Under 200

How can you tell you are in a happy marriage? Weight gain. We have both been collecting the pounds.....Jen is just currently in the situation where she physically shouldn't be losing weight - you know being pregnant and all. But Dustin...we can say he has LOVED the last eight years of our marriage ;)

This past summer some of Dustin's co-workers all decided to have a weight loss competition....I think it stemmed from his boss losing weight for his daughters October wedding. So at the beginning of July the IMFT Corporate Planning weight loss challenge began - same rules as the show "the biggest loser" - the one with the highest % of weight loss wins. What were the stakes? Everyone donated $20 and at the end the winner was suppose to decide where they all go to dinner together with the $$. There were eleven people total involved. The competition ended the beginning of October - Dustin came in SECOND PLACE (only 1.3 pounds from actually winning the competition!). Between July and October Dustin lost 29 pounds (his personal goal was 30 pounds). For the past month and a half he has continued to diet and has lost an additional 14 pounds....yes DUSTIN HAS LOST 43 POUNDS!!!!

Dustin has banned me from blogging about this until now - he wanted his big reveal to the world. I got the approval once the scale showed this:

Below 200 pounds! Something we haven't seen in probably six years. If he was to lose another 10 pounds he would be back down to the weight he was at when we were first married in October 2001.

Silly us didn't think about taking formal "before" pictures....so I had to dig through our photos during the July time frame to find one that showed his "fullest figure". Dustin is the one in the red shirt - with the belly sticking out (naturally).

Here are some pictures taken today:

That belly is gone! His pants hang on him...he has drilled three new holes in his belts...and he is getting comments from everyone on his new look. Some of our favorite comments from friends/co-workers have been: "you look smaller" and "if you turn sideways I can practically seen through you".

Now the next phase is weight loss management. The same group of guys from work that did the weight loss challenge have decided to have a new challenge to see who can maintain their weight until the start of 2010...so needless to say we won't be going hog wild this holiday season with the food!

Great job Dustin - you look HOT (I can say that)....