Hallelujah!

Oh my God, Oh my God, OH MY GOD!   I'm soooo excited!!!

I haven't been able to weigh in for a whole week.  Work has totally sucked....I'm so busy, I have to schedule pee breaks (well, not really, but sometimes it feels like it).  I don't use my scale at home because I'm no good at that AT ALL.  My last 55 attempts at weight loss, I would weigh myself in the morning and if I had even a smidge of a weight loss, I would totally sabotage myself and would spend my day stuffing my fat face with chocolate, candy, chips and salsa, cookies, Jimmy John's, french fries, ummm, oh and maybe a donut if someone brought them in.  HAHA! 

Of course not all at one time, but I seriously would blow my diet every single day.  I felt like every day I was waking up and starting my diet over and every day by about 4:00 pm I had blown it.  I hated living my life that way and watching myself get fatterandfatterandfatter.  I was busting at my size 18 seams and it sucked!!!

Okay, now for my good news!  I OFFICIALLY HAVE LOST 28.2 POUNDS!  Like I said earlier, work has been really busy and I haven't been to MWLC since last week Monday.  Since then, I lost 3.8 pound, accomplished my weight goal #4 - lose 25 pounds and weight goal #5 - get to 200 pounds!  Of course, I'm still a smidge over 200 because I "officially" weigh 200.4 pounds, but I am taking it!

I don't know what day I actually hit my mini weight goal of 25 pounds lost.  That's one of the reasons why I like weighing in three times a week.  I know some people can't handle that, but for me, it keeps me honest.  Otherwise, I'm afraid I would cheat. 

I think Weight Watchers is great,  and once I get to my goal weight, I might try it, but I'm not sure.  I can't handle weighing in only once a week.  And I don't really like the classes really if I have to be completely honest.  And I also have a hard time with having to look and calculate EVERYTHING I eat.  When I tried it before, I found that I was always eating frozen lean cuisines because I hated having to add up ingredients.  

Okay, after reading the above, maybe I won't join Weight Watchers after all LOL.  Don't get me wrong, I know the program works, and I've seen a lot of people who've had amazing results, but it just doesn't work for me. 

I guess the reason this diet has worked for me is because I've been just drinking the shakes three times a day and eating dinner.  It's easy to follow and I don't have to think about how many calories everything is.  I'll just usually make a bunch of chicken, weigh some out for dinner, steam some green beans, and I'm good. I have to admit that the hardest part for me is eating the carb I'm supposed to eat every day.  I'll usually just have my 3 oz of chicken, green beans, 1/2 baked potato (sometimes) and that's my meal.  Easy peasy.

It works for me because I'm not one of those people who needs a lot of variety in their meals.  I could literally eat the same thing every day for a month.  I might get a little bored with it, but not enough to switch.  Especially if it was already cooked HAHA. 

One of the things I have given up is table salt.  I haven't put salt on any of my food since December.  A lot of times my food is a little bland without it, but to be honest, I don't notice it nearly as much as I used to in the beginning.  But one thing I DO notice is how SALTY some things are.  I had a couple of chips the other day and I felt like my tongue swelled up because they were so salty. 

WEIGHT GOAL #6:

I've decided that my next weight goal is to get to 30 pounds weight loss, which would be 198.6 pounds.  I would LOVE to be able to do this by this Saturday, March 5th.  That is only 1.8 pounds from where I am right now and if I don't cheat and I exercise, I should be able to accomplish this.  Oooh, I hope so.

Well, I'm off to stalk some weight loss blogs, check in to the Healthy U Challenge, snag my 25 pound weight loss badge (YAY!), and go watch the Biggest Loser.

UPDATE:  Check out my awesome 25 pound badge to the right ------> 
I'm so proud of this!