A loss!!

Weigh In Results: Down 2.2 pounds, and back to approximately the weight I was when I met D. I am nowhere near comfortable here, but I am working my way back down, something I've been struggling to do for months, so that feels good! I've lost a total of 10.2 pounds since November. Slow and not-so-steady at times, but I'll take it. Plus, I'm learning a lot about how to make this a long-term thing. Learning that how I do things one month with success, doesn't mean that I'll do it that way and have success for the rest of my life. That I have to roll with the punches, constantly reformulating my plan to what's going on with my life. That's a big thing I'm learning at work. I've pretty much relegated my 35 WPA to weekends at work. I find that if I plan for treats during the weekend, I get by with a lot less guilt. Then I have the rest of the week to be good at home, where it is much easier. Oh, oh, oh! AND- I am wearing jeans that have not graced my thighs in months. I love getting back into jeans that were once too tight! A great victory!!

I intended to post sometime on Saturday, but D and I slept in, and then we shopped, and before I knew it, it was time for work. Then work was a bruiser on both Saturday and Sunday nights. We were just supremely busy, especially for a weekend. It's rare that the weekend nights are busier than the Monday nights I also work, but that was the case this week. I left work yesterday morning feeling like I was getting sick, and then when I woke up yesterday afternoon, I still felt that way. And I bellyached over the phone to D while we watched American Idol together, then I went to bed again. A wasted evening, however, I feel a lot better today. I think it may have just been extreme allergies. My allergies are pretty severe, and they often trick me into thinking that I'm getting sick, only to wake up the next day feeling better. Thank goodness for that though, as I have now made it to March without getting sick during cold and flu season. Perhaps my three years working in the hospital has primed my immune system. Everyone at work has been sicker than spit here lately, and miraculously, I have avoided it.

Today it's off to the grocery store for some tried-and-true food items: Pita pizza ingredients, eggbeaters, broccoli, baking potatoes, salad fixin's, soup, and Morningstar Farms items. Plus, I am in search of the elusive Diet Cherry Dr. Pepper. I saw it at the grocery store in D's town, which is much smaller than mine, but CANNOT find it here! Had I known, I would have stocked up, as I am positive it is delicious. Hopefully the Dr. Pepper fairy will have blessed my local grocery store with some today! Please, oh, please!

Tonight, I enter Week 2 of C25K training. I really think it had a positive impact on my weight loss last week. I hope to see similar results this week. My reward for losing 10 pounds was to splurge and buy the Shu Uemura Eyelash Curler at Sephora. My last eyelash curler cost $1, so the difference is amazing. No more pinching my eyelid by accident. For 15 pounds, I have yet to come up with a treat, but I'm eyeing these gladiator-ish flats (I'm totally not a fan of the gladiator sandals, but these shoes called to me. Here they are! They are totally cuter in person, and I can see rocking them with some cute jeans. I am not sure they wouldn't cut you off at the ankle in a skirt or dress though, which might make my already short stature even shorter. Hmmm. D saw them and hated them. He is against all things gladiator, and is in love with any shoe with a heel that would appear hellish to walk in. He loves to buy me shoes, which I love too, but my goodness, some of them make my feet hurt after just an hour in them. Of course being overweight probably adds to that. I'd love to be skinny and rocking some 4 inch heels with a little less suffering!

I've been awake since 4am, trying to finish a library book that was due back yesterday. It's good, but not that good, but I can't not finish it. I also want to finish working on my bedroom project, which is what I started last Friday. I have these frames that came with mats already in them, and I want to make something to put in them to place on the wall over my new chair and table that I have in the corner of my room. It's really coming together nicely. My bedroom has been the last room in the house for me to tackle, but I think having that room look pulled together will be imperative for when I place my house on the market in a few short months.

Okay, off to make breakfast and hit the grocery store. Hopefully if I am there before 8am, I can actually get a movie from the Redbox without waiting in line behind 10 people! I want Rachel Getting Married!