It's Delle!

Someone on the WW boards mentioned they read my blog (news to me, I didn't think anybody stopped by here aside from my best friend!), so I thought I should put a little blurb about me. I made this journal so I can keep track of the things I'm doing and how I'm thinking and feeling as I journey along the road to getting thinner. It's not intended to be written to an audience, it is honestly something I am writing to myself, and I find it so helpful to be able to look back even 4 months ago and see what kinds of things I was experiencing...so many of our experiences in life slip through the cracks, and I want to remember as many of them as I can in relation to my weight loss; the good, the bad, and even the oh so ugly ones!

So many people say they've struggled with their weight for years, but this is not tue for me. I've been overweight from my earliest memories, and morbidly obese all of my adult life, but I was not the type to yo-yo diet, so in that sense I was not struggling. I don't know what my highest weight was because I didn't have a scale to weigh myself when I started getting set to lose weight. In the year before I started WW I started trying to eat less junk food and to get a little activity into my routine. When I started WW I was 288 lbs and wearing a size 22, and I know the year before I was wearing a size 26 (which was tight on me), so I'm guessing I was easily in the low 300 lb-range at my highest weight.

For the first year of my weight loss journey I was incredibly focussed and motivated. I was keeping my weight loss a secret from my family back home in Newfoundland, and my goal was to surprise them on my trip home in July. Needless to say it was quite a shock to a lot of people when I showed up over 100 lbs lighter without any warning!

Right now I am getting back on track after my trip back home. I wasn't following WW for a while due to comp issues, not to mention life issues, and I've gained back some of the weight I had lost. I got away from journalling, but I'm back at it again and am using it to help me get my focus back. I also like using it to keep track of my activity, although I've not had an organised execise regime for a few months now due to an injury. I'm getting back into my activity, however, and I will be updating all my numbers soon.

As I said, I don't write in this blog with an audience in mind, but if anyone had any questions or comments on anything here, please don't hesitate to post!

BTW, the name of my blog came from a comment my supervisor at work made one day when I was in the middle of a full-blown rant about something I had to do that was infuriating me. He interrupted me and said something to the tune of, "Don't worry about it you don't have to do it. And my goodness look at you! Where are you going, everytime I see you, you're smaller! It's crazy, you're the incredible shrinking woman!!" The moment was funny and unexpected and seemed to sum up my life right now, so I came home and re-titled my blog.

Now all I need is a cape...

Monday, December 10, 2007

And what strength I have's my own

I am very tired tonight; I think I did not get near enough sleep last night to get caught up. I did end up staying awake later than I had planned. I was not overly tired this morning, but it was indeed a long, tiring day. I was in good spirits when I left, but when I got to the store I nearly went tits up on the icy parkinglot, and it only went downhill from there. Everyone seemed to have a stick up their arse today, and I ended up spending a little time in the warehouse kicking a cardboard box and venting. Afterward I did feel better was able to refrain from kicking coworkers and customers. I did get to see the fellow with the pretty eyes when he came in looking for a movie, and that is always nice. He tried to get me to sell him my copy of Silent Hill for PS1, but I tell him he's on crack if he thinks I would ever part with it. Another good thing about today was getting to work with V. She and J had me in stitches telling me stories about their very Italian fathers. That culture is too funny.

I felt bloated today, I definitely think TOM is going to show up soon. Especially since yesterday I got all emotional and homesick in the early afternoon and had a little sniffle-fest, listening to music from home. I would dearly love to get TOM here and out the door before the weekend. I was going to have some milk after supper, but since I was too tired to exercise and earn it, I gave it a miss. I'm planning to save all the APs I can for this weekend when B visits. I can't believe it's only 4 more days, where does the time go?

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