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Part of what I'm discovering about my body is how it needs to right itself after a major drop. I lost over 4 pounds last week so now .6 pounds coming back isn't that bad. I've still lost 38 pounds total and I'm grateful that. I'm 3.6 pounds away from the initial goal I set with LA Weight Loss, but I want to lose another 5 after that so I can be an official size 8! I'm right between a 10 and an 8 right now, I can zip those jeans up, but there's still that slight roll coming up my mid-riff... but I'm working on it!
I have to pass on my fun story from this last weekend. My girlfriends and I went out to a local brewpub on Saturday night for beer and dinner. I had an absolute blast! After hours of chatting, playing euchre, and having some good food, we got plenty of attention from two brothers and their dad. My girlfriends told me that an entire table of businessmen checked me out, the dad came on to me and told me "if he was only 20 years younger...", the brothers told me that I was smokin' hot and it was a "shame I was married" and all of that. And then my friends confided in me that our group of guy friends each had a crush on me back in college (30 pounds ago!). This is such a new concept to me: being attractive. I have this new body and I'm starting to see those times that men look at me. I love it! I crave it! I want my husband to "go to town" with me as often as he likes because I actually see myself as an attractive person now. I have always been the "fat girl" in my group of friends. I'm the one with the pretty face or the fun hair, or the big jewelry that detracts from my body. This new body has shifted my paradigm... I am now the skinny girl in most groups of my friends. My male friends are looking at me differently. My girlfriends are giving me their skinny clothes (some fit, some are too big!) and sharing their size medium pajamas when I come and visit. I even get guys to glance my way when I'm at the gym. There are so many new things that I'm still trying to wrap my brain around... and imagine how this will amplify 8 pounds from now!
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143.6 lb
Lost so far: 11.4 lb.
Still to go: 8.6 lb.
Diet followed reasonably well.
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gaining 2.1 lb a week
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