Hello you-all. the war, the wyoual, you-all. (if you get that reference, than, yay!)
So first things first I would like to say this will be a very happy post! I am doing good! Running is getting easier, although I still almost passed out today, it is getting easier not to pass out — As in, I didn’t have to jump off the treadmill and die a death only fat people who try and run can truly understand. My breathing is still hard on my lungs but I think that will improve. It was already starting to improve today when I was doing increments. I am STILL doing increments, although they are increasing. I cannot straight run yet. Kinda taking forever, but whatever. What I am doing now though, because I don’t feel good doing the incremental running for an hour, is that I am jumping off at 45 minutes and then doing the bike for half an hour. My back starts to really hurt on the treadmill so it can get really frustrating because I’ll be in my groove and then have to get off cause I feel like crap and I know I’ll regret it if I don’t.
Anyway that is the exercise update…now for the juice! Since my last update, I have lost 4 pounds! It was actually a bit of a breakthrough. I have been 205-206 pounds for MONTHS and I really started to think that that was the weight that I was supposed to be maintaining at, which sortof depressed me. Anyway, I am not quite sure what it was that broke me down to 204, but thank the scale gods it happened because it has TOTALLY motivated me to do a little extra to get down even more.
I promised my readers that at every 20 pounds lost I would supply them with photos and the last time I posted progress pictures I was down 100. Now I am down 121, so I owe you guys some updates! I am now at 201 (as of this morning) and 2 pounds away from being in the 100s, which I haven’t been since elementary school. Shocking I know, but true. I am not quite sure what that will feel like, when I see a ONE in front of my numbers on the scale. I won’t cry because I probably won’t believe it! haha! it’s strange to think about because I still have my fat mentality. I have accepted the fact that I need to work on that because in my head I still look 250 or 275 because I was in between there for 10 years. I still have all this loose skin too which I have to accept as part of me. It’s something that I have to treat as a reminder that I am healthy now, and not a burden. That’s going to take awhile.
Anyway! The pics! Oh, my old tank top, the one that I am wearing in the before pictures is too loose now that it would have been unseemly to post pictures online of me in it, so I put on a tighter thing I have so that in the months/years to come as I still lose weight, we can see the difference of how baggy it gets. The shirt is actually an under armor shirt that my dad gave me when he went to Arizona. It’s cool. I wore it today while running but it’s a bit too tight to run in and kept rolling up over top my rippling running rolls. Alliteration for the win!
Anyway, so yeah i realize it’s a bit tight, you don’t have to tell me….it’s not too tight that it’s uncomfortable, though, which is nice!
Okay so it took me forever to photoshop these together because I was trying to make the photos even and donny switched the angle a little bit I think because I couldn’t get them totally even, so sorry about that
I don’t see any difference in the face at ALL but I will post it for consistency’s sake!
And here is where donny told me to look into the ceiling light and I look dumb.
and here’s one that I don’t look so dumb, haha
So that’s all I can think of to say, for now. My legs are starting to really burn, which is good…and there is curry on the stove, which is better! Come on, admit it. Curry is better than just about everything else in the world.
PS. In case you haven’t already heard, I am also officially a size 12! Which is half of my original size of 24! Wootwoot!
PPS. Also, you guys are rad and I love you.
PPPS. I just realized that it’s almost impossible to compare my before and after shots this time because the one I took before at 100 pounds lost, my shirt was already baggy. So, yeah. When I get to 140 pounds lost, which is SEVEN pounds away from my ULTIMATE goal weight, then we will see it with the pink leotard thing that I am wearing now. (well, not NOW, I am wearing yoga pants and hoodie now).

























































