Sunday Funday

Well, it's been an interesting week to say the least. I've kept you guys up to date and don't really have anything exciting to tell you.

I joined the gym on Wednesday, actually went to the gym on Thursday, took Friday off, I went to the gym yesterday for 45 minutes and went to the gym this morning for an hour. For me that's pretty good. I just hope I can keep up the momentum.

However, I have had quite a bit of motivation. #1 I started eating on plan again. I went from weighing in on Tuesday at 194.5 to 190.5 Friday and Saturday. I decided I would definitely take it since it was for more than a day. That in and of itself has been a great motivation. Seeing the scale actually moving for once... and being so close to the 180s (FINALLY) has been fantastic.

I know I've mentioned before I am supposed to see my friend Mike who hasn't seen me in YEARS and when he did it was at one of my lowest weights (between 150-160). Our original plan was to meet the weekend of April 16th. I was hoping to be 170, but alas I got side tracked and wasn't eating like I should so that's not going to happen (BOOOO). Now we will be seeing each other THIS coming weekend and I'll be honest... I'm a girl and I freaked. Let's face it, he's not going to care, but on a self conscious and self esteem level I flipped. I wanted to be at least 185 because that would give me a few weeks to feel better, plus it would only be about 5 lbs away from 170..... for some reason that's the magical number in my head, but when you don't stay focused you don't reach your goals. However, at the rate I'm going I may actually BE 185.

Yesterday I wasn't hungry. I got up, ate a few almonds, went to the gym, completed W1D2 of C25K, came home and was ravenous. I ate lunch, took a nap and I just wasn't hungry for the rest of the day. It was amazing that I actually struggled with whether or not I needed to eat even though I wasn't hungry. I consulted a few of my homies and decided... if I'm not hungry, then I DON'T need to eat. Sometimes we get so caught up in this "I need to eat because I think I 'need' food" that we don't remember to listen to our bodies. So I didn't eat for the rest of the day.

This morning I woke up and weighed in... I couldn't believe it... 188.5. SERIOUSLY?!?!?! 188.5!!! YEOOOOWWWW!!!!

I will admit I'm a bit apprehensive about it. I feel like it may be because I didn't eat much yesterday, it may play a part in it and today is the last bit of TOM so it may be a post-TOM whoosh as we like to call it.

Either way, it's nice to see that working out the past few days and eating right has paid off. I need to remember this moment and remember that if I want to get to my goal its hard work and its a lifestyle change.

I had been meaning to take progress pictures. You may remember my original picture at 202 lbs. I was going to take pics every 10 lbs but didn't manage to do it so I did this morning. It's nice REALLY see a difference.

I know this picture isn't the best as part of the bottom is cut off, but you can still see the difference.



BTW - The current weight of 188.5 puts me at 19 lbs lost. One more and I will have reached a 10% body weight loss! HOORAYYYYYY Plus 20 lbs is pretty freakin good... only 43 more to go!