An OMG moment

Just had to share because I've been a bit frustrated lately because after losing 50 lbs, I've now plateaued the last 4 weeks after starting a cardio/weight training program (yes I know all the reasons, water retention, muscle gain, etc - still frustrating though!)

Any way, sometimes it takes an OMG moment to make yourself feel better and very proud of your accomplishments to date.

Mine was last night - I was a pretty big girl (up top too) and therefore used to never be able to actually wrap myself in a towel, tuck it in and walk around, therefore I rarely ever tried. Well last night I needed to walk out of the bathroom, so I wrapped the towel around me real quick. Not only did it fit around me, it overlapped a full 6 inches!!! I literally said OMG and my eyes teared up, I was so excited. My husband just kind of laughed at me, and said didn't you realize how much smaller you are now? Well, no not really. It was really a reality check.

So, anyone else have any OMG moments they'd like to share?

When I was at the Borders cafe last weekend, as our drinks were called my bf got up to go get the drinks as he always does, but started to walk past our table on his way back. Later on he told me that he thought I was a different person because I looked too thin to be me ! He was hesitant to tell me because he thought it could have been taken as an insult but I am just going to take it as a compliment ;)

trying on a suit jacket that wouldn't even do up at the buttons and then trying it on now and seeing it baggy as hell. ive dumped 9stone/126 pounds in the past 12 months. i stood in shock for a good 5mins or so lol.

btw the old jacket was a 54/56 inch chest and now im a 46 inch chest or a 44 at a push. 

I haven't had an OMG moment yet, But I definately congradulate you on yours and hope for one through hard work.

I have been working out for a little over a month and have been sore more days than not, but not seeing a huge change in the mirror. (Well, I can see some muscle in my arms!) But my lower half is definitely my problem area.  I just had my OMG moment a second ago when I realized my body fat dropped from almost 30% to 22.8%! (I have a scale that measures body fat.) 20% was my goal and now I want to go even lower! Yay!

You know how skinny girls always have those two little dimples on their lower back? Well, I was sitting down and talking to my sister one day, wearing a short-ish shirt and some low-rise jeans, and she pointed out that I had those.

Also, a friend I hadn't seen in a while gave me a hug, paused with his hands around my midsection and said "wow! you really have lost weight!"

I have lost about 60 pounds since my all time high (most of it last year).  I have had a ton of OMG moments along the way.  The most unexpected was when I realized that I actually had knuckles. . .like clear definition and bone that did not used to be there at all (I had really pudgy little hands).  I tend to not realize how much weight I've lost though.  Just this last week, I was at a meeting and there was a really large woman there.  She was balancing a book on the top of her stomach, just kind of letting it rest there.  And I remembered how I used to be able to do that too. . .when my belly was bigger!

I just had an amazingly awesome OMG moment!! And I was so excited that I had to tell someone...so I'm telling it here : )

I live on the 3rd floor of a dorm. Today was laundry day. Laundry is in the basement...and it was a FULL load today. As I'm dragging it back up to my room, I'm thinking, this is crazy heavy. (Usually I have smaller loads...but I kind of forgot to do laundry earlier this week...shhhh!)

I thought back to reading people weighing different things or picking up weights and realized that it was how much weight they had lost off of themselves. I decided to try and weigh the basket of laundry. I thought it was going to be about 60 lbs (totally guessing...it was REALLY heavy). 60lbs is how much my goal is.

By the time I got to the top of all the stairs, I was red in the face and a little winded.

Got to my room. Put it on the scale.

THIRTY POUNDS. All of that heavy, heavy, bulky laundry that was making me gasp for air weighed only 30 lbs. Here is the kicker:

As of this morning, I've lost EXACTLY 30 lbs!!!

Talk about your eye opening experiences!

Well done you and well done everybody else this has been a great read on a Friday when I really don't want to do any work!!

But I've just had a very similar OMG moment.

One of the young ladies who works in my office came through to say the water cooler bottle needed changing and as a gallant gentleman rushed up to change the bottle. The women followed me into the store room (this is not going anywhere by the way!!) with the empty water bottle.I picked up the full bottle, and as normal tried to look like it wasn't heavy and be really macho (all guy's do this ladies!!)

However I thought I would look at how much the bottle weighed. Its an 18.5 litre bottle and I worked it out at weighing around 38 pounds.........I have lost 36 pounds only 2 more to go..............OMG

This is just a little thing but I liked it hahaha

The other day my sister needed some help with her biology homework, so I went to get my book from school that weights 4 kg (~9 lbs). It had been a while since I had moved it and I thought "oh god, stupid heavy book!" and then I realized that I was carrying all that weight on my body just a few weeks ago!! It was like "OMG this is just crazy!" hahaha

The other thing that bhappened was that, usually my pj pants are like...not tight but not baggy either, just..fit haha Yetserday I noticed they were - barely - hanging on my hips :O Awesome =)

my latest OMG moment happened today.

I was walking home from the gym, wearing my winter coat that i had bought just a few months ago.  When I bought it at the store I noticed how thin it made me look.

I caught a glimpse of myself in a store window and I thought "Dear god.  I'm swimming in it! This coat makes me look huge." Looks like for next winter I'll have to buy it in a medium!

Other recent ones. I can feel my rib cage if I rub on the sides of my chest really hard.  I didn't even know it was there before this :) And I'm starting to see a lot of definition i my shoulders. yipee!

My first real OMG moment happened when I went clothes shopping last summer.  At that point I was at about 135lbs, after being 210lbs at my peak a year before.  I went to the dressing room with the first couple of pairs of shorts to try on, size 12s.  I thought that seemed pretty reasonable.  They practically fell off!  I ended up buying size 8s, and those were quite comfy.  Now I'm at my goal weight of 120lbs and in size 2/3.  To go along with that, I looked at a few of my old photos on facebook around the same time, and saw that I didn't even look like the same person.  My boyfriend commented on that too.  He wouldn't have recognized me from them (they were taken before we started dating).  I posted a few on my profile page for comparison :D

(Oh, I'm 5'3")

karingordon you just gave me an OMG moment! I didn't even think about it, but when I read your post about being able to feel your ribs if you try, I tried feeling mine.

AND I COULD! I literally said, "Ohmygod" out loud.

In other OMG news, I am wearing size 10 jeans now. In my adult life, I have never worn a size 10. Now, sizes have changed over the years, but I still treasure those 10s and look forward to the next milestone of single-digit sizes.

Also, with my recent weight loss, I'm down 56 pounds now, and that made me realize that the last time I could remember being this weight was... never. Which is not to say that I have never weighed less than I do now, but I weighed 153 when I got pregnant with my son (he's 20 now) and I never lost some of the weight I put on while pregnant with him. Between his birth in 1988 and 1992 when I joined a gym, I did not weigh less than 172 and my weight only went up from there.

I now weigh 171.

More of a "Oh, Thank God" moment for me.  I went out with my friend running errands a couple days ago.  Every since then I've been gaining weight.  Not ounces, but pounds.  Couldn't figure out what was going on.  My calories were good, still exercising at least an hour a day....

This morning I realized I was weighing myself with the new wrist weights on!

I've actually lost almost 4 lbs this week!  Whewwww!

I've been reading this thread a lot lately, because unlike so many others out there, this one is inherently positive and it makes me feel good to read about other people's successes. I had my first OMG moment yesterday. I was taking my dog for a walk and it was so warm out I didn't need my usual coat. Still needing to take the required 'poop bags' with me I grabbed a fanny pack that I use to carry them in warm weather when I don't have coat pockets. I hadn't worn the fanny pack since last October. Well, my OMG moment was that the fanny pack slipped right over my hips and landed around my knees!!! Tough for walking, but great for the ego! Have a great day everyone!!

I had a great OMG moment recently too.  While talking to my sister on the phone about my weight loss (-100lbs. and still going!), I was lamenting that I wished that I had some of my favorite clothes, including my prom dress, from senior year.  She told me that she had my dress (she had saved it from a donation pile my Mom had made) and she sent it to me.  To my utter amazement - it fit! It has been 20 years since I wore that dress! I ran to show my husband, who was my date for that prom, and he told me how awesome I am.  I was beaming for the rest of the day!

I had been having a hard time losing even a pound a week when I began doing this...today I realized I've lost 4 pounds in the past 12 days...and I'm only 8 pounds away from the halfway mark!  I can do this!!

Original Post by luvcali:

I had a great OMG moment recently too.  While talking to my sister on the phone about my weight loss (-100lbs. and still going!), I was lamenting that I wished that I had some of my favorite clothes, including my prom dress, from senior year.  She told me that she had my dress (she had saved it from a donation pile my Mom had made) and she sent it to me.  To my utter amazement - it fit! It has been 20 years since I wore that dress! I ran to show my husband, who was my date for that prom, and he told me how awesome I am.  I was beaming for the rest of the day!

 That is SO great!! I can really relate to this one....I haven't fit into my prom dress in 20 years, when I wore it. I have a long way to go. The day I fit into it I will wear it all day!!

Congrats on your 100 lbs. I know how hard a road it is - I am at 75, have another 75 to go, and man is it getting tougher and tougher all the time!

Original Post by luvcali:

I had a great OMG moment recently too.  While talking to my sister on the phone about my weight loss (-100lbs. and still going!), I was lamenting that I wished that I had some of my favorite clothes, including my prom dress, from senior year.  She told me that she had my dress (she had saved it from a donation pile my Mom had made) and she sent it to me.  To my utter amazement - it fit! It has been 20 years since I wore that dress! I ran to show my husband, who was my date for that prom, and he told me how awesome I am.  I was beaming for the rest of the day!

This New Years my friends and I threw a party that was "wear that thing that you absolutely love that hangs in the back of your closet because you never get to wear it but you just can't part with it"  It was a great night.  Some people wore old halloween costumes, or school uniforms.  I wore my Senior year prom dress from high school, a size 16.  It was a bit tight on my chest, but fit everywhere else.  My goal for next year's party is my Sophmore year prom dress wich is a size 12.... keeping my fingers crossed and my butt on that treadmill.

Thanks for all the OMG moments, they're great!

This week I had two OMG moments.  The first was when I needed to go to Target and get some CDs and I decided to look into getting a few new teeshirts since it was getting warm.  To my amazement I fit into a medium with no problem, when I remember an XL being way too tight. 

The other moment happened this morning.  I was running late to work and had to sprint a block to catch my bus.  When I caught it, I realized I wasn't winded from my sprint!  I was so amazed by that, I think I want to work on this even more and start running for exercise.  If the treadmill is free at the gym this afternoon, that's exactly what I'm going to do.

I recently went to the mall to look for a couple new blouses for work.  I've been wearing the smallest size in the plus-size department, so I picked up a few things to try on and they were too big!  I ended up buying the same items I had tried on, but in the regular women's department.  Now I just have to go down one more size before I can also shop for pants in the regular women's department.  I cannot wait until I no longer have to go to the plus-size section!

Also, feeling your ribs when laying down.  I had no idea they were there!  :o)