An epiphany...

I woke up this morning feeling very thin, :-) so I decided to step on the scale to see if my suspicion was right. Lo and behold, I lost another two pounds! I really could not believe that I had lost weight after eating yummy chocolate cake last night. The cake itself really isn't that bad; it's the peanut butter-fudge frosting that I was worried about!


Then, I started to think about why I would have lost so much weight in the last couple of days. Today is Saturday, and apart from four hours of house cleaning and chores yesterday, I haven't done any type of exercise in the last 2 ½ days. In fact, I wasn't feeling well on Thursday and I just laid on the couch all day. I ate all my regular meals though. I track what I eat with Weight Watchers, so I'm always sure to eat my allotment every day. Therefore, the weight loss wasn’t because I went hungry that day.


Going back through my daily meals, I realized that I hadn’t eaten any blended fruit meals Thursday or Friday. This is a big deal for me because 1. I LOVE FRUIT! and 2. I usually have a meal like this every day. My most favorite type of fruit meal is blended frozen berries and grapes topped with granola, raisins, and papaya. With Weight Watchers, unsweetened fruit is zero points meaning that they don’t count against one’s daily point allowance. Anyway, I was tracking the point values for the raisins and the granola, but not counting for the fruit. Normally, this would be fine. However, for me, it is apparently a problem because I eat way too much fruit when I have the chance.


I haven’t had a problem losing weight in the last several weeks, with the exception of one week, in which I thought dried dates were zero points (they’re NOT, by the way). Thank you friend (you know who you are) for setting me straight on that one. The moral of the story is: I will be more diligent with tracking point values for fruit if I think I might be eating too much. ;-)


Back to the point, I lost another two pounds. Yay! I was calculating my weight loss earlier and it dawned on me that I have lost a whopping 99 pounds! I am one pound away from an enormous milestone in my weight loss journey. I never thought this was possible for me. At 255 pounds, three years ago, it was all a losing battle. I was tired EXHAUSTED all the time. I couldn’t run. I didn’t want to leave the house. I avoided cameras at all costs. I had preventable health problems. I was a miserable human being. I know what it feels like to think that weight loss goals are unattainable. Three years ago, if someone would have given me a chance to see the future me, I never would have believed it was me.

I don't avoid cameras as much anymore.

My advice to anyone who is struggling with weight loss is to stop making excuses, eat the right foods and the right portions, and move your tush! Do something…ANYTHING that will get you off the couch and moving around. If you simply can’t miss your show, walk on the treadmill while you watch. I would never be where I am today if I continued making excuses for why I couldn’t lose weight. I think that is the biggest obstacle for most people. If you get your mind right, it’s much easier to tackle such a task.


Much love! <3


-Theresa