Weekly Weigh-In #2

Week 2! What a week... and not in a good way. I was tempted and gave in way too much :( First, there was Halloween. Up until then, I had been doing great! Halloween night after we took the kids trick or treating we had to rush off to Dothan where we were spending the night in preparation of Kye's eye surgery on Thursday morning. On our way out of town we ate at Old Mexico-strike #1. I was not good. On our way from Old Mexico to Dothan I ate more than my share of chocolate from the Halloween buckets-strike #2. The day of Kye's surgery none of us ate breakfast and it was nearly 1:00pm before we left the surgery center... so we stopped at Bojangles (which all my friends rant and rave about... but I thought was disgusting) for lunch-strike #3. I had several more strikes the rest of the week as I'd steal a little chocolate out of the Halloween bucket here or there (it's the chocolate that gets me!). On top of my edible indiscretions I also had issues working out this week :( Early in the week I was getting ready to go to the gym. As I got up, I told Chad my hip hurt a little (kind of like I twisted it getting up). I went to the gym anyway and did more than I have yet (very high incline, 4 miles, 700 calories burned! Yeah!). By that night... I was very much regretting it. I could barely walk. By the next morning, I literally COULDN'T walk. I had the worst night of pain and leg cramps. I spent the next several days not being able to work out as I slowly walked out whatever I had done to my hip. I went back to the gym Friday and was disappointed to have to walk very slowly, with no incline, and burn only half of the calories I knew I could have in the same amount of time. Anything else had my hip hurting again. Yesterday I took the boys for a quick walk around the loop (just shy of 1.5 miles) and my hip hasn't been bad from that, so hopefully I'm on the mend! Not being able to workout definitely impacts my willpower. When I get to workout, especially when I get to REALLY workout, I feel better! I feel motivated, I feel like I'm ready to do this! I didn't reach either of my goals I had set for myself last week. That being said, this week wasn't a total bust. I still managed to lose a little (which is better than a maintain or a gain any time!) and despite the slowly moving numbers on the scale I am seeing a difference in my body. I can put on shorts I haven't worn since I had lost all my weight before (about 5 more pounds before they're really comfortable). I can see a difference in this week's pictures too. 

So...

Last week I weighed:

200.2 pounds

This week I weigh:

198.8 pounds

For a weekly weight loss of:

1.4 pounds

and an overall weight loss of:

2.83%

and this week's picture!

 

I'm excited to be under 200 pounds again! I hope I never have to see a number above that again!

So, goals for next week.

Get down to 196 pounds. 195 would tickle my fancy even more.

Once again, log 12 miles of walking.

I've been thinking too. I need an overall goal. I think my overall goal is to lose 50 pounds by my graduation (ahhhh university graduation!) on May 10. I think it's a completely reasonable goal, and would put me right in an optimum weight range for me! My big reward will be shopping for a really nice dress to wear under my cap and gown (squeeeel again! cap & gown?! ah!).

and one last thing...

I can't thank you all enough for the support. Knowing that I have to answer to all of you keeps me going every week. I love hearing your encouragement, or how I've inspired you... gives me the warm fuzzies!