20 Weeks: Then and Now

A lot can happen in 20 Weeks.  A lot more than I had hoped for.


On September 1st, 2011 I weighed 329 lbs.


This morning, January 19, 2012, extactly 20 weeks later, I weigh 293.2 lbs.  


That is a loss of 9 lbs since the last checkpoint (the goal was 5) and a total weight loss of 35.8 lbs!  My BMI has gone from 47.2 to 42.1.  I'm still categorized as morbidly obese, but I'm much closer to being healthy than I was before.


This is what I looked like 20 weeks ago.

 

And here I am today!

 
Okay, so I still have a ways to go, but I'm really happy to see some progress.
I feel a lot better, too!  I have a lot more energy, and getting up and moving is a lot more enjoyable.

P.S. I was able to go the whole 5 weeks without eating any desserts!  Okay, I did cheat a little... I licked the spoon while I was making birthday cake, and I definitely decided at one point that chocolate chip pancakes counted as breakfast, not dessert.  Other than that, I stuck to it!  I didn't even have any chocolate (other than the chocolate chip pancakes, of course!)  And... I'm going to keep going with my current challenges (including no desserts) until the beginning of February when I begin my new 20 Week Challenge.

Praise God, from whom all blessings flow!