Pure Joy

Current Weight: 146.8 lbs.

Down 49.2 lbs. from the start

6.8 lbs. until my goal!!!!

(Yes, I had to use my calculator...don't judge me!)

First and foremost, I have only 7ish pounds until I meet my goal weight. It's a very strange feeling, and it seems like it's not even reality. I put on a pair of size seven khakis this week when I went to school, not really expecting them to fit me, and they did! It's a strange thing to think back five months ago, when my BMI was close to falling in the obsese range. 

My body has been telling me I need to lose weight for years, but it wasn't any easy lifestyle change. After countless fad diets, "cleanses," and other quick fixes, I finally did it the right way. I think quitting smoking last September is what started getting me into the mindset of living more healthily. I considered the fact that we want to have a sweet little bundle of joy in the next few years, and that is what got me thinking. I need to be healthy in order to have a healthy baby. I need to take care of myself so that I can take care of my future child. I also wanted to get in better shape for my husband. I have to say, he's a stud muffin! He deserves a wife who looks good and takes care of herself. If you don't believe me, check out my favorite picture from our honeymoon ;)

Having a baby and looking good for Josh were both reasons to lose weight, but mostly I did it for myself. There's a million reasons I wanted to become more healthy, and here are some of the most important ones:

• to feel comfortable in social situations (I've avoided float trips and pool parties for years)
• to be able to wear anything I want and feel more confident
• to not swear my butt off all summer long!!!!

Anyway, I want to talk about this new scale I bought last night. Thanks to Angel finding it on sale yesterday, I went to Bed Bath and Beyond and picked up this awesome new scale last night. I've been wanting a digital one for a while because the old school one we have doesn't always seem very accurate. After you align the thing to 0 lbs., step on, and step back off, it never goes back to the 0 mark. I'd have to weigh myself several times just to get a semi-accurate reading. 

So this scale is pretty amazing. It's the newest WW scale. It uses this method of sending low voltage electrodes (it swears it safe) through your body to measure your bone density, water weight, and body fat percentage. It currently says my body fat percentage is 23.8%. I don't really know if that's good or bad because I haven't read anything about it yet, but I'm going to. 

Technically, it seems like I've lost a lot of weight from last Sunday to this Sunday, but I think there are two reasons: 1) I'm pretty sure I had a "food baby" the last time I weighed myself. 2) New scale - the gym and my mom's scale always said I weighed slightly less than what mine did, but I always just went with my home scale.

I've decided to go back to once a week weighing. I used to only weigh myself on Sunday mornings. I noticed my friend Melissa doing it more often. It works for her, but it sort of makes me crazy! I get mad when I have a little extra water weight or when it fluctuates so much within a day, but I guess it has really kept my eating in check this week.

Whatever Josh and I have got going on in our bodies needs to get the heck out! We've both felt like crap for a week now, and when we start to think we're feeling better, we wake up feeling terrible again. For instance, we were both feeling pretty normal last night besides being snotty and slightly congested. Now we both wake up with sore throats and snotty noses! It's like it won't go away. Each time I've tried to work out this week, I've gotten shortness of breath and it hurts my lungs :( I'm going to try for a short cardio workout, then maybe some abs and weights.

We have a busy day head of us -- it's my baby brother's birthday today. We're celebrating his birthday and Josh's at my parents house this evening, which is always an internal battle for me. I'm sure there will be more calories in this one meal than I typically eat in two days. Happy birthday, little bro! I love you :)

Have a wonderful week!