flashback (not flashdance)

i remember the day that i first went to the center for my class, i met a woman. she had told me how she had done slim4life once before and had great results but after her loss she stopped doing the things she was supposed to and gained back the weight. i remember thinking, when she told me that she had lost 50 lbs, how nice it would be to lose 50 lbs. as much faith as i had in the program i didn't honestly trust completely that it would work. let's face it going through no less than 10 diets since you were in middle school with little to no progress makes you lose faith in diets as a whole.

today as i stepped on the scale in the center and saw the number 215.2 pop up i had a flash back to that moment in august. i have done it. not only have i lost 50 lbs, i have lost 52 lbs!!! i have 35 lbs left before i hit my goal weight!!! plus the week isn't even over yet so who knows where we will be by saturday. i can't begin to express how excited i am!!!

the other big accomplishment of this number, 52 lbs, is that i am no longer classified as "obese" on the bmi scale. granted, it still says i am overweight, but when i started out so close to the obese (very severe) section i think overweight is a great place to be! by the time this is all said and done i will either be in the low range of overweight or the high end of normal. no matter where it ends though, i feel healthy and i know i have added years on to my life again. that is after all what i wanted, years. i wanted to make sure that i would be here for many years to spend time with my family and watch my sweet baby hep grow up. well hep... you're stuck with me for a while kiddo!!! :o)

mom said i needed a photo to mark 50. sadly my camera has seemed to start a game of hide and seek and it is a GREAT hider... or i suck as a seeker. so here is one from tonight via the digital camera. i realized after i took it that white may not be a good color for someone as pasty as me, i seem to blend with the shirt, but none-the-less here you go.

i also decided tuck needed to get in on the photo action as well!

here he is making his blog debut! do you see the remains of his latest toy??? that would be one of my dress socks.

happy eating!!