3 Months

Happy 3 months of Ideal Protein.

I'd also like to give a special shout out to a dear friend of mine who just started the diet.  She lost an AMAZING 14lbs in her first 3 weeks.  I am so proud of her!!!!!!!

I cannot believe it has been 3 months since starting this diet.  If you had told me at Christmas that I'd be 35lbs lighter, I would have laughed and thought it would only happen if I had contracted a really bad 3 month long stomach flu.  Or I would have thought that the endocrinologist had actually found something wrong with me and I was able to resolve my weight gain problems.

HAHA.

My goals for 3 months were:

• I will be down 32lbs
• I will fit into all of my 2007 jeans

I am down 34.5lbs.  And I fit into all of my 2007 jeans. Most, if not all of them, are too big.

This morning, something amazing happened.  I put on the jeans I bought a month ago...jeans that fit me a month ago, that were just starting to feel comfy 2 weeks ago, were too big today.

So I looked at the little cubby at the bottom of the closet where my favorite pair of jeans are kept...my 2006 Levi's...and I looked at the tote of clothes from 2006 that are still too small for me and saw a pair of late 2006 Levi's...tags still intact...I had bought them because my favorite jeans were too small and I thought I could go up a size...and was disappointed back then that, for whatever reason, they fit the same way--maybe tighter because they hadn't been broken in...and a month ago they were embarrassingly tight.

I decided to try them on...they glided up my legs, over my bum and before I knew it they were buttoned.

I ripped them off, grabbed my favorite jeans and almost passed out--they buttoned.  And they didn't look awful!!  (Just too tight to wear to work--I generally don't want to draw that much attention to my backside.)

I am elated.  I had written them off as jeans that I would never wear again.  When I tried them "just for fun" on this time last year, I couldn't get them up all the way.  (I think I enjoyed punishing myself by reminding myself how overweight I had gotten!!) The zipper wouldn't zip...Two months ago I could just get them on and buttoned but there was so much baby belly hanging over (I thought that my body would never be able to wear a lower cut jean again) and the thighs were too tight.

I am so glad that I did not give up and listen to my negative thoughts last year...I am so glad that I didn't get rid of my jeans!!!!!

Now, I still have a way to go before they fit the way they did back when they were in regular wardrobe rotation but, but but they FIT!!

And this morning at lest 4 people stopped me and commented on my weight loss.  Imagine if I hadn't worn the cardigan sweater over my shirt today...yikes!!  hahah!

So I guess it's time for me to make my goals for month 4...this is hard because I'm down to the last 20-25lbs and I know they will be harder than the last 35...

By May 12, 2013...

• I will be down 42lbs
• I will be able to wear my favorite jeans a little more comfortably
• I will fit into some clothes in the 2006 box that are currently too tight
• Think about/incorporate a work out routine to be established by June 12th

Here is to another great month.   Mother's Day is the 12th and that was the day last year when I decided I couldn't take it anymore and I needed to do something about my weight/health.  It would be great to hit the 50lbs mark on my "since May 2012"weight loss ticker for Mother's Day.

Happy Friday!!!