ONDERLAND at last!

I almost can't believe it's true.

Today, for the first time in my adult life, I weighed in under 200lbs (198.8lbs to be exact). It was exactly 114 weeks ago that I took my very first shot.

I'm 57 years old, and this is the first time in my adult life that I've ever been sub 200. I started this journey as a true skeptic. When it became clear that this was actually working, I dared to hope that I might actually get back to a weight that was sub 300lbs. Not in my wildest dreams could I have imagined this day.

It's taken 8 months to lose these last 10 pounds but I think that mostly due to an almost unmanageable amount of stress in my life during that time.

I want to say too that my overwhelming focus has been on improving my health and quality of life. The number on the scale has honestly been secondary. But that said, this FEELS like a momentous threshold even if I know intellectually that in the grand scheme of things, it's an arbitrary number.

I have my annual physical coming up at the end of this month and I'm genuinely looking forward to it and getting updated lab results.

What a life altering transformation this has been!