new outfit

Never mind the 'do, this was taken Friday, which was "hat day" for our team at work, so after having hat head, I bought this outfit... needed something spring/summery to get me through, so I bought a few new items in the smaller sizing:

3 months

12-week weigh-in

255.6
-2.4 (for 2 weeks)
-28.6 12 wks (2.38/wk ave)
-30 lbs in 2012
-54.4 overall



Onward and downward!!

v-a-c-a-t-i-o-n.... with my hunnnnnyyyyyyyy

I spent the past week in CA with my hunny R&Ring and enjoyed every minute of it!

Came back to a .4 gain, which is huge success, in light of the challenges I faced when I went.

Namely, I am OP and he is *not* OP LOL!!
Lots of "come on, surely you can have this" and "can't you have this" etc... no, I cannot have that because I am an addict and right now I am on restriction.

-sigh-

So, I logged the .4 gain, which really isn't a gain in truth because that's a trip or two to the potty, ya know...?

Speaking of which, man oh man.... being back OP today, drinking my water.... eating right.... I have been peeing a lot!!  WOW!!

Now.  6 weeks until the cruise!!  I can lose 12-30 lbs in that amount of time.

Game on!!

of pizza and cake "fests"

It really wasn't a feeding frenzy (as in the past could have been) but my mother's birthday was Friday and college-boy got home for a week's vacation so we had pizza and cake to celebrate.  No I did not have to have pizza or cake, certainly no one forced me or coerced me or anything.  I just made a conscious decision to go off-P for that period of time.

I could certainly feel it that night and the next day!  Scale up a touch, which doesn't surprise me, more sodium retention or anything than actual fat gain, but still... a gain is a gain in this a loss is a loss world and I *hate* having to re-lose any amount.

Measurements this morning show -4 inches in the past two weeks, for a total of 64.5 inches gone overall.

I'll take it.  It's all about perspective.

I have a week until I go away for a week to see my hunny.  This will be a milestone trip in itself.  While this marks our 12 year anniversary of knowing each other and what, maybe 8 of the girlfriend/boyfriend relationship, I've never taken/spent a full week there!  And, I'm doing it again in May!!

We like to talk that our relationship is moving forward and I do have a promise ring, that when I can tell him I can move there and make it permanent, he will move it to an engagement and marriage (I was told that a year'ish ago)

Anyway.  All of our visits in the past have been for long weekends, in the 4 day range, you know...?  I am excited and nervous!!  Not nervous about us getting along, bored with each other or anything like that, but nervous about staying OP that long "in his element more than mine"

In the past, I have worked like a lunatic to lose xx amount of pounds and then go see him for a weekend and between the travel-stress, travel-retention, etc I have gained 5-7 lbs during that weekend to have to turn around and do it all over again.

Now that I am on this program.... this plan.... I am anxious, nervous and curious to see how things will go.

With Medifast, it's pretty simple, you follow the rules, eat 5 of their meals a day and 1 of  your own "lean and green" meals per day and you lose weight.  In 9 weeks, I have lost 26.2 lbs, or an average of just under 3 lbs per week (they say 2-5 lbs per week is good)

So, to go 5&1 for a week "on vacation" - it's been done - others have done it before me and others will do it after me - but I don't know and cannot say today that I will follow that 100% for a week with hunny.  Maybe more like 4&2 or 3&3, but we'll see......

Anyway, I hope you are all having a great weekend and making plans for a wonderful new week!  Onward and downward!

25.5 until half

-4.6 lbs this week, makes it what, 52 lbs gone?  My math shows me that is roughly 25.5 until halfway to goal, if I keep 155 as my end goal weight

WHOOP:  onward and downward!!

Even Steven

Whoop.... I just had to come here and update my weight loss ticker thingy.  I'm 50 lbs gone even today!! 

50 down.... 105 to go....

Whoop! Whoop! Whoop! Whoop! Whoop! Whoop! Whoop!

A picture is worth one word: wow!

Ok, two pictures....

Before (310 lbs):






Current (261 lbs = -49 lbs):





Don't ask me what hunny had to say about this outfit/shirt.  I told him I wasn't asking his permission to get/wear/keep it (LOL!!)  I love how it looks and feels (and makes me feel) and I got a lot of compliments today.

A lot.

So there.  Plbbbbbt.  Neener neener

(LOL)

hospital food

I had to take my mother in for surgery today because she got an infection in the surgery site (she had a hip replaced a month ago and the incision site got infected)

OK.  So today, when they took her in to surgery I went to the cafeteria and bought a cup of hot water and pack of tea so I could make my MF oatmeal (I'm a good girl LOL) and I was watching people eat their piles of eggs, bacon or sausage and pastries for breakfast and part of me wondered if they eat like that all the time, or just because they were at the hospital working or visiting someone that is there.

I felt sad for them, because even though I was out of my element and off plan eating time wise, I was on plan eating my meals.

I bought the "hot tea" makings because I wasn't entirely sure what would be available to me in the cafeteria, but I could have taken my own cup or something to mix the oatmeal in and just use the hot water tap from the water dispenser.  Lo and behold, I learned something!  I know how I can stay nourished while mom's in the hospital for the next few days LOL!!

5.6 for February

January:  16.0 lbs lost
February:  5.6 lbs lost

... hoping for a happy middle ground in March (10-11 lbs)

Onward and downward!  February, I am soooooo DONE with  you!!  Bring it on, March!!