Category: rewards

Knock Off Early

I had another nice surprise on the scale this past weekend: two more pounds gone!  I am just a little over 6 pounds away from my first mini-goal.  Time to start setting up some small rewards for hitting little milestones along the way.

This morning was hectic, so much going on all at once.  I had to log into a Zoom meeting, while texting a co-worker, while trying to remotely troubleshoot an issue with our phones at work…all while a spoiled pitbull whined in one bedroom like his little heart was shattered at being left alone for a few minutes.

I put out all those fires, got everything resolved (including the big baby dog, who got to go for an extra long walk), and now I am thinking…why not knock off a bit early for today?  I deserve it.

One benefit of working from home is that no one really knows when I am at my computer and when I’m not.  I’m going to take advantage of that fact today.  Bye!

Soon

daylightsavingsproblemsMaybe we should turn the clocks back an hour every weekend, because I got so much done this weekend!  Okay, maybe that’s not exactly a great idea.  In fact, it’s a terrible idea.  But I am seriously proud of how much I accomplished this weekend, even with the time change.

First up, as always, was weigh-in on Saturday morning.  I lost 1.4 pounds, still slowly but surely crawling closer to my goal.  My weight loss has definitely slowed down, but that’s okay.  It means I am really close to my goal.  I am just getting really impatient to hit the 140s already, because I can’t wait for my next weight loss reward!

With help from my husband and stepson, the yard is completely mowed, leaves and branches raked up and bagged up.  I love our house and our yard, and it looks so nice when it is freshly mowed.  Even after the manual labor, I wasn’t done: I swept, mopped, vacuumed, scrubbed down the showers, and then cleaned out and organized the cabinets and storage shelves in our laundry room.  (Color-coordinated baskets, anyone?)

Yesterday I spent some time meal prepping, and I am looking forward to lunch today.  I made salmon, asparagus, and red potatoes (recipe here) and boxed up enough for several lunches this week.  I also washed and sliced strawberries for my dessert.  No excuses when everything is already prepped and packaged for the week.

Last night I tried on some pants in my closet, and I have added another pair of pants to the collection of clothes that finally fit again!  My goal-weight jeans are still stubbornly holding out on me, but I know they will fit again.  Soon!

Four Pounds Closer

I was in “no more screwing around” mode last week, and it paid off!  When I weighed in Saturday morning, I was thrilled to see I had lost four pounds.

I have now lost over 60 pounds, and I am at the lowest weight I have been in a year and a half.  I am 7 pounds from my next mini goal (and weight loss reward).  And that reward will be my last weight loss reward before my ultimate, goal-weight reward!

It was a good weekend all around.  My stepkids were home, and we had a good time.  They mentioned my weight loss a couple times, and I love that they are excited about it too, and obviously proud of me, which feels wonderful.

I am obsessed with clothes shopping right now.  I have waited a long time to actually look good in new clothes!  But I don’t see a point to wasting money on new clothes when I will reach my goal weight in about 17 pounds, and anything I buy right now will likely be a little too big by the time I reach my goal.  So I’m in a holding pattern on clothes buying.  Instead, I will keep an ongoing list of items I will need to buy, like my white jeans, which I adore, but I noticed this morning are getting loose in the waist.

I figure after I reach my next mini goal, when I have 10 pounds to go, I will get serious about developing a solid plan for maintenance.  It’s where I have screwed up in the past: having no plan for keeping the weight off.  I lost weight, felt like I was “finished”, and went right back to old habits and eating patterns that quickly resulted in gaining all of it back.  That’s not going to happen this time!  I need to make sure of it.

I’m not at my goal yet, so it’s too soon for celebrating, but I am getting sooooo close.  It’s exciting and even a little bit scary.  I don’t want to blow it now.  I don’t want to disappoint myself.  I want to finally allow myself to enjoy the exhilaration of reaching my goal.

Hello, 150s!

I was hesitant to step onto the scale Saturday morning, resigned to the fact that, at best, I would have a tiny loss and be nowhere the goal I had set of reaching the 150’s, after eight long, never-ending weeks in the 160s.

So I was shocked when I saw 159.8 on the scale!

I got off the scale and back on, just to be sure.  Yep, the blasted 160s were finally, finally gone!  See ya!  I won’t miss ya!  I just barely made the 150’s, but by god, I am there, at last.

That means I have hit my mini-goal and earned my next weight loss reward, which I decided would be a cute pair of dragonfly earrings I had seen before and really liked.  I had to order them online, so I can’t wait to get them.

This morning, my husband and I were snuggling in bed before the kids woke up.  He said, “Your body feels amazing.”  He asked if I am happy with where I am now, and I said, “Getting there.”  He told me, “You’re already there.”  I told him I will probably have to lose 10 to 20 more pounds to fit into all the smaller clothes in my closet, and he looked at me strangely and said, “Twenty more pounds?”

He doesn’t seem to think I need to lose any more weight.  I don’t know if I want to lose 20 more pounds or not either, but I know I definitely want to lose at least 10 more.  So I will tackle those 10 pounds, see how I feel and look, what fits and what doesn’t, and go from there.

I Want My Reward!

To help motivate me along this journey, and to add some fun, I decided to reward myself for every 10-pound loss.  Nothing wild and crazy, no Maserati’s here, just little things I usually wouldn’t spend the money on, like a salon manicure.

Last Saturday, I was 0.6 pounds away from my next 10-pound reward.  Besides not earning the reward yet, I was just very disappointed with losing 1.4 pounds when I worked so hard last week.  I am determined to reach my next mini-goal (and get my reward) this Saturday, so I decided to shake things up again and switched last night’s Insanity workout to Insanity Max: 30.

insanity max 30

Insanity Max: 30, led by my boy Shaun T, is basically Insanity condensed into 30 minutes.  No stretching to catch your breath after the warm-up, no breaks, no chit-chat, just hard-core go-go-go for 30 long minutes.  So it’s harder than regular Insanity because there are no breaks to look forward to, but it’s also over faster (since Insanity workouts range from 40-60 minutes).  And trust me, I watch that clock on the screen, counting down the minutes to the end!

Last night I was straightening up the top shelf of my closet, which tends to slide into a jumbled mess because I really can’t reach it and end up slinging things up there instead of neatly placing them there.  I pulled a stack of sweaters down to refold and put back neatly, when I discovered that two sweaters had been shoved behind all the others. I completely forgot I had them!  I tried them on, and they both fit.  I couldn’t wait to wear one of them today to work.  It was like going shopping but not having to spend any money, ha ha.  Oh, and it was a reminder to straighten that shelf more often!

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