Weight 234.5 yea!!!! a whole half pound lost ***happy dance***

I am hoping for a 2 lb loss each month which makes it only 4 years to my goal weight — that may not be realistic, but I’m going to try. If need be I can always adjust my goal to 1 lb a month loss, and that would put my goal weight at 8 years — just in time for my retirement (hopefully! I don’t think I can stand it much longer and if we can pay off the house in 8 years I can retire and then find a job doing something I might actually enjoy).

I exercised 5 days last week — 10 mins a day on the exercise bike and the about 25 reps on the core flex thingy. This week I will try to increase it to about 12 maybe even 15 mins., I’ll have to see how my pain level is. It hasn’t gotten any easier to breath yet while exercising, and my pulse is still staying low, but I know all that takes time so it will get better.

So many folks keep saying I need to see a doctor — and I have so many times over the years. But the next time I go, I will ask for all the blood word and thyroid tests again. She is a pretty understasnding doctor, so she may do them all again for me — since it’s been about a year already since it was done, and I probably won’t see her again for a year or two more (unless I get really sick or something comes up).

My mom was heavy for years, and then when she got older — she just started losing. Now she still eats only junk food and she has never exercised a day in her life, but never gains and loses a little from time to time. She had dropped the weight so fast, doctors were testing her for years – but nothing was wrong. So what ever is in my genes is probably to blame at least in part. I guess I’ll know when I get to about 60 if I really take after my mom — and perhaps by then the weight will just drop off like it did for her — but until then I will continue with my whey protein, veggies and fruit eating plan, and do my best to get healthy even if it is not affecting my weight. Part of me wishes I could be healthier and thinner while I am still young enough to enjoy it and get around — but after all these years, at 51 already I’ll be happy if at 60 I drop the weight like my mom did and can at least function better around the house, take care of myself and hopefully add a few years to my life without the complications of being morbidly obese in my old age.

Morbidly obese – now there is a term to come to grips with. I was reading a news article about it, and the definition is being 100 lbs over weight — which I was and only barely under that now (with 94.5 lbs to lose). It’s one thing to be chubby, or a little fat, or even fat, or overweight — but to really let the term morbidly obesity sink in is a little overwhelming. The article said that even with all the medical research they really don’t know what causes it or how to treat it, and its not just about the quantity of food eaten, but more about the brain and body chemicals and how they respond to food and process food. The gentleman who was the topic of the article has dieted a lot and weighed over 800 lbs and was constantly hungry. I was grateful that at least I never got that big, but I also realized I had to come to grips with not just being fat — but morbidly obese. And I know from past diet experience, all it would take is a weekend of eating normal or a few treats here and there, and I would be right back to almost 300 lbs within a few days — that for the rest of my life it is going to take constant vigilance and will power to control my weight. I may never lose, I may never be thin, but I know I will NEVER EVER go back to being almost 300 lbs.

Every day life is a gift, and I plan to enjoy to it.

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