New jeans

I have come to the conclusion that it is time to buy new and smaller jeans. Either that or get a belt. I am loving it!

What to give up

Happy Ash Wednesday everyone. I am not Catholic but, I have decided to give up something for lent. I am giving up cheese. This is going to be super hard for me because I am a cheese-a-holic. It is my goal to not consume any slices of cheese, chesse curds, string cheese, shreaded cheese--NO CHEESE. I do have string cheese as a snack this afternoon....grrr I will have to gift it to a coworker. This is going to be even harder then group kick class.

Group Fitness

I was afraid of group classes at first but, now I am loving them. I could possibly go down 5lbs this week!

A new type of reward system

I have the issue of using food as a reward. When I was growing up our family did not have a lot of money so, going out to eat was always a huge treat and done to celebrate some type of event ( ex. birthdays, their anniversary, Mothers Day). Calories were also never thought about. I feel this is a huge reason I see rich, fatty, delicious foods as a reward. I am also an emotional eater. When I am sad or angry I reach for the dessert. Now I am trying to change my mindset. I need to realize when I am angry that reaching for that dessert does not hurt anyone but me. Also when a am celebrating an accomplishment I need to see that the rich food I may want will set me back in the long run. This is easy to realize now but, I can only pray to will remember this when the next "reward/emotional" situation arises.

2nd weigh in

Tonight is the 2nd weigh in and I am feeling good about it. Even if it is one pound again this week, it will be a pound in the right direction.

Ggggrrrrr

Ok so before this competition I lost 30 lbs over a four month period. Now that someone is waving money in my face my weight loss seems to be at a stand still. At the last weigh in I lost 1 pound. Then Doug asked me what I thought. I put on my happy face and acted excited. What I wanted to do was curl up in a ball and cry. What am I doing wrong! I went to the gym every night and burned at least 700 cals on the eliptical. Three out of the four days I also worked out with one of my Jillian Micheal workouts. I limited my food intake to 1200 cals a day. All of this hard work gets me 1 pound. Are you kidding me? If I am being punked now tell Ashton Kutcher to come on out before I drive myself crazy.