Today’s weigh-in was awesome for me! I hit a new decade and with it, I passed my 20% and 40# loss marks!!! WOO HOO!! Go me! I am now 158.4 which is incredible since at the beginning it seemed nearly unreachable being that I haven’t weighed this little in about 13 years. Now, I’m working on losing “college weight”…oh back in the glory days when I ate outrageous amounts of food and still looked pretty darn good! Well, I am SO SO thrilled to see the 150’s. I think I will go bask in the glow for a few minutes!
I don’t know how or why, but I have lost almost 3 pounds in as many days. Everyday I weigh myself I think, “well today won’t be big but maybe I’ll lose something and keep going in the right direction.” Then it turns out to be a .8 to 1.0 pounds 3 days in a row! It’s like a Christmas miracle in March/April! I am overjoyed, but I try to remind myself it can’t go on forever….wouldn’t it be nice if it could, though. Anyway, here I sit at 172.4, looking forward to a strong April. I’ve made my goals, both for weight and exercise. I think I’m set to go, but I am moving in a week and a half and I don’t know what to expect as far as an impact on my progress. Wish me luck!
25.6 pounds GONE! Not lost, because I DO NOT want to find them! Yee Haw! I’m so excited. I just want to pause briefly and thank everyone who has commented on my posts. You all have been so encouraging and helpful. This is a big thing for me and all the support is like a lifeline to success! I still mess up, but I always get right back to it because I know I have to be accountable to all my 3FC friends in addition to myself. So, here I am at 173.4 feeling very excited to have finished this month strong. No magic formula, except determination and perserverance. Good luck to everyone else on the journey!
Reaching a new low today was awesome! At 174.2 I’m only .2 away from my 25 pound mark. I am so happy to be on the verge of another milestone. The really cool part is this is all in the month of my DH and DD2’s birthdays! I have faced many a temptation this month and still managed to lose 4 pounds so far. I can’t complain about that!
Today is a momentous occassion! I now weigh what I claimed to weigh on my driver’s license. I am at 175.8! It’s not that I was lying exactly, I just never changed it from 10 years ago! Hallelujah! I’m so excited I did a major happy dance this morning after weighing in. I have been on the slow track to weight loss this last couple months, so to finally reach another milestone of some kind feels incredible!
The massage I got from losing my 10% was nice, but I think my next reward will be with workout clothes. That will be when I reach 15%. I really want to reach that before my big family reunion at the beginning of May. I’m curious if anyone will notice and/or comment. My family is so sweet and wonderful, they don’t often comment on people’s weight or anything because they take people as they are. It should be interesting!
I actually made it to 178.2 3 days ago, surpassing my 10% goal of 179. I have been at exactly 178.2 for 3 days despite exercising and eating OP. I have to refuse to get discouraged though. It seems really weird to me to have not seen any movement, even .2, but it is what it is. The good news is I’m also only .6 pounds from losing 5% (roughly 10 pounds) from when I started losing through WW. I’m certainly expecting to see that at next weeks weigh-in. These are all great motivators. I told myself I would get myself a professional massage (my first ever) once I reached 10%. I guess it’s time to make the appointment!!
So, I reached another new low today (184.6) and was pretty thrilled to see it. I was at the in-laws for 4 days and didn’t weigh-in at all and ate out several times. Thankfully, it wasn’t the complete disaster I feared! I joined Weight Watchers last week and was trying to track my points on the visit and I’m quite sure I used every last weekly bonus point I had while I was over there, but still the weight came off. I have been down to a modest 1-2# a week the last couple weeks. I’m hoping joining WW kinda jump starts me again. Either way, I’m already liking it. We’ll see what the long-term results are, but for now I’m satisfied. Tonight I’m going to do a monthly measuring and see if I’ve lost any inches. The exercise component comes and goes right now. It’s very difficult with the awful weather/temps here and the frequent trips to the parents/in-laws to stay consistent. I am doing what I can when I can, and eventually things will settle down and I can get back to a good routine. Until then, I can really improve my eating habits and have that down.
I have pretty much gotten over the strep throat and the “cold” that followed. Now I have to get back on track. I have been good about my food, except for my planned cheat meal. The exercise was, however, a challenge while I was sick. Now I got my new DVD and tonight I will gove it a try. Results will be posted. So, my weight has been level for the last week or so, but no big deal. At least I didn’t do anything too stupid and throw myself off course. I am hoping for a 2-3 pound loss before Monday, so I can go into Christmas week with confidence that I can maintain the 10 pound loss through the rest of the month. I know that seems like a lot, but I know it’s do-able since I’ve been stalled out for a week. I will be traveling with my exercise DVD and begging my hubby to help me stay on track. 1.6 pounds ’til I’m completely in the 180’s (189.0). It’s not too much to ask, is it?
Another pound gone! I love it at the beginning when the weight comes off relatively easily. If I could keep to a pound a day the whole time this would be a cinch!! Oh well, I’m happy for the encouragement that it gives me at the outset. Now, I gotta run…hubby’s coming home tonight!!
I’m thrilled to post that I am 3 pounds closer to being overweight…just 40 more to go! I was so happy I even put broccoli in my spaghetti sauce and it was so small the kids didn’t even notice. The activity level has been up, though somewhat involuntarily (due to shoveling snow). Anyway, thank God for giving me the strength to try again on the path to a healthier lifestyle. Otherwise, I’m pretty positive I’d be still beating myself up over past “diet” failures…and there’d be plenty of beating to do. But today is a new day and my confidence is growing that I could be down to the appropriate weight ballpark by next summer. It would be so sweet to be less self-conscious in a swimming suit! I don’t think of myself as a terribly self-conscious person, but there’s something about being nearly naked in a skin tight piece of nylon/lycra in front of strangers that can make even the hardiest person blush. Anyway, today is going down and as a “good day” in my book.
