start weight: 242
current weight: 192 (-50lbs)
Hell YES! Finally hit the 50 pound mark, which is coincidentally my halfway mark to my total goal of 100 pounds. Will I achieve that lofty goal? I hope so. I’m giving myself 1 year to get it to be realistic.
I’ve been losing about 1-2lbs a week, with some serious plateaus, but I’ve lost about 3lbs this past week so I’m hoping I’m over the first really big hump. I haven’t been this weight since…shoot…I worked at Comcast back in the day? Around 2003, almost 10 years. Yoinks. How sad is that? Pre-Catherine I weighed about 140 and that took about 2 years to achieve. I was 198 moving back to Washington in 1995 and promptly lost about 15 pounds. I settled at around 175 in…1997? Something like that. I hovered around 165 for a little while and then boom – suddenly every time I went to the doctors, I weighed less. They started me on metformin and then one day at the doctors I weighed 142. I had stopped eating, for the most part, because the medication made me sick to my stomach, but I know for a long while I was losing inches, not pounds. So at around a size 8 and 140lbs, I got pregnant with Catherine, which was planned and we were thrilled. I put back on about 60lbs. Lost about 20 after she was born, but Comcast had so much candy and food – I put that 20 back on and then some.
So, it feels great to have lost 50lbs. Sucks that I put it on in the first place, but it’s gone and I’m working slowly but surely back to my pre-Catherine weight. I’m excited! I work out at least 3 times a week – doing 30 mins on the elliptical machine and then a variety of weight lifting, nothing too hardcore, at McChord’s big boy gym. Why the HELL have I been putting off working out at the gym? The eye candy is RI-DONK-U-LOUS! Yes, I usually just take my glasses off, close my eyes, and listen to my IPod, but when I open them there I’m suddenly surrounded by beefy men. God bless the armed forces, yo.