Weight -ing for Thin

My entire life I have battled with my weight. However, when I was younger and thought I was fat, I was not. Currently I am pretty darn fat, but have been fatter.

Now I have started changing my life for the better. A few months back I started making healthier choices, being more active, and buying healthier food to keep in the house. While it has been a struggle, my hard work has thus paid off. Since early April I have lost 22 pounds.

Wow.

I really had no idea, either.

I just happened to be weighed at the doctor two days ago, and was bracing myself for a JUMP in number, but when it read 22 lbs less than my last weigh in, I almost fainted.

Then today I thought I would be daring and tried to shimmy into my prebaby jeans. They slid right on! I guess in all the hectic-ness of mommyhood I missed that my diet was actually working!

Now I am pumped! I currrently weigh 7 lbs less than I did when I went to my first OB appt when I was first preggers (before I started packing on the pounds!)

However, my body is still shaped differently. My largest area used to be my butt and thighs, but now my stomach is more flabby than ever. So now that I have more motivation, I plan to go back to the gym and start working on shaping up this smaller me.

My goal is to lose a total of 75 lbs, which still won't take down to my smallest, but it will help me feel healthier. The best news is, I'm nearly one third of the way there! I set my goal date for my birthday (February 17th) of next year, which will be my 24th bday.

Hopefully soon I will feel confident enough to share actual numbers, but for now know that my biggest goal is to avoid the health problems that plague my family, including diabetes and arthritis.

Right now I am struggling though. My health is already not awesome and it is breaking my heart because I decided at what I thought was a fairly young age to change my lifestyle. BUT what is wrong with me is hereditary and has really nothing to do with being overweight. Hopefully the healthier lifestyle will help me manage whatever turns out to be wrong, though.

Most importantly, I acknowledge that I will most likely never be super thin again. However, I do hope to at least be healthy and to be able to shop in the regular not plus size side of the store without looking like a puffball stuffed in too small clothing.