Continuing the Journey

Update on Mommy's Fitness Challenge...

...which really must start with a confession.

I was going along, losing weight just fine...and then Thanksgiving hit. The week after Thanksgiving, I weighed in at my Weight Watchers meeting and found that I had gained almost 5 pounds. Five pounds?!?! I was devastated! That setback really hurt my motivation to stick with the plan. Happily, I had been doing the plan long enough and it had started to sink in...so over Christmas, just by making better food choices and controlling my portions, I didn't gain any more. In fact, over Christmas, I lost that 5 pounds again. And this past week, I started back on track with another 2.6 pound weight loss.

I created the Weight Loss Ticker on my blog to keep me honest. I figured if I was sharing my successes with my loyal blog readers that it would keep me from cheating on this new plan. Problem is, when I "fell off the wagon," I was too embarrassed to admit it...so the Weight Loss Ticker hasn't moved in about six weeks!

A few weeks ago, before starting my job at the College of Nursing, I realized that I needed some new business casual clothes for my office days. I headed to Lane Bryant...and was told I was "too small" for the styles they had and that I was almost "too skinny" to even shop there!! That felt GOOD!

Today, I went to the scrubs store to buy some new scrub pants...my old ones were getting QUITE baggy in the rear end area...only to find out that I can now easily wear Mediums! (I was buying Extra Larges when I started in nursing 5 years ago!)

So, while I hit a small bump in the road to better health, I thought I needed to pump myself up in this post in order to regain my motivation. Yes, that 5 pound yo-yo back in November and December was upsetting. However, the fact that I was heading into size 20 pants in October and now can easily fit in a size 14 certainly is helping with the motivation factor!

Here's to continuing to be a "big loser"...