Oh my goodness, it feels so good to say that. I just opened up this blog for the first time in two years, and oh what a ride it has been. I got so fat! Seriously, my heaviest recorded weight was 235.2 in November 2015.
235.2! What.The.Fudge.
That is what I am recording as my starting weight for the day I officially told my fat to fuck off! I am so dead serious. I kicked it in gear and I've been kicking my own fat ass for the last 3 1/2 months. As of this morning I'm at 205. Which kind of pisses me off actually, because last Friday I was at 202. Obviously I know that I didn't gain 3 pounds in 4 days, but it still pisses me off when I retain water/poop/whatever the heck else you retain and makes you want to throw your scale out the window.
I'm so close to onederland, I just want it to get here! (I'm talking about the 202 number, not the piece of crap 205 number that keeps showing up on my scale).
So for me, the big change was that I just got over being fat. I hated feeling like crap, hating my body. Basically everything. I just decided I was done. I've been kind of doing MWLC again, but not really. I go there because I honestly love their protein shakes. They are awesome; expensive but awesome. I keep on trying to find something not as expensive and so far it just doesn't exist. So I figure that the price of the expensive shakes is way better than the price of being fat.
So I went to MWLC and they did my blood work. Here's an eye opener if being fat wasn't enough....I came back elevated fasting blood sugar, low good cholesterol and high uric acid. So basically, I'm pre-diabetic, at risk for heart disease, and at risk for gout. Nice! And I'm only 44. What.the.hell? So I guess it's either time to get busy living or get busy dying, right? Since I have a 6 year old and a 3 year old that depend on me, I guess it's time to get busy living.
I was prescribed metformin last year when I went for my annual physical. I don't have a regular family physician so my gyno did it. Well, the nurse practitioner did after she lectured me about not having a doctor. (I've still gotta do that). Anyway, she rx'ed it to me, so I finally decided to start taking them. I'm going to say it was November 9 because I don't remember the day, but since that's "my day" and I'm sure it was pretty close to that, I'm going with it.
Also on November 9, I gave up the wine. I'm no longer a wino. (it feels REALLY good to say that). I also gave up my daily diet coke (only drank one of those a day). And I started logging everything on MFP. I log everyday and I'm currently on a 110 day streak! I'm on 1200 calories per day.
At first the weight literally flew off of me. I'm so serious, I lost 10 pounds like it was nobody's business. I'm currently down 33.2 pounds (if I use the 202 number). I feel awesome about this, but I want more! I've kind of plateaued for the last few weeks because I started hitting the wine on the weekend again. It really sucks and I've got to stop doing this. I actually don't even like drinking wine anymore, it's just my weekend habit. I hate how tired I am the next day after I drink it. I think I'm kind of over it and I'll be giving it up again.
I was trying to find something that had all of my weigh-ins, but I can only find the weekly weigh ins from my latest challenge that started on 12/12/15. These weigh ins are on Tuesdays and you will see that I've weighed in at 205 for the last 4 weeks. The thing that stinks is that I get down to as low as 202 by the end of the week. So it's obvious that my weekend habits are affecting my overall weight loss.
Beginning Weight: 235.2 (11/9/15)
Starting Challenge Weight: 218.2 (12/12/15)
12/12/15: 218.2
12/22/15: 216.2
12/29/15: 213.8
1/7/16: 211.8
1/12:16: 212
1/19/16: 210.4
1/26/16: 208.6
2/2/16: 205
2/9/16: 205
2/15/16: 205
2/22/16: 205
Current Goal: 199
