Tag: weight loss

This is pretty cool. I’ve been invited to participate in the Weight Control & Diabetes Research Center’s study on weight loss.

They follow people who have successfully lost at least 30 pounds and kept it off for at least a year. Its all part of the National Weight Control Registry. Since I have lost 150 pounds and kept it off for nearly 2 years they said I was an ideal candidate for the study. They will follow me for the next 10 years…asking me about my eating habits, exercise habits, diet, things like that once a year. I have to send them pictures to document my weight loss, and I can allow them to contact my doctor to get other documentation of my weight loss. I’m enclosing these photos to show how much weight I’ve lost. And I told them they could call my doctor.

I don’t get paid anything, but I think its pretty cool that they want me to participate in the study. All my hard work is paying off!

Have a good evening friends!

My drivers license expires on Saturday. I got a form in the mail telling me that I could renew it online…but they would use the same photo and information (i.e. My weight). That was NOT an option seeing as I had lost about 50 pounds since I got the old license in 2008!

I went in this morning and got this one. Now maybe bartenders and TSA agents won’t double take every time they check my ID!

The clerk at the DMV looked at my license and did a double take as well, and then asked me how I lost all the weight. As I was leaving I heard her tell another worker that she needed some of my willpower! All in all it was a pretty great start to my Thursday!

Have a great day friends!

The scale and I had a fight this morning

I weigh myself everyday. I have for years. Seriously, years. We’re talking ever since I began this weight loss journey, so that would be June of 2005. That’s a long relationship. But it’s what works for me. It keeps me accountable and lets me know if I’ve gone too crazy the past few days. I don’t live and die by my scale, but I like to know where I’m at.

That being said, I know that weight can fluctuate daily. You can go up a few pounds just because you ate something salty, or you can go down because you ate less. Its a cycle. But I know where my weight is and where I’m comfortable. I can feel when I’m up or down a few pounds. Today? Today the scale said I was up 5 pounds from Thursday morning. Now I know this isn’t “real weight.” Thursday night I had Taco Night with my friends and consumed copious amounts of chips and guacamole. I ate a lot of chips at dinner on Saturday and Sunday was the Super Bowl. Monday there were leftover chips and treats at work, and I had some. Not enough to make me crazy, but enough to know that the scale and I were going to be fighting today.

But you know what? Today is a new day. I ran 6 miles before work this morning. The last mile at a 9:40 pace at a 2% incline. I’m feeling that one in my tush!

I can’t tell you that I won’t fluctuate with my weight; it’s simply impossible to eat perfectly all of the time. I shoot for 80%. And for me, that’s doable. It lets me live my life and not binge on bad foods.

Even if the scale and I aren’t speaking right now. 🙂

Have a good day friends!

Thank you!

To everyone who liked, reblogged, commented on, sent me messages, and just generally had nice things to say about this post, thank you so much! You all made my day, heck even my week!

My journey has been amazing…and its been made even more awesome because of you guys! I have never met such cool people, either in real life or just online!

So once again, thank you! You guys rock! 🙂

Is your workplace like mine?

Several of my co-workers love to bake. They bring the delicious fruits of their labor into the office and encourage you to eat them. But ya know what?They don’t eat any of it themselves.This drives me nuts. Pretty much every day at my station we have some sort of baked good: today its pumpkin muffins one of our meteorologists made, and s’more bars our morning editor made. Yesterday we had donuts. The day before that, someone brought in homemade chex mix. There are also cupcakes and muffins that come to us from the community.

It’s a never-ending cycle! Most times, I have enough willpower to resist them. Sometimes, I don’t.  Most of the time I don’t beat myself up over eating the treats. But sometimes I think about and wonder…why don’t the cooks eat any of their own baked goods? Sometimes I think they are trying to make us gain weight!

Oh wait! I did that to myself! 🙂

Just a few random thoughts on this Thursday!

Have a good day friends!

First Picture: New Year’s Eve 2008, heading into 2009. I had lost 40-50ish pounds at this point.

2nd picture: New Year’s Eve 2011. I’ve lost 150 pounds. (i couldn’t get anyone to take a full body shot, so I give you:

3rd picture: Christmas Eve 2011. I have a goofy expression on my face, but, oh what a difference a few years makes! 🙂

I Freakin’ DID it!!!!!!!!!

As of today, October 3rd, 2011, I have OFFICIALLY REACHED MY GOAL WEIGHT!!!!!!!!! I now weigh 147.5 pounds! People, this is HALF MY STARTING BODY WEIGHT!!!! I have lost 147.5 pounds.

When I started this journey in June of 2005, I just wanted to lose weight. Sure, my goal was to lose 100 pounds, but I never imagined that I could get there, let alone lose 47.5 more!

When I started I couldn’t run for more than 30 seconds, my thighs rubbed together, I was out of breath, and ridiculously out of shape. Today, I stand before you weighing 147.5 pounds, having lost the exact same amount that I currently weigh. I have run 5k’s, 10k’s and a Half-Marathon! I get up and run in the dark because I want to, not because I have to. What an amazing change.

Before I took control of my life I thought I was happy with how my life was going. But I realize that I was just coasting through. I didn’t date, I had lots of friends though, even some pretty great guy friends. I filled that unhappiness with food. But now, having reached my goal, I know that food isn’t there to fill the empty places inside that nothing can every really fill until you are happy with yourself. What a wake up call.

So I look at myself and say now what? What is my next goal? When you feel like you have everything, what else do you really need?

Today is awesome!

Happy Monday Friends! 🙂

Forgive the messy hair and messy house and the Elementary School t-shirt! (seriously, I got that shirt in 5th grade, and found it buried deep in a drawer at my parent’s house last year! NSV!!! I wear that thing all the time!)

This picture was taken around Christmas time 2010. I was going through clothes to donate to the City Mission, and my mom was helping me. She wanted to know if I wanted to keep my fat pants as a memento. I decided not to, but to take a picture of how far I had come.

Those jeans were size 22. The ones I was wearing in the picture were size 10. T-shirt size Small. I figured I was done losing weight, and sure didn’t want the clothes from my heavier days! Today, I weigh only about a pound less than I did that day in December, however I have toned up and gotten leaner! Down another pants size!!!  Isn’t it amazing what running can do for you?