I'd gotten to my heaviest ever, dealing with being suddenly single, no health insurance, difficult to get due to borderline diabetes. Unknown to me I had high blood pressure and high cholesterol as well. Finally got insurance and doc wanted me working on weight. Two years.....lose....excuses....finally he said enough, do it NOW and we are starting you with an appetite suppressant to get you moving. That was start of March 2012.
One month and 20 pounds lighter, the motivation was great. Still on lowest dose, I continued to lose. It is now a full six months later, he still has me on a higher dosage to get the rest off....he gave me a goal of 10 more pounds to put me within my ideal weight range, a range I never thought I'd see again. I"m three pounds into it, seven to go.
Along the way.....shock, excitement, buy new clothes. OOPS! Everything I bought is too big one month later. Not that I lost a lot during that month, five pounds, but it was like everything settled in and my body really started showing the change. So....those size 10's that I just bought were too big.....out shopping again. SHOCK! Size 8 and 6 fit....depends on brand, cut. Shirts? Now having to buy a medium, the larges I just bought are hanging loose.
Today I'm feeling great, feel like ME again. I have energy, I walk and feel like I'm trucking along at a fast clip, not gasping for air at all....probably could push it up even faster. I no longer an on blood pressure medicine as my bp has maintained a respectable 118/80 for quite a while. Cholesterol is inline with the exception of HDL's being a bit under the range they should be, the solution? Increase exercise. Weight lost to date? 43 pounds. Size's lost? Well, I started at a 14 or an XL woman's shirt, L in men's t-shirt. Today I wear a 6/8 in pants, a medium in women's shirts and a medium in men's t-shirts. My closet? Rather empty and it will stay that way for a while as I continue losing the last few pounds and evaluate if I'm going to continue losing a bit more or what the status is.
The biggest pay off? Well besides the constant compliments on looking great, SHOPPING IS FUN!!!! I've hated shopping for years because things didn't fit, I looked fat, whatever it may be. But now the biggest challenge I face when shopping is of all the items I try on, of which 90 percent fit, what do I choose? I've never had so many choices of things that fit. It's nice being able to be picky.
I need to get whole body pics .... but I've been told the face shots are very evident that there was weight loss......yeeehawww!
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