Some things I wrote when I started this journey...

I came across this note that I had written to my future self back in June. It's titled "When I weigh...I will say..."

Bottom line is this--we should all take a step back and pat ourselves on the back!! I think sometimes we get caught up on the short term (which is good too) and forget about all the hard work we've done over the past X amount of time. If you've just started your journey or are in the middle of it, I encourage you to do this exercise. It's so rewarding to look back at it and truly FEEL what I wrote and look toward the future as well. I had to drop off four pairs of pants at an alterations place to get them resized. What a victory! Hopefully I'll have to do that one more time!

For the record--today I weighed in at 165.4 (unofficial as I only count my weekly Tuesday WI's). Close enough to the 163 comments from below.

"When I weigh...I will say..."

When I weigh 172 I will say.

WOW! I have done some really great, but hard work to lose this first 17 pounds. I can’t believe I ever let myself get all the way up to 189, but I am SO GLAD to be at 172 today. I feel like I have much more energy than I did just a few months ago. It took a lot of early workouts and pushing myself when I didn’t feel like it to get here, but I am so glad I did! It feels good to have my pants fit so loosely again. I can’t wait to see what even more weight loss feels like (that’s me, always the maximizer).

What I will say when I weigh 163.

I can’t even remember the last time I weighed 163….well I can. It was when Nate came back from one of his business trips and I hadn’t eaten much of anything. Crazy! Over 20 pounds lost. I knew I could do this! I had to go out and buy new clothes this weekend because my pants just don’t fit me well at all anymore. That experience was AMAZING. I always knew I would get here, but I finally feel like I figured out how—hard work, hard choices—but all SO worth it.

What I will say when I weigh 155.
Now this milestone I really can’t remember. I am so pleased to be in a place where I feel healthy and “normal” again. I have lost over 30 pounds!!!! Can you believe it? It seems like it has taken so long…but when I look back at all the YEARS that I tried to do this and now to realize that I have…wow. This is probably one of the biggest achievements in my life. Ok, so that doesn’t sound so good. What I mean is that this is one of few times in my life where I have had a long term goal that I have accomplished. Yes, I went to college, yes, I got a job, yes, I got married, etc. …but this was something that I really had to set my mind to, that was challenging, and I DID IT!



Still need to write for 146 and 134 (now that I can see that far down the path)!!!