What is your height?

"What is your height?"

This seems like a simple question that most people know the answer to, or at least think they do. Anyone who's ever asked me this question in the past 12 years has gotten the same answer, "I'm 5 foot 5 ." Never knew any different until two days ago. We had a health screen at work, it was optional but if you do it you get discounts on your health insurance... so I elected to get that finger prick and assessment in the hopes I would meet the criteria for the $40/mo. discount. The finger prick was to test Cholesterol and Glucose levels, then they checked your weight, height and waist measurements to make sure you weren't in any danger zone's. The most shocking assessment was when they checked my height. I took off my 4 inch heels, stepped up on the platform. The lady looked at her clipboard and started writing, never even looking up said, "5 foot 4, actually, I'm rounding up." Um, what????? Huh, I think I'm in the process of having an identity crisis, all the sudden I feel super short! I realize you shrink as you get older, but it shouldn't start at 30! I must have been misinformed all of those years and now I must reassess my weight-loss goal! I think I'm going to leave my goal for now, but once I get there I'm going to have to revisit maybe losing an additional 15 lbs to get me into my optimal BMI. I know it can be done, but it all the sudden feels daunting again. There is one success story on WW online that sticks out to me, I actually have it printed out at my desk for inspiration. When this one woman hit goal she was 33, she is 5'4", started out at 207 lbs and now weighs 137 lbs and looks fantastic! So, I know it can be done, but the issue is I always wonder how long it took some of these successes to get there. WW is very very careful not to mention how long it takes or could take, and most published success stories don't mention any relation to time. Anyways, enough about that...

On the flip side: I was worried about my glucose levels, for the past 2 years I've been pre-diabetic. I was more than happy to find out I was well within the low/normal range this week. YAY! And, as I knew, my Cholesterol levels were in the normal range as well.

OK, now for the scale, it's definitely going in the right direction! My official weight-in this week was 183.5 lbs. Since I'm a chronic weigh-in person, as in I weigh myself every day, I've been seeing 182 some days and this excites me because I know I'm moving in the right direction. We are going to have a small celebration when I hit 179, that's for sure. Next week I'll try to get some new measurements documented as well, as all of my size 14's fit perfectly, I have no more 16's in my closet, hooray! I've even shrunk out of a few pairs of jeans that were too small between pregnancies! I'm loving this new body and have found that shopping has been really fun in the past couple of weeks! Another hip hip hooray!

OK, enough of my beeming and gloating.

216/183.5/160