65 and countin

I like hitting the round numbers. I actually surpassed the latest round number a bit. I'm down to 214.4, that's 65.6 pounds GONE. That's 262 sticks of butter. My goal for the end of the year is 320 sticks of butter gone so I have 58 sticks to go, or 14.5 pounds, then I'll be into Onederland, under 200 pounds for the first time in my memory.

Tonight a friend didn't recognize me. Second time this week. I pretty much love that, it's so fun to know I'm really looking THAT different. It's time to get new work pants again, the last pair I got was from the thrift store and are 2 sizes too big now and LOOK IT. I hate buying dress pants so I've been avoiding it but a Thrift Store trip is in my near future.

I have been lazy on working out the past week or so. It's been stressful dealing with homework and studying with Steven among other things and instead of working out to help ease the stress, my system wants to relax and not do anything hard and feel sorry for itself. I need to snap out of it and get back to it but today is not the day THAT happened. The car broke down and a tow truck was in my evening and now worry about car repairs are in my brain. So, I drowned my stress in a biscuit with jelly. See? I needed surgery on my brain as well as my tummy cuz my instinct is still to solve stress with food. I have really been struggling the past couple of weeks with making the correct choices EVERY time and resisting emotional eating. Life has been stressful and again, I choose to add to my stress but not making good choices hence adding guilt to the equation. But, I have to just do one day at a time, cut myself some slack a bit and just keep going. I have good days where I do perfect, and utterly embarrasingly dismal days where I choose no protein and forget to drink all my water and suck down chocolate in a stressed out haze. Keeping the crap out of my house helps.

I fit in Steven's school desk today. I remember being in college and being afraid of not fitting in the chair/desks there, much less junior high chair/desk thingys. I slid right in, slid right out, no biggy. It was my NSV of the day (Non-Scale Victory) and it made me very very happy :)

Onward. I hope to update soon that I've hit 70 pounds!! Hopefully by Thanksgiving :)