I've been delaying posting again until I reached a self-imposed milestone. I have done it!! Since I started this adventure in October, I have lost 100lbs! Well, 102 to be honest. The plateau finally did break. Just took a trip to Canada on a train (so no car) and 10-15k steps a day for little under a week and boom, 6 pounds lost on return and we started on down the scale again. I have actually lost 59lbs just since the surgery (April 21). Before you ask, and everyone does, I feel great! There are little things I have noticed like being able to completely bend over, while sitting on a chair and reach for something under the desk. If you've ever been heavy, you know what an accomplishment this is. And then there are the clothes. This has become more of an annoyance than anything else. Not a lot that i own fits anymore. 100lbs is a big change. You can't just wear the big shirt and call it "baggy" anymore. I'm hoping this blog reaches someone else considering this journey some day, so I'll tell you, at the start of this I wore a 5x. 4x in some brands, but you get the picture. i now wear a 2x. I have reached the size where when i order custom shirts through fundraiser things, i don't have to pay the additional charge! Woot, right? You bet!! But, this has still lead to a lot of trips to thrift stores trying to find clothes for work (as i recently went back into a workplace) that aren't going to break the bank, because i still have 8.5 months of losing before they (the experience surgical team) says I'll most likely be done with my weight loss. These are not my forever clothes yet. Not even close. I did break down and buy a new uniform shirt, though. The current one has started to look ridiculous; like I'm a kid in dress up clothes. So, we'll make that last for a bit and it'll just have to get baggier until next spring or something. I'm not going to keep replacing that! For my fellow scouters, you know. It's not just the cost, it's all the freaking sewing, right?! It was actually picked up from the shop today, but not by me, so I don't have it in my hot little hands to try on and take a pic yet, so you'll just have to wait on that one. In the meantime, I will share a few pics from our Canada adventure, namely, of me ziplining! Yes, ziplining! J and E wanted to do it. I had to stay with them until their departure time. We're all the way at the top of this tower thing waiting and the staff starts pushing for me to go too. I tried to not.....but then i ran out of arguments. I started with I'm too heavy. guess what, I'm well under the limit now. I tried to say i had all my stuff with me, they showed me the convenient little bag on the zipline itself. Then i explained how my knee was bad and going all the way down and back up was not happening......the dude literally took me in the employee elevator himself and walked me to a side door (not in the lines) to take care of it. So, I did it. I'm so glad I did! It was amazing and a memory with the kiddos. And i'll leave you with this, in the words of the genius', The Barenaked Ladies, "I'm lovin' life!"
Lovin' Life by Barenaked Ladies
