OMG! When did I get so fat!!!

You've probably had this happen to you. You're kind of going along in life, lots of things pulling you in different directions, and you're not really focused on diet and exercise. You're trying to make the best possible choices, sometimes you do and sometimes you don't. You think you're eating right and you're squeezing in the exercise when you can.<br /><br />Then it happens. You see a picture of yourself. You can't believe your eyes. That can't be YOU!<br /><br />Actually, my moment of realization that I'm fat was even worse. It was a video taken by my husband last night. It was suppose to be a video of my sister but since my husband was handling the camera there's several minutes of me wheeling around in my sister's wheelchair at her new home (really kind of fun too). But when I saw the video, all I could see was a very fat Diana:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" class="b-hbp-video b-uploaded" frameborder="0" height="266" id="BLOGGER-video-1ee478a19b820e5e-16261" mozallowfullscreen="mozallowfullscreen" src="https://draft.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dyac9Kg_f-Bdb2QLKYzJZpXPLfs3U2yI98F1WL1Ynxg6Ri0i5qyoFQbeFzPkTGVk6gC_Gz-2ZuEJM3qiqqxGkA-A-wdqRa0zLdGWBPgsiNBCtMNhv1AcHJ2rZek4dvCUxMyoB5p" webkitallowfullscreen="webkitallowfullscreen" width="320"></iframe></div><br />I "thought" I was doing okay. I was weighing every day and was even down a few pounds recently, weighing 178 yesterday morning. I knew I wasn't skinny, but what the hell is that thing around my waist. It looks like I have an inflated inner tube under my shirt around my middle.<br /><br />How did I not see this when I looked in the mirror? Maybe because I don't look in the mirror when I'm sitting down. Maybe I should look in the mirror when I'm sitting down. Honestly, I had no idea I looked this bad. If I didn't know better I'd say I was well over 200 pounds. I wonder if my scale is broken.<br /><br />Okay, so I'm upset about how bad I look. I guess what really bothers me is that I didn't think I looked that bad. Boy, what an eye opener. Videos get me every time. They do not lie.<br /><br />Now I'm really serious about losing this weight. It's ridiculous I've waited this long and goofed off. I should have been at goal years ago. Plus, with all that fat around my middle I'm a strong candidate for a heart attack, or heaven foribd, a stroke!<br /><br />My tools of choice to lose weight, Weight Watchers of course, and my Polar heart rate monitor, as well as my BodyMedia. I'm going to track Points, starting today.<br /><br />Pictures of my sister's new home<br />Lastly, a few pictures of Arbor Rose, were my sister is living now. I love it. It's an adult family home with only six residents. Those are the flowers my niece Camille sent her. Camille is the sweet one.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbG8LRofW6RbPBvVSX8NqTWYdjgg-8eJaEzIu62WVga0CJP0K8Kr17OWtXqtoo3Qaz8lZe8z8AEowPORMsT02ov-nG-AUJfd2fo1QG429fdYJoX0xXZx8lGKKSNc7eyrstNPrUUfDHqfxf/s1600/Joyce_with_flowers.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbG8LRofW6RbPBvVSX8NqTWYdjgg-8eJaEzIu62WVga0CJP0K8Kr17OWtXqtoo3Qaz8lZe8z8AEowPORMsT02ov-nG-AUJfd2fo1QG429fdYJoX0xXZx8lGKKSNc7eyrstNPrUUfDHqfxf/s400/Joyce_with_flowers.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9mhj3jRrCvrZLb10RMlyRcCMWWuCRapNHjLOxfMuypil2goxI4HE8SrjKyJyCmAV9DMsIjYjLWACTwH2aCNTYEmniu8qjHtDhUhz0iQk06V8_mbIqxazqHNFah3QKRQTZcoR5dfymTp7D/s1600/DiningRoom.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9mhj3jRrCvrZLb10RMlyRcCMWWuCRapNHjLOxfMuypil2goxI4HE8SrjKyJyCmAV9DMsIjYjLWACTwH2aCNTYEmniu8qjHtDhUhz0iQk06V8_mbIqxazqHNFah3QKRQTZcoR5dfymTp7D/s400/DiningRoom.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEillxhlgyD1VAUon2-gvChBbd-cDACCSVoSX7EtQpkMA17HKdYO7EQyt_cLdrinnsxjAsEf5mIgHglf7fVcbDP4Y8fzlwvEpf3qGAGZVtGMDjXBUUd4Y409WkaImPPzzb7RpuYIGoUFFB7A/s1600/EntryWay.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEillxhlgyD1VAUon2-gvChBbd-cDACCSVoSX7EtQpkMA17HKdYO7EQyt_cLdrinnsxjAsEf5mIgHglf7fVcbDP4Y8fzlwvEpf3qGAGZVtGMDjXBUUd4Y409WkaImPPzzb7RpuYIGoUFFB7A/s400/EntryWay.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhntqZoweiEyu6N47qmSsVpqTWqL7yNwxITW4r1Brx8cRku50XPDVyTb-Cz9Tx55LukA6xZW5XzpGZf8NlMc2SMXKTSeyeHjju5iRVwp3xrHzewZ4iowB-NxNurqCLYWXwfhOzAoEbxgxPh/s1600/P1030969.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhntqZoweiEyu6N47qmSsVpqTWqL7yNwxITW4r1Brx8cRku50XPDVyTb-Cz9Tx55LukA6xZW5XzpGZf8NlMc2SMXKTSeyeHjju5iRVwp3xrHzewZ4iowB-NxNurqCLYWXwfhOzAoEbxgxPh/s400/P1030969.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdBIsBSsjmCQ-rj_cLrnc92JvyMkCOYA2KRPMMeGhaZmEWmjN4YGBmvuKLnRMk92AqLBMc0Pmd4RJy1oK_Mz5Hxl2dmnFITZrReZq85NokaEvWVKwbqsYeiKrUfCxAIMow4hlXVPXHvdHi/s1600/Kitchen.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdBIsBSsjmCQ-rj_cLrnc92JvyMkCOYA2KRPMMeGhaZmEWmjN4YGBmvuKLnRMk92AqLBMc0Pmd4RJy1oK_Mz5Hxl2dmnFITZrReZq85NokaEvWVKwbqsYeiKrUfCxAIMow4hlXVPXHvdHi/s400/Kitchen.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9LigrYJLO_gBSF0Cczoa2kRhw8VorXe6vcK9LGEIr-whQPpZVG1mHveNg0t4yHeIADOGKGktbW8GffpMQH79gV6w00b3Y1us7q1AH-znxZZ84AIivXFPuNx4jJnNDIQH-s7Am0K3CRxxU/s1600/FamilyRoomView.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9LigrYJLO_gBSF0Cczoa2kRhw8VorXe6vcK9LGEIr-whQPpZVG1mHveNg0t4yHeIADOGKGktbW8GffpMQH79gV6w00b3Y1us7q1AH-znxZZ84AIivXFPuNx4jJnNDIQH-s7Am0K3CRxxU/s400/FamilyRoomView.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />

OMG! When did I get so fat!!!

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