Okay, New Resolve

The Scale? This morning? Pure evil.



So, Jules, I'll join you by starting a fitday.com journal today. Whoever wants to join us on fitday, drop me an email and I'll give you my user name.

MVM Fun

I was playing around today with My Virtual Model, trying on different outfits, trying to visualize the difference 40 pounds can make. I decided that with the right clothes I look pretty darn good now, but at my goal weight I am HOT. Hee!Hee! Anyway, here I am. Like my hairdo?



And here I am stripped down. If only my skin were as smooth and nice in real life. I have a feeling that even at my goal weight I'll find something to be unhappy about when I look in the mirror, and that perhaps, is the more important transformation we all need to make -- becoming happy with who we are, seeing and loving ourselves the way God loves us.

Motivated

I've decided it's time to move the rest of this extra weight I'm carrying. As happy as I am with the way I look, and as much as I enjoy shopping for clothes now, I'm still not at my goal weight. If I'm being really honest with myself, when I look in the mirror I can see every one of those forty pounds I'm still wanting to lose.

I haven't lost any weight since September, and I don't think it's a coincidence that after the 3-day in September I pretty much stopped walking. So this week I walked every day, and wonder of wonders, I lost 2 pounds. My mood is also vastly improved. I think I've been experiencing the beginnings of my annual gray and gloomy Northwest depression. It seems to start with insomnia, which leads to fatigue and lack of motivation. Well, the good news is that thanks to my experience with training for the 3-day, I know that walking really kicks my depression in the butt.

So, my new goal is to lose roughly a pound and a half a week, which I will do by walking at least five days a week, and eating regular healthy meals and snacks. It worked for the first forty pounds, right? I know the last pounds may be harder to lose, and if that happens I'll need a new shot in the butt to do what it takes to lose them, but for now I think my plan will get some results.

Buh-Bye Bloat

Okay, party's over for a little while. This week I'm gonna do things right. I'm just sayin'. It doesn't mean the fun's over, right? It just means I won't have to deal with the holiday bloat this time next week.

I had a really good time this weekend! I'll just let that fill me up for the time being.

What are you doing to recover from Thanksgiving? Am I the only one in need of recovery?

New Website

Now that I'm done training for the 3-Day, and I'm no longer depressed, it's time to throw myself back into another passion of mine. I'm going to start making glass beads again. I have a bit of work to do before I'm ready to do that, but for now I'm getting a website up. Go check it out!

Beadguiling Designs

Making beads makes me very happy. Being happy makes losing weight easier. See the connection. ;-)

Borrowing a Page Out of Jan's Book

A Few of My Favorite Things

• Shopping in the regular clothing department, not the plus size.
• Taking two pairs of pants into the dressing room, and leaving the LARGER size behind because the smaller one worked.
• Carrying my 38 pound child on my shoulders up the stairs at the zoo and realizing that all that weight used to be on my frame not on my shoulders.
• Putting lotion on my legs and feeling muscles there.
• Being able to do 10 push ups in a row.
• Being able to out-walk my kids at the park.
• Being able to walk uphill without even breathing hard.
• Not feeling back fat jiggle when I run.
• Being able to run.
• Looking HOT in my new outfit.
• Buying clothes that accentuate my curves, not trying to hide them.
• Having curves in the RIGHT places. :-D
• Not having to worry about whether or not my husband is just being nice when he tells me I'm sexy.
• Feeling sexy.
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Getting Ready for My BIG Weekend, and then The Rest of My Life

I wrote a post on my blog about my trusty fanny pack, but I wanted to post a picture here too. Elicia and Jules, I wanted you to see how I decided to carry the names of your aunties with me on my walk this weekend. Only 3 days left until the walk!

After the walk I intend to redouble my weight loss efforts and put an end to this three month plateau. I'm hoping that will be easier for me to do once the stress of preparing for something this big is behind me. I'll start writing down what I eat again, and planning menus. Those two things together seem to work well. I've not even been grocery shopping much (my old trap) but at least I haven't gained any weight back. I've been up and down losing the same four pounds over and over.

Missing some of you.

Hello crew. I am missing reading posts and comments from some of my favorite women....how we all doing? Lets have a roll call:

1. name

2. current weight or current "place" you are at

3. ultimate goal

4. short term goal

5. strategies to get there

6. biggest inspiration

7. biggest "trigger" to the old ways

8. best complement you have received on your weight loss.