Another 3 Down

When I weighed in on Tuesday, I was thinking that I would have totally gain or maintained what I had last weighed in at last time. I was very excited to have lost another three pounds over the past two weeks seeing I have been a little busy and very stressed. Today I am a little stressed as well but it is good stress for sure! I leave tomorrow to head to Wisconsin for the summer. My apartment is not clean and I am not packed and I have a date at six tonight. The cleaning and packing are not my favorites, but the date should be good! Luckily, I just checked out at work and am able to use the afternoon to clean and pack. That makes me amazingly happy!

It is going to be different being at home and doing my Weight Watchers program. I know that I will miss my leader, she is pretty darn awesome. Luckily, there is email and blogs! My mom is probably going to do the program this summer and one of her friends(who is also one of my favorite people back home) is also going to go with us. I think having them there will make it easier.

I do plan on making a workout plan for the summer when I get home. I am going to do P90X most days and I will also continue to run. Alice is a runner, after all!

Well, the next post will be from the land of cheese. Let's hope I can avoid that cheese for the most part! Although, I will be eating some fried cheese curds here and again. I just won't eat the whole order! :) Cheers!

When is this going to get hard?

NOTE TO SELF: Never, ever verbally mention to anybody that this journey isn't hard because then you are setting yourself up to have a really hard time!

I have been stressed thanks to being the big kahuna over the senior class at our school. The big stress was the senior banquet. I was in charge of it all: food, set-up, program. All. Of. It!

Luckily, it fell on the night I would normally weigh-in. I am sure if I got on that scale last Tuesday, I would have gained a pound or two thanks to my defense mechanism of eating salt water taffy and cake to sooth my stress. I did step on the scale today and it is more like what it was BEFORE the stress week. So maybe I have maintained. If I am lucky, maybe I will have lost. You never know. I guess I did learn something from all of this...I need to find better ways to deal with my stress and I think the better way is to make myself track even when I don't want to, hence the tracking today(SUNDAY) a day when I never track. Go me and thank heavens for the plan!

Busy Much?

The past few weeks have escaped me. Work has kept me busy and a little bit stressed. I am in charge of the seniors and there are a ton of activities coming up this week. The biggest thorn in my side is the senior banquet. I had to figure out a program, get kids to host, get the food, get the table decor, get the utensils. You name it, I was in charge of it. I am not much of a take charge kind of a person either and so this has been a challenge for me. I am a good get it done kind of person when I am asked to do things but I am having a hard time being the leader.

Anyway. This past week I lost .8. I think I am in a bit of a rut and I know exactly why. I haven't been tracking. Nope, not at all like I used to. I keep a mental estimation in my mind but I do not track as I should. I really need to get back on the horse but I really think it may have to wait until after all the stress of the end of the year goes away. It is insane. Sometimes I am good at staying away from the foods that are weaknesses but sometimes I am not. Last night, for example, I could not say no to ALL of the rice and orange chicken at Panda. I also could not say no to the chocolate covered cinnamon bears. They are evil. I am pretty good during the week but these weekends kill me.

My friend, Kerri, took me to a salon this week to celebrate my goal of 30 before graduation. I really like the new hairdo and think I am sold on going to a real stylist instead of the one at Fantastic Sams. She did an awesome job and my hair looks and feels amazing. It was really nice to have the new hair for the date I had yesterday. It is funny how little things can make a huge difference in how we feel about ourselves. Enjoy the pic of the new do and I better get off to church!

New Goals.

I have never been much of a goal person. This whole weight loss thingy has made a goal maker out of me. Granted, this is the only area in my life I am making goals, it is still good. Maybe it will catch on in other areas of my life.

Here are my next goals. I must also come up with some rewards for myself...any ideas?
1. Be under 200 pounds. That is only 3 pounds away but I think it is a big deal because I can not remember ever being under 200 pounds. I am sure I had to be at one time because I think it would have horribly uncomfortable for my mother to give birth to a 200 pounder.
2. 50 pounds by the end of summer. That doesn't mean I want to lose 50 this summer that means I want 20 pounds more by the end of summer. It is a good goal and completely possible!

So, there are my new goals.

My friend, who has recently joined on the journey to a lighter weight, was talking about being frustrated about only losing .4 last week. I know that a loss is a loss but sometimes it is hard when it slows. I was there a few weeks ago and it wasn't fun. I hope my advice helped her. It is fun to have support on this journey. It is awesome. Sometimes I don't feel like I know enough to help people but then I start talking and realize that I do know quite a bit and can help, even though I still doubt myself because I still feel like a rookie. It is fun to be learning and growing!

Week 17 -3.2 for a total of 30.6 :)

I don't know if I have actually written down what one of my big goals was for my weight loss, but I have reached that goal. I really wanted to lose 30 pounds before graduation or the end of the school year. I didn't think I would make it for another couple of weeks so when I actually weighed in today and I had lost three pounds for a total of thirty, I was very pleased.

For about a month, my church clothes have just not fit well. I have HATED it. I just do not like the skirts that do fit and am really sad when I put on the ones I like and they fall to the floor. It just isn't appropriate to wear your skirt around your ankles at church. Even though this is a frustrating situation, I am not complaining at all. Seriously, this is a great problem to have. Anyway, I wanted to buy a new dress for a friend's wedding that was last Friday, but the one I bought on Thursday just didn't work when I got it home. It was weird. So I had to wear an outfit that wasn't my favorite, but I survived. I went back to Penny's on Saturday and found the rockin' skirt you can see in the photo along with three shirts that go with it. To have the three outfits was only about 3 dollars more than the dress I had bought on Thursday. It was like Christmas. I hope people don't notice that I am wearing the same skirt over and over and over because it is just silly to buy new clothes that you know you will be too small for in a month or so. At least that is my philosophy when it comes to buying clothes right now. I don't want to buy a lot of clothes until I reach my goal weight.

Don't I look rockin' in those pics? I still look at myself in the mirror and often don't believe it is me. I see these pictures and I am just tickled pink to know that is me. No wonder I got a few compliments at church on Sunday. It felt way good. This journey is awesome!

5k

I just posted about my 5k to my running blog. You should click on this and read it!