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We are losers


(post from the End of October - not sure why it didn't publish!) 


As of this week, I have been on Weight Watchers for 3 1/2 months. 
Daryl's been on his weight loss program for 4 weeks... and he's already lost as much weight as I have in almost 4 MONTHS!!! But I'm doing low calorie, I am doing Weight Watchers, and they are a slow loss program.  So we are both losing together now. Me much more slowly, but that'ts ok!  I hope he really sticks to this after his work contest is over. I can already tell the difference in him, although he can't tell in me....   


Here are a few photos of us - through the years, we may NEVER get back to where we were in the top one, but hopefully be far different than the one from Thanksgiving last year. 
  



And this is our latest together - I am not thrilled with how I look, I was laughing and look like I have three chins again... And I am wearing smaller workout capris, my previous pair was too loose, these are a little snug... so I have a muffin top.. Boo...  (Also cut off almost a foot of hair from my head! that was probably a pound on it's own!)   


 But this is us, tonight - how we look...  I am down 21 pounds since July 7, he is down 20 in the last 4 weeks. 
October 20 2017
Honesty...  what we look like RIGHT now...  

In a month I will post where we are then...   After he wins that contest! (I have great confidence in him!) 
Then more photos again January, just to see how things are going. 
I hope to make my goal weight by May, at the rate I am losing, it's not an unrealistic goal. That will have been 10 months since I began...   But it took me YEARS to put the weight on! So 10 month's doesn't seem like that long! 
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