Weighing In

I get so nervous every time I decide to step on the scale or try on an old pair of jeans...and this morning I did both! Happily I am down 5 pounds from last time to 190!!! And I am officially into my size 16 jeans, yes! It feels so good to be able to really see a difference and to have proof from my old clothes. Brad and I were looking at my drivers license picture from a year ago (where i weighed 20 more pounds than now) and it is so obvious that I've lost weight.


I credit most of my success to FitWatch because it really has shown me that I was eating WAY too many calories even though I thought I was eating healthily. I also think that exercise has helped too, not only because I'm burning more calories that way, but because I'm building lean muscle which helps to burn fat. I also never weigh myself more than once a week and always at the same time. I read that you weigh the least at 7am, so that's when I weigh in and I always "wear" the same thing so I don't have to worry about clothes contributing to weighing more or less.

I still have 30 pounds to go to reach the weight that I want to be. But I've been thinking that I could keep going and lose even more weight. 160 is the weight I had been at since my sophomore year in high school so it's what I'm used to. But it is technically still one point into the "overweight" category on the bmi scale. So why stop? Especially since I've figured out this whole weight loss thing. I'm feeling pretty motivated to keep going and maybe get down to 140, I can't even imagine how good I'd look then! We'll see what happens. For now my goal is to get to 160, so 30 more pounds here I come!