Body Wrap #2 Results & chit chat!

So I lost another 14 inches today w/ the second wrap. I made this excel document to track the inches before and after each wrap and to look and see if I gained any inches after the 1st wrap to the 2nd wrap. I did gain some inches in the last week, although my weight has stayed the same. So I'm guessing those inches were from water weight or something. I maintained 7.4 inches lost. Not as cool as 19 but hey, I'll take it. Then losing the 14 today was cool!

The red panties are after wrap #1 and blue ones are today after wrap #2. I'm not doing another wrap for a few mths, maybe after I'm down another 20 lbs or something. It's not something I see blowing money on every month if you only maintain about 1/3 of the inches lost. But I am still excited about all the inches lost w/ each one and just hope I'll maintian then as I continue to lose weight since I can have pretty good confidence I won't be gaining weight anytime soon.

Sorry for the crap on the mirror today. The boys are getting into brushing their teeth on their own and they think it's a major play time. I would've cleaned it but wanted to just hurry and do the pics! Hard to tell which is dirty and what is stretch marks, haha!

I see the biggest difference in this side one again.

Lately I've thought a lot about strangers telling me I look good or friends saying I don't need to lose anymore. These are all people who don't realize I weigh 238 lbs. I think it's "OK" weight considering I've been much higher but it's not healthy. For me I think I'd be fine w/ the number on the scale w/ anything below 200 even if I just stay at 198 or something. I am much happier w/ my body, self esteem, self confidence, etc. but I want to be considered healthy more than anything. My exciting goal before was to be a size 14 in jeans and now I'm like 1 & 1/2 sizes away from that so there's a strong possibility I could be a size 14 at 200 lbs. For me this is all a "wait and see" journey. I don't know where it will end, exactly how I'll get there, how I'll feel about it all, or anything really. I'm just waiting and seeing and assessing on a regular basis how I'm doing and how i'm feeling about myself.

Thinking about visiting Arkansas again in March, I think about my weight. Most of those people out there weren't impressed w/ my weight b/c at 248 that's where I was when I lived there last, the last time they all saw me. They didn't see me get up to 295. So I was feeling good about myself then (in october) but I didn't expect them to notice. The only people who said anything were ppl who k new about the surgery. (a select few). Sooo, since then I've lost 10 more lbs. And that is super exciting! I have like 3 1/2 more mths until I go back and since being home I've lost roughly 5 lbs/mth. So if I'm down a tiny 15 more lbs by then, that'd be super. It'd be slow but it'd be ok. I can't be mad at myself for that. So that would mean I'd lost 25 lbs since they saw me last, that's gotta a size difference in jeans.

That reminds me, I have a few pair of jeans and dress pants in my closet that were too snug like 4 mths ago so I think now or when I'm down a few more lbs I'm going to try them on and see if I can add them to my wardrobe, that'd be exciting!!! I have this pair of dress paints that are houndstooth I believe, soooooo damn cute! I'd love for them to fit, I don't think they ever have.

Well I'm gonna go now, I'm tired and gotta take my youngest child to see a counselor today. Hope that turns out okay!
xoxo,
Liz