Gooooaaaaaaaaal!

Ok, so this will be my last (hopefully, because I'm sure you're tired of hearing about it) post about my weight loss. I just wanted to post because I have officially reached and passed my goal.

So, I have lost a total (as of today) of 44.6 pounds. I am going to keep losing until I reach 55 pounds total loss.

Anyway, here are the inches lost during these past months:

Neck: lost 1.5 inches

Bust: lost 8 inches

Waist: lost 11.5

Hips: lost 10 inches

Thighs: 5 inches each leg

That equals a total of 36 inches in my whole body. I moved from a size 20 jeans to a size 14 and I'm working my way to a size 12.

I'm really proud of myself. I feel like for the first time in my life I'm actually doing it! I thank God for that study that got me started on this journey!

Anyway, here's a before picture:

And here's a current picture:

I'm so much happier! I feel much more like myself now. When I look in the mirror I'm not disgusted anymore (and that's somethin', y'all!).

So thank you for your encouragement. Thank you to That Chick, who inspired me to try. Thank you to God for keeping me motivated. I'm just so much happier! I feel like nothing can hold me back now...So thank you, guys, because your support has meant more than I can say!

Random Ramblings...

A patient asked me today if I cycled. I laughed and had a flashback of my first and last cycling adventure.

When I told him the story he laughed really hard. Apparently he's an avid cyclist and that was just the funniest thing he'd ever heard. I told him the fact that I have a bicycle seat permanently lodged in my hind end might sound like an advantage, but oh no--it's not.

Also, I feel like I might be sick and because of that I took some chewable pepto bismol and that made me feel even worse. So right now I am waiting on the time to tick away until I can go home and hopefully not throw up.

And lastly to report today, I did another inpatient study yesterday where they took some fat from my hip/lower back. I told her she could just keep on sucking it out if she wanted, but now that I can feel how sore I am, I'm glad she opted not to suck ALL my fat out. OUCH! i don't know how people actually have REAL liposuction.

OK, i really am feeling kind of sick. Perhaps heather passed on her virus to me. I better go. Post more tomorrow. :)

un-bee-levable

Yesterday I forgot my breakfast. Since I've been changing my eating habits, one habit I've had to add is eating breakfast. So, sometimes when I forget my breakfast I have to run across the street to a "cafeteria"-type building on campus and I just stop by there on my walk in to work and pick up a little to-go bowl of cereal. Yesterday's choice was plain Total cereal with a little skim milk. So, I get my bowl of cereal and I'm walking to my office when I (stupidly) walk under what I call the "bee-tree." I have no idea why, but there's a particular tree here on campus that is SWARMING with bees. I mean, that tree looks like it's moving because there are so many bees flying in/around it. I typically avoid the tree altogether by walking on the other side of the street. My only past experience with bees was getting stung on the buttocks while attending a Hot Air Balloon Festival a few years ago, so I wanted to avoid any future run-in's with The Bees. Yesterday morning I suppose I was so enthralled with my yummy cereal that I moseyed on under the tree while in route to my office. BIG MISTAKE.

As I passed under the tree a bee started buzzing around my face and I immediately lost my cool. Since I had my big heavy purse on my shoulder and my cereal in my one hand and my spoon (of course!) in the other, i started BLOWING at the bee. So here I am, standing still as a pole, blowing at a bee, trying to get it to go away. Then when that didn't work I started taking steps backwards--while STILL blowing at the bee. Needless (probably) to say neither of those things worked, so I dropped my purse and set (calmly) my cereal on the ground and then took off running. I zigged and zagged and weaved and bobbed....and that darn bee was keeping up with me the whole way. In fact, he was flying circles around my head and I am pretty sure I heard him saying, "HAHA! YOU THINK YOU CAN OUT RUN ME?? I'M GOING TO STINK YOU IN THE BUTTOCKS!" It was really scary. So here I am, in my professional environment, with my stuff splayed on the sidewalk running, ducking, and zig-zagging, while trying to get out of the grasp of this stubborn bee. I'm pretty sure I was the picture of competence for all my eye clinic patients.

Well, regardless of how stupid I looked, it worked, because eventually the bee was no longer buzzing in my face. I calmly straightened my shirt, brushed the sweat off my brown, and walked back to my purse and cereal. I picked up my purse and slung it over my shoulder...picked up my cereal and began eating as though nothing had happened.

I *might* have put a protective hand over my buttocks the rest of the way to my office. Once you get stung in the butt, you don't risk it again.

Please excuse my absence...

Ok! Hi...remember me? My name is KrustyLynn and apparently I have dropped off the face of the Earth this past month. OOPS. Sorry!

Anyway, I'm back in the swing of things and I have lots to tell about. The first thing I want to tell you about is...

(drumroll please...)

...no seriously...drumroll.....

OK, I reached my goal of losing 40 pounds and am currently sitting at 41 pounds. I was at 42.2, but I had a bit of birthday cake...anyway, I am going to do my measurements and then do ONE post about the differences and such...then hopefully you won't have to hear me talk about it much anymore. I am going to keep trying to lose until I've lost 50-55 pounds, so that I have a little bit of leeway towards staying under a particular weight over the years. But that will be a more gradual loss...

Anyway, that brings me to my second announcement...I had a birthday!! I turned 25 on August 11. Yay! It's really not that big of a deal, but I got to spend my birthday with my family and that was really fun! I had a great time with them! I would also like to announce that Heather is basically on the brink of needing a walker because she's so elderly and frail. Ha! just kidding, Heather! Just had to throw that in there since you turned 29!!! this year. haha!

Business at work has really really picked up. I typically blog while I'm at work (shhhh!) but lately I have not had a spare minute to blog...which is why I have been absent for almost a month. But I now have my old laptop back from heather, on which I can use at home to blog! So, yay! hopefully no more slacker Krusty. :)

This weekend we have company coming into town--friends. I'm excited about it...but there's LOTS to do. Jules has been working like 10 or 11 days straight with no day off, so she's been trying to rest whenever she can--poor thing. So there will be mass cleaning and laundry efforts over the next two days. I have no idea why I didn't work on some of it over the weekend! duh!

And, soon I am going to start reading the Ha*rry P*ott*er series. I have checked out the first two books from the library, but I haven't gotten a chance to start them. I have been told that if I enjoyed T*wili*ght then I would enjoy these, so I'm really excited to start them.

And I have a patient coming in now, so I have to go. But I promise I will make a better effort to write every day if possible!! I miss you guys!!