I have a huge announcement to make. It's so huge I'm creating a new thread.
I have lost 100lbs.
If anyone finds it, I don’t want it back. I’ve gone from a BMI of over 50 to a BMI of under 35. I’ve gone from being super obese to just obese. So I’m still not thin, but I’m a lot nearer than I used to be.
My highest weight was in May 2021. I lost about a stone or so in the rest of the year, with the majority of my weight loss in 2022. My tracking app says my average weight loss this year has been 1.87lbs, so although I’ve lost a lot in total it’s still within what is widely considered to be the safe range.
When I started I made a list I called “100 reasons to lose 100lbs” although it actually only has 87 reasons (and a couple seem to have made it on there twice). Reading it back over, a lot of them have now changed. I couldn’t fit in my engagement ring – actually I still can’t, but it’s now because it’s too big rather than too small. Because it’s been such a gradual change over time some of them are areas I hadn’t thought about or noticed. The bed used to creak, but I don't remember the last time it did or even that it stopped.
Some of the reasons I’m still working on. I have specific pieces of clothing I’d like to wear and I can’t wait for onederland (which is soon!). I want to keep going until I have a normal BMI. The app is predicting I’ll get there by next summer, which simultaneously seems really close and also far away.
I’ve done it mainly by diet. I hurt my ankle earlier in the year which really limited what I can do. For a while I couldn’t walk for more than 5 minutes without pain so I’ve pretty much done no exercise for a lot of the time. I’m at the point now where I’ve been able to add walking back in but I still can’t do anything that people would probably consider as exercise!
I can’t believe how my life has changed. Recently I went pumpkin picking, which is amazing in itself because it involved walking in a muddy field and there's no way I would have been able to do that a year ago. But then I went on something called a barrel train - which is where you sit in a small plastic barrel and get dragged along by a tractor!!!! I fit in it easily, and had a great time. When I was at my heaviest I would never have been able to do something like that.