Another month has come and gone and I am still trucking al0ng on my way to never being the guy I had allowed myself to become ever again! 9 months and 157 pounds ago, I had become a settler. I was pretty sure I had allowed myself to go too far to ever turn things around. I felt that I needed my daily fix of fatty foods and that I simply could not function without them. I knew I couldn't exercise...I mean what's a 393.2 pounder going to do when the weight limit on the treadmill is only 275?!?!?!?!?!??!?
So I settled. I settled for the way things were, believing that I was powerless to overcome them. But then something clicked. All these months now, I've been trying to figure out what that "something" was but can't quite peg it down. It was something deep inside that changed my overall mindset--something that made me realize that I was worth way too much to just settle for the corner I'd painted myself into...something that made me desire so much more out of life than morbid obesity could ever offer...something that would not settle for anything less than exceptional change.
So I started my journey--one pound...one new experience...one victory at a time.
This month I do not have a dramatic weight loss to report--I've only dropped 5.2 pounds this month. I actually gained a little bit in late August/early September. I spent a rather lethargic week fighting a chest cold and didn't exercise much. But I am still right where I'd intended to be. And ANY loss is a good loss when it comes to the battle of the bulge!
I do have two "non-scale" victories to report this month. Many of you know that I've fallen in love with running. I love to push myself as far as I can and then go a little further...I've found that if you persistently go a little further than you ever thought possible, pretty soon that "little bit further" becomes "not quite far enough." So with that mindset, I woke up early a couple of Saturdays ago and actually ran 10.2 miles in a little over 2 hours!!!!!!!!!!!! As I continue to build off of that progress, I should have no trouble with the half-marathon I plan on entering in November. Stay tuned!
The second victory of the month actually came as a surprise. I had saved several pair 38" pants from around the time of our wedding. I was thrilled when they finally started fitting again just a few months ago. This past weekend, I threw on a pair of those jeans and was about to leave the house when I realized that they were terribly droopy...
So we hit the stores. I tried on the 36" pants and the same was true--they were too droopy as well! So, I am proud to say that I am now wearing a 34" waist!!! That's down from a 50" when I started this journey 9 months ago yesterday!!!! So I got new pants and (as you can tell from my current photo above, I need to go pick up a new belt as well).
5.2 Pound Weight Loss + New Running Record + Down 2 Pant Sizes This Month = Major Win!
