**Before I start my Saturday post, I wanted to post that I’ll be giving “Thinner Thanksgiving” tips all week! So check back to see how to not gain any lbs during your thanksgiving holiday!
As we are coming up to the holidays, I can’t help but think back to how I felt and looked last winter. I think I had dropped around 75 pounds or so at this point last year. My body image is still catching up! I felt like I was a little smaller than last winter but not a ton. Then I got out my winter coat, an XL, which doesn’t fit AT ALL. I borrowed a size L coat from my friend, Thanks Kelley!, and need to purchase a medium!
Some of my students have been asking me about my weight loss now that most of them know. They always ask how much weight I’ve lost. I’m now at 130 pounds and trying to stay there. Usually this is more than they weigh and they are shocked. I really have lost a whole person. I’ve now lost 46% of my original body weight. I’m quite nearly half the woman I was before.
As you get smaller, the ratio of you to your pants stays the same. So sometimes I go to put on my pants and think, “These really aren’t that much smaller than my old old fat pants.” But……I think they are considering I can fit in one leg of them now!
I am a huge fan of People’s “Half Their Size Issue” (See the 2014 winners here) and it just occured to me that I could have entered! I could have been featured in People. I am one of those people! It’s still so bizarre to have done what I did…..I wonder when it will stop being weird? Stay tuned……..