Finally in the 160's!

I weighed myself yesterday to discover I was 169.5 -- officially OUT of the 170's!!!!

And I really don't want to go back. EVER. I feel the best I ever have now. I tried on my old jeans again and I can button ALL of them! They zip up completely, and even though they are still a bit tight I could wear them if I had to! They are all size 11's, though they've probably stretched out a little because I wore them for a year and a half before I got pregnant, but yay! Size 11's!

Wonderful feeling, it really is. And it couldn't have come at a better time, because I no longer have jeans that fit. I'm wearing my black slacks right now, because they are the only pair of pants I have that don't fall down as I walk. My belt fell apart yesterday and is no longer usable unless I want to use some duct tape.

I just realized that yesterday was a pretty significant day altogether. My second Mother's Day, went to troupe and got to watch the troupe performance at showcase (which was GREAT!) danced for an hour, then came home and went to dinner with Matt. I discovered that I had lost a pound, putting me below 170, I tried on my old jeans and they all zip up - my belt broke, which means I can't wear my bigger jeans anymore unless I want to risk showing my crack to everyone.
Last time I tried them on, back in January, I could only pull one of the jeans all the way up and even then I couldn't muscle it together over my hips. Even my old khaki work slacks button without stretching across my crotch!

So, a huge scale victory and some non-scale victories on a special day for me!

On 3FatChicks, I joined a Summer challenge because my Cinco de Mayo challenge ended. (I got down to 170 by the fifth, so I consider that a victory!) The challenge I joined is called Luscious by Labor Day, and my goal is to be 150 by then. So far, I've lost half a pound and have 17 more weeks to go to lose the rest of the 20 pounds.

I can't even imagine, if I already fit into size 11's, what size I'll be once I lose the rest of the weight. My overall goal was to wear these jeans right around 155 but now I'm thinking I might be able to wear size 9's!

Single digit pants... that thought is a mind-boggling one, considering I haven't worn size 9's since freshman year of high school. I grew major hips that year, which pushed me from size 5 and 7 to size 9. Junior year is when I moved up into size 11, and then senior year and the few months I spent in Seattle pushed me up into size 13. After gaining 40 more pounds while pregnant, I wore size large maternity pants until I bought the size 15 jeans last Summer. Those jeans now fall down while I walk, and I can pull them down without unzipping them.

How is it that I didn't do this before? It astounds me that I was writing this blog all last year and didn't lose a pound. It's easy, once you push past the excuses and the doubts. Calories in, calories out, it WORKS.

I've been logging my food into my iPod for 8 weeks straight now. According to the application's statistics, I've exercised at least 3 times a week for those two months. I'm really anxious to get my calorie burn up again though. It's been lacking for the past three weeks. I still need to finish the C25K program, for which I only have three more runs to complete.

Alright. I'm done writing for today. Time to get this place cleaned up.