??1.5 lbs, 86.5 lbs gone
My hubby and I were talking about how it feels to have lost so much weight and for me it's a feeling of weightlessness. He reminded me that I had been carrying around 43 five-pound bags of sugar.
43 five-pound bags of sugar. I'm picturing duct taping those bags around my body and then trying to make the 7 minute walk from the parking lot at work. No wonder I never exercised! It was like moving through a pool of water. I always had good intentions to walk or bike ride, but always ran out of time/energy to do so. Not to mention the type 2 diabetes that so exhausted me.
My BMI moved out of the 'overweight' range into the 'normal' range. I never thought I'd ever be so happy to be considered just normal!
I do wonder where this weight loss journey will take me. I had a goal to be a normal weight. I would like to lose some more though because my surgeon assures me that I will probably gain back about 10% of what I've lost within 5 years. So having lost 80+ pounds, that means that I'd regain 8 lbs, which would put me back into that overweight category again.
If you think that it's odd that I'm sitting here talking about weight gain after losing so much you would be right, but it's a fact of life and I want to keep it always in my mind and be ever vigilant just in case it happens. Besides it always has happened in the past - I was the queen of yo-yo dieters!
Anyway I would be remiss if I didn't remember the men and women who died for my very freedom to be typing this blog on a Monday morning. (Bruce, I love you and in the words of Toby Keith, "how do you like me now?")
~ barb
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