After weighing myself at my parents house yesterday, I realized that over the last 5 years or so (moreso I think in the last 2-3 years) I have lost approximately 30lbs. No wonder everyone asks me if I have lost weight. It is amazing how your weight can fluctuate so much and it's not that you don't realize it, but you don't necessarily feel 30lbs lighter. I know for a while I was wearing size 14s, and now I am even fitting into some size 8s. I think I am skinnier than I was in high school. I am sure that I was wearing size 12s in high school. I am not trying to brag or anything, it just kind of hit me yesterday about the 30lb thing.

The summer I worked at camp (2001) I am sure I put on 10-20lbs over a 3 month period. I think after that I was the heaviest that I have ever been. I am sure it didn't help that I worked for a year in a parkade booth sitting on my butt after camp. I think massage school helped, but more than that being in a job that is physically demanding, and I know that since I got married I eat less than I used to at mom and dad's. I remember when I was in massage school that when we did our 'Q1 clinic' where we had friends and family come in to receive relaxation massages to get an intro into the clinic atmosphere, I would just pour sweat. I had to wear a head band so sweat wouldn't trickle down into my eye. Not that I am in great shape now by any means, but I definitely find it easier than I did way back then. I like this business of being skinnier, and I plan to keep myself like this! I haven't given up any snacks or bad foods, and I think that sometimes that's where dieting fails is when you have to give up eating the things you enjoy. I suppose my weight loss has been due to a change in lifestyle. I guess now when people ask me if I have lost weight instead of saying "I don't know, have I?" I will say, "Yes, I have, thank you."