onehundred&thirty

Okay so it has been a while- let me catch up on what has been going on.

So, my last post- I gained and lost 4 pounds of water weight. I got back on track everything has been perfect. That time of the month happened last week and honestly, I didn't even feel like getting on the scale. I knew I was doing fine with my eating and exercise so I just figured I'd skip a week, hey, I make the rules here!

My fabulous friends at work took a zumba class at the gym we all go to and invited me to go. Holy crap, I am so sad I never started doing these classes sooner! They are so fun and fabulous. You don't even feel like you are working out, once your done it's feels like you ran for miles. Not to mention it burns so many calories! We did 2 classes last week and have one tonight. I will forever take a zumba class at least once a week. It is a blast and a great workout. With all of that said, this past weigh in I lost 2 pounds. That puts me at 130.4 pounds lost. One hundred and thirty pounds! I can't stop saying it. I lost the size of like, an adult women. This is crazy!

I also hit another milestone this week. I went shopping for pants, all my size 12 pants need to be retired. So anyway, I am in oldnavy with my love muffin and I am grabbing all of these size 10 pants. Um, no. They were too big! I bought my first official single digit size in over 12 years. Size 8 crop skinnies :) I opened the fitting room door with tears in my eyes and celebrated with Ryan. I'm so glad he was there to share that moment with me. Did I mention he has lost like 20 pounds and went down a size? He did and he is wonderful. I am so lucky!

I am only 9 pounds away from my 140 pound weight loss goal! Lets do it people!

Water, x4

Just thinking about this week makes me mad. I finally felt like things were falling into place and I was on this positive streak. I went away this past weekend with work, I had lots of fun! I did so well with my eating. I wanted to eat so many bad things but I kept my cool. I tracked my calories. I ate around 1700 calories a day, exactly what I have been eating for months. I resisted so many temptations! Well I got back Saturday night and made the huge mistake of weighing myself Sunday morning. Uh, 170... WHAT?!?!?!? I gained FOUR pounds!?!?!? I was actually devastated. This has never ever happened to me. I've gone away plenty of times while on this journey, for a much longer period of time than 2-3 days and I've never gained more then 2 pounds, if that.  This bothered me so much because type of thing just doesn't happen to me.

Well, I went on with my week, doing exactly what I always do, tracking, eating healthy, working out and no budge on the scale. Did I really gain 4 pounds?! How could I allow this to happen at this stage in the game?

I was so down on myself.  Then on Wednesday I felt like absolute crap. From the minute I woke up I felt like I had just eaten a huge meal. I felt gross. When I got home from work I took a water pill. I normally stay away from pills and medicine all together but I couldn't take it anymore, I felt so bloated. Too much info time- from 3 pm on Wednesday until I woke up on Thursday I peed 15 times. Can you say water weight?!? Long behold guess what the scale said? 166 pounds.

This week was an emotional roller coaster to say the least. Gaining 4 pounds of water weight, then losing it was a mind fuck. It scared me so so bad! I have no idea why this happened. I've just stopped thinking about it because it bothers me so much. I feel like I wasted a week. I'm so angry but whatever, I just have to do my best this week and look past it I guess :(.  So, I'm still 166 pounds and 128.4 pounds down. Thank god!

11 pounds to go!

- 128.4

So, last week was a bust. I was actually very disappointed. I worked out 3 times, ate extremely healthy but of course, I was bloated because of my period. There was no change on the scale. How frustrating!! Well, this week was much better. I lost 1.4 pounds! That puts me at 166 pounds. A total loss of 128.4 pounds and only 11 pounds away from my goal! Lots of number I know :)

This past week everything seemed to just fall into place. I don't want to jinx anything but, I have really been able to get into a routine with the gym, I have struggled with this my entire journey. I go for a few weeks then stop for a week and blah. I think it has been at least a month and a half now that I have been going consistently. I really feel good. I crave the feeling I get when I leave the gym and I'm pretty sure that is a good thing! I think it just goes to show how truly motivated I am after my health scare, and how badly I just want to reach my goal!!! It's been over 3 years, it's time to just do it  already :)

I am going away for a couple of days with work. We will see if I can stay on track away from home. It's been quite a while since I have been faced with this type of challenge. Wish me luck!

On to the last 11 pounds....!