Just a quick weigh in post

Finally a new weigh in

Summer and the boys being out of school has got my schedule and routine way out of wack! For several Saturday (okay, like a month of Saturdays) I've forgotten to weigh in. I've remembered to weigh in later in the day but I'm kinda anal about weighing in after my morning whiz so I keep saying it's okay, you can do it next Saturday, and then next Saturday rolls around and I forget again. Well, this morning I finally remembered and I was a happy mama!

When that posted to MFP this morning I got several comments and one of them had a doubtful tone (and maybe I was reading too deep into it) but like I said, I haven't weighed in a month of Saturdays but I'm proud of that weigh in and I'm proud of that "lost 135 lbs so far". Looks like I've gotten my eating under control.

Now I've just gotta get my behind working out again. And I'm gonna. I'm gonna. I have been doing a 30 day challenge though. (although, I am a few days behind) It's an app on my phone that's pretty cool. It's the 30 Day Fit Challenge Workout by North Park.Android. It offers a full body workout, which is what I'm doing, and it has specific body part workouts. Give it a try!

Time for me to go to bed.

Sweet dreams y'all.

Happy (?) Six Year Anniversary To Reinventing Andrea

Wednesday  marked six years that I started this journey to become healthy. I really thought that I'd be at my goal by now. I didn't think that six years in I'd still be fighting the battle. I thought I'd be in maintenance mode by now.

The picture above (and it's funny to me to see me before I had all of my tattoos) is my before picture. I was 375 pounds then and I can only imagine the damage that my organs have suffered. I did suffer a mild stroke in September 2015 so my former bad eating habits and complex migraines contributed to that. 

I wish I had never let myself get to that weight and honestly it seemed to sneak up on me over night. And the thing about being a big person is, when you look down at your body, you don't see yourself as big. What opened my eyes to my size is that my niece was playing with my phone one day before this journey began and took a few pictures. One of the pictures was of me sitting on my sisters couch. When I saw the picture, I cried because that's when I realized how big I had became. I immediately deleted the picture, and I wish that had deleted my weight problem. Too bad that it doesn't work that way.

I never had a weight issue growing up. All through my childhood and teenage years my weight was normal. I was never chunky or anything. Like I said, it just seemed to happen overnight. 

Anyway, as you probably remember, I had a dream soon after my niece had taken that picture of me, and in that dream I liked how I saw. I was a nice healthy size and that was the inspiration for the original Reinventing Andrea. The official start date for my journey was July 6, 2010.

I've had quite a few setbacks over the years, but one thing is for sure, I come back swinging. I've managed to sprain both ankles within 3 months of each other. I had the flu twice in one flu season. Had countless sinus infections, stomach bugs, and I've lost my inspiration and motivation many times. But according to my ticker on My Fitness Pal says I've lost 118.2 pounds.

Yeah, I still look fat in the progress picture above but I can tell I'm making progress.

The last think I want to share is that I've made a deal with myself. When summer vacation for the kids started, I printed this and  hung it on the wall:

So I've decided that I can't sit down and knit or crochet (unless I'm behind on orders) until I've worked out. So far, so good lol.

Happy weekend!