My Journey Through Life

The realization has just dawned on me that if I lose 2 pounds again this week I will have less than 50 pounds left to lose!!!  It is still a huge wall to climb, but 2 months ago I never thought I would have had this much success so quickly. I hope the one donut (actually 2 half donuts) that I ate for Fasnacht Day won't hurt me this week. I still stayed within my calorie range so it shouldn't - I froze the rest of the box after DH ate his share so they aren't a temptation to me for the rest of the week.   I am increasing my workouts to 5 thirty minute workouts this week.  This isn't easy for me cause I really don't like to work out. I don't get that rush of endorphin that supposedly come with exercise.  I really have to push myself to do a workout but the more success I see, the easier it is to get myself motivated.  Today was a day off from exercise - the next three days I will be able to get up and have a good workout first thing in the morning.  I am d

Last Thursday I think I had a touch of food poisoning.  From about 5pm Thursday till Friday afternoon I felt awful!!!  Didn't eat much of anything on Friday either.  Ended up losing another 2 pounds this week. Enough weight loss that my food tracker cut back my daily calorie goal!  It feels great to reach a milestone of 10 pounds!!! I haven't had a 'free' day since I started this journey in January so I decided I was going to enjoy myself and eat some fun snack foods while watching the Super Bowl...excuse me...while watching the Baltimore Ravens win the Super Bowl!!!  I didn't over do it too badly, didn't stuff myself, but I didn't obsess over what I ate, either.  I have decided to add an extra day of working out this week.  I have been doing 4 thirty minute workouts - starting this week I am going to do 5 thirty minutes workouts. I really feel good about my eating habits. I stay on track with my goal and even though the myfitnesspal tracker adds extra c