So for those of you who have been reading my journal, you know I've really felt happy with how I look and the progress I've made, and I'm having trouble keeping the motivation to keep going. Kat made a good point about having varied goals for herself, and that keeps her working at it. Perhaps I'm just not seeing the scale as an exciting goal - but then again what about this is really exciting?
I think part of my challenge is that I went to Laura Plus and bought 2 different jackets that were size 18, and they both fit! I look super-cute in them and it's hard to be motivated to lose more weight, when I look so cute.
Also, stress at work has been insane. I'm working for the psychotic partner I whined about last May that made me consider quitting. On top of that, I'm working on our audit staff schedule (about 100 people) and it's all F***'d up because the previous scheduler messed it up royally, and it took her 2 months before she realized she had a medical problem with organization and finally took time off... so now I get to fix it. So today was my "eat everything in sight day". Not my favourite day, and I'm not even going to count the calories because it'll just mess me up.
Anyways, so I did something to fix this - I hope. I've ordered a
BodyMedia Fit Core armband. I think having the motivation to try to beat my calories burned from the previous day or previous week, or trying to meet a certain number of steps or calories will help me work on the exercise piece more, and when I exercise, I need to be eating good food, because eating chocolate, donuts, hot chocolate... ugh, all the stuff I ate today, does not lead to a good workout by any means. So with US Thanksgiving, who knows when it will arrive, but hopefully after I'm back from our 2 day vacation.
On the positive side, I am going to go to a board meeting tomorrow night - I'm not on the board, just looking for a little entertainment, and I'm doing dinner with a gf on the board before. Anyways, needless to say I haven't seen these people in a while, so that's always good, I just can't decide what skinny clothes I'm going to wear tomorrow!
So a mix of good and bad.
I think I'm going to relax my calories until I get the BMF Core armband and then get back at it hard! I really do want to see 250 or less on the scale on January 1, 2012.