Weighing In

Tuesdays and Fridays are my cross training days. That usually means I get up at 6 am, hit the gym and lift weights for about 1/2 an hour and then come back home to ride my stationary bike at hardest level for 35 minutes. It's a sweat maker, and when I was trying to lose weight it was pretty disgusting.

Every other Tuesday's routine is a little bit different because it involves my two week weigh in. While losing weight I weighed myself almost every day, then toward the end I cut that back to every few days and now every two weeks. This allows me to learn to relax a little about my weight, yet allows me to keep a good eye on it. It also lets me see how one or two more indulgent days balances out with the other pretty darn good days.

So today was a weigh in day and since Sunday will be the one year anniversary of the beginning of all of this I secretly was anxious. I went to bed early as I was tired and got a great night's sleep. I relaxed more this weekend than I had previously so my stress level bottomed out, so I got up at 6 am and stepped on the scale and the result was amazing.

Nearly a four pound drop. Anyone who doubts what too much sodium, stress, lack of sleep and girly hormones can do to body here is the proof. I dropped almost four pounds once those factors were taken out of the equation which brought my total to 100 pounds EXACTLY with 5 days to spare.

I didn't set out to hit this goal, I honestly told myself in the beginning that it would be a miracle to fit into a size 16 pants or hit 165. Once I reached the doctor's goal weight I was pretty satisfied but started thinking maybe a 100 wouldn't be so bad. But I really didn't try, in fact I began and continue to eat more and exercise less (believe it or not, or at least less intensely).

But I did it. I did it. And honestly, you need to pinch me cause I can't believe it.

I now know I can run a half marathon and survive, I now know I can lose 100 pounds and be happier, and I now know I can do anything I set my mind to and that, to me, is priceless.