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I've been a bit MIA from this forum, and I miss my friends from here. But sometimes life gets in the way and for that I apologize. But this is something I think that I needed to share here.
On September 10, 1994 I broke through 300 pounds (my second mini-goal), my next mini-goal was 280, my weight on my wedding day. At the pace I was losing I figured it would be a few weeks. Boy was I wrong. My struggles since then have been well documented here. After much soul searching, straying on and off the wagon, finding a new exercise regime, and regaining focus, I have finally achieved that milestone yesterday at 279.6.
Unfortunately the significance of yesterday's milestone was lost on me. I am so busy trying to build my garage (my vacation is over today and I'm trying to finish the roof) the simple fact that I broke through what was beginning to seem unachievable went by unnoticed. It wasn't until I crashed last night on the couch that it hit me.
You see, I weighed 280 on my wedding day, for about 10 minutes. I had made a bet 2 months before my wedding with a friend of mine that I could get down to 270 (from 310) by my wedding day. I made it two thirds of the way there, and he said the point of the bet was to get me to lose weight (so he forgave the loss of the bet). But before that day I hadn't been 280 since I had about 2 years or so left in my enlistment. I remember because I was up for promotion, and couldn't get it because I was overweight (at 277) and I just gained from there. So that makes it somewhere around fall of 1992, or 13 years ago. I have not been this light since I was 24 years old. That is a significance that is not lost on me at all.
On September 10, 1994 I broke through 300 pounds (my second mini-goal), my next mini-goal was 280, my weight on my wedding day. At the pace I was losing I figured it would be a few weeks. Boy was I wrong. My struggles since then have been well documented here. After much soul searching, straying on and off the wagon, finding a new exercise regime, and regaining focus, I have finally achieved that milestone yesterday at 279.6.
Unfortunately the significance of yesterday's milestone was lost on me. I am so busy trying to build my garage (my vacation is over today and I'm trying to finish the roof) the simple fact that I broke through what was beginning to seem unachievable went by unnoticed. It wasn't until I crashed last night on the couch that it hit me.
You see, I weighed 280 on my wedding day, for about 10 minutes. I had made a bet 2 months before my wedding with a friend of mine that I could get down to 270 (from 310) by my wedding day. I made it two thirds of the way there, and he said the point of the bet was to get me to lose weight (so he forgave the loss of the bet). But before that day I hadn't been 280 since I had about 2 years or so left in my enlistment. I remember because I was up for promotion, and couldn't get it because I was overweight (at 277) and I just gained from there. So that makes it somewhere around fall of 1992, or 13 years ago. I have not been this light since I was 24 years old. That is a significance that is not lost on me at all.
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