Five Months!!!

Today marks 5 months since Erik and I started our weight loss journey together! :) It's been an awesome ride so far! 6 months ago, I would have never dreamed that we would be where we are today and looking and FEELING as great as we do and most importantly, being HEALTHIER than we've been in years. Five months ago when we started, it was all HOPE that it would work and that we'd still be going and that we'd be in a much better "place." We are LOVING the reality of today. As of this morning, the five month tallies are: Me, 74 and Erik 97 pounds lost!!!!!! WOOHOOOOOOO!!!! We are both close once more to some really cool milestones and I am really looking forward to hitting them!!!! :)

Seventy For ME!!!!!

Hit the BIG 7-0 yesterday!!! Woohooo!!!! Here's my before & current. I was to lazy to tinker around with the scale of the pics, since they were taken at different distances/zoom levels....but you get the idea! :)



Thursday, the 16th, will mark 5 months since we started the program. Erik is at 95 pounds.....will he break 100 in the next few days???? We shall see!!! :)

I'm on STRIKE!!!

From stepping on my scale, that is!!! I've had a couple of frustrating days and I refuse to step on my scale till I feel better about it or I may just open my bathroom window and chuck my scale into the backyard and it's a loooooonnnnnggg way down!!! lol I had a 3 pound loss last week and somehow I gain back 2???? WTHECK????? I am 99.9999999% sure it's "water weight" and think my hormones are doing something whacky. But, when I stay completely on plan and do everything right, this is extremely aggravating!!! So, I'm just going to keep on doing what I'm supposed to be doing and NOT step on my scale.....because I *know* this plan works.....but sometimes that stupid scale is really demoralizing. Well, I'm outtie......gotta finish getting ready for Church and after Church.....it's BOOMSDAY fun in Knoxville!!! Never been to it before, but, it's the largest Labor Day fireworks display in the country and one of the biggest in the country all year. It's apparently a bigger deal here than the local Independence Day celebrations! Sounds like fun to me!!!! :)

Fun "milestone".......

If you wanna call it a "milestone!" Erik had a dream two nights ago, in which he was wearing his high school Letterman's Jacket. He was telling me about it on the phone yesterday while he was at work. So, for fun, I challenged him to dig it out of storage when he got home from work and see how it fits. He remembered as we were heading out to take the boys to their Scout meetings and got it out and put it on. IT FITS!!!!! He graduated high school 17 years ago and this absolutely wouldn't have been possible 4 1/2 months ago.....or for many years before that. :) Here's a pic I took with my phone! :)

90 LBS and "ONE"DERLAND........

For Erik, that is! :) It's been a busy couple of weeks getting the kids back in school and we were out of town for a few days last week/weekend, so this blog has been a bit neglected. Erik and I both had some slow going loss numbers....and I'm sure that's to be expected at this point in the game for Erik. The scale teased him mercilessly last week and stalled at 200.0 for several days. It would just NOT drop into the bliss that is known as "One"DERLAND. As in the number on the scale begins with a 1, instead of a 2. ;) It's been a l-o-n-g time since that lovely numero uno has stared him back in the face. So, we were out of town, as I mentioned above, and so he didn't weigh in for a few days till this morning. 198!!! So, this morning he hit 90 pounds and landed into ONEDERLAND!!!!! :) He's being a bum and won't pose for pics right now, so I guess I'll post one of the both of us from this weekend. :)



Not a body shot, but you can see how thin his face is! ;)

As for me......the scale has me at 68 lbs lost this morning!!! :)

Catching up mentally......

I had intended to include these thoughts in my last blog, but my 5 year old kept wanting me to watch all of his cool "ninja" moves, lol, so I was a bit distracted. ;)

Erik and I were having this conversation the other night about not being caught up mentally with our physical changing. I guess when you've been used to seeing yourself a certain way or looking at your clothes of a certain size for so long, it just becomes sort of burned into your brain that that is who/what you are.

So, I've been noticing that about myself. I see the changes in myself, obviously, every day when I look in the mirror. But, I don't think I'm really seeing myself all the time, mentally. I was really studying myself in the mirror the other day and Erik happened to walk by and just stopped and smiled and started laughing at me. It's a great thing we've been married so long that we can see each other doing really dorky stuff and just laugh at each other and ourselves. :) So, I see what I am and logically know the changes, but when I go to buy myself something new.....or just think about it......I automatically walk to the "big girl" section and start looking at things in the size I was when I started. Then it occurs to me, that those things aren't going to fit. Every time I go to put one of my new pairs of capris on, I see them and think, "Oh, these aren't gonna fit!" and yet they slide on and are even getting loose! So, I was browsing the dreaded swim suits the other day, because I *really* need a new one. I went swimming at the gym the other day and decided my old suit was just not working any more. But, I'm looking at the suits and I'm a bit intimidated and I'm finding that I'm feeling that way about clothes in general.....because I have a lot more choices now than being so limited in the plus sizes. I haven't been able to bring myself to try one on yet though! lol But, I'm gonna have to do it. We're going back to Erik's parents' house and I won't be able to swim in their pool if I don't!
Erik has said that he is having the same kind of "issue." Just not quite used to being what he is now. Makes sense to happen when you lose so much, so fast.

Even funnier though, at least for me, is that I'm not used to seeing Erik either. I find myself just staring at him sometimes. I have actually twice now, lost him in stores! We separate for just a minute and when I go to find him again, I look everywhere and then I see him and realized I walked right past him, not realizing it was him. LOL
I guess it will just take a while for our brains to catch up with our bodies! ;)

4 Months!!!!

Today marks 4 months since Erik and I started on our journey!!! Four months ago I could have never imagined that we'd be where we are and looking and feeling like we are today. It's amazing and been a huge blessing in our lives. :)

Stats..... today, finds me at 62 lbs lost. :) I've hit a slight plateau. Not completely stopped, but I've fought the scale very hard for the last two pounds. UGH!!! I did read something a couple of days ago on a Facebook group for our weight loss plan that made me feel a bit better for when this happens, she said, "So my trainer told me something that made me be ok with going thru a plateau. She said that plateaus r extremely important and good in your weight loss. They allow your body to reset and maintain the current weight u r at. Your body automatically wants to rebound to your previous weight, when u hit a plateau your body ...will then look at your current weight as a rebound rather than the previous weight!!" A lot of people have also said that during plateaus they notice more loss in inches, and come to think of it, my new capris are feeling looser on me already. :) Again, kicking myself in the rear for not taking measurements when we started and keeping up on it!

For Erik, he also hit a plateau for a couple of weeks. He actually had a week where he didn't lose even a full whole pound! But, of course, he's broken that and the pounds are dropping like nothing once again. Today's weigh in finds him at 85 lbs lost!!! Woohoooooo!!!! 85 pounds in 4 months!!! WHO DOES THAT??????? ERIK DOES!!!!! :)
I blogged a while back (at least I think I did!!! lol) about a security guard at work not thinking that he was him because he was sooooooo much heavier in the pic on his security badge. Funny thing is, he wasn't even at his heaviest in that pic! So, he put in the request for a new badge and he just hasn't gone and done it. Since that time, he's also gotten a new hair do......as in NO hair! Needed a haircut and was running out of options with his balding going on, so he decided to try and rock the Vin Diesel look. lol So, this morning, he had the same thing happen with a security guard and the security guard ordered him to fix it TODAY. lol Don't worry, he's already taken care of it this morning! ;) He really needs to fix his driver's license too. He was pretty much at his heaviest or very close to it, when he had his driver's license pic taken last year and he looks NOTHING like his pic anymore.
See what I mean?!?!?!



I'll see if I can convince him to take care of that after work today as well! lol

As for a small update on my last couple of blogs, I'm doing better. Was a difficult week+ for me and I've stayed completely on plan. :) I send my baby off to kindergarten tomorrow, but if I got through the past week, I'm sure I'll be okay!

It's been an amazing 4 months and I can't wait to see what we look and feel like in 4 more! :)