515 days!

 SW: 217 CW: 204.4 I did weigh in a little later today because I slept in! I will likely try to sleep in tomorrow too. So, we will see what my weigh in is on Monday.  However, I’m still excited to see that the scale has gone down. This could really mean that I have surpassed my March goal and am on my way to my April goal!! My next cheat day is planned out for Feb 6th. My husband and I are taking our older kids to melting pot. I am really going to try not to have a cheat day in between.  I still have such a headache today. I need these Covid symptoms to go away!! 

 SW: 217 CW: 205.2 1 Month Loss: 12lbs! Yesterday I weighed in at 205, and it was my one month mark so I lost 12lbs! Today I did fluctuate back up .2lbs but that’s ok. I am finally at the point that I will be losing more weight from before I went on Christmas break. So, this is going to be very exciting!  This also means that I’ve kind of reached my March goal! So I am two months ahead of where I need to be!  I am feeling very encouraged that I will reach my goal of 135 in 483 days! I can’t wait to fit in my old clothes again. I’m so glad that I’ve gained these new habits and there is a light at the end of the tunnel!  Now I’ve got to get started on my homework. I plan to get up and take steps every 30 minutes!

 SW: 217 CW: 206 I think my cheat day planned worked! Tomorrow will be more telling. I feel great about my weight loss this month. Though part of me is really bummed that I still haven’t lost all of the weight I gained over Christmas break.  I can’t help but think about the fact that if I had started this plan sooner I would be so much closer to my goal. It’s not helpful to think that way, but those are real thoughts. Today I weighed in at 7am because I had a class call I had almost forgotten about. Tomorrow I will weight in at the same time. The kids return to school tomorrow from their quarantine. I have an in person class tonight and tomorrow morning. I can already tell this schedule is going to be exhausting. It does help to focus on weight loss and not the stress of one of my final college semesters.  Hoping that I will have exciting progress tomorrow!

  SW: 217 CW: 207 I took somewhat of a cheat day yesterday. I needed to jumpstart my weight loss again. I am going to start weighing myself about the same time everyday so I can get more accurate. I plan to weigh in between 6-7am. Tuesdays-Thursdays that’s when I will be waking up. I don’t have to wake up that early Mondays and Fridays so I am not going to. It is still more consistent than weighing in between 7-10am.  Tomorrow I don’t have to wake up until 8:30 so I’m not sure if I’ll start then either. It will probably start Thursday with my morning classes and then Friday I will be up at 7 to get the kids ready for school.  I wanted to note that yesterday was a cheat day so that I do not take one for at least another week. If I still have not hit a plateau by then I will keep going. I just won’t take a cheat day if I hit a plateau in less than a week.  Even though I might have had a few extra calories yesterday, I still reached my goals with my Apple Watch rings, 1...

 SW: 217 CW: 205.4 I am .4lbs from meeting my March goal!! I haven’t updated for a few days because I was at a plateau at 206.  School started this week and it was easy to reach my goals because we were all online. Next week we will be in person. My clinical doesn’t start until Feb 1. So Thursday will be the only day next week that I am doing school for 13 hours. Once Feb starts it’ll be Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday that I’ll have classes for 13 hours. I’ll really need to plan meals out then. I will also need to plan how to get my steps in.  I am feeling very motivated to keep at it!  I am still feeling drained from Covid but I’ve forced myself to get the steps in. I am down almost 12lbs in 26 days. It has been a long time since I’ve seen progress like this. If I could lose 12lbs every month, that would be incredible!  I do think that my weight loss will slow at some points. Maybe it will end up being more like 5 a month. I am off to a great start, though. I abs...

 SW: 217 CW: 206 I am happy to be down another .4lbs today. Though, I was diagnosed with Covid yesterday (for the second time in 4 months) and I am feeling pretty crummy right now. Today is the first day of school. Luckily this week is all online! So I will be able to attend the first week of in person classes next week. I am just hoping that this doesn’t completely derail me. All I want to do is sleep right now. I am going to take Tylenol and drink coffee. Hopefully that will help!

 SW: 217 CW: 206.4 I am so excited to be down more weight! Over the past couple of days my weight has been fluctuating, like normal. I’ve met all of my goals: 10,000 steps, 100oz water, food tracking, and closing my rings on my Apple Watch!  School starts tomorrow and that’s usually when my chronic stress kicks in. I think that since I’ve been making these goals a priority for over 3 weeks that I will continue to do so!  I am now 3.4lbs above where I was before winter break. I am 1.4lbs away from reaching my March goal! The progress that I have made over the past few weeks is better than I’ve made in years! It is very encouraging to see this plan is working. It feels like I have been over complicating things in the past. I tried all the fad diets and signed up for all of the subscription workout plans. Nothing worked for me!  All I needed to do was move more and track my calories. I’m not even starving myself. I get to eat around 1,900 cals a day. Most of the time I’...