lose 40 pounds before my wedding

I am down a total of 8 lbs!!! Just watching everything that goes in. I can feel a difference too. My belly is flatter and my jeans fit better. Encouraging. It feels good and makes me want to be more active. Cheer me on!! Only 3 and a half months til our big day.

Today it the 7th day and I am doing fairly well. I weighed myself on Wed night and I was down 4 lbs. Yeah!!! That was so encouraging. I always lose fast the first 2 or so weeks anyways. But I am exersicing and that is helping too. Clearing land with Michael and lugging firewood is a good workout.

My willpower is strong right now. I can do this. My belly feels flatter and I have more energy.

I have to set a date and keep it. I have reached 175 and that is just chubby for me at 5’2”. I am getting married on Aug 30th and the dress I bought a year ago does not fit!!!! At $700.00 I need to fit in it. That is not the only reason to lose though. I need to lose for my health and my self image. I am not happy being fluffy. I make jokes about it to friends and family but it is really bothering me and I need to do something about it. So enough talk and flapping about it, time to start to DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!!! See my BEFORE pic from our trip to the DR in April.

Ok I plucked up the courage to start at a slimming club two weeks ago. Before then I hadn’t weighed myself in god knows how long! I avoided them! It was a shock when I got on the scales and found out what weight I was. I went through all sorts of emotions from denial, upset to anger at letting myself putting on so much weight.

The story is I am getting married next July and I need to drop stones. Since two weeks ago I have managed to lose 12 pounds, which is good. People keep telling me it is good. I just wanna stick with this diet. I now need to lose 41 pounds to get to 123lbs. This is when I look my best. I want to look my best for my wedding photos. I know if I was to get married now I would have double chins in my photos and everything! I want to look as good as I can.