Wow- hard to believe it's been a year already! But on the same hand, look at all the changes I've been able to make this year!
And what a difference a year makes! By every indicator, I'm definitely improving my health and hopefully fighting back against my chronic conditions. First and most obviously, I am down 68 pounds! While it's slowed significantly, that's still an incredible amount of weight and I'm so grateful not to be hauling it around every day- I'm sure my joints are, too. Including the time before I started Ozempic, I hit a new milestone today and I am down 95lbs total!
I won my HealthyWager!!! In hindsight, I wish I had bet more because I felt like I was a sure bet. I'm considering placing a second wager but I guess it will depend on what kind of odds they are giving me!
Secondly, while I didn't take measurements at the start of my journey (kind of wish I did but honestly I wasn't going to keep up with them), I have seen my clothes get bigger and bigger and become unwearable, which is awesome. And despite that niggling bit of anxiety that I've been in this place before, I am quite firmly getting rid of the ones that are too big to wear. I'm just going to have to deal with life and the demons that come up so that I don't regain the weight again because I genuinely believe I will die if I do. My body can't handle being the size it was. I started at a 4X, size 24ish depending on the clothes, and currently wearing XL, size 14-16ish comfortably.
Thirdly, my A1C dropped from 7.0 (confirmed diabetes) in April 2022 to 5.1 as of last week. That's not only not diabetic, it's not even at risk anymore. I have normal A1C! That's amazing and I'm ridiculously happy about that. No insulin, and no crazy restrictive diets or counting carbs, either- I couldn't live like that.
Fourthly, I'm making better choices- the soft positives rather than the hard positives of the numbers. While I'm not back to where I was in terms of my physical fitness before I got sick, I'm still battling my way back. My cardio fitness score has started to improve again, even if it's still below average again. And while I'm still struggling to get the frequency of my workouts back to my 4-6 times a week, I'm still getting in at least 1-2 a week plus long walks on 2 days, so I'm not back to being a couch potato. It's hard battling inertia, but it does get easier when exercise was just something that I did as a habit rather than something I had to make myself do. I'll get back there; I just need to keep working at it and not give up.
And fifthly- look at me! :)
The workout clothes in the first pic are a size 4X and the ones on the second pic are a 0X!
I still have more weight that I'd like to lose. I saved all my smaller size clothes from before I regained the weight, so I'm looking forward to having them all back. I'm already into some of them which feels great, but there's a particular pair of size ten jeans that are calling my name. I'm sure the journey forward will be slower since I have less to lose, but I will keep doing my best and take it one day at a time. Because all those individual days can really add up to a lot of progress! Look at what a year can do!
Start Date: November 7, 2022 0.25mg
OZ Week 3 gain: 2.0lbs
OZ Week 36 gain: 8.4lbs
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