Random Thoughts

So, as I injected myself into the Memorial Day Challenge, noting my potential weight come that holiday, it hit me...those numbers may very well happen.

Wow, I've been succeeding, haven't I?  15lbs in 5 weeks, 3lbs a week (though it seems 2 weeks on (losses), 2 off (maintaining), then whoosh and repeat). I've hit my stride.  I've found a love for working out.  Everything I take intrigues me or teaches me something about my body, my spirit, the work....  I have no trouble with my commitment, though I always overshoot it and do that much more, just in case I do want that 'day off"....  I've found what works foodwise for me, calorie and content.  And suddenly, it's so easy.  I realize I don't even really need to take my Fitday records as anything but confirmation of the intake, not as trying to pinpoint what's NOT working. I wrote:  2-3lbs a week x 12.  24-36lbs.  Okay, I'll be conservative and say 30 lbs, 247 as my goal.   By the unofficial start of summer, I will be between 241 and 253.  I feel confident of that...and that surprises me and makes me feel odd...I can't explain it.  (confident, though I know stuff can happen to get in the way, so I'm not ****y about the goal) Weight loss has become something I really believe in for me.  If by summer I'm 240, By Christmas I may get below 200.  That makes me want to cry with joy.   I have these mental markers--at 255 I was succeeding on Nutrisystem (25 lbs down), then my dad died--I was 22.  At 240 I was graduating high school.  At 220, I was a college junior who lost weight while living abroad and eating all sorts of crap and just walking a lot (I ate burgers, drank ****tails, ate care packages from the States)....  At 200?  I was a high school freshman.  I was 13, a then size 16 and a very shapely little girl who looked like a woman but was jailbait. I'm so happily anxious and scared anxious for what this year  holds for me.  KWIM?

Oh I totally understand!!! I cant wait...ahh. seems like you and i have a similar pattern. 2 weeks maintain...2 weeks loss....back and forth! It is my loss week!!!! I better see something Saturday lol.  But 2008 is gonna be a good year for both of us. I am determined to reach 170 by July 20th. I have to lose around 3-4 pounds a week from here on out to reach that goal. I WILL get there!!! :)

It's *completely* do-able. I lost 33 pounds in the same time period last year! Go for broke!

You sure can do it...and I wish you the best at staying motivated with all, the work out, the food plan, through plateaus and life changes! That confidence is a great aside, but as you say, just be ready for the unplanned. **** does happen!   But for now, ride that tide! Congrats!