I hesitated to write this post, because I can count on one hand the number of people who know my starting weight on April 1, 2010, and some of you are smart cookies who can reverse the math from earlier posts and figure it out. You know what, though? If sharing my journey encourages someone else, then I need to suck up my pride and humble myself, because this is such a doozie of a milestone, I simply can’t keep the joy inside.

Ready for it? … I am in the one hundreds!!!

199.2, to be exact. Just looking at that number seems so foreign; I’ve only seen triple-digits beginning with “2” for more than a decade. I’m happy, happy, happy! This also puts me less than 20 lbs away from my goal weight, which is another tangible Hooray for me.

Some “ideal weight” charts that I’ve seen put my would-be goal at 140-160, for my height but I’ve had my sights set on 180 from the beginning. I know that’s a healthy weight for me, and I would be will be pleased as punch to see it again. Heck, I weighed 135-140 when I graduated high school, and I’m not sure that would be an optimal size for me at this age; I wasn’t underweight back then, by any means, but come on – seriously? – I’ve borne three children. Stretchmarks preclude me from EVER wearing a bikini again, and besides, I’m happy to have a few womanly curves.

Last week, I met a couple of colleagues who I knew via email but had never met in person. It occurred to me after our meeting that they have never known the “before” Me, just the “after-in-progress” Me! 🙂