4XLT

Today’s Weigh-In: 381.4 pounds
8 Days Until Goal Two
1.4 Pounds To Go
58.6 Pounds Lost Total

I don’t get my body sometimes.

(That may be the most womanly thing I have ever written. Please bare with me and we’ll move past it quickly.)

After touching the 385 mark last week, I thought I was doing well. But some indiscretions I thought were minor that week (namely a trip to Red Robin for a free belated birthday burger), lead to me waking up the next morning and finding my weight back at 388. I spent the next two days fighting the 388 to no success, and then the weight plummets over the past three days. Now, I’m within a pound and a half of hitting Goal Two.

I don’t get it! (But I’m not particularly complaining about being 381!)

Goal Two is going to be made within the next two days, and I’m aiming on pushing hard into the 370s to give myself a couple pounds of wiggle room for my week back in Oklahoma. I’m mentally factoring a zero change while I’m with the family in regards to my weight loss schedule for Goal Three (360 pounds by July 4th), but if I get off the plane at 378 or so, that’d be all the more comforting.

I’m looking forward to seeing the family and especially looking forward to partying it up with my sis and her friends. And I’m even more excited about my momma’s home cooking – it’s the best. Meatloaf and chili bean casserole. Yum. Then, I’m conning my pop into cooking up some of his famous BBQ chicken and begging my mom for some potato salad.

The trick here for me is to realize I can eat and enjoy whatever I want in moderation No need for seconds (or formerly thirds, too), but if I stick to my five small meals a day plan, I can have a bit of meatloaf again in three hours! However, let me be completely up front here and admit that the Tuesday night I get in, I’m going buck wild.

Magnificent Oklahoma, the land of amazing barbecue. And Rib Crib, land of all you can eat ribs on Tuesday nights! That’s right, I’m giving myself an all access rib-eating pass that night.

But, if I can keep on top of everything and not let myself go crazy with other meals and while I’m with my sis. I should make it through just fine. And, if I can finagle it, I may see if I can get some sort of week long membership at the Y, just to keep the fat-burning going strong.

To get there, though, I’ve got to amp everything up this week. It has to be a boot camp level of discipline for me over the course of the next seven days. And I’m not just talking about on the health front, but with work and everything else in life as well.

I want those 370s!