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Since October, I've lost 50 pounds. Today there was a party on the scale. I am below my driver's license weight!!! I remember choosing that weight when Weston was a baby. As I stood in the DMV, I thought, "That would be wonderful to weigh that again someday!" So I wrote it down- so much for use as an identification card! It also says that I'm blond... :) strange.

I am still losing, but for the first time in a long time, it's like I'm free. For so long, I was trapped in my body. In October, I was praying and begging for help and at the bottom of the barrel.

Then friends told me about a diet- a very extreme & weird diet. It was working for them. These women had always struggled with their weight. I was unsure seemed kind of strange as this is not your typical, "diet and exercise" change of pace.

However, these dear friends mailed me all the supplies for the diet and I felt there was nothing left to do but try it.

So I did it. Some joke it is my starvation diet, so be it. It works for me. Sometimes it's a bummer to not eat, but it's much nicer than the unhealthy future this mid-30's girl had coming.

I have some to lose still but a "normal" weight on that blasted, hated BMI chart is not far from here (12 pounds away!) Can you believe that though? I will have lost 62 pounds to get to this "normal" weight.

I'm proud of myself! I can't believe it. I am mostly thankful and grateful.

My weight will continue to be a battle for my life, of that I'm certain, but at least I'm starting the horrible battle from this number on the scale and this pant size! :)

This round of the diet ends in 13 days (but who's counting?!-ME)

What will I do next? I will do the maintenance phase of the diet diligently to stabilize my weight and possibly run a half marathon, May 1st, as a kick of to the new healthy me! I am thinking through it not quite committed to the idea yet.

It seems good to fight and kill old Becca by beating her against the pavement for several hundred miles of training. It will be easier to to beat myself up, um, I mean, run, now that I have the equivalent of a bag bag of cement off my back! :)

I attached a picture of myself it was 10 pounds ago Becca, but an improvement.