One year, 30 inches, 18 holes & 207 pounds

Posted on Tuesday, October 1st, 2013 at 11:30 am

One year ago today (approximately) I started my journey to finding my lean…now while I will be the first one to tell you I’ve not found it yet, not completely anyway, the journey thus far has been nothing short of amazing. This time last year I couldn’t walk 100 feet and in just 4 days I’ll be walking in my first official event. I will be at the 3K Walk at the Unicoi County Apple Festival and while I’m not even concerned where I finish in the numbers I’m just super excited to be able to do it at all.

30 inches ago my waist size was around an 82..yes I said 82 which means I was bigger around than I was tall, in fact stretched out I was bigger around than many NBA basketball players are tall. now I’m down to about a 52” waist which is still big mind you but it means that in all likelihood if I can keep up the weight loss I’ll be in the 40s by the end of the year and that’s simply fantastic.

image18 is the number of holes currently in the belt I’m wearing right now as I write this having just drilled out the newest hole only moments ago. I couldn’t even wear this belt a year ago as I was too big for it…and most of my clothes for that matter. This belt will be with me to the end. The picture to the right was taken less than a year ago…I had already lost 30-40 pounds but that was still more than 160 pounds ago. (Oh and yes I was at a Tea Party with my best friend’s daughter…don’t judge)

And finally 207 pounds…that’s the total amount of weight I’ve lost in the last 12 months. That number is astonishing, and yet I still have more to lose, how much more I honestly can’t tell you. I only know that I’m going the right direction and I feel better right now than I have in years and I will know what my end game weight will be when I get there.

So one year down, and hopefully many more years to go, but I must admit I’m excited and nervous about year two. I bought a recumbent bike for the winter and a treadmill and a set of those elastic weight bands to exercise with, and I can’t believe I’m even saying this out loud, but I’ve also started to look into yoga classes…though I’ve not gone to any yet. So here’s to another year of weight loss, exercise and healthy living!

 

~rev (348 pounds)

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8 Responses to “One year, 30 inches, 18 holes & 207 pounds”

  1. Mom says:
    October 1, 2013 at 11:37 am

    You’re doing great! At what point are you going to start smiling in these ‘after’ photos? 🙂

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  2. rev says:
    October 1, 2013 at 11:40 am

    I smiled….ish 🙂

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  3. Stephanie says:
    October 1, 2013 at 12:47 pm

    Yay, you! So glad you are able to do all the great things you are doing now and will get to do soon.

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  4. Arjun says:
    October 1, 2013 at 1:47 pm

    how tall are you steve? btw, one of the things i noticed you mentioned somewhere on FB is that with the atkins diet, you have to be on forever or you put the weight back on. that’s actually untrue – i spend quite a bit of time cycling between atkins like low carb diets and high carb diets and i’m pretty skinny. granted i’m nowhere near your size to begin with, but the point is that you CAN get back to eating normal and not just bloat up all over again 🙂

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