On December 20, I got up and went for a walk. I have been using a weight vest for 99% of all of my walking and this was no different. If I have the time, I like to walk at least a 5K. When I got home, I hopped on the scale and did not believe the number I saw. In fact, I weighed 3 times just to make sure.
I am not sure why this was such a shock. After all, it isn’t like I have not made some drastic changes. I have made big improvements to my nutrition and also added in a lot more cardio than I was doing back in the earlier part of the year. After I hit my goal weight, I stopped tracking dinner in the app. I just wanted to see if I could do that part myself, and I proved that I could. There were days that I would track and some that I wouldn’t. The end game is to not need any kind of “plan” or “program” and to understand how to do all of this myself. I am slowly taking the training wheels off.
I do believe that some of the loss can be attributed to a recent change in my medication. I now find myself in a position that I have not been in around 10, maybe 15 years. I cannot remember the last time I was at this weight but I know it has been a really long time. I am fitting in clothes that I have never been able to wear. We went shopping yesterday for Christmas and I randomly put on a Nike jacket. It was instinct to grab the XXL and I was shocked at how much it swallowed me. I tried on the XL and it was still too big. I made my way down to a large and thought for sure that would be too tight. No way would I ever be able to wear a large. But it actually fit!
After that, I wanted to try on ALL the clothes. It is far more fun shopping for clothes now that I am not the size of a Prius.
Stopping in Johnston & Murphy, I put on a jacket that I would have never tried. Actually, I would have never walked into the store because those types of stores rarely make anything for big dudes. The jacket just fit so great. In this store, I couldn’t make it down to a large, just an XL, but being in there trying on clothes was a big victory for me. We normally do not buy things for ourselves so close to Christmas, but I did that to celebrate. I knew if I walked out of the mall without buying it, I would have regretted it.