jamieq

Thank you so much!!

Leaving Las Vegas. On Saturday we dressed up for a night on the town, just like we do every year. Only this year over the course of the evening men and women complimented me on my cocktail dress or told me I looked beautiful. What was more amazing was I FELT beautiful. I felt like I could smile graciously and accept their compliments with confidence. Not because I was the thinnest woman in the room or the most lovely but because I am fighting hard for who I am. I fight hard for mental, spiritual, and physical wholeness and health. I feel strong. I feel wise. I feel beautiful. I feel like for the first time in two decades my outside is starting to match the inside. I am more proud of that than the number on the scale any day. Small decisions lead to big changes in a year.r

Leaving Las Vegas. On Saturday we dressed up for a night on the town, just like we do every year. Only this year over the course of the evening men and women complimented me on my cocktail dress or told me I looked beautiful. What was more amazing was I FELT beautiful. I felt like I could smile graciously and accept their compliments with confidence. Not because I was the thinnest woman in the room or the most lovely but because I am fighting hard for who I am. I fight hard for mental, spiritual, and physical wholeness and health. I feel strong. I feel wise. I feel beautiful. I feel like for the first time in two decades my outside is starting to match the inside. I am more proud of that than the number on the scale any day. Small decisions lead to big changes in a year.

An update! Leaving Las Vegas. On Saturday we dressed up for a night on the town, just like we do every year. Only this year over the course of the evening men and women complimented me on my cocktail dress or told me I looked beautiful. What was more amazing was I FELT beautiful. I felt like I could smile graciously and accept their compliments with confidence. Not because I was the thinnest woman in the room or the most lovely but because I am fighting hard for who I am. I fight hard for mental, spiritual, and physical wholeness and health. I feel strong. I feel wise. I feel beautiful. I feel like for the first time in two decades my outside is starting to match the inside. I am more proud of that than the number on the scale any day. Small decisions lead to big changes in a year.r

Seven months. Down 115 and a ton of inches!

Seven months out. Down 115 pounds and a gillion inches

Here is my video to go with my 100 pound weight loss. I may be a little excited!

Here is my video to go with my 100 pound weight loss. I may be a little excited!

Here is my video to go along with my 100 pound weight loss!

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Today is my six month surgerversery. 100 pound goal met!!

a new video!

5 months. 99 pounds down!

I came so close to my goal but I did not hit it - that is a rarity for me. I am pretty competitive and usually finish what I start. That said, I am still incredibly proud of myself - maybe even more proud than I would have been if I had hit my goal. I desperately wanted to lose 100 pounds by my birthday. Wednesday I weighed in and was ONE pound away. And then Mother Nature paid me a monthly visit yesterday. I was so frustrated and thought "Maybe I can just not eat for a day, or take a laxative, or go sit in the sauna. Or do a crazy last chance workout" After years and years of abusing my body and trying to lose weight I know how to play the game. And then I realized this isn't a game to me anymore. This is my health. And I have worked really hard to make healthy decisions. I am not going to lose my mind or my focus over one pound. So I lived my new life exactly the way I had been. I worked out and I ate eggs and chicken and cottage cheese and nuts and embraced the new me So when the scale read 248 I celebrated my 99 pounds and the fact that I was under 250. I am doing this the right way. I am not looking back.

Five months post op! Down 99 pounds!