Goals I set for myself in Sept 2007

I thought it'd be fun to post the goals I'd set for myself in September 2007. Some of them are pretty silly... but when it came to weight loss, they were all very important to me. I'd started this journey at 288. It's still amazing to see pictures of myself at that weight and to think I ever got that large, and didn't even see it in myself.

1. Lose enough so I can travel & sight see. achieved 06/2009
2. Start an excercise program. achieved 06/02/08
3. Have my wedding ring sized smaller. achieved 04/2008
4. Shop at Victoria's Secret. achieved 10/27/08
5. Wear high heals. achieved 01/15/09 (comfortably!)
6. Cross my legs. achieved 07/13/08
7. Cross my legs and wrap my foot around my calf. achieved 08/2009
8. Buy all clothes at a regular store, not plus sized. achieved November 2008
9. Go skydiving.
10. Be able to tie my shoes and breathe at the same time. achieved 09/14/08
11. Weigh less than my husband. achieved 05/13/08
12. Have my chest be larger than my stomach. achieved 06/23/08 (it's officially 1/4 inch bigger!)
13. Sit in the Rose Garden seats comfortably. achieved 10/10/08
14. Use a public restroom comfortably. achieved 09/12/08
15. No longer take pain medication. (although I use this much less, I still have to use it... and probably always will)
16. Look down and see my feet. (I've decided my chest is in the way, and this is a good thing)
17. Join a softball league.
18. Wear a size 14 jeans. achieved 09/19/08
19. Run a mile.
20. Walk up three flights of stairs without being winded. achieved 09/24/08
21. Wear a size 9 jeans.
22. Run a 5K.
23. To no longer wear a necklace extender. achieved 07/16/08
24. Weigh 240. This puts me at only "obese". achieved 05/06/08 (weight 238.5)
25. Weigh 233. I haven't weighed this in over 7 years. achieved 05/20/08 (weight 232.0)
26. Weigh less than 200 lbs. achieved 09/09/08 (yea yea yea!!!)
27. Weigh 180. This puts me at only "overweight". achieved 01/20/09
28. Weigh 150. This puts me at "normal".
29. Acheive my goal weight of 140 lbs.
30. Run a marathon.
31. Play tennis with my son.
32. Paint my own toe nails. achieved 04/2009
33. Have my thighs not touch.
34. Buy a large sized shirt. achieved 10/04/08
35. To see my colar bones. achieved 08/22/08
36. To be able to buy clothes at COSTCO. achieved 09/27/08

Funny how some of them I still haven't met... some of them I'm not so sure I will. When I set these goals two and a half years ago I thought of myself a lot differently... in a way I think I could do a lot more things. Like the pain meds thing... I would LOVE to be off pain meds, but reality is I will be on them for life. It's just certainly nice to take them a lot less. Play tennis with my son... well, he doesn't play any more! LOL the last one that is kind of a dissapointment is the run a marathon. I really don't think this will happen. Which is okay. I don't think my bones and my fibromyalga will be able to handle it. But I am going to make myself do the 5k... even if it's only one time. Either way, it was kind of fun to go back and see how far I've come... to see how important some things are... to see how some things just won't happen at all... and how others really don't relate to how hard I work out or eat better... because some things will simply require plastic surgery now that I have all this excess "skin". Either way... I'm proud of myself.