My Journey With Weight Loss – A Major Milestone

Today is a special post but I just couldn’t wait. I’m skipping my normal preamble story and getting right to the awesome topic. I stood on the scale this morning, looked at the numbers and stepped back off thinking that can’t be right. I stepped back on and yep, it still read 120.8 lbs. That means I have lost 101 friggin’ lbs!!!!! What the hell??? How did I, a middle aged obese woman, lose more than 100 lbs?

I picture myself just over a year ago at 185 lbs, after having lost 37 lbs, thinking doing some walking would be a good idea. I remember the emotion at just over 160 lbs when one of my best friends told me I didn’t need to lose 20 more lbs because I looked great. I was ecstatic a few months later when my BMI went from obese at 38.1 to in the normal range (today it is at 21). I was so proud that by time my husband was finally home at Christmas that I was at my goal of 140 lbs. And then it was in March getting to 130 lbs, the same weight I was at 18 years old. Now I am at a weight I have never seen in my adult life. Moreover, I am toned, I am strong, I am fit and most of all I am healthy.

Both my husband and brother had the same reaction when I told them, you can stop now. I laughed and told them I had already started dialling back my workouts. I have lost 45% of my peak weight. I have gone from a 1x to a size small. I have dropped 12 dress sizes and for the first time ever I wear a size 6. I have begun to accept this is me, same person inside but much better outside. I know I can stay this way going forward and that is what I really want to do, Gwenne 2.0 just feels great.

I hope that at least one person reading this gets motivated and starts this incredible journey. That is why I’ll continue with this blog as I work on that goal of running 10k. If I can lose more than 100 lbs I can run 10k!