Day Six

Hi everyone!  Anyone?  Samantha?   <------ If you laughed at that then you are my people!

Today is day 6 out of 365.  I am coming up on the end of my first week intermittent fasting and I am happy to report that I am also staying excited and motivated.  359 more days feels like cake to me!  I'm not even craving cake after typing the word cake!

I have really been wavering on posting some pictures.  Mostly I doubt more than 3 people in the history of the world will ever see this, but I am still apprehensive about photos.  I mean no one wants the internet to get a hold of bad pictures of them!  But I have decided to do something of a big photo dump on this post.  

I need to be able to go back and really see myself at my heaviest.  I need to be really honest with myself for the first time in a long time.   I am the queen of selfies.  I know how to hold the phone just right to only get my face and one shoulder.  I stand behind my kids, or hold props in front of me.  Yesterday I held my phone off to the side when I took a picture of my kids walking the dog.  I wanted to make sure my shadow wasn't showing.  My. Shadow.  If that's not a reason to commit I don't know what is.

I really am my own enabler.  If the picture on facebook is cute then I guess I'm not really that fat.  Never mind that Facebook rarely sees me from the neck down.

I had to dig a bit to find a full body pic.  This was a reject from my family's christmas pictures. 



Here is the one I eventually okayed. Note that I am hidden behind my son and my puppy.



Here I am on day five.  Still pretty rotund.  I am so very ready for these pics to start looking slimmer and healthier. 

 

And this is my 'official' before photo.  I took this on day one, before I even decided to document my weight loss adventure.  (weight loss journey sounds too HARD)



And my last picture of the day is a happy one.  This is me this morning wearing a winter jacket that is COMFORTABLY zipped up.  All winter I kept pretending to be 'a little warm' so I could unzip my jacket and breathe.  

Today it fit!


Tomorrow will mark one full week of IF and 20 hour fasts.  Wish me luck!


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