10%!!!

I met my first mini-goal of 10% yesterday! I know that it might not seem like much considering how long I've been doing this, but it's nice to see actual results! This also means that I met my graduation mini-goal of 197! My next supposed mini goal is 180 by the end of summer, but I might want to revise that depending on the rate that I'm losing. I'll probably be hitting a plateau soon though and I just wanted to remember that. I've been weighing myself daily, which has led to less stress on weigh in day and I think that's a good thing. When I started I didn't want to weigh except at meetings, but it's more of a guiding tool than a frustration at this point. If that changes, I'll change my habits accordingly. At any rate, it's good to have met my goal, especially when I thought I wouldn't with a couple of slow weeks and a gain, but I pulled it out in the 4th quarter! I've also updated my overall goal to be five pounds higher. I recently discovered that my sister weighs 160 and we're built very similarly so I think that 145 is far too low for my body type. I've upped it to 150, and may go even to 155 because my mom and sister are so very skinny and that is what they weigh/want to weigh. There are times that being tall is awesome!
Mini Goals--- revised
197 by graduation-- MET 5/12/09 4 days early!
175 by my birthday (9/8) 22 pounds in 4 months (18 weeks)
165 by Thanksgiving 10 pounds in 3ish months (13 weeks)
160 by Christmas 5 pounds in one month (4 weeks)
150 by April 1st 2010! 10 pounds in 4 months (18 weeks)

I'm going to really have to re-balance my life after graduation, but for right now I'm going to continue eating the way that I have for the past few weeks. If I can keep up losing 2 pounds a week, these goals won't be a problem, even one pound a week some times should be fine. I need to stop thinking of this journey as a sprint, when it's a distance run.

Okay, school is most important right now, so I'm going to go study for my final.

Almost 20 lbs

I'm not sure what I wrote about the last time I blogged, but this week I lost 1.6 lbs for a total of 19.4. I was really excited at the time, but I know I still have a long way to go! The most exciting part of weighing in this week was that I'm officially under 200 lbs!!! It's a hard thing to deal with, being so radically overweight. I'm also fairly certain that I'm no longer obese, although that was back a month or so ago. I feel like I'm finally starting to see 'real' results and it's scary but at the same time really exciting. I'm going to see a cousin today who I haven't seen in a year, and I'm probably down 15 lbs from when I saw him. Since he's a guy, he may not notice, but it's getting to be like that whenvever I see someone I haven't seen in a few pounds. It's really starting to get people's notice. At my meeting this week, the leader said to never diminish your weight loss by saying that you still have a long way to go, but I'm not even 1/3 of the way there yet.

As far as good goes, I haven't been doing great. I ate 3 of my WPA yesterday. Something that I haven't done since the very first week when I had Dunkin Donuts and Starbucks before the meeting lol. At the time I was thinking that I wanted to try using 10 of them this week and see if I can still lose, but I think that I am totally fine without using anymore. I didn't eat all my points the night before, so I hope that it will balance out!!!

Okay I need to shower and run, but I'm glad that I blogged even if just for a bit. I really need all the tools every once in awhile.