start weight: 242
current weight: 183 (-59lbs)
jeans size: comfortable 14
So my husband has come home on leave from Korea for 26 days – that would be why I haven’t updated at all since a couple days before he came back. We immediately went up to see our parents in Oak Harbor and then drove down to California for a week at his sisters. I am proud to say that I maintained my 3x a week workouts. Granted walking in 90 degree weather (or 900, felt like it) with no water is not something I’d recommend, but we did pass a starbucks and I did have the presence of mind to carry enough money with me to get a tall iced tea.
My husband has been extremely encouraging, if not a little quiet about my weight loss. He’s always getting me to eat my protein and happily shares his meals with me, getting whatever I want for the most part. His first reaction to my weight loss was speechlessness. And for those of you kiddos out there reading – (cover thine eyes!) he did comment on my lack of ass after sex.
“There’s so much less of you.”
“This is bad?”
“Well no – it’s just…weird. Not as much cushion for the pushin’.”
A poet, my husband.
He kept touching me, probably more out of the fact that he hasn’t seen me in 7 months, but today he commented on my choice of pants – a pair of size 16 khakis that didn’t slip off my almost nonexistent ass.
“Please change.”
“Why? These don’t fall off my hips.”
“Yeah but they’re huge.” Tugs at the material billowing around my hips and thighs. “Look at all this material. No, go change back into those skinny capris you had on.”
I was wearing these size 14 capris from Old Navy fit surprisingly loose except for my calves (a sore point for me and always have been) but he insisted I looked much better in those than the baggy khakis. I suppose it takes getting used to – wearing clothes that show off my shape. Don’t get me wrong, I love shopping – in fact I bought a shirt today that said, “Hershey’s Milk Chocolate” (I mean really, how friggin cool is that) and a Large top. It’s been over a decade since that’s happened.
I’m definitely in better shape now at 183 than I was back in 2003 when I weighed that much and could squeeze (barely) into a size 14. Who knew all this exercise would be handy? I can also feel the muscles in my forearms and I’m starting to see the muscle outline in my biceps. OMG, right? Forty more pounds to go, but I’m thinking I’ll be able to squeeze into a size 10 (pre-Catherine size) before then. I will keep you abreast of the situation as it develops!