{"id":460,"date":"2014-11-22T09:04:58","date_gmt":"2014-11-22T16:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogapantsdiary.com\/?p=460"},"modified":"2014-11-22T09:04:58","modified_gmt":"2014-11-22T16:04:58","slug":"half-a-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogapantsdiary.com\/?p=460","title":{"rendered":"Half a Woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>**Before I start my Saturday post, I wanted to post that I&#8217;ll be giving &#8220;Thinner Thanksgiving&#8221; tips all week!\u00a0 So check back to see how to not gain any lbs during your thanksgiving holiday!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As we are coming up to the holidays, I can&#8217;t help but think back to how I felt and looked last winter.\u00a0 I think I had dropped around 75 pounds or so at this point last year.\u00a0 My body image is still catching up!\u00a0 I felt like I was a little smaller than last winter but not a ton.\u00a0 Then I got out my winter coat, an XL, which doesn&#8217;t fit AT ALL.\u00a0 I borrowed a size L coat from my friend, Thanks Kelley!, and need to purchase a medium!<\/p>\n<p>Some of my students have been asking me about my weight loss now that most of them know.\u00a0 They always ask how much weight I&#8217;ve lost.\u00a0 I&#8217;m now at 130 pounds and trying to stay there.\u00a0 Usually this is more than they weigh and they are shocked.\u00a0 I really have lost a whole person.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve now lost 46% of my original body weight.\u00a0 I&#8217;m quite nearly half the woman I was before.<\/p>\n<p>As you get smaller, the ratio of you to your pants stays the same.\u00a0 So sometimes I go to put on my pants and think, &#8220;These really aren&#8217;t that much smaller than my old old fat pants.&#8221;\u00a0 But&#8230;&#8230;I think they are considering I can fit in one leg of them now!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/yogapantsdiary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_48521.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-464\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/yogapantsdiary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_48521-768x1024.jpg?resize=525%2C700\" alt=\"IMG_4852\" width=\"525\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/yogapantsdiary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_48521.jpg?resize=768%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/yogapantsdiary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_48521.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/yogapantsdiary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_48521.jpg?w=1050&amp;ssl=1 1050w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/yogapantsdiary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_48521.jpg?w=1575&amp;ssl=1 1575w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am a huge fan of People&#8217;s &#8220;Half Their Size Issue&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.people.com\/people\/package\/gallery\/0,,20332412_20771308_30076157,00.html\">See the 2014 winners here)<\/a> and it just occured to me that I could have entered!\u00a0 I could have been featured in People.\u00a0 I <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">am<\/span> one of those people!\u00a0 It&#8217;s still so bizarre to have done what I did&#8230;..I wonder when it will stop being weird? 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