Goodbye 2016 … and good riddance!

People think that because I’ve finally lost a lot of weight, everything’s great and I no longer have a weight problem.  Not true.  Quite the contrary!  I continue to struggle often.  In fact, it’s worse now that I know what it means to let my food addiction take over.  I also know that if I gain all the weight back, I’ll die inside and I doubt I’ll be able to recover.

I was featured on Yahoo

The Yahoo article I discussed in my last post titled “Good Lord!  Is that really me?” was posted online on November 2, 2016.  I’m including the link below although if you’ve read my blog, the article will be redundant.  I didn’t even see it when it was posted.  A friend contacted me to ask, “Did you know you’re on Yahoo?” 

Good Lord! Is that really me?

An interesting thing happened this week:  Yahoo sent me an email offering to feature me on their website as a success story!  Ironically, I almost deleted the email when I saw it in my inbox, thinking it was just a notice of their updated guidelines or perhaps an ad.  As luck would have it, I was at the gym waiting for Tunde, my trainer, to arrive and decided to read the email just to kill some time.

My blog turns 1 year old!

As I explained in "Why a blog?" I decided to heed my trainer's advice and write a blog in the hopes that my experience may help someone else lose weight, too.  Perhaps someone can learn from my mistakes and save themselves some grief, I thought, or perhaps someone can apply something I learned along the way that will help them succeed, too.

"Shopping for clothes must be so much fun now!"

The biggest "problem" I've encountered during my weight-loss journey (135 lbs. so far) has been keeping clothes.

More hilarious reactions…

­Today I rode my bike to my allergist's office to get my monthly shots.  I was wearing my standard get up these days:  activewear capris and a T-shirt.  I mention what I wore because it's more body hugging than, say, jeans and a shirt so people tend to notice my weight loss more.   

Another anniversary! (and my new toy)

Two years ago today, I met Flaminia ("Fla") after joining Total Woman, my gym.  As all gyms do with new clients, they assigned Fla, one of their trainers, to discuss with me the benefits of paying for training sessions, not to mention getting my measurements, weight, Body Mass Index ("BMI"), body fat percentage, and discussing goals.  Blah, blah, blah.  I've always found all of this really tedious and annoying.  I mean, after I stop going to the gym in a month or two, all of this becomes moot anyway, right?