I got an update on FB that it’d been a year since I finally went under the 300lb mark on my weight loss. I detailed the many ups and downs of weight loss in my life with these blogs HERE and HERE .

So this morning after my walk I was 271 pounds. After losing 20 pounds last summer, getting from 280 to where I’m at now has been a very slow process. That being said, I haven’t really been too strict on the diet front. From November thru about March I pretty much stayed between 277 and 281. I recommitted a bit more in April and May and lost a few pounds each month and hence where I’m at now. What’s been good is during those plateau months and even during the last couple months of small weight losses, I’ve very rarely had the wheels fall off like they used to. I try to eat decently most of the time, but the times where I do stray from ideal eating, I tend to get back on the tracks pretty quickly. I think realizing that you don’t need new years, or a new month to start over. You can literally start over at the next meal.

The one constant continues to be exercise. I really feel good that pretty much every day I’m getting some sort of good physical activity. Since Tampa Bay Downs ended I’ve upped my yoga class attendance to 4 or 5 times a week. Then I generally do weights twice a week and walk at some point most days. Also the yoga classes I’ve been taking have gotten progressively more challenging. I’m doing one hour sculpt and flow classes which are really intense mix of cardio/weights/yoga and they’re a killer workout. Even just a year or two ago I’d have had no chance to make it through them let alone thrive through them. I’m thinking that maybe I’m going to set a fitness goal of some sort just because mostly I’ve only been exercising for weight loss. But maybe it would be fun to try something more fitness goal specific. I thought maybe it would be fun to try and pass the police fitness test or something similar. I hate running so no 5ks or stuff like that.

The thing I’m fighting mostly with this year is just being glad I’ve gotten as far as I have and not pushing through to the next stage. I think ideally I’d like to lose 30 to 35 more pounds which in some ways seems like a lot and in others seems like just a few months of hard work. I think If I can just keep stay at this pace of 20 to 30lbs a year dropped, i’ll be there in a year or two. And it won’t feel like it’s super hard. I keep reminding myself this needs to be a long term lifestyle, not just get to the goal weight and go back to how I was eating and living before.

The best part continues to be clothes, I recently got into an XL shirt for the first time in forever and that was really awesome. I’ve been in the 270s for so long now I’m really excited to try and make that scale turn to hit the 260s soon. But in due time. Anyways, thanks for reading and for all the nice notes over the last few years, it means a lot.