Four Pounds!

I meant to write about this a week ago, but life in general has prompted me to repeatedly forget to post about it!

Let me start by saying that I very rarely weigh myself. I don't own a scale, and I don't regularly attend a gym, so I seldom know what I weigh. I weighed myself about once a week when I was home in CO for a month during the holidays since my parents own a scale. And aside from that, I am only weighed when I happen to go to the doctor. I usually just go with how my clothes fit. I used to be obsessive about weighing myself almost daily, and it was not a good cycle for me. I would be so upset if I hadn't lost any weight and, realistically, I shouldn't have been losing a pound a day anyway. It's not healthy to do it that way in my opinion, and it never stayed off for me if I did lose weight that quickly. That is why I decided to not purchase a scale.

I weighed 184.2 when I left CO, the last week of December, and as of a week and a half ago, at a doctor's appointment, I weighed 179.8! Yay!!! FOUR MORE POUNDS!!! I average about a pound a week, from what I have calculated, and I have not gained any weight back that I have lost so far! Slow and steady wins the race :)

At this rate, by the end of June, if I continue to lose one pound per week, I will have lost twenty more pounds, putting me around 159- I haven't been below the mid 160's in....well let's just say, it's been a while! I will see how I look and feel at that weight, then decide if I feel I could lose a few more pounds or if I'm satisfied at that point. I haven't been that "low" in weight in a long while and so I can't wait to see how transformed my body is at that point!

Controlling my eating still isn't super easy for me...I still have days when I struggle, especially when I'm feeling stressed/anxious, my go-to stress-reliever is eating...but I'm working hard! And when I get to see the scale creep slowly backwards, and know I am not, and will not, regain that weight again, I am so proud of myself and it motivates me to keep going!