i joined jenny craig in october. i have been struggling with my weight for years. there are reasons (as well as excuses) for why i was having such a hard time shedding the pounds. bilateral knee surgery was definitely a contributing factor to the weight gain, as well as a very real hindrance in the weight loss. i had tried the sonoma diet in between surgeries and actually did fairly well with it, i did lose weight. however, with things being so stressful at work lately i really had no inclination to do all the food prep and cooking i would have to do to go back on that diet. i wasn’t doing it on my own, i needed help. pause here for just a moment and let the enormity of that statement sink in. it is really, really difficult for me to ask for help. it’s not one of my strong suits, i will bend over backwards for the people i care about, but i struggle with asking for assistance on anything when i need it. for me to realize i needed help with this and to take the first step of walking into a jenny craig center, really is a big deal.
since that day i have been slowly and steadily losing the weight. there have been a few setbacks and there are times were it feels like there is no real progress being made, but two things happened this week to give me more encouragement. first, i was finally able to fit into a size ten pair of jeans with only a mini muffin top and they zipped easily. second, at this mornings weigh in, i hit the fifteen pound mark, which means i am one third of the way to my goal.
this is what fifteen pounds looks like.
this is me in july of this year, sitting on the beach knitting, (because seriously what else would you do at the beach?) three months before starting jc, i was either at or pretty darn close to my starting weight, the most i have ever weighed in my life. almost two hundred pounds.
i only had a handful of shirts i could actually wear, and only three pairs of jeans i could squeeze into. (with a jumbo sized muffin top)
this is me today. this is also what fifteen pounds looks like.
i can’t even begin to describe how good fifteen pounds feels. my next goal is to break the 180’s and get into the 170’s, my other goal is to get through the holiday season without gaining weight, but losing more.
