week one (again), baby

so week one weigh in has come & gone. & i'm content with the results. now, of course, i would've loved to have lost lots & lots of weight, but it didn't work out that way. BUT, i didn't gain, i did lose some weight, but something else even more miraculous occurred to me last night while at the Y.

week 1 loss/gain: -1.6 lbs
total los/gain: -1.6 lbs

first my ticker:


& they've updated their tickers to show my bmi & everything, NICE, very NICE :)

so here's the thing i realized: the weight loss is going INCREDIBLY slow, as in if this was a foot race i'd be outpaced by a snail, but it's not all about the freakin number on the scale. & it's not even all about the clothing sizes, because i'm back to wearing my "fat jeans" & can't really comfortably wear my smaller apple bottoms. /tear. BUT, here's the exciting part gang, i was doing my favorite program on the elliptical last night, the weight loss, it's a 28minutes program with a 5minute cool down. usually i wind up doing between 2.10-2.22 miles in those 33 minutes. & yesterday in that same amount of time i managed to do 2.54 miles, a new record for me!

now for anyone who's incredibly in shape that probably doesn't seem like a big whoop at all, but a year ago when i was working out at the company gym with miss jenn after training i hopped on an elliptical, lasted about 30seconds before i said i was going to die, i gutted it out for two minutes, literally fell off the elliptical & told jenn i was going to die. literally. she glided on, told me i wasn't going to die, & to get up off the floor.

& i didn't die. & my body is becoming stronger, my posture better, & my endurance greater. i do wish that all of this came along with a smaller jeans size & tighter glutes, but that will come in time if i keep doing what i've been doing. this really has given me what i've been lacking in weeks of late: hope.

ps, cute tattoo boy was not at the Y friday or yesterday. how dare he? ; )