So I got on the scale this morning and …      180

Once again I am excited !!! I have now not only met my goal I have passed it by a pound AND I did it in 5 weeks instead of 6. YAAAAAAAAAAAAY !!!!!!!    :o) 

I’m not sure what I’m going to do as my I met my goal treat. I know it won’t be food though. I made up my mind at the beginning of this journey that my goal met rewards would not be food and will most likely be something for my appearance a pedicure, new clothes , a new hair do, getting my ears re pierced etc.  “Hey I just lost 10 pounds lets chow down on a gallon of ice cream”  just seems kinda counter productive.  It would make this a ONE step forward,  TWO  steps back thing and I would eventually give up. Anyway, when I decide what I’m gonna get I’ll post about it ! I may wait til Justin gets home and let him help me decide.

And  THAT  folks is my tip for today !! DON’T make your rewards a food item !! You would do better to pick a day (mine is friday night at family movie time) and let yourself have ONE serving of something you REALLY miss… for me it’s root beer. Barqs to be specific.  :o)  If you do that you can handle sticking to one portion where if you put it off for a looooooong time and make it a reward you can’t help but eat a lot cause you missed it for so long and you feel entitled to do so cause you “earned” it. But you will also “earn” your way back up the scale.  I will pick anything I may want (cds, movies, a shirt, my new tattoo)  but I know a good bit of the time it will go toward my appearance. I want to enhance the new me cause I’m proud of the work I’m doing and the self control I now have. Plus being pregnant for almost 2 years straight I did NOTHING for my appearance. When I’m pregnant I’m to miserable to care.  :o) 

I am going to work out EVERY day this week including Saturday and Sunday because hopefully Justin will be home next weekend for 6 days and I don’t know how much formal exercise I’ll be getting in that week. I am also going to work out twice a day every other day this week.

So “the skinny” is ….  I worked out Mon.- Weds. and I worked out twice on Thursday.  Today I did yard work for exercise and it kicked my butt cause I was already sore.

I stuck to my calories all week EVERY day !!

Peace

Steph