Another four bite the dust

Ever have one of those weeks when you get on the scale & can't believe the number?  You step off and get on a couple of times to make sure your eyes aren't deceiving you?   That happened to me this morning.  My goal for the week was to lose 1.2 pounds to reach the 70 pound mark.   I lost 4.4 pounds this week.  HOLY SH*T!  That's all I kept thinking as I got on and off the scale.  I am now down 73.2 pounds.

Why am I so shocked?  Losing 4+ pounds in a week is a big deal for me since I've been doing Weight Watchers for 53 weeks.  For a while there, I would lose two weeks in a row and then gain some of it back.  For the past 7 weeks, I've been losing weight except for the one week when I maintained.  My goal for this week is to maintain.  Why?  I am going out of town from Thursday through Monday so basically eating out all the time.  I will make good choices. I will make good choices.  I will make good choices.

As of yesterday, I have now been tracking my food for 14 days straight.  Only 46 more days until I reach my goal of tracking for 60 consecutive days & that Fitbit will be mine.  I find that I won't eat something since I know that I have to track it.  As Cyndi would say "if you bite it, track it" and as Kelly told me "if you nibble it, scribble it." And speaking of rewards, I am 1.8 pounds away from reaching 75 pounds which would mean getting another Do Life shirt.  I am tempted to go to a Weight Watchers meeting & pay for the meeting (I am online member) just to get the 75 pound charm. I wonder if they will let you do that?

And yesterday I talked about an awesome non-scale victory.  Looking back I wish I had better before pictures but I don't.  Even now I rather take pictures than be in them.  The picture on the left was taken yesterday before I participated in the 5k.  The one of the upper right hand corner is what I consider my before picture.  It was taken in July of 2010.  The bottom right hand corner has a picture of the shirt I was wearing that day.  The size is 28w (ugh!) and the one underneath it is what I wore yesterday.   It's a freaking XL!