Before I explain why I wrote the heading 16 weeks for today, I have to comment that when I opened my computer the home page had an ad for Moe’s Southwest Grill!!  AHHHH…. it is everywhere!

Ok, so I read an article that states people who stick with losing weight for 16 weeks are much more likely to be successful and stick with their weight loss journey.  Although I completely understand that…. I wish the number of weeks was lower.  Seeing as how I am only day two into week three, that seems pretty daunting.

I have completed day 20 of my abs challenge.  It makes me laugh… “abs” challenge.  I don’t even have a single “ab”.  I can feel that the top of my stomach is a bit tighter than before.  But the bottom half is… well, just awful.  It is like a war went on there and everything was stretched as much a possible.   I often look at it in the mirror and wonder if I can ever have a flat stomach again.  I have done so much damage to it.  This time around, though, I am bound and determined to finally find out what it can look like… because I know it can’t continue to look how it does now.  I just can’t look at it anymore.  I want to wear clothes that aren’t so baggy on me to hide my awful figure…. and I know really I am not hiding anything.  I am large.  Everyone can see that.  But it would be nice to wear a shirt and not be thinking about my rolls, or muffin top (alright, it isn’t a muffin, it is an entire cake).