Fitting into the same size jeans I wore in high school!

I have now lost a total of 46 pounds since October 2008 and am fitting into the same size jeans I wore in high school (6 years ago)!! Ironically enough I am about 10 pounds heavier than I was in high school. It just proves that muscles weighs and takes up less room than fat! I have always been on the larger side but I am beginning to believe I can actually be a smaller person; being in the same size I wore 6 years ago is more confirmation that I can do this! Last month I wanted to give up on working out. I had hit a plateau at 40 pounds lost. Still being I am 80+ pounds overweight I knew I shouldn’t be at a standstill with my weigh loss. Every Tuesday I would get on my scale and the number was the exact same. I was pushing myself with my intervals and NEWO and nothing changed… then it hit me; I need to focus on my nutrition.

Nutrition is the hardest part for me because I love my food. When I started on my healthy lifestyle journey, I told myself I would start by working out first and worry about food later. I knew if I wanted to continue on the journey I had to make a change with my food. That meant bring my lunch to work and not going out to eat every day, finding healthy snacks instead of the convenient office snacks of chocolate, candy, chips and soda, and of course more water. I never realized how sabotaging it was to wait until I was ravenous before eating my next meal. Sometimes I would only eat two or three times in a day but would end up eating twice or three times as much food during each meal because I was so hungry. With a set schedule of eating every two and a half hours, I don’t feel hungry and find it much easier to avoid overeating and making bad food choices.

I am sure this isn’t the only hurdle in my healthy journey but I am so happy I didn’t turn around because I was scared to tackle the issue. It wasn’t as scary as I though it would be and since I love cooking, even more exciting for me to learn new recipes. The weight that I have lost does not compare to the things I have learned and developed through the past many months and I can’t wait for what is around the corner… Greater things are still to come!!