Day 14---Important news...I'm not in Kansas anymore

For the last three days, I have been getting on the scale...and every day

It said something like...

198.

I didn't trust it the first day, so I waited...

I hopped on the second day, It said 198

I hopped on Today....Just after the wicked witch of the west dropped Tom off for his monthly visit...surely I thought....surely I would be back up over two hundred. Today with Tom weighing me down.

I hopped on today...

198.

(W)onederland.

I didn't cry...I didn't scream..

but glenda did descend and tell me that I could have gone to wonederland whenever I had wanted....

not really, but metaphorically.

I feel happy. I feel different. A number shouldn't mean this much, but it does.

I also remember what I used to tell myself at over 260 lbs.

I used to say, oh if only I could go back to the 190's, I wouldn't take it for granted.

I would bust my hump and lose the weight.

Now I am here.

My first thought, and this is being honest...

was GOOD, IT'S ON....

I have what I wanted. I am in the 190's.

I am 68 lbs from goal.

68 LBS FROM GOAL.

I have lost 64 lbs.

From here on out it's asses and elbows.

No rest for the weary cause I ain't weary and I don't need a rest.

I don't feel satisfied, I feel energized.

I'm going to bury this weight.

I am going to put this in the dust bin of history.

I can't believe I am here already....

It was 6 months on November 18th...

I don't know what I expected when I started. But the idea that all it takes was eating 1500 calories and exercising an hour a day...

That thought never crossed my mind.

I thought I had set up a process which would take me at least two or three years to finish.

In six months I am halfway there.

I did not starve.

I say no alot more than I did. I count calories, I weigh my portions.

I exercise.

I eat a little differently, mostly swapping out lower fat and calorie choices for the higher fat ones.

Once a month, for a meal....I eat exactly what I want, no calorie counting and no limits.

It's really worked for me.

I think that is the key, finding what works for you.

Finding foods you can eat daily.

Exercise you can do daily.

A life that is livable daily.

That is what (w)onederland is....

A place you create.

Come create your own place...

Glenda is waiting.

Hugs,

Chris