Not a drill: 5 pounds from minimum goal

[Flash-BCR]

Yay!! Great job!.... 👍

 

[randompersonrandom]

Wild rides! It's only snide if you don't respect that some women choose a life different then yours. To them, he may not just be "some guy".

Someone somewhere will always have an opinion about things they know nothing about. If I had a dollar for every judgey comment about my marriage... I do what works for me and leave others to do what works for them.

Celebrate with abandon!

Oh yeah, let me be SUPER clear--I do NOT mean that every marriage is some woman giving all her energy to some dude who expects her to do for him. Plenty of them aren't like that. They're just common enough in Gen x and up that I feel lucky to not be in one at my age, because the odds weren't in my favor there.

 

[Sasquatch]

Congratulations Rando!
We can say we knew you when. . . .
Celebrate with a new guitar, strings, or amp. (trust me 😁)

 

[randompersonrandom]

Congratulations Rando!
We can say we knew you when. . . .
Celebrate with a new guitar, strings, or amp. (trust me 😁)

I want a Shelton tongue drum in D-minor so bad. If I weren't budgeting for getting my eyes done in August, then THAT would be my end-reward. 😂

 

[SeaGypsy]

 

[Enyola]

Congratulations!
... Oh, and do buy that full length-mirror! Not as a tool of vanity, but of realism. I can attest that regularly seeing my body was helpful to upgrade my brain on the perception of my body size. It does sink in after a while, hardly noticable at first.

(I really noticed when I regained last time in my pre-glp1-times, how used I had become to my slimmer appearance. But that's another story.)

 

[birdwhacker]

Congratulations random! I'm almost below 200 now! Just 30 more lbs until I get to the "healthy bmi range" LOL

 

[laansasa]

Fantastic! I enjoy reading mamy of your posts. Glad you will stay with us.

As for being hot while you're still "young enough to enjoy it", what is the age cut off for that? 🤣🤣🤣

THIS is gonna be me:

 

[derekd419]

Scale said 126 lbs today. I stare at my thigh gap for way too long, because it seems fake. My clothing sizes seem fake. I have weird bones in weird places. I keep thinking about getting a full length mirror, then scolding myself "That is unlikely to build character, randompersonrandom. You can look at yourself in the ones in the gym if you want to see it so bad." Every conversation starts with "YOU ARE SO SKINNY". I still look fat to myself, but I KNOW it's in my head and don't concern myself with it.

My no-lower-than-this is 121, and I'm on track to get there in the next month. And then I'm like....done trying to get more off.

I'll celebrate with one of those big Costco blueberry muffins as a joke with a family that kinda adopted me down here. (I was 186 pounds a couple of years back, eating one of those and lamenting that I couldn't afford ozempic. One of the women in that family said, deadpan, "If you're obese and have an associated comorbidity, sometimes insurance will pay for it. (Pause.) Have another muffin.") But my regular losing-weight food is very good, and I go to the gym because it's pleasant to exercise when you're not overweight, which nobody told me, so that won't be hard to keep doing.

I have no experience whatsoever at "not needing to lose weight right now." I have always been either actively working to lose weight, or gaining weight while stressing over the fact that I need to get hold of myself.

This will be my first time where when I get on the scale, it will be with the hope that it says what it said yesterday, last week, last month. This will be the most surreal experience.

The moment we all wait for & finally achieving it feels so surreal! 🎉 👏🏼 I've lost 95 pounds once before & am currently on my 2nd major weight loss (lost 70 so far with 20lbs to go) so my day's coming soon, as well as everyone here 🫡