When I was looking into this program I was on a hunt for blogs, specifically success stories. I read the ones that I could find, but I'm finding that this blog doesn't even show up on searches. Does anyone know how to search in a better way?? Or maybe there really aren't new blogs? I think what is hard about the old ones is that many stop at some point after the blogger enters maintenance and then starts gaining weight. I'm sure it would be hard to continue to blog at that point. I hope I succeed and a year after maintenance I start blogging about all of the benefits to losing the weight and keeping it off! Or something similar!
If anyone out there is reading this and has found any other newer blogs that appear inspiring let me know!
After Wednesday I will be halfway through full fast!! If I go buy my current weight I am in the upper 210s and will hopefully cross below 215 in a week and a half or so! I know I shouldn't set deadlines for weight loss goals, but I'm thinking of it more like a prediction. :-) I'm really hoping to have lost half of the weight by end of phase 1! If I can dip below 200 before transition starts I will be super happy. I remember a few years ago after I left my travel nurse assignment in San Diego I went to Seattle with some of my nurse friends from SD and I told one of them that I was horrified that my weight had ballooned up to almost a new "century." That number was 190-something. I remember being devastated and miserable. I thought my weight would never get that high. Previously when I had thought I was "fat" my weight was around 165-175 which really isn't too far into the overweight range for my height of 5'8". I never thought I would enter the obese category. I feel like I have lost the last 5 or so years of my life being at this weight because it has held me back from doing things I enjoy and meeting new people in the cities I traveled to. Even here it has kept me from going out and enjoying what I want to! There is so much to love about the bay area and I need to get out and explore more! Anyway, I didn't come here to write about any of that. And I can't think about what I haven't done, but I can focus on taking this 1 day at a time and think about all of the physical things I want to do when I meet my goals! I even took my bike out the other day (to ride to the movies) and I was so much more comfortable on it then 20lbs ago. I'm still a chicken and afraid to fall, but feeling lighter definitely helped!!
Signing off...keep up the hard work and let me know if you know of any blogs for people starting out on this journey or recently transitioned and successfully maintaining!!
Angie
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