Up and Down!

So.. I have done really well the past couple of weeks. I have been eating mostly healthy foods (other than a few slip ups!) and have been hitting the gym as well.

I weighed myself today and the scale said 221. That is a 2 lb loss in comparison to the measurements that I posted. In reality I had gained 5 lbs since those measurements (notice I wasn't too quick to post about that!!) This means that I in fact have lost 7 lbs! Yay!

The most exciting thing about that is that Christmas is only a week away and I have been behaving for the most part! I haven't GAINED weight, and that is a VERY good thing at this time of year. Normally I eat the heck out of all of the Christmas baking for a couple of weeks before, then eat even more on Christmas eve and day.My outlook this year is that all of those same goodies will be around until Christmas, so behave myself up until Christmas eve, THEN I can have some treats and let loose (a little bit.)

Christmas day we usually have a HUGE bacon and egg breakfast, but this year I plan to ask whoever is cooking to hold the yolks and I am bringing along my 2 pieces of turkey bacon from home..lol I don't care how goofy I look pulling turkey bacon out of my purse! Ill mostly behave Christmas day and then eat my turkey dinner (only much smaller portions than every other year!)

Hopefully this method will prevent me from gaining any holiday weight this year.. I don't want to deny myself having some Christmas treats, I just don't want to go overboard and chomp around like the colourful Hippopotamus' on the "Hungry Hungry Hippos" game!



My Christmas list this year is quite a bit different than its been in the past, LOL. The list I gave my boyfriend consisted of a ton of anti-friction socks, several pairs of workout pants, a few sports bras... all the things I will need for FR. Very different from what I usually ask for!

I can NOT believe how fast the time is flying.. 50 more days until leave for Utah! I want to take a 'before' picture some time soon so that it shows me before I lose anymore of the weight I plan to lose prior to leaving for FR. I am more nervous about posting that than I was about the measurements. I want to take the picture in the bikini I had bought and worn just before getting pregnant . I had just lost 40 lbs and was wearing my first (and apparently last) bikini ever. Truthfully I hadn't even ever worn any kind of bathing suit in public before then.

The reason I want to wear that particular bathing suit is so that I can see how close I can eventually get to fitting into it properly. (right now its BARELY fits (:P) I know it will never look like it used to 5 years ago because pregnancy caused stretch marks and wider hips, but I would like it to at least be the right size. That time in my life was when I was at my fittest and actually liked the way I looked and felt. I'm just leary to post that picture if I do wear it because I might have grown out of it to the point of it being X rated! HA HA HA (just kidding)

We shall see if I decide to put myself out there to that degree... I guess you'll know if I have the guts to do it (no pun intended, lol) because it will end up posted here somewhere! Regardless there will be a proper before picture. I just might be wearing something else :)