and a lil more!

Yes. I weigh myself most week days. Some may think it's excessive but for me at least at this point in time, it is working. So I will go with it. I like to see the daily ups and downs, it makes me feel more in - tune with my body. And best of all when I see a loss, even a tiny loss, it helps my motivation level.

So I lost another .3 making my total 44.5.

45 is just around the corner, and then I have my sights set on the big FIVE OH.

I am also just 10 lbs away from what I was when I got married over 7 years ago!

And a lil' more...

Yay, another .7 lbs lost!
I think I am going to start going by exact decimals...so my total is 44.2. Hey, it took 2 months to get going again, I'm going to take everything I can get.

Happy, lovely Friday!

Fridays rock anyways, but this Friday brought a little something extra - I lost on the scale!!! It is only .5 lbs, but it makes me feel great because it has been SO long since I have lost anything. And to be honest, I was pretty certain I would not lose today because yesterday, I ate this (delicious) big cookie from Perkins. (So much for that willpower I was talking about the other day). The cookie was a big amazing round piece of amazingness, but it was 310 calories. *Cringe*
Then for supper I had pasta salad. Which isn't terrible...it could be worse (I mean, at least there are veggies in it) but my body and carbs are not friends. My body hangs onto carbs like a fly on sticky tape!

On the plus side, I have managed to avoid pita chips at work this week. Those things are the spawn of the food-devil.

So we will just have to see what this weekend brings....Hopefully it brings weight loss and energy and good choices instead of a lack of willpower and mouth watering goodies. Not that I would ever give in...no way.....ha.

I got dis'

Still stuck, but feeling optimistic today. Weighed in and I am exactly level with my lowest point so far. I am hoping to keep it going down instead of back up, down up down.

I think I have gotten my willpower back - I even turned down free bagels and cream cheese the other day! Today for lunch I am having this amazing black bean veggie burger that is on the menu every other Friday at work....and I will NOT order fries with that.

The other piece to this is that I really need a little jolt in my exercise routine...so yesterday instead of the treadmill, I did hand weights and floor exercises. I have to say, I definitely see more muscle definition in my arms the last couple of months than I ever have before in my life. (Nothing manly or gross looking though, no worries haha). Tonight I am thinking of doing Wii Fit boxing...if you put your all into that, and have progressed high enough in ranking (so you are going against more and more skilled computer players), it can be a great workout for your upper body!

So this is my plan - keep the willpower, add in fresh exercise routines. Let's keep our fingers crossed!!

Willpower? What's that?

Obviously I cannot even have ice cream in the house. Or tortilla chips, salsa and cheese. It is so GOOD! Even as I was thinking how this is SO not good for my diet, I continued eating the crap. My reasoning? "I WILL start fresh and be a kick-butt diet follower, but I need to get rid of the crap first. This will get rid of it quicker. I could throw it away, but...what a waste of money".

Yep. Still stuck. And this is one reason why. I haven't been eating totally crappy all the time like this, but I have given in a bit too often more than I should. I am all about having a treat now and then, or you will drive yourself insane. But I need to get back on track. Back to the basics. I need to remember why I started this journey and how far I've come and how great it feels to lose the pounds week after week. The problem isn't exercise, because I HAVE gotten back on track in that department lately. In fact I went on a run 4 times this week, and it has been feeling great. My problem is diet. It definitely needs some tweaking!

I still haven't really gained anything significant (just the same couple of pounds that I go up and down all the time) but I haven't lost in a LONG time. Maybe 6 weeks? I will have to check to see for sure, but it feels like forever. I'm sick of it. I'm ready to get the scale moving again.

So frustrated

I just looked back and see that this is the longest period of time I've been stuck for.

I have tried all sorts of things to get unstuck...my body is just really happy at this weight apparently. The problem is, this weight is still too high. I want to get into the "normal" range. I am thankful to be out of "obese" but have a ways to go to get out of "overweight". Come on, scale!!!

Damn cats.

So one of my cats chewed up the tiny little cord for the Wii remote sensor. I hadn't weighed myself in awhile anyways, then when I finally decided to, I couldn't. During this time I was traveling each weekend, visited the state fair (mmm, fried pickles....) and was just overall uneasy about the result on my weight. I tried weighing myself on an old scale we had lying around, but the result was completely unreliable...First it told me I lost a pound, then 20 seconds later I tried again and it told me I gained 11. Next try it told me I gained 5. So...obviously not accurate in the least.

This weekend, we finally replaced our Wii remote sensor and I just now weighed in for the first time in a couple of weeks. The result? Unfortunately I did not lose any weight, BUT the good new is that I haven't gained either! I am thrilled about that, and now I am going to work hard this week to kickstart the weight loss again. It was a rough month with my schedule being different and being out of town every single weekend (often to places where I was more likely to eat crappy).

In other news, I finally took the plunge and got my hair cut and colored. It was way overdue! I lost about 7-8 inches of hair and the color went from fairly flat, boring ash brownish or dark dishwater blondish (hard to describe, but not the most beautiful color whatever it was) to multi dimensional with chunky high lights and low lights. Here is the result (this is also a good pic of my face after 43 lb weight loss):

For comparison, below is a pic of me "before". But with my hair up (which is how I always ended up wearing it when it was long). This pic was probably taken fall of 2010. It isn't the best pic of my face and it's a little blurry, but it's what I have right now.