You ever have those moments or memories in life where you know exactly what you were doing when something happened? Like I remember every single moment of my day on 9/11/01. Can tell you the reaction of a co-worker who's husband was a pilot, the weather outside that day and the dead calm that came across my city that evening. Well, I can tell you exactly what happened to make me not blog about ME for the past 20 days. Exactly 20 days ago.......I thought it would be a grand idea, and it really was, to take the offer to teach a college course this semester. This is on top of teaching young children with severe disabilities all day, finishing my PhD this semester and taking care of ME. This is really a great opportunity for me since I haven't taught college in a few years but ......I am seriously slammed. The course is online but wasn't set up online and I wasn't able to get online to get it set up until AFTER the class started. Uggghhhh! Super busy and I have managed to keep all this upper respiratory crud like the rest of the world has right now. Cough cough cough sniffle snort! Been a busy 20 days!! I have so much to show and share and post and tell.
Good news is I am still maintaining all the weight I lost. 65 pounds (give or take a few at times). 7.5 months post op. Amazing to me since I have been sick (not eating at all or eating lots of crackers) and so super busy and not working out as much as I want to be. I am eating healthy but I have NOT been tracking/monitoring my protein intake like I promised I would. Just moved the Calorie Counter app to the first page on the phone. Bad news....I have not been able to workout like I want to. Maintenence is great. Weight loss is better but maintence is fine by me too.
I think I am totally fine because......
1. I started my journey pushing a size 20/XXL/1x in pants and wearing xl/xxl/1x in tops. I had really cute big girl clothes by the way! I have posted many times on here about my love loss of my cute big girl clothes. However, I had to buy size 14 MISSES jeans last week. Not only do they fit but they are little loose. Rock on! I am wearing a medium/large in tops. Really pushing hard into the mediums. Rock on rockstar!!
Just a side note about brands. If you want to feel good about your weightloss there are stores who have clothes that will ensure you feel like Fatty McFattie forever. Target!! I love Target and can now wear all their Junior size clothing as well as normal sizes in the misses but let me tell you that Target clothes have and will forever run small. So don't start there. Important to note ladies! Love me some Target though!!
2. Last week I met one of my best friends for dinner. When we walked in, some former interns from my school were sitting at the table next to us. I haven't seen some of them since last semester. I said HI and they didn't respond. There were some glances between us all throughout the nite but never a conversation. I just figured they didn't remember me. NO....NO NO NO....they didn't recognize me because I had lost so much weight! They messaged me later that nite and asked if that was me at the restaurant and I was like Oh YES, Yes it was little old me! This is the third time someone hasn't recognized me. Best day!
3. I bought new bathing suits. Real misses sized bathing suits. Size 14 thank you. I have been wearing an XL MATERNITY tankini for 3 years. An ugly black A-line top that I had CUT around the bottom so it wasn't so big. My new suits are so stinkin cute. Still a tankini but I am 41 years old. I bought one pair of bottoms (looks like shorts) and 2 different tops. Can't wait to wear a cute suit this spring and summer. Heck, I may even bathe in it at this point because it is so cute and small and fun!
Friends who follow, my point here is to not get hung up on that scale. I have done it so many times. I weigh daily and do make a "gggrrrrr" sound as a step off of it....almost daily. Then I see my cute little 14 jeans and sassy little short dresses and I change my gggrrrrrrrr to a ppppuuurrrrrrrr!!
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