I did something silly

First let me tell you why:

My shoulder is seriously jacked up. I have done the whole "rigorous exercises" with my arms- lifting weights, doing push ups, etc- and have had to stop a few weeks in after my shoulder starts hurting. My arms are now saggy with the extra skin/fat that has fallen down since I have started losing weight.

Now I will tell you what:

I bought this- http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001VC16LS/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i00

The reviews on this and similar products are very high. My hopes are high.





Also, I did a body wrap today, which may or may not have dissociated some of my celulite.

Current weight. 169.2. I didn't lose any weight on my final 2 weeks of HCG. I guess I'm getting to that point.

Warning: Long Post Ahead

I know that I said I would bask in my success today, and that I would wait to set my final goal, but I'm a little gung hoe right now.

See, I basked in my weight loss all day today. I woke up this morning, and saw the scale (YAY!)

Then I went to work to do my final weigh in for the biggest loser contest. Even the scale at work said 169.4. I lost 12.14% of my body fat, and I won. Then I went to school, where my first class was let out an hour early, and my second was let out 45 minutes early.

I went straight from school to go find a good nail salon that could do my nails on such short notice. When I found one, I decided to go ahead and get a pedicure as well. I've never had one before. It was fun, and the lady made them purple to match my nails. So, now my toes do not look that funky chipped away red color that they are in the picture.

I went online and bought more HCG (because I'm almost out). I bought it from http://www.hcgdropsreal.com - They claim to have the real stuff. I guess we'll see. I'm pretty sure it's illegal to have the real stuff, but I kind of hope they're breaking the law. Link 

I also bought some sandals (that aren't flip flops, so I can wear them to work) online. I'm pretty sure I'm done now... except I think my mom owes me a new outfit... Pretty sure she said she'd buy me one when I first started these shenanigans.

If you remember, when I started the biggest loser contest, my co-worker Joe and I decided to have a little side contest. So, I would have won that today as well, and I could have just gotten $25 from him, but I made him a little wager.

I have always said I would reevaluate myself at 170. I knew it wasn't a healthy weight either, but it was so unfathomable for me when I was 270, that I needed to have that mile marker. I guess this is where I'll tell you my new goal. I will be healthy at 140lbs. It's a perfectly healthy weight for a 5'3" woman. That's 30 pounds left to lose. I could use a little extra motivation for that (even though I'm in the middle of a round of HCG). That brings me back to the wager with Joe- He is heavier than I am, so a "biggest loser" type of contest would give me an advantage. It would be percentages, and I wouldn't have to lose as much weight as he would to lose the larger percentage.

Basically, the rules go like this:

• Double or nothing. Now the loser pays the winner $50.
• Pound for pound. No percentages this time. If we did percentages, I could lose 10lbs and win. I don't want to win just from losing 10lbs.
• Weigh in once a week. This is more about motivation than it is about competition. We'll lose our motivation if we aren't constantly reminded.
• Starting tomorrow and going to October 8th. That's 3 months to lose 30lbs.
• If I lose 30lbs, and he loses 30+lbs, then we tie. Game over. Nobody pays. I have no reason to lose more than 30lbs, so I think that's fair, and I want to help motivate him to at least start getting healthy.

That's pretty much that. Moving on:

I am doing a cellophane wrap in a couple of weeks. I think it's on the 26th, but I've got to call to make sure. It's whenever my round of HCG is over. Basically, it claims that it is a detox process that will help me lose 1-4". I'm not so concerned about the inches, and I definitely don't expect to lose weight from it, but I would like for my fat to be reshaped... if that's possible. I'm expecting it to loosen up my cellulite clumps, so I can lose them more evenly. At the very least, it's going to be fun and girly.

According to the HCG I'm using now, I could do this round for more than 40 days, but the cellophane people won't let me get wrapped while I'm on HCG, so I may just take off for a few days to do the wrap, and jump right back on. The HCG I'm switching to is supposedly pure, so I would become immune to it after 40 days, but I'm not starting it until next week sometime.

A couple of things that I would like to point out at this time:

• My thighs still rub together a little. Not a lot, but some.
• I still have a fat roll that hangs down from my stomach. It's much smaller, and much flatter, but it's still there.
• My arms are very dangly. They are not so full of fat, but they are flabby.
• Pretty much all of my skin is stretchy. Except for my arms and my stomach, my skin doesn't hang down, but it's pretty stretchy everywhere.
• My bum is still very voluptuous. It is still very bubbly, and very... umm... out there.
• I've been wearing the jeans from the back of my closet that never fit.
• I can see my collar bone very clearly.
• I'm pretty sure my ring size has gone from a 10 to a 8. My size 9 ring is too big. I'm not sure what size my previous rings were, but I think they were a 10.

Here we go.

Finish Strong. 

169.4

I could cry right now... seriously... It's a good day. At some point in the not too distant future, I'll reset my goals, but right now, I'm going to bask in this.

I've lost a hundred pounds. Officially.


And final weigh in for the biggest loser contest is this morning. Wish me luck!