I can hardly believe it! Today is the eleven year anniversary of my starting this blog. In honor of this, I decided to give a brief overview and some new data about the past 11 years.
In my very first post on August 4, 2007, Why I Am Fat, I weighed 278 pounds. I was so determined to get out of that “hellish nightmare” of morbid obesity!
….insert a decade of blogging here….
In my anniversary post last year, Ten Years of This, I was on the verge of giving up. I had lost 103 pounds, regained 85 pounds (soooo depressing), and one year ago declared that I would not be posting again unless I got back under 240 pounds.
And then I disappeared. I had very little hope that I would actually lose that much weight. I felt defeated. After all, TEN YEARS!! I thought maybe it was time to hang it up with the blogging and just be fat and happy. Eat what I wanted. Get over this ridiculous drive to lose weight. And I tried to do that. But misery followed and after several weeks of gaining weight and feeling a bit lost, I went to my doctor for help… and started on phentermine.
When I finally came back to blogging, it was October and true to my word, I had gotten under 240. I wrote a post called The Next Chapter and have been back ever since!
Today I put all of my monthly weigh-in data into a new graph. I’ve charted my weight over the years, but a few times I changed charts so never had a complete, current graph of my weight from the start of my blog. But I have one now, and here it is. Eleven years of Escape from Obesity:
As you can see, I marked the three significant periods of weight loss, and between the red lines I noted what method I was using to lose the weight: calorie counting, Medifast, and phentermine. All the time in between was spent trying.
I am SO GLAD to be at the bottom of that nice big slope at the end. I pray it will continue, although a bit less steeply, and then level out to a nice, long flat line with very little variation. That’s going to be the real trick: maintenance.
A bit of additional information my charting software gave me about the 11 years represented on this graph:
Weight change: -96lbs (-34.53% of body weight)
Starting BMI: 44.9 (morbidly obese)
Current BMI: 29.3 (overweight)
Wow. I never thought about the fact that I have lost over a third of my starting body weight! That is pretty amazing. No wonder I feel better!
Well that’s enough for today, and probably for tomorrow, too. I will leave my Sunday weigh-in number in the comments tomorrow. Thanks for all your support!