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Morning Weigh-in: 190 flat!

I managed to not do too much damage over the weekend, which is staggering. Today I am going to get a membership to the Y for the summer and watch what I eat. GO ME!

Sorry so short-- thanks for reading!

QUICK!

Morning weigh-in: ten billion. No for real, I gained 2 full pounds. I haven't gotten the chance to exercise in what feels like a thousand years (really, two days)

We are graduating today!

:)

Slow Slow Slow

Morning Weigh-in: 189.5

Which is good. Which is lower than yesterday. Today is a busy day full of paper editing and putting the final touches on the house-- T's momma is flying in this evening, yay!

I can't believe we graduate the day after tomorrow!!! WOW.

Sorry this entry is short-- lots of stuff to do! :)

This is still hard

17 pounds later, this is still hard.

Morning Weigh-in: 190

eeeehrgh. It's such slow work. Exercising still makes me happy, and eating is still difficult. Yesterday I spent about 15 minutes on a bike and half an hour on an elliptical-- then I went and did a full upper-body weight-lifting workout.

Weight loss is a long long long process. It was my goal to be at 185 before June-- but almost halfway through May I'm still fighting with 190?

May has been a really hard month with food. Usually it's just me and Tarver at our house. Tarver eats giant bowls of cereal and I eat spinach and brown rice and other stuff... this month it feels like I have been everywhere-- and by everywhere I mean, coldstone, granite city, green mill--- you get the idea.

Exercising is great, but I need to committ to BOTH parts of the weight-loss process. Summer will be a lot easier.

Also, I'm so close to being done with my undergrad career-- lots of hard work today and tomorrow. For serious.

Commenting!

The commenting problem is fixed! :)

Food Challenge day

Morning Weigh-in: 189.5

Which is a nice weight to start the week with, if I do say so myself. I am hoping to establish myself in the 80's for good this week.

Today will be full of food challenges. I am studying most of the day-- except for when we eat. We'll be eating at Qdoba with my dad who's in town taking an exam, and at the Green Mill with Tarver's sort-of-grandma-person. So, food is the main challenge today!

I'm really excited for all of my studying to be over after this week. Then I can really start focusing on my weight-loss. Hopefully soon lake activities can be added in as well!

Also, some people have said they've had trouble posting comments? If you have such a problem, send me a facebook and I'll look into it.

I hate my scale.

Good morning! We're back in Moorhead. We decided to leave GF from the wedding dance last night. It was a good decision. Except that I had to weigh myself the day after a wedding :( However, it didn't seem to turn out so bad.

Morning weigh-in: 187.

Yay me! I weighed myself again to confirm that I had somehow lost weight eating cake and not exercising...

Morning weigh-in: 190.5

Eh? How exactly am I supposed to interpret that? I think I'll stick with the 190 since it makes more sense but for seriousness, why can't my scale stop teasing me? It's not very nice.

I'm back on the weight-loss wagon after a very brief furlough into wedding-land. The next four days are me writing my last papers and cleaning the house. It's going to be intense.

Also, happy mothers day today!!! I love my momma so much; she is incredibly supportive and just a great lady all-around. Also, she just got a new job, so I'm very proud of her this Mothers Day as well. <3!!!

Wedding time!

Me and Tarver all dressed up! Don't I have the handsomest boyfriend evar? :)

Good morning from Grand Forks,

Good morning from Grand Forks, North Dakota! I wa/'t able to weigh myself this morning but I'll update tomorrow with my weight. :)

Progress and weekend goals

Morning Weigh-in: 188 flat!!!

So, I am progressing nicely. Unfortunately I won't be able to weigh myself at all this weekend, but fortunately it's because we're going to Tarver's cousin's wedding!!! Yaaaay! It's going to be very exciting and we're staying with his grandparents whom we don't get to see very often. It's going to be an awesome weekend for family fun but probably not so great for weight-loss. So, I'm going to set some realistic goals for myself for this weekend.

• One "sweet" per day. Because I won't be able to control my food calories, I need to be strong and turn down snacks. However, I don't want to be a Debbie Downer and refuse all of Grandma Betty's treats. So, one a day seems logical.
• If we eat out (I don't know if we will or not) I'm going to make sure I know where we're going and what I'm going to eat there before we go. Restaurants hardly ever have nutrition facts available, so I have to look them up online beforehand if I want to make an informed decision.
  
• ONE drink at the reception, and it should be light beer.
  
• Besides the one drink, everything else I drink should be water. I can't afford the extra calories of lemonade and milk or the dehydrating powers of pop.

And those are my goals. I'll be working out this morning, taking tomorrow off and working out Sunday night. So hopefully that will get all of my necessary exercising in :) I will also try to keep writing in my blog. Thanks for reading everyone!

Last day of school evar!

Morning Weigh-In: 188.5!!!

A new low for my very last day of school! I didn't write this morning because I was putting the finishing touches on my Health and Medicine paper. I am so happy to be hanging out in the 80's today! I am feeling good about myself and how I look. :)

My BMI as of today is 30.9-- down from 34 at the beginning of the blog.

I AM SO CLOSE to not being obese any more! Mostly I will be glad to be out of the "high-risk" zone. I am seriously not interested in diabetes, or smooshing my internal organs, or that sad feeling when I was winded after walking up two flights of stairs.

Today is an absolutely beautiful day in Moorhead! Hopefully I will get to spend some time outside and some time doing some reading :)

Maintaining

Morning Weigh-in: 190

Well, it's not a loss but it's not a gain either, so I'm really not too disappointed with it. Sometimes I work really hard and still have a stasis and I'm like, really, do I have to work harder?

But then I realize that I weigh myself every single day and I probably just drank more or less water than usual yesterday.

Today is my lastest ever senior theory class and my second-to-last senior seminar class. It's so completely weird to be saying goodbye to all of this-- that's been such a huge part of my life for so long.

But I am definitely ready to move on to the next thing. I am making progress and getting my papers done and I'm totally ready for next fall-- once I finish all of this stuff. :)

Last Tuesday of the year!

Morning weigh-in: 190

I am ever so slowly inching downward. It feels like it's taking forever but I know this is the best way to do it. Also I can tell every day that I'm healthier and stronger. I like being at the wellness center and I don't miss over-eating too badly most days.

Yesterday I read this woman's blog-- "101 reasons I hate being fat," she started out a lot bigger than me (300+!) but there was a lot of truth in some of her reasons. Some I couldn't relate to because quite frankly, thought I've been obese, I've never been that big. But some of the stuff-- being ashamed to go to the beach, not ever wanting to wear sleveless anythings, feeling like people are staring at you, being the fattest girl in the room-- I've been there and it absolutely sucks.

But here I am. That's why I'm down 17.5 pounds from my high point, because I don't like it, it's not healthy, and my life is changing.

Bowling Alley Drinks!

Drink choices at the bowling alley... I went up to the counter and asked for some water. (beer was also a choice--- very VERY tempting!)

It was surprisingly easy to resist pizza after I had gone out of my way to resist the pop. I had two and a half slices of thin-crust cheese pizza. Still probably around 300-400 calories, but for one of my meals (and having my other meals be pretty small today-- a protein bar, a frozen meal [260cal], two pieces of toast, it was acceptable.)

I will seriously miss the advo crew. We have had some amazing times :) Also they have been some of my biggest supporters, so here's a shout-out to the crew, especially to Heidi and Alicia who are some of my super-awesome commentators. If any of you secretly read my blog, you should start leaving me messages. Srsly. Messages are extremely motivating!

Last week of school!

Morning Weigh-in: 191.5 :(

But, you know what, if 191.5 is my high weight, I really am making progress. It's just a battle every day and some days are easier than others. Today, for instance, might be a little hard, because it'll be the last day I'll have to resist advo pizza-- tonight is our end-of-year party. We'll see.

This week is finish-writing-all-of-my-papers week, but after Thursday-- no more class! Next week we have a ton of exciting things going on. Including GRADUATION. Wow. SCARY.

So, focusing on getting my stuff done and continuing in the gym this week. That's the goal. :)

Tada!

Morning Weigh-in: 189!

I am FINALLY seeing the end of the 190s! Sorry it's taken me so long to write this entry, I woke up this morning, weighed myself and then went back to sleep :) Last night was a late night or morning however you want to look at it.

I am really, really, really happy to see this number. Thank goodness. I feel like this is really going to happen-- definitely like I can do this. It's May, so hopefully I can lose 5 pounds again this month leaving me at 185 at the beginning of June, 180 by July, 175 by August 170 by September, 165 by October, 160 by November, 155 by December and 150 by January 1, 2010.

Today I have several things on my to-do list. The first is to continue my new eating plan, which I have somehow not explained-- but I have switched to eating several 300ish calorie meals a day. I eat breakfast, then some lunch, another meal at about 4, and another at around 7 or 8, then I have "space" for a small snack or beer or whatever at night. I end up at at around 1,500 calories. :) It's worked well for about the past week, so I'm going to keep going with it.

Also, paper writing and exercising! Yay!

101 Posts!

This is my 101st post! Yaaaay!!!

Morning weigh-in: 191.5

Considering that I didn't exercise yesterday and the food I ate, I am incredibly pleased that I only gained half a pound. I don't regret eating ice cream yesterday-- we had a great time at coldstone and choir is is almost no more forever.

Today is Saturday and I have a lot of work to do!!! I will be writing papers, exercising and writing some more! I feel happy and ready to go this morning.

My measurements stayed the same this week, but I've trimmed up anyway in other areas that I'm not actually measuring. I'm losing weight in completely random spots-- not confined to my waist or my hips. So I feel like I look better even though my numbers haven't gone down.

A sea of carbs

No choice... a sea of carbs.

Progress not perfection?

This is why I have such a problem-- someone says "let's go to coldstone!" and I say "hell yeah coldstone!" And then I slowly come to the realization that the little cup of ice cream in front of me probably has 600+ calories... Progress not perfection? Love from Marshall Minnesota!

The longest day

Morning weigh-in: 191 flat

HAPPY MAY!!! Tarver and I graduate exactly TWO weeks from today! Can I get down into the 180s by then? I think so.

This is not bad. Unfortunately I won't be able to concentrate on my weight-loss (or my homework) today because of our choir trip. Yesterday I did pretty well with food-- I give myself an A-. We went to the wellness center but I was really tired and not feeling up to giving it my all, so we didn't stay very long. Even though it sucks, having a day off might be what I need right now.

Have a good Friday, everyone! <3