I'm Back!

I know, it's been along time. Life has been crazy busy!

I'm still on my diet, though I've changed from salads to sandwiches with low fat cheese, healthy meats, and low calorie bread with fruit as a side dish for lunch, but I'm still within my counts. Though I'm having a super hard time sticking with any type of exercise program. I seem to be able to do whatever I plan on Monday, and sometimes Tuesday if I don't have to go to court, but by either Tuesday or Wednesday, I'm discouraged, tired, and just don't want to get up any earlier than necessary to just get ready and go to work.

So anyway-to the really great news! I've lost 19.4 pounds!!! I have 5.6 pounds to go to get to my first mini goal of 25 pounds, and I should be able to do it by our aniversary trip! Rob and I are going to the city for our aniversary the weekend after Thanksgiving while friends stay at our house and take care of our four critter children. We'll have been together and dating for 3 years on November 27th. Its nothing really big, I'm leaving work early and Rob is too, then we're headed to OKC to check into our hotel, have dinner, and hit the hot tub, then the next day we'll spend at the zoo, have dinner, and see a movie. The last day we'll have lunch and head home. Just a little get-away us time. I can't wait!

I also have discovered I have lost a size in clothing! We have a K-Mart in town, and I went with my mom and her friend when they came to visit. I ended up getting two shirts and a new skirt in a smaller size, 2X (I had been wearing a 3X), thinking that since I was losing weight I would be able to wear them, hopefully by the trip. I got home to kind of try them on that night and discovered that they fit fine right now! This was about 3 weeks ago. This past weekend my parents were here and mom and I went back to K-Mart and I found two summer dresses that are the same smaller size that fit great too, and I have a shrug at home that works great already with the two dresses. The best news, the first three pieces were $22 each for two of them, and $18 for the other, but I only paid $3 each! And the two summer dresses were $33 and $25, but I only paid $2 each!! So in all I spend $13 and saved $107!!!

So, my goal for each month is to lose at least 10 pounds a month. I'm at 265.6 now (started at 284), and my goal is to be at lease to 255 by our aniversary trip which starts a month from tomorrow. Think I can do it??