lots of news to report

My husband and I are both attending classes now (Weight Watchers). I was doing the WW on line but find it's really nice to attend the classes and I kind of look forward to my class on Saturday.

And since I've been going to classes (4 weeks) I've lost THREE pounds and am 2.2 lbs from my WW goal and lifetime membership! yeee hooo

My hubby's sugar levels are way down after being close to 300 on the highest dose of diabetes oral medication he can take! (he's been on program for 4 weeks and lost 13 lbs!)

He's a happy camper because the doctor was close to putting him on insulin. We both are breathing a sigh of relief on this one.

My weigh in this last week was 182.2 lbs! The doctor was impressed that I've lost 10 lbs since I last saw her!

Losing slowly now

Decided to start going to Weight Watchers meetings. I've always wanted lifetime membership. You have to lose at least 5 lbs and I weighed in at 186! (Doctor set goal is 180). So it's in sight. My leader said "well, let's see if we can get you to lifetime membership!" That sounded good to me! :)

I have about 1 pair of undies which fit me so I guess it's time to buy some new clothing. (my "small clothing" is too large for me because I have not been this size in about 34 years!)

Some NSV's

An NSV is a non scale victory. (The scale has been kind to me also - I am at 190 this week!)

• got into a shirt I used to wear to play square dances --- 30 years ago!!! I never thought I would get into it again!


• Sat down easily into a couple of small chairs with arms and I had room to spare!


• Made a "fat joke" about me which fell flat and one person said 'you're not fat!'


• Lots of folks have been noticing the weight loss


• Can do a yoga move that I haven't been able to do for years!

Life is good!

Here's a before/after photo. The "before" was taken in 2007 - the after was taken a week or so ago.

Still losing...

Was officially 192 at the doctor's. With normal blood pressure! :) Sorry I haven't updated this in a while but I'm still on my program. I also had the stomach flu a couple of weeks ago (it's going around).

Hope all is going well for you'all...

Have been 198 all week!!!

Wow does it EVER feel good to be in ONE-DER-LAND!

I never thought I'd make it. I just FEEL good about it all! :)

ONE-DER-LAND

So a couple of times in the past two weeks, I actually hit the magical land of ONE-DER-LAND i.e. under 200 lbs! I took a photo of the scale the first time it happened (which turned out to be no easy task because the darn thing kept timing out before I could get my camera ready so I had to weigh 3 times to get the picture! *LOL*)

However, my official weigh-in this week was 201.5 so my body is playing games with me. I like the feeling of "one der land" and hope I get down to the point where I never see 200 lbs.

I measured and found that I have lost 8 inches in my butt and 7 inches in my waist (well not being a young thing, my waistline went the way of the nickle beer).

Nothing fits me, not even my undie panties and I don't have a clue what size I am. I haven't been this small forever... (at least 25 or more years). I now weigh 8 lbs more than I did when I had our son in 1969 (of course, I thought I was horribly fat then because I started in the pregnancy at 149 or 150 lbs... my low weight is 198.5.

In looking at some summer photos, I realize that last summer I weighed like in the low 240's or high 230's so this summer might be fun as far as skimpier clothing etc. Right now, it's warm clothing cover up time... :(

down and STUCK

I'm down to 203 (that's 64 lbs lost) and STUCK. The old plateau. Well, I knew it had to happen and I really am pretty happy at this weight so will hang in there... :)