Time to go shopping!!!
I have a ton of unused gift cards from last Christmas. Of course I was pregnant then so I wasn’t going to go buy clothes for my non-pregnant self. Then I refused to buy clothes until I reached my goal weight. I had to buy a few things that fit me so that I could get dressed every day, but not a lot. So now, seven and a half months after Alexis was born I am at my goal weight!! I weigh what I did when I got married and that’s 10 pounds under my pre-pregnancy weight. So now I can go spend all that money I have and get some cute things for my trip to Hawaii!!!
Now the trick is to not let myself slowly creep back up!!!!!
Yay! (sort of)
Weekly weigh-in check. I lost the 8 ounces that I had gained, but nothings else. So yay! But not really b/c now I’m back where I was 3 weeks ago.
Marc and I went out to dinner a few nights ago for a date night. I had a chicken caesar salad. It was so high in sodium that I was drinking water all night long. And of course that means I was retaining water the next day which was reflected on the scale. I thought I was being good by having the salad.
This sucks I seem to be stuck at this weight, I need to kick start myself into gear again!!!!! I’m thinking of trying Alli but they’re kind of pricey. Of course if they work then it’s totally worth it. I may check it out.
Keeping myself accountable
I went to Jenny Craig this morning to weigh in. I hadn’t gone in 2 weeks so I was overdue. Those 2 weeks were not good diet weeks. With the surgery and being at my mom’s house etc, I just wasn’t good. I know those are excuses but its true! So I didn’t do as badly as I had thought and I only gained 8oz (yay!). I was expecting it to be more like 2 pounds! That’s a lesson to me though that the diet gods may not be so nice next time around. So I need to re-focus myself and really be good and eat the JC foods and not cheat!!!
Hopefully by next weeks’s weigh-in I will have lost those 8oz plus more!!!
On a positive note, I truly cannot wear my size 14 shorts anymore. Those are the shorts that I bought immediately after having the baby and being sick and tired of maternity clothes. I was horrified at having to buy 14s, but there it was. Slowly I have gone down, I bought a pair of size 12s but never bought any 10s. I have recently bought 2 size 8s (woo-hoo!!) They’re a bit snug but they fit. I put on the 14s today to go out and they are literally falling off. I have to pull them up every 5 seconds – not comfy. So I am almost back to my pp size 6 and I can’t wait!!!!!
Diet? What diet?
Who me? Yeah that was pretty much my weekend. I am up a pound and a half. Yuck. But I guess that’s what happens sometimes. We didn’t even go anywhere, but it still seems like we ate out A LOT! And I didn’t exactly try to be super careful with my calorie intake (obviously). Oh well, I guess now I know what I have to do!
I realize that I’ve reached a difficult point in my weight loss. I’ve lost all the “excess” weight. All the baby weight. I’m at a weight where I’m not huge and uncomfortable, I can fit into some of my pp clothes so I don’t have the same motivation I had before. These last 10 pounds are going to be hard b/c I’m trying to get myself back to a weight where I looked really good and was happy, but that takes work. I know I can do it, but it sucks!! I enjoy food too much!! My ultimate goal is to be happy with how I look by the time we go to Hawaii in October so that’s plenty of time and totally realistic.
