GOAL

Before and after pictures posted in honor of reaching my weight watcher's goal weight last Saturday! I'm finally in a normal bmi, according to charts. In 5 weeks I'll be a WW lifetime member.

Current pictures

Funeral in August and Half Marathon in October

Before pictures

This is before. Turkey trot November 2014 and the morning of Ella's delivery January 2015.

GOAL!!!!!!!!!!

I DID IT! GOAL!!!! 6 weeks of maintenance to go. Woohoo!

Thank you all very much for celebrating with me! I didn’t think it would be this satisfying as my ‘personal goal’ is a bit lower but I haven’t been this light since my wedding 10 years ago. I’m getting lots of positive comments (which are a little unnerving because what I hear not what they say is, “You were so fat before.”) I’m most proud of learning self control. I’ve got food; it doesn’t have me.

As far as advice, Alison (Dragonfly9712), the accountability of the meetings and weigh ins were really the key to my success. I had about 2 months where I only lost about 2 lbs total with lots of up and downs. I was skipping the meetings and weigh ins if I knew I was up. I think this led to more difficulty for me. When I finally said, “Forget it, I have to make the meetings no matter what,” I was successful again.

I'm all alone there's no one here beside me

My C25k buddies stood me up so I ran alone, which I haven’t done in months. Well, I was already at the track when I got the email. My daughter was in the car with me. I was just going to leave and run the errands I needed to as I have sick people at home. BUT she said, “You could just run by yourself.” Yeah. I could. Ok. 
Ran 2 miles in 19 minutes. Not bad. I should run alone and push myself more often. 

So close

Down .4 today which is good because I thought I’d gained. But that means I’m POINT FREAKING SIX away from goal. Soooo close but. …

ALMOST.

Down 2 lbs. Still. One. More. Pound. Until. Goal. Ugh. So close. Disappointed; my scale is off so I thought today was the day for sure. But staying positive. It was a great loss. This week for sure!