One positive thing today is I can taste food again, and due to the flu have lost 5 pounds. Guess it's a double edged sword

i'm having a great saturday so far...got up..cleaned the oven (fun:-( )...had a great breakfast and went to aquaaerobics..whoo hoo..I feel so great today!

It's after noon and I haven't had anything to eat yet today and don't care to...

Wait, that's not positive is it?

My positive thing for YESTERDAY was that I had a completely awesome weigh-in! With all the craziness of the holidays, and eating somewhat unhealthily for this entire week, I only managed to gain 0.2 lbs! Yea! I'm so proud of myself.

My positive thing for today is that I finally got my hair cut for the first time in almost 3 months (yikes!) and I must say, I'm lovin' how it looks right now! I feel cute!

Meredith, you were freaked out because you hadn't had your hair cut in 3 months??? Man, I only go twice a year! But I went recently and am still in the "new hair" glow -- so i feel ya.

My reason for feeling amazing today..... (no matter what else is going on that would try to make me feel otherwise...) ..... is that I feel like a knockout! I've got my knee high boots on, a skirt, my hair did... the confidence is on!

OH! And i went shopping yesterday real quick and every size 12 i put on "fit" -- as in the zipper would go up but looked awful cuz it'd be tight around the hips but baggy around the waist. Story of my life. BUT I wasn't a size bigger in anything! I even ended up buying a cute size 10 skirt. It sits high on my waist at the moment so as I lose weight it has room to come down before not fitting anymore. I haven't been shopping in SO long.... i miss it. I think i missed a couple seasons! lol

I am positive today because I'm super uber determined!!!!! with a smile.

I've got all kinds of boy trouble and a mood that could spoil milk, but NEVERTHELESS I went to my workout tonight. I'm so proud of myself.

I'm feeling great today! Perhaps because for the past two weighins ( here at home on Friday's ) I've been up to 144.5 but this morning back to 142.5--this put me in a great mood all day.

Yesterday I got myself to the gym and did 50 minutes of cardio, then came back and did my first day of 30ds.

Today I actually got up and went to my aerobics class even though it is the first day of TOM and it's finals week.

Oh and I have another, I am wearing my size 8 Old Navy jeans, and a cute black t-shirt and I have no muffin top squeezing over. It is a completely smooth transition from shirt to jeans

i bought this hot little shirt at jc penney today. it had ME! written all over it! And it fit perfectly!

Oh my GOSH, do I really owe three things?! Hmmm, this might take a while! Hehe.

Positive thing for 11/30: I spent most of that day driving back to school after going home for a few days to celebrate Thanksgiving with my family... Anyways, one of my friends goes to the same college (but is from the same hometown) so he drove me home/back to school. For the drive home, he bought some junk food for us to have as snacks, and I indulged myself waaay more than I should have. But for the drive back to school, I made sure to bring lots of HEALTHY snacks for myself to munch on! He had brought more junk, and stopped to get fast food for lunch along the way, but I just said NO and ate the stuff I had packed. I was really proud of myself.

Positive thing for 12/1: Even though I had kind of a bad weigh-in yesterday (curse you, TOM!!!), instead of feeling discouraged and wanting to give up, etc, I just felt totally committed to staying OP. And I DID! I had the eating habits of an angel, I swear, hehe. And I feel motivated to keep it up for the rest of the week, too. Now I suspect that I might have really good news at my next weigh-in...

Positive thing for 12/2 (today!): This requires a bit of exposition--So, I'm in an all-female a cappella group at my school, and we have our quarterly concert on Thursday (yay!). We always have some kind of themed dress code for our concerts, and because we're all-female, one of our favorite things to do is to wear "menswear" type things. Well, pretty much the ONLY pants I ever wear are jeans, but I do own one pair of khakis that I got a few years back, and only wear for random semi-dressy occasions (i.e. very rarely). These pants were extremely tight when I first bought them, but the last time I had tried them on they were crazy-loose, like practically-falling-off-of-me loose! BUT since they're the only ones that I have, I knew I'd have to wear them for the concert on Thursday, so today I took them in with my sewing machine, the same way I've done with many pairs of jeans throughout my WL. It felt sooo crazy to put on those pants and remember that they had once been REALLY tight; they looked and felt so huge to me now! It was a great reminder of how far I've come.

Today, I got that little tingling feeling you get when you know you are about to drop crazy weight because you know that you are doing everything right!!!

Oh, and I feel crazy-empowered from reading this thread.

I feel stronger than I did yesterday.

dh said the shred has made me stronger. He always asks me to rub his shoulders and I would usually quit after 2 minutes or so but yesterday it was a solid 4 before I asked if I could "go now". lol.