Weekly Update

I'm down 3.0 pounds this week!!!! I only lasted about 6 days before I didn't have any chocolate/sweet. I broke down on Monday and had a brownie-a rather large piece at that but I had a horrible day at work and I didn't get home until late. I didn't feel bad about eating it but I did feel bad about my committment to giving up sweets and chips. I have failed horribly at the sweets but I still haven't had chips OR candy since the 5th so yay for me!Especially about the candy because its taken over my classroom due to Easter!!! So maybe (and I hate to do this after I already said I was going to stick with it) I will just not eat chips and candy until May 16th. We will see...I'm going to try to stick with that. I have also decided that if I choose, I can eat whatever I want on my weigh in days ONLY if I have lost weight. Now, if I only lose less than a pound during that weigh in, I probably won't eat whatever. But on Wednesday, I wanted something sweet so I treated myself to a milkshake. It was a small and I left off the whipped cream-I mean who needs the added calories!?! I also decided that once May hits, I will be treating myself on Wednesday only to a small Rita's ice, a mini blizzard, or a small Chick-fil-a milkshake. This will be my cheat day...I think.

So with all that said, I am only 6.4 pounds away from my ideal weight!! Once I reach this weight, I don't want to ever weigh anymore than that number. My online calorie calculator says I should reach that goal by May 7 which is sooner than I anticipated so as soon as I reach that goal I am going to set another one to lose 10 more pounds by July 4th. So by then I want to lose 16.4 more pounds which is very attainable because guess what!??! I have lost 30.4 pounds since January 3rd!!!!! I am SOOOOOO super, duper proud of myself. I now know that I can lose the weight but my biggest challenge will be KEEPING it off. For my wedding, I lost a ton of weight and I looked great but it slowly began creeping back on and before I knew it I had gained all of PLUS some since then. So I knew that something had to be done and I'm doin it and I'm doin it big!!!

Oh yeah, I already reached my goal to lose 5 more pounds for the month of April...I've actually lost 5.2 since the beginning of April...go me! go me!!