LOST 110 POUNDS, IT'S OFFICIAL

Even though I haven't been talking about the scales lately, nor having one in my house. Even though I told everyone on You tube that if I made a video talking about my 'weigh in' on the scale not to watch it, even though I have shared how much I hate scales...

I have secretly been weighing myself for the last month.

Actually I don't know how 'secret' that is when your in the middle of the isle at Canadian Tire, each Saturday afternoon AND during the Christmas shopping season!

I've kept it a secret from you, but in the virtual world, everyone can see this obsessed woman walking over to the scales each Saturday to weigh herself. Fully clothed. Not bothering taking off my jacket, not bothering taking off my shows.

I say that because I HAVE done that previously in stores when I was weighing myself.

Yes, this past month is NOT the first time I have gone to the store to weigh myself. It just the first time I haven't bothered to 'unload' any extra pounds, lol.




So what did the scale say?

Let's see...

150 lbs. one time.

150 POUNDS!

That was my reaction.

How can I gain five pounds and but lose 4 pants sizes from April?

Second time.

149.2 lbs.

WHAT?

How can I lose smidgens and this month alone have to get rid of three pairs of pants because they are too honking big when I just got them in September?

Third time.

148.5 lbs.

By this time I'm "whatever"...

I KNOW I'm losing, even if the scales aren't telling me.

My clothes are just getting to big on me.



I have not been diligent with exercise as I have been on this journey of healthy living.

Not only have I NOT been diligent, I REALLY haven't put forth any effort to exercise.

Oh, I do walk, I do work up a sweat here and there during the week, but REALLY no effort.





I just love this cartoon on the top because I can SO relate. I can't tell you how much of a work out it used to be just to get my form fitting light weight girdle on in the past.

I think it would take me 10 minutes sometimes when I was at my largest.

I still remember a time I burst into tears because I was sweating and huffing SO hard, and having such difficulty trying to get it on...It made me realize how far I had fallen into the bondage of food and how it had effected my body to such a degree.



Well as I was talking to my girlfriend His Living Sacrifice on the phone,( sitting just like this I may add), I had a vision of the times I tried to sit like this before.

I would literally have to grab one let at a time and work it to the sitting position. There was NO way my legs where that close to my chest. I had too much 'stuff' (I'm talking about too much belly) to bring my legs that close.

I remember I could only do it for a few seconds because it was physically painful to sit like that.

So I'm on the phone with her, sitting so effortlessly like the picture above and I'm blown away.

I'm blown away that I can sit like that. That is 'feels' comfortable to sit like that.

I was on the phone with her because I just HAD to tell her.

I weighed myself.

Now, Paula has heard all about my Canadian Tire Weigh In Stories..lol.

She has heard how the scale is my enemy and how much I hate the scale.

Well I phone her from my parents house..


I weighed myself at my parents.

I weighed myself FOUR TIMES because I was in a state of shock.

140 pounds.

WHATTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT??????

I STILL will not buy a scale though.

It's just too addictive to have in my home.

So I will start weighing myself when I go work out each week at the YMCA!!

YAHOOOOOOOOOOOOOO..

We have been blessed with a family membership at the YMCA for a year.

I'm so praising God for this.

It feels so 'right'.

When Randy and I left the YMCA last Saturday I told him, 'Randy, this is so right, this is so healthy.'

I felt the Holy Spirit speaking to my heart and telling me....

Angela, the inside has been transformed and now We are working on the outside. Healthy choices, healthy activity. For your entire family.

A lifestyle...

sigh....it is good!!

This truly is God's doing and it is marvelous in my eyes!!

LOST 110 POUNDS, IT'S OFFICIAL

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