Inches & Pounds

The Scale Roller Coaster

In times past, the scale was always my enemy. It discouraged me often. This journey, I told myself to only check it once every 1-3 months, because I didn't want to be enslaved by numbers again.  I prefer to look in the irror and let my body show me the changes, instead of numbers on a scale that can only measure weight and nothing else.  Muscle weighs more than fat.

Height: 6'2.5

1. End of September 2016 - 315 lbs. (started going to the gym regularly)
2. End of December 2016 - 320 lbs, 26-28 waist.
3. March 2017 - 297 lbs.
4. August 20, 2017 - 288 lbs. (started jogging)
5. October 2017 - 290 lbs.
6. November 15, 2017 - 290 lbs.
7. December 7, 2017 - 22 waist!
8. December 15, 2017 - 284lbs.
9. January 8, 2018 - 281lbs.
10. February 6, 2018 - 285lbs.
11. March 9, 2018 - 289 lbs. (started third trimester, which means prenatal appointments will be every two weeks. More weight checks.)
12. March 23, 2018 - 284 lbs.
13. April 6, 2018 - 288 lbs. (baby born 4-22)
14. May 29, 2018 - 273 lbs. (docs appt)
15. June 8, 2018 - 275lbs.  (docs appt)
16. September 2, 2018 - Don't know my weight, but I'm now down to a size 20/21! That's 6 sizes down since 2016!
17. September 27, 2018 - 271lbs. (docs appt)
18. ?

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Because I honestly didn't think I'd still be on this journey, I didn't think to take a before picture back in 2016.  That and as a photographer, I'm always comfortably behind the camera.  I have asked family if they have any pictures of me from 2016 or early 2017, so hopefully I can get a before picture.

I did find a picture from October 2016.  You can't really see the fatty details, as I tried to cover myself, but it's enough.

Here's my journey in pictures...will add as time goes by:

October 2016

May 15, 2018

(baby born april 22)

October 14, 2018

(nearly a month of bellydancing [20th])

November 4, 2018

I don't quite know what I'm doing (hence why I look awkward; just this past week I started working with my arm movements), so I just threw it together until I was happy. My 4-year-old was loving it, saying, "Mommy, you're so beautiful!" and kept hugging me and making the coin belt jingle. I have two other headpieces, and lots of other scarves, for my head (I practice pagan veiling for rituals) and hips.