67% Body Fat Loss

Happy New Year to you all!  I trust that your Christmas was a blessing and that your new year has started off the right way!  My holidays were great.  As you have probably guessed I have been extremely busy over the last month.  It starts with us getting a puppy right before Christmas.  He sure has kept us busy!  But he is super precious!  I was so excited to see myself get through the holidays without it centering around food.  I even did all my Christmas goodies and didn't crave a bit of them!  The most exciting part was that I was able to stand on my feet for over 13 hours and it didn't hurt any!  Don't get me wrong....I was tired but I wasn't hurting.  What a blessing!  So today I went for my 6 mo. check up following my surgery.  They were all VERY impressed with me.  The doctor told me that not many of his patients do as well as I have done.  I am currently down 167 lbs., 8 sizes and have lost 67% total body fat.  I am amazed at how quickly I have dropped this weight.  I am coming up on my 1 year anniversary of when it all started (the weight loss anyway).  February 1, 2010 was the day that Chris and I started eating right and began losing weight on this journey of ours.  I am officially in a size 18 which I don't think I have been in since I was a senior in high school.  I told the doctor today that my goal weight is 175 and he said that was a perfect goal for me.  I can't wait until I see the 100's again.  You all will probably hear me from far away yelling with excitement!  Also, I can't wait to see my goal size.....a 12!  I can't believe I am so close!  I talked with the doctor today about plastic surgery too.  He said that he thinks I should wait until this fall which I will follow his advice!  My work is sending me to Las Vegas in April for a conference.  I can't wait to sit on the airplane and not have to worry about the seatbelt fitting or crowded up against the person beside me.  I was on an airplane in September and it was still a little tight so I know in April it will be perfect.  The other thing that I am excited about is in June my husband and I are going with some friends of ours to Busch Garden's in Williamsburg.  That will be the first time I have been on a roller coster since I was 17 years old.  I absolutely can't wait.  I went on our church youth's group retreat back in December and I was able to do so much with those young people.  Including playing a full game of kickball.  I was so amazed at how great it felt to get outside and be active!  I am also going to start doing Zumba classes next week.....yikes!  Wish me luck.  I am actually pretty excited about it.  My husband is doing very good also.  I am proud of him.  I will post another update soon!