Since it’s my place, I’m gonna talk about, um, me. Just for a touch, and then I’ll get back to music videos and jokes and funny cartoons I find out on the interwebs.

I’ve been working pretty hard to lose weight. OK, on my scale I’m working “pretty hard.” I haven’t signed up for a boot camp or the Biggest Loser or anything, mostly because I’m on a budget so there just isn’t an opportunity. Also because my schedule has to remain freakishly flexible sometimes and if there’s anything I dislike more than paying for a class that I may or may not be able to afford, it’s paying for a class I may or may not be able to afford and then not being able to attend because of a sick child or a soccer practice or something. So, I’ve been pretty much solo (along with the fine support at SparkPeople, who are fine folks indeed).

This means my progress has been pretty slow, heh.

I know this sounds like an elaborate excuse for being heavy, but it’s not, I’m just rambling about what I’ve been doing. So here’s the progress: Since last April I have gone from 289 pounds to 257. I now lift weights three days a week and walk around 6 miles a week, spread out over several days. With spring weather and better conditioning my walks are getting longer, too. Since last June I’ve dropped five inches from both my waist and hips and two inches from my thighs (replacing fat with manly muscles, I’m so sure).

Progress I have left to go: sixty pounds and about another five inches each from waist and hips. I don’t know any other measurements, let’s just say ‘proportional’ and leave it at that. So at this rate it’ll take another two years. At the end I just want to be fit and healthy. You can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear.

Now what I’m not sure about is why I feel like writing about this today. I think it’s because I’m feeling stronger in so many ways, but still have such a very long way to go. Not just physically but emotionally and in my relationships. Maybe that can be another post at another time.

I need to remind myself once in a while that it’s a journey. A very. long. journey.