Hip Hip Horray

I wasn’t expecting much weight loss this week as I was unable to make it to the Y and so my only exercise was walking.

if you’ve been following this blog for very long, you know that two weeks ago I gained back three of the pounds I had lost. I guess I hit a plataeu, and I was not happy about that. In fact, the next weekend I only lost one of the pounds I had gained back, so i was feeling fairly discouraged.

However, I did not give up. Oh boy, did I want to. This is the spot where I always do. In fact, I cannot remembering being lower than the weight I was at last week since before I was married, though i had reached that weight once during my sporadic weight loss attempts, only to gain it back. Obviously I had gotten stuck at this weight before and given up.

So this morning when I got on the scales and realized I had lost FIVE pounds in one week, i was shocked, thrilled, pleased, estatic, motivated, happy, pleased, proud ... ok, lots of positive adjectives.

I am now lower than I can remember being in at least 13 years. It means that I have lost 29 pounds in 13 weels. That means I’ve lost 39 pounds since September, and 49 pounds since my weight loss surgery two years ago.

I told myself weeks ago, that if I lost over 28 pounds (taking me to the lowest weight I could remember) that I would make some graphs and post them here. So stay tuned.

Also, I set an exercise goal for myself for today and reached it. I set the goal to be on the treadmill for a solid 10 minutes (not including warm up or cool down) of 3.5 mph with a 3% incline. And I did it. It is my intention to increase that by two minutes a day over the next few weeks.

Later I will post some graphs. And again, thanks to all of you who have been encouraging me!