More Weight Loss...Finally Something Positive!

It's been a very trying week for us and it's only Wednesday.  I hope the rest of the week goes much better because I'm not sure what I'll do if it doesn't.

My husband interviewed for a new job that he didn't get.  The dreams of more money and a better life just slipped through our fingers like sand.  Bills are piling up and Nate hasn't been allowed to go back to work yet.  The help we applied for was approved but hasn't arrived yet.  Things have been looking bad, then worse, then desperate.  I descended into a funk that slowly snowballed into a deep depression I couldn't seem to shake.  Hope was very far away.

I'm thankful for wonderful friends who won't let me forget that they love me and God loves me and that I haven't been forsaken.  I won't be left alone.  There is hope still alive yet.  It's just hard to see it through all the muck and nastiness of our circumstances right now.

So I decided to skip breakfast (that's what I do to have some kind of control of my life.  I decide if I'm going to eat or not and most of the time choose not when I'm in the kind of depression I was in this morning.  I'm not saying it's right, it just is sometimes.  I did eat though, partially thanks to my wonderful husband and partially thanks to a couple of wonderful friends) and before I finally ate, I decided to weigh myself.

I'm 310 pounds.  What do you know?

I haven't been exercising.  I've been eating horribly crappy food (can we say chocolate and cheesecake?) and I've been sitting around feeling sorry for myself.  But somehow I went from 317 pounds a couple weeks ago to 310 now.  That means I've lost a total of 15 pounds in two months!

I've lost about 4% of my body weight and I have 11 pounds to lose before I'll hit 299, my short term goal.  I just might be able to get pregnant naturally once I get to 299 pounds.  I wasn't much heavier or lighter than that when 2.0 came along...

I walked 2.4 miles today and I'm going to work harder to get my walking in.  The quicker this weight comes off, the quicker I hit my goal.

Finally I have something positive!