Sarah Jayne’s Journey

I just got back from my monthly weigh in at the nurse’s office and I now weigh…..*drum roll please*

227 pounds! That is a 5 pound loss in the past month.  I figure anything more than a pound a week is to be considered a good month and especially when I had a few days of eating total rubbish at the parties we had in the month.

I have no clue at all when the last time I weighed anywhere in the 220 but it had to be in my early teens or late pre-teens.  I wonder what my body thinks is happening to it..lol

The nurse also said today that she is going to keep me on Xenical until the company notices I have been on longer than the initial two years and tells me to come off of it.  Again, I have no idea how much the Xenical is actually doing these days since I am counting calories on my own and eating such low levels of fat daily but I will take what I can get for as long as I can get it!

So, this means I have two pounds to go between now and my wedding on the 19th to be at the 225 pounds I wanted to be at so that if I gained any weight on the honeymoon it wouldn’t be likely to take me back into the 230’s.  I should be able to do that unless I really get dumb.

That said…pizza night tonight as my last ‘cheat’ before the wedding!

Okay so I have really fallen behind on posting here and need to jump back in and try to get back into the mindset of daily accountability.  I haven’t had an official weigh in since my last post so I don’t know how much (if anything) I have lost.  The next weigh in at the nurse is Friday so I will find out soon.

In  the last month I haven’t been all *that* bad but I don’t think I have been all that good either.  Anthony and myself have kept up going for our morning hour or so walk on most weekdays and that has been a good thing to keep us moving.  We did host two parties though (Eurovision and a joint bachelor/bachlorette party) and that meant a lot of party food and not really counting calories for days at a time. So, I am hoping the weighin isn’t too bad.

My goal between now and the wedding - which is on July 19th - is to try to be about 225lbs or bellow.  The reason is because I know that on the honeymoon we will not be eating fantastically (though, I am not going to go out of my way to eat horribly either) and I would like to drop enough that even if I gain a few pounds over that period that I am still in the 220’s on our return.   Having not been weighed this month I have no idea how close I am to that already but we shall see on Friday.

Anyway, my challenge I am setting to myself is to have no ‘cheats’ until we get married on the 19th of July.  Now, the reason I am saying ‘cheats’ is because on my weigh in day I always allow myself a takeaway meal and that is suppose to be the only really bad meal I have that month (doesn’t always work out that way but it is the aim).  So, this Friday we shall be having a much longed for pizza.  So, other than that I want to go to the 19th without eating any rubbish and I want to make sure that I have counted my calories on the vast majority of those days.  Not only should this help me drop some weight and hopefully reach the 225 goal for the wedding but also it should help to make sure my skin and hair look as good as they can for the day.  Plus, you just feel better and more energetic after a long stint of eating well and exercising (if only we could remember that as well as we can remember how good chocolate tastes).

So, that is the challenge..let’s see how it pans out.