Okay, it's a couple days after two months, but it's pretty close. Close enough to make me feel like I'm sort of keeping things updated here. I took a picture (I actually did that ON the two month date!), and I'm wishing that I had taken both front and side views (nobody--least of all me--wants to see a back view!). Oh well, front will have to do, at least for now. To be honest, I don't see much of a difference, but I feel it. I'm down from a snug 30/32 to a comfortable 26/28. I think I see it mostly in my face. (Pictures below)
Stats (this is the fun part): I've lost 40 lbs (30 since surgery). I am apparently not one of those people who drop pounds left and right. It seems to be more slow and steady for me. I'll take it, though. Heaven knows I've lost ten to twenty pounds over and over and over again. I'm thrilled to bits that every single week (almost) is more progress in the right direction. Even more fun are the numbers that don't show up on the bathroom scale. I just had labwork done last week. My cholesterol is down from 240 (should be under 200) to 175. My fasting blood sugars are normal, and my HbA1C which measures overall blood sugar control over several months, is 5.8% (a litte frame of reference here: diabetic goal level is <7%>
Here is my two month picture (sorry, no make-up), followed by the before picture for reference. Like I said, you reeeeeaaally have to look closely to see the difference. :-)
3 comments:
I see a difference! You're right it is most dramatic in your face, but I see it elsewhere, too.
And those lab values are so much better!
Keep plugging away at it, Cassi!
You've got to be kidding me. I see a great difference -- everywhere! You are motivating me to do better, Cassi. Keep up the good work and as for fitting exercise in, you're not used to giving it priority. It was too easy not to before. There's isn't a surgery to make us think of exercise as the given. But as we pray for help to exercise our agency wisely and choose the most important things first to do, our hearts and minds can change and it won't take so much effort to do what's right and then it will be FUN! I'm not even saying what is right, but just that sometimes what is right can be hard in the beginning.mzi
cas, you're beautiful! even withOUT makeup!! and DEFINITELY you can see a difference. keep plugging away. like bek said, you're motivating us all too. i recently signed up with a gym and was going pretty regularly until we all got sick. the past two nights i haven't felt well either, but i decided to make myself go whether it was what i wanted or not. it's amazing how the dread can turn into excitement. i just look at it as 45 minutes ALL to myself (which with very whiny, sick kids lately has been VERY much needed!)
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