Baby, it's HOT outside

My 5 year old daughter - we'll call her Flipperbiscuit (looooong story) - kept me honest and held me to the promise to take her for a walk in the neighborhood. We've got a route that is just about a mile (thanks to mapmyride.com) and we just went and did that. Now hubby and Flipper are running to Subway to get dinner. Mmmm....

So, at my WW meeting this past Thursday I hit my first 10 lbs lost! Got my ribbon and everything! Lost 4 lbs in the past week. My scale and my Wii Fit here at home are both "lighter" than the WW scale, so I can't go by them for "official" results, but according to the bathroom scale this morning I hit 289 (and it DID say I was over 300 three weeks ago - 301 I believe - so I can still chart the trend) - I can't wait (weight? Yeah, I'm a dork.) until the 'official' scale says the 280s.

My mini-goal is to be at my 10% weight loss by August 19th, when I'm going to Put-In-Bay with my Mom and my Aunt and my kids. That's a very do-able goal - my 10% puts me at 273.8 lbs and I should just about hit that by Aug 19th if I keep up like I have been. I'm really hoping that starting strength training at the Y will yield some results as well.

My next mini-goal is to hit 253.4 by Halloween, which would be just over 50 lbs lost. I have lots of friends that I see once a year at my annual Halloween party, and I want to "wow" them :)

Anywho, here's a pic from this past Thursday:

Here's me at 294.2

Here's my ribbon :) :


How weird it is (for me, and to me) that I'm looking forward to starting strength training at the gym. I can't wait to watch myself change. I can't wait to be on the outside who I am on the inside - for the image in the mirror to look right.

Some things that have occurred to me lately:

Small changes are still changes

It's ok to leave food on my plate - my dogs appreciate it!

I am WORTH this.