at least 3 times.  They don’t have the equipment like Peterson’s base gym or even McChords, but it does ok.  Working out at 7k feet is a lot harder than I thought it would be.  When we got here right after Xmas, I went and did my 2 mile and pretty much thought I was going to die about 2 hours later.  Mike was already throwing up from the altitude sickness, but even our friends were like ‘are you f9cking crazy?’  So I don’t run like I used.  Actually, I don’t run at all. =(

 

20 minutes on the elliptical with weights is the bare minimum of what I do.  I do pilates twice a week and that’s really helped with my flexibility around my hips and pelvis.  With all the added weight, my right hip/pelvic muscle area had tightened up so bad that I couldn’t even sit criss-cross applesauce (i love kids and their terms) on the floor like I used to.  And let me tell you, put a little bit of a hamper in the bed department, I know you can dig it.  Although Pilates has really helped and I’m back to sitting on the ground like a first grader!  I’m down to a size 10 jean but if it wasn’t for the extra skin, I could get into an 8 no problem, I just don’t dig that muffin top =x  I can shop off the rack and I bought my first pair of shorts in…gosh, probably 10+ years yesterday.  Size 10.

 

One of the weird benefits of all this weight loss is Mike losing weight, too.  Since he came home from Korea, he’s lost 20lbs and he’s down to 188ish.  He hasn’t been that thin since high school.  Of course he runs 3+ miles a day, 5 days a week, but he’s crazy like that.  He’s adjusted to the altitude.  I think I have, but I’m putting off running and working on my ass and thighs on the elliptical.  I can rock a pair of jeans now, thank you very much.

 

I feel good.  In fact, I feel great – about myself, my marriage, my kiddos, and my life.  Colorado is turning out to be pretty cool, especially with friends in the area that we knew from Alaska, and some awesome neighbors.  I catch guys doing double takes at me and my husband is hot.  It used to be a question of ‘I’m happy enough’, but now?

 

I could not be happier.