I have to admit I was totally stunned when I weighed myself this morning. I usually take an official scale reading on Saturday or Sunday but I was visiting my best friend Mama Kelly this weekend so didn’t have access to my home scale until this morning.

May 1, 2010 – 170 lbs

Can you believe it!!! I’m not sure I can. I keep thinking it was a trick of the lighting or the humidity and rain were affecting the digital reading.

For comparison here is the photo I took when I first started this blog.

May 1, 2006, 293.5 lbs.
May 1 2006 Me

From May 1, 2006 to now has been a roller coaster. I managed to get down to 218 lbs by May 1, 2007, but the weight loss stopped and eventually I gave up for awhile and gained everything back and more, reaching my highest weight of 308 lbs Jan. 31, 2009. (See weighin summary for weekly for details and progress photos page.) .  What a difference four years can back~

What does weighing a 170 lbs mean? For starters it is life changing, but also

  • it means I’ve lost 136.5 so far from the day official starting over date of March 1, 2009, (or 138 lbs from my highest weight of 308 on )
  • it means I reached a milestone of being only 15 lbs away from what I weighed on my wedding day (Sept. 1, 1991) and ONLY 30 lbs away from my goal weight.
  • It also means I am feeling healthier and have more energy then I have had in years.

It can be a long and frustrating journey to regain one’s health – but let me assure you all it is soooooooo worth it. Dont’ give up, keep going and find what works for you and then stick to it.

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