And Some New Panties!!
Since my last post, I’ve lost 50 pounds and 4 sizes. And got diagnosed with arthritis in my left knee and went to Vegas and read 60 books or so and started a savings account to buy a new car and even had a quasi date (like a date, but much more ambiguous and unsatisfying).
It’s been a big year!
I’ve been a fat girl since puberty (stupid hormones) and even when I was only a size or two bigger than my friends, I always FELT much larger. I’ve also spent a few dozen years eating poorly, staying still and getting larger while feeling worse and worse about myself.
All that started to change last spring when I decided that if I got any bigger, I’d have to buy my clothes online because no one local has sizes that large (yikes!). And then my knee started to hurt and wouldn’t stop. A trip to the Orthopedist diagnosed advanced degenerative arthritis and the (cute, young) doctor told me that the best we could do was to manage pain for the rest of my life and, oh yeah, you REALLY need to lose some weight, that might help.
So, I started to take it seriously, getting up early every morning to swim, counting calories, not eating a bag of kit-kats on the couch on the weekends (damn, I miss kit-kats). And then my body started to change slowly, clothes started to get bigger, stairs started to be easier to climb and people started asking softly if perhaps I had lost few pounds?
At this point, I’m about half way to where I’d like to be and I’m still going. And I have a lot to say about weight loss in general and my experiences in particular. I’m not sure how much I want to promote this publicly. I mean, I’m not an idiot, I *know* this is a public forum and if you’re reading this, thanks. But, I think this is more for my sanity than for others. It’s just an easy and readily available medium.
That being said, you should start seeing a lot more posts from me in the coming weeks and if the 3 people who read this blog a year ago or so have any comments or questions or discussion points, you be sure to let me know!
