Feeling pretty good about myself today, and very chipper! It's my 3 month anniversary since being sleeved. Our 35 year old son was over this passed weekend, and says, "Gee mom, every time I see you there is less of you to see"! Then he'll do the voice from the Wizard Of OZ The Wicked Witch of the West, and say, "I'm melting, I'm melting, what a world, what a world"! LOL He just stares at me some times and say's "Man, mom, I can't believe how different you look"! He tells me I'm getting so skinny, and look so good!

I wish I could see what he see's when I look in the mirror. I think because I was so big for so long, that I still have an image in my head of the BIG ME! I was a size 26 W, and weighted 285 pounds at my biggest. I have not weighted what I weight now since the early 1990's! I made it to ONEderland this passed weekend, and weighted 197 pounds, and wear a size 16. I started this weight loss journey last April with the 6 month pre diet, and then sleeved on November 6, 2012. It seems so strange to me to get out some of my clothes from last summer, and put them on, and they are HUGE on me! LOL I still have about 50 pounds to lose yet, but think I'll be there in the next 5 months at the rate I'm losing. I just got Zumba 2 for our Wii this passed weekend, and started doing that today. What a work out! It was a 20 minute work out for my first work out, and HOLY COW, it IS a great work out for sure! I would highly suggest you trying it. It was fun, but made me sweat, raised my heart rate pretty good, and works your whole body. I think it will help me tone up all my flabby areas. The inches are falling off too! I just have to work on my SELF IMAGE! I want to see what others see when they look at me, the new thinner me. I'm so glad I got sleeved, and this journey was not an easy road! I can't wait until this summer to wear shorts, and even a bathing suit for the first time in many,many years! The best part though will be, being able to keep up with our grand kids, and having fun doing things with them this summer that I couldn't do before! My next goal is to reach 100 pounds off, and I'm only 12 pounds away from that! I'll blog again when I get there! Happy losing everyone. ♥