At my last appointment before my delivery, I weighed 236. That means I've lost almost 60 lbs since then! Baby was 8 lbs, so even if you say I lost 10 automatically when she came that's still 50 lbs I've lost this year, and I can be proud of that. I'll be the first to look back and tell you what I should have been doing better. That if I had I would have reached my goal by now. But I am proud of my progress and I am still moving forward. I am still changing my life one day at a time. And I have reached a major milestone this week.... I saw 177 on the scale. My last recorded pre-pregnancy weight before my first baby was 179. So I've passed it!
I feel like I'm in kind of a weird place where my mind is blocking my weight loss because this is uncharted territory for me. Like I'm almost afraid that part of "me" will be lost if I keep losing weight. But at the same time I am so excited to be here. To have made it to the place where I stopped losing before, but now I have a chance to dig deeper and find the strength to keep going. Another 20 lbs and I might not even recognize myself. And 20 lbs kind of sounds like a breeze after 50.
So here are a couple photos to show how far I've come. I can't find a good one from right after baby was born (probably because I was in hiding from the camera) so here's one of right before, and one from a couple weeks ago.
