My Progress so far pics.....

I took a couple more pictures today because I want to document my progress along my weight loss journey. I am shocked every time I look at my Before picture of how heavy I was. I simply can't believe it!

This is probably gonna sound strange to some people, then again it might not. Someone out there might identify with what I'm gonna say. When I was at my heaviest weight, I didn't "feel" like I was an Obese woman. I mean, I knew that I was over weight, but I didn't fully realize how unhappy and over weight I really was. It was like I was in denial about my weight. Then one day when my husband and I went on vacation to see the family, I realized just how unhappy I really was with myself. It was time to change. I found it in myself to start doing the work that I needed to do to get healthy again. After all, no one could do the work but me. I gained the weight by myself, so therefore I was the one who needed to do the work to lose it. The work isn't easy, but it sure is worth it. I will never go back to what I was. I remember what it was like to be that heavy. I could barely get up off the floor to a standing position without breathing hard. That very first day that I went to do some real exercise and I walked around a track only one time, I could barely do that. My legs hurt so bad that I had to hobble back to my car. I cried when I got home because my legs hurt so bad. There are so many things that I had a hard time doing physically. But this is the thing. I kept going. I kept trying to do whatever I could do to get some exercise done. It didn't matter that I could only do 2 push ups, but I just kept doing them. And ya know what? The darndest thing happened. I got better! It was exciting! I kept eating right. That was, and still is difficult to do. But ya know what? I kept going. Week after week I would see a loss in the scale and in my inches, and that all added up. I'm proud of what all my hard work has gotten me so far. I really am proud of myself. It's alot of hard work. I still have some weight to lose. But even though I've still got a distance between me and my goal, I'm still gonna do the work that I need to do to get to the weight that I want to be at. More importantly though, is that I want to get to my goal of being healthy and having a better self esteem. I'm more then half way there but I know that if I continue to do the work necessary then I WILL reach my goals! Nothing can stop me!