MY WEIGHT LOSS JOURNEY CONTINUES

I'd love to say that I've lost a lot of weight, but that's not the case.  I have lost some.  But more importantly I've had more energy and felt better than I have in years.  Losing weight for me this time is not a race to see how quickly I can get there.  Actually I haven't decided on where I want to get to.  I'm just taking it a day at a time and hoping it will be a life style change that I can stay on forever.  I've dropped a size.  Actually it's closer to 2 because my jeans had gotten pretty tight.  Every week or so I go back into my "skinny" closet and take out some smaller clothes and try them on.  It's been great to have some of those clothes that I haven't worn in 9 years to fit again!  I've also had a couple of dresses that still had the tags on them that I can wear now.  My sister-in-law said that it's fun to go shopping in your own closet and I agree!! 

I'm still lifting my hand weights 3 times a week.  I've gone from the 3lb weights to 5 lb to 8 lb to 10 lb to 12 lbs.  I feel pretty good about that.  I'm still only walking a mile most days.  I know I could walk more but I just don't want to invest the time knowing that I'd have to keep it up for years and know that I won't, because I didn't when I lost weight before and was walking 4 miles.  

I went this week and had my blood drawn at the doctors office for my yearly checkup.  When the doctor looked at the results he was amazed!  My numbers have always been within the normal range but they were even better this time.  I can't remember the numbers (I should have gotten a copy of the labs and maybe I'll go back later to get them).  His printout showed my results in the left hand column, the good range in the right hand column and notes in the middle where you veer off from where they want you to be.  I only had a notation and it was on cholesterol and it was LOW, and he said that was VERY good!  I'm below where they want a person who has already had a heart attack to get down to.  At the bottom it gave an indicator of your chances of having a cardiac event.  My number was only 1.6 .  I think the doctor was very surprised with the results but after all that I've read about the low carb diet I was hopeful that would be the result.