300 and Valentines Day

It's something I never thought I would get to....

I wanted to be under 300lbs by New Years Eve...that didn't happen so much, so I kept going, bound and determined to make it.  Every week, either a loss that didn't get me to my goal, or a gain that set me back even further.  I actually made it to under 300lbs last week at WI, but am just now getting to be able to write this blog. 

Last night at WI, I was a little scared that I might have gained because I didn't really eat the best all weekend, but I did maintain my vigerous workout schedule of 6 times a week last week.  I am proud to report a 2.8lb loss.  Now I am at 294.6.  It's an amazing feeling.  It only took me 5 weeks longer than I wanted and/or anticipated, but I did it!  I don't ever wanna be over that big hump again.  I like the fact that I can now say I am a 200lb girl instead of a 300lb girl. 

I can remember when I was in my second year of college and decided to take a semester off from school and started working at the first bank I worked at, and I started the Atkins diet.  I weighed in at that time around 312lbs.  That was probably the first time I had weighed myself in a veryyyyy long time.  I can't tell you how much I weighed in high school, but I want to say somewhere close to that range. 

So now when I say my weight, I say to people it's the first time I have weighed this little since high school, which by the way is 11 years ago when I graduated.  It makes me soooo happy!  I can't express in words how happy it makes me because it seemed like something I would never reach.  Now I am at 61.8lb total lost.  That makes me even happier...61.8lbs!!!!  Wow. 

So yesterday was Valentines Day.  And I am single this year.  Well, I am single every year, so it really doesn't matter, but this year, unlike most I was a little depressed.  Normally my mom will send me flowers or an edible arrangement or something to work.  So I don't feel completely left out when all the girls I work with get all these flowers.  This year for financial reasons we are both cutting back on buying things for each other, so I didn't expect her to get me anything, but with nobody else buying me anything it seemed a bit depressing.  I didn't want to go home to an empty house so I went to the gym and then to my weight watchers meeting.  After I went home, and was supposed to be meeting someone there that was going to be delivering some stuff I needed, but they didn't show up, so I ended up just hanging out with an old friend catching up.  We were up to 430 this morning and I finally went to sleep and got a phone call at 5:30, that woke me up and I couldn't go back to sleep.  So yeah, working on about 1 hour of sleep with a major migraine.  But all in all, even though a bit depressing, I got through it, and it turned out to be a really good day afterall.

I hope you all are doing well.  Until next time...