First Weight Loss Goal Destroyed!

I am incredibly happy to announce that for the first time in well over a year, I am under 200 pounds!

199.5!!!!!

It's barely under, but it's there! This was after two weeks of not sticking to my meal plans at ALL and not working out as much as I should have. I was absolutely dreading getting on the scale this morning, thinking, "This is *not* how I want to start my week off." I'm sure glad I did! It made my awful commute into work tolerable. All day, when something has started to bug me, I repeat, "Nothing can get you down today. You are back in onederland." The power of positivity, ya'll!

Also, with my goal achieved, I now get my reward:

Purchased this baby this morning! Can't wait for it to arrive. Now I have to decide what my next reward will be. I already know my next goal. It's not far from this one, but it's a milestone: 194. That'll be 25 pounds down. This reward will be smaller since it's a smaller step to the next goal. Any ideas?

On another note, I won both of my dietbets from last month. I was frustrated at the end because I was on my period and carrying more water weight or bloat or something, and I was gonna lose, so I may have fudged things a bit. But it's only because I was THERE for a WEEK until the day before the bet ended. I sure hope ya'll believe me, because I'm not gonna cheat myself this time.

I'm ready to get back into my routine. Between vacation, sickness, and work travel, my workout buddy hasn't been able to get to the gym with me in almost a month! We're both pretty stoked about Bodyworks tomorrow.

This week, I've decided to challenge myself: go green. By that, I mean, meet all of my Fitbit goals. I recently upgraded from the Flex to the Charge HR, and I am LOVING it. My current step goal is 8,000, only because it's so hard to get to 10,000 when I do weights instead of cardio. But this week, I'm upping my goal to 10,000, and I'm going to meet it every day. Wednesday will be the toughest day, since I go straight from work to trivia, so it'll just have to be a late evening of step videos or something. But it's going to happen. I'm already at 5200 steps for the day, and I haven't even left work yet! Normally I'm between 2k and 4k during the work day. Small victories :)