MeAndTinyTina

I'm finally down to a weight where I can go horseback riding and would absolutely love to get out riding in 2016. I want to try ziplining too. There are so many things that my weight used to restrict me from doing - I want to do them all!

My first goal is what it is every single day.
To be Healthy!!
To me that means not only making healthy choices in the food I choose to put in my body, or about the way I move or don't move my body through out the day but also to make sure that I am not over working myself, dealing with stress in positive pro-active ways as well as creating and maintaining a positive healthy environment around myself to ensure the success of my goals.
I know it's a pretty big over arching goal. To get there I make little goals each and every day. Starting with waking up in the morning and preparing for the day ahead. Each thing I do through out the day is a mini goal marker for me toward my overall goal.
Many of us I think take being healthy for granted and we focus on only our weight loss, but for me it's so much more than being able to lose weight. My weight is only one thing in the kaleidoscope of my life, and it all needs to fall into place to create that big picture that is ever changing.

My first goal is to get to goal weight and maintain.
I also want to do the Couch 2 5K program and do a 5K and then progress to a 10k, maybe even a half marathon in November!

Oh gosh, where do I start? Since I was just sleeved 12/7, my main goal is to continue to lose weight. I am beginning to get more active, but a resolution is to become more and more active.
I want to start hiking, which I have never been able to do. I live close to a State Forest and would love to visit there a whole lot more and do walking and hiking there.
My non weight goal, is to be a better person, and become more spiritual. Become closer to God.
Also, possibly go back to school and get a second Accounting degree. Still pondering this one though )
Good luck to everyone!!!

I no longer worry about New Years resolutions, everyday is and should be a resolution...
But considering all the junk I have been eating/drinking for the past few weeks, I am going to go on a 2 week "PaleoClense" to rid my body of all these toxins I have accumulated....
Have to wait till Jan 2nd though, New Years day is still a party day.....
BTW, I have been going to one Health Club - Gym for over 5 years now, and every New Years the place is packed with all those committing themselves to one resolution or another....after a few weeks it starts to fall back towards normal again...
That is what I think of New years resolutions...if you're going to do it, then do it...why wait till a certain day which comes but once a year....

Get to goal weight. (Actions to get there are tracking portions and committing my food plan.)
Non weight loss goal: buy a house after this flipping divorce is final.

I don't make resolutions, but I have set a goal. I got a personal weight training trainer for Christmas and my goal is to complete the three-month program and then to continue on my own.

Exactly one year ago, I was at my heaviest weight. I have no idea why no one ever told me I was that huge, but I don't think I even saw it myself. While I'm embarrassed to post this, I've never been prouder of myself. I began taking my health seriously in June and have lost 90 pounds since the photo on the left. I'm not yet at my goal but being able to compare two photos taken on the same day, just a year apart, gives me the motivation to keep going. Looking forward to what 2016 has in store
I was sleeved June 15th 2015. The photo on the left is Dec 30th 2014 and the right is Dec 30th 2015. I still have a long way to go but I have never been happier nor have I ever been healthier. I have so much more will power to eat better and exercise more. I even enjoy exercising! If you told me I would enjoy that last year, I'd look at you like you were crazy. Unfortunately, I don't see much of a difference from these 2 photos. I'm experiencing a severe case of body dysmorphia where I still see the 288 pound girl but I know it will get better with time.

I'm still convinced that all my new size 6 (and in once case, 4!!) pants must just be mislabeled... all of then... even though they are different brands, styles, and from multiple stores.

Same thing happened to me. I hit goal just before my 6-month mark and went "Oh. Okay...?" I thought I'd be going crazy celebrating, but no, not so much.
I like your attitude--"I think it comes down to now that I know what I have accomplished, I think I know what I am capable of. I want more." I am trying to get to a mindset more like that and less, "But I still feel fat... but I'm still bigger than most of my friends... but look at my gross fat stomach..."

Well it finally happened, I made it to my originally stated goal and the one that my surgeon also agreed upon. I've so looked forward to this that I had built it up in my mind as a momentous occasion that would be a auspicious event and streamers and confetti would rain down from the sky while a baptist church chorus sang hallelujah.
Well that didn't happen. My stall before hitting goal had lasted 6 weeks and I thought for sure that would make the victory all the more sweeter, so I didn't mind the stall. I just kept on keeping on and working out. Then on the 22nd when I did my weekly weigh in it finally happened. 218 lbs, actually 2 lbs less than my goal. Know what I felt?
Alright, cool.
Then it hit me, "Wait a minute, that's under goal. Why aren't I whooping and hollering?!"
I am at the weight I was before I met my wife, some say that I look better than I ever have. (the grey hair makes you look distinguished!) My health is better than it has been in a decade. And I personally feel better than anytime that I can remember. This is what I wanted, this is what I asked for help in achieving. So why am I not elated?
I think it comes down to now that I know what I have accomplished, I think I know what I am capable of. I want more. I don't just want to be thinner and healthier. I want to be able to do the things I have never been able to do, even before I got fat. I want to be able to do a pull up. Just one. I want to have a chest and not any moobs. I want my wife to suck on her teeth and look at me like a piece of meat!
So that's the new goal. I figure it took 308 days to get here, so I'll give myself another 308 to get there.
So for posterity sake, here is the beginning and current pictures:
Fat Paul circa May 2014

And healthy Paul 12-22-2015

I just buckled my seat on a plane for the first time in 13 years. It was so amazing and I wish I could scream out loud when it happened (although my fellow passengers on the flight would be very confused/awkward).

Happiness is...
Being confident enough to get out and have new adventures in life. I'm snowshoeing at Bogus Basin to Celebrate the new year.

Happiness is being able to shop in any store. Clothes are so much cheaper now!

Happiness is ..... looking for a new wardrobe for the extra clothes I have bought
Happiness is...... being able to cut my own toenails
Okay, two there but I'm greedy

Let's post one-liners about our new found happiness !
Here's mine:
Happiness is ... Not having to ask " what's the biggest size you have?"
Your turn

Feeling 20 years younger!

Happiness is .............
Going shopping and being 4 sizes smaller !!! And a shoe size smaller also ????????????

Happiness is...ordering the designer size 2 and the 4 dress this week (because they were almost out of stock and I figured at least this way I would end up with one of them) and finding out that while the 2 fits ok, the 0 would have fit a lot better. My closet is a big room of happiness and for the first time in my life, the shoes and the purses (the stuff that always fits) is not my favorite part.
Oh I hear happiness is also world peace, but hot dresses in a size 0 are close enough for me.

I started this almost 2 years ago. Had surgery a year ago in November. As the weight came off the wounds of a crap marriage became exposed. I ended that crap marriage in July and today live on my own. I have my daughters half the week and now they get a much more at peace mom. I've dated a bit and it still shocks me anyone would/could find me attractive. My hope is that my ears will hear it enough for my brain to catch on. Today I went snowboarding for the first time in my life-to get my kids outside AND because I actually could do it.
These seem like random thoughts but honestly if this is a dream don't wake me. I feel like I'll be having the first Christmas in a long time as the Real Me. The genuine smiling on the outside and inside person I always wanted to be. I can't thank all the people in my life that supported me enough.

I squatted down with my 3 year old granddaughter to look at something on the ground and realized that a couple minutes later I was still there....I didn't fall over and my feet didn't fall asleep!

I had to buy new belts because my old ones got too big!

When you get chased down the hallway at work (at a school) because your co-worker didn't recognize you and you hadn't checked in at the front office.

My boss, today, in astonishment, when seeing me walk down the hall towards him...
"YOU'RE SKINNY!"
I'll take that.

Last month I got my first pair of new jeans since surgery and was a little disappointed it was just 1 size down from a 31 to 30. Fast forward to yesterday and my new jeans are now a little baggy. I tried on the next size down and they fit well. Just for fun I asked the sales girl to grasp the next size down from the ones and tried and holy moly!! THEY FIT! A little snug, but with the spandex in them they will be fine. I fit into a 28! I promptly handed those to my daughter and told her to get them and give them to the hubby to put under the tree! I can't believe I'm not only now wearing skinny jeans but they are 3 sizes smaller and a 28!
A FREAKING 28!!
I still have 8 lbs to hit my first goal of a normal BMI, never would have I dreamed that size would ever fit...ever!!