{"id":8083,"date":"2012-04-01T16:49:31","date_gmt":"2012-04-01T14:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.breigh.com\/wordpress\/?p=8083"},"modified":"2012-04-01T17:04:33","modified_gmt":"2012-04-01T15:04:33","slug":"halfway-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/archives\/8083","title":{"rendered":"Halfway There!"},"content":{"rendered":"

As most long time readers know, my weight loss journey started long before my gastric bypass<\/a>\u00a0surgery.\u00a0 Well technically it probably started when I was a young teenager, but this most recent attempt started in 2009.\u00a0 I tried a number of different things before finally deciding to go ahead with the surgery. \u00a0So while I am counting the lbs \/ kilos lost since January, I also consider the overall difference since my highest weight in 2009.<\/p>\n

This weekend I reached a two of my goals and bought my first weight-related reward since the surgery!<\/p>\n

\"New<\/a><\/p>\n

I got a new, comfy pair of shoes for walking.\u00a0 A necessary reward, as you can see, my old shoes (on the bottom) are dead as a doornail.\u00a0 I bought them in 2004<\/a> on one of my many attempts to exercise and lose weight and they\u2019ve been my walking shoes ever since.\u00a0 Nobody will ever say I don\u2019t get my money\u2019s worth out of my shoes!<\/p>\n

Anyway, they are my reward was for losing all of the weight I\u2019d gained in 2011 (I\u2019d lost approximately 38 kilos \/ 85 lbs in 2010 and gained back almost 20 kilos \/ 35-40 lbs of it in 2011).<\/p>\n

I am now less than one kilo away from my lowest weight from 2010 and I am so excited. Soon I will be seeing weights that I\u2019ve not seen on the scale in years.\u00a0 In so long that I don\u2019t even remember.\u00a0 I remember weighing myself after I graduated high school and being 205 lbs (93 kilos) and before I left Toronto to come to the Netherlands I was almost 110 kilos (240 lbs).<\/p>\n

That means that the last time I weighed a kilo less than I do right now I was somewhere between 18-23 years of age.\u00a0 That\u2019s almost 15 years ago\u2026\u00a0 Long enough to not even remember what it felt like.<\/p>\n

As I was entering my weight for today into my phone app, I realized something else!!<\/p>\n

\"Halfway!\"<\/a><\/p>\n

If you look at the first line, it says under \u201cstart\u201d that I am down 37.4 kilos (82.5 lbs) and under goal, it says that I still have 37.3 kilos go to.\u00a0 I am now officially over the halfway point!!\u00a0 I have set my goal for 65 kilos (143 lbs) which puts me just on the higher end of \u2018normal\u2019.\u00a0 It\u2019s entirely possible that I may find a comfortable spot before I get there, but I don’t know. \u00a0I have been obese all of my adult life so I have no idea what my \u2018happy weight\u2019 is so I just had to take a guess.\u00a0 I\u2019m sure I will know it when I get there.<\/p>\n

I am quite small in stature though, I have very small hands and feet and can never say I\u2019m big boned, so maybe that goal weight isn\u2019t as impossible as it feels right now.\u00a0 We\u2019ll see!<\/p>\n

In any case, this is the turning point I\u2019ve been waiting for, getting beyond my lowest weight from last year, getting past the halfway point and moving on to bigger and better things! \u2026 or should that be smaller and better?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As most long time readers know, my weight loss journey started long before my gastric bypass\u00a0surgery.\u00a0 Well technically it probably started when I was a young teenager, but this most recent attempt started in 2009.\u00a0 I tried a number of different things before finally deciding to go ahead with the surgery. \u00a0So while I am …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8079,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[618,323,349,877],"class_list":["post-8083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-weightloss","tag-goals","tag-shoes","tag-weight-loss","tag-weightloss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8083"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8090,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8083\/revisions\/8090"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}