The Big 5-0!

So I've wanted to get this written all week, but I haven't had time to sit down and collect my thoughts. Gonna give it a shot this morning.

On Sunday (at least I think it was Sunday), I hit a HUGE milestone in my weight loss journey. I FINALLY reached the 50 pound mark! Now that's not my goal. I still have ten or so more pounds to go before I hit that. But man. Fifty pounds is a LOT! I have tried to think of things that weigh 50lbs.  A bag of concrete mix....five big bags of sugar...and Rog told me one time that a man-hole cover weighs 50lbs (he has ALL KINDS of random bits of information like that tucked away in that brain of his!!)
Anyway...when I think about those things, and I try to imagine lifting any of them, I just don't think I could do it. MUCH LESS carry them around! But that's what I was doing. Every day. All day.
NO WONDER I was exhausted ALL the time!

So how did I get started on this journey? Well, one might think it would be when my doctor told me my cholesterol levels were getting pretty high, and if something didn't happen, I might have to start taking meds. Or maybe when she said something about pre-diabetes. But nope. When I heard that news, I would just shake my head and say, "I know. I know. I need to lose weight. It's just so HARD. (whiney voice)" and I went on doing the same things I always did, getting the same results I always got. 
The motivation to really get off my can and start DOING something came some time in August of last year I think. It went like this... "Mom. I'm getting married!! IN MAY!"

WHAT?????? MAY??? Like the May that is nine months from now???? HOLY CRAP!! I've got to DO something!!! It was then and there I adopted the mantra "I WILL NOT BE A HEIFER IN MY DAUGHTER'S WEDDING!"  See, my sister had gotten married the year before, and I have one of her wedding pics of our family hanging in my hall. I have to look at that picture every day and see what a COW I was. I could not STAND the idea of looking like that in a picture that would be hanging in someone else's house. So...my motivation for losing weight? Vanity. Pure vanity.
But hey. It has worked.

Now this is getting to the point of being too long, so I'm going to say "Stay Tuned" to find out how I got started on this lifestyle change. The Big 5-0, Part 2, coming soon.