A shopping win

Like I've mentioned on my other blog, I'm on some sort of mailing list for JC Penny. Twice a year or so they send me a coupon for $10 off an item $10 or more. I got one a few weeks ago and decided to use it to get a new pair of jeans for our cruise, since my favorite pair got a hole in them. =(

But i'm proud to say that I was able to get a nice pair of jeans, in size 14! This is the first time I haven't had to get a 16 in quite a while. They're stretchy, so I might have even been able to get a tight 12. However i'm glad I didn't, because after 5 days of ice cream cones and "warm chocolate melting cake", they are a little tighter than when I left lol.

But this just proves that even if I'm not seeing it on the scale, I'm doing better than I was. I've just got to keep working on it.

Me wearing my new jeans, with my husby, at the ruins of Tulum. Not the best picture to see how much I weight though, because of the shirt. Oh well.

Day 6 - Monday Weigh In!

Don't I look sexy in my "it's okay to sweat in these" clothes and elbow brace? (It's okay to say "no, no you're not." XD)

As of this morning I weigh 189.8 pounds! That's a little over 5 pounds less than I did last Tuesday. How freaking amazing is that?! Under normal circumstances it would take a month or two to lose that much, if I was dieting pretty strict and exercising 5 days a week. While I have been watching my sugar to avoid getting nauseous, I haven't exactly been dieting... and I only worked out one day last week.

If you'll notice, my little virtual weight loss model girl has changed a bit. Apparently she changes to reflect the weight you've lost every ten pounds. I've decided that I'll do the same and take a new picture every ten pounds. I don't see a change between this one and the last one really, but it's only been five pounds not ten for this first one. And really, there's not *that* much of a change with the VWLM either, more like a shift in where the weight is sitting.

In slightly related news...

Josh is trying to convince me to rethink the whole "never touching that demon Adipex crap again" thing. It is obviously too strong for me, but there's a good chance it's helping. I care way more about health than I do about numbers on a scale, but I also have to realize that losing weight is a big part of getting healthy. I'm going to look some stuff up online/call a pharmacist and see if I can only take half a pill, or maybe only take it every other day or something. If I can find a way to get some of the benefits while also avoiding flushing my metabolism down the crapper then I'll do it. If not I'll just wait till my doctor appointment at the end of the month and see what she thinks is best.

This is me, as I am.

I don't like having pictures taken of myself. I don't remember the last time I had my picture taken and thought it actually looked good. Hopefully through my doctor's help I'll be able to change that. This is me, as I am. I wish I was smiling in this picture but oh well, what can you do?

As it says in the little about me thingamabob, I've suffered from PCOS my whole post-puberty life. If you don't know what PCOS, perhaps this is the time to look it up. I didn't have the guts to go to the doctor about my problems till I was 19, and since then have been "treating it" with hormonal birth control. This worked okay, it's way better then no treatment at all, but still not up to my standards. With this method PCOS still ruled my life, and I'm determined to put an end to that. So this blog will follow my new plan of using Metformin and how well that works. If it doesn't work, perhaps this blog will then follow my next experiment. Who knows! So wish my luck on my journey to health and happiness. :)