Small but important victories

Short and sweet -

Yesterday I was shopping with Ph and decided to check my blood pressure while he was talking on the phone.  I have a love-hate relationship with my blood pressure.  It's often high and I have a tremendous amount of anxiety wrapped up in it.  In fact, most of the time I will take it several times in a row - trying to meditate in between takes it get the number I want.  Makes a whole lot of sense, right?  Anyway - results from yesterday.

Today I decided to calculate my BMI, and got these results -

Take that world - normal blood pressure AND I'm now overweight.  I've never been so freakin' excited.

A year-end review

Myfitnesspal.com allows for you to look back at your progress over the last year, and I was actually a little surprised.

From the looks of it I steadily went up from last July through today.  What I was surprised at was how little I had gained.  I mean - I gained weight, don't get me wrong - it's just nice to have a reminder that I haven't undone all the work I put into losing my 22 lbs.

Last week was a winner with a 3.5 total loss, and I'm PUMPED.  I have 12.3 pounds to go for my halfway point, which means Philip will be shelling out some money to get me my Elephant necklace.  In case he or anyone else has forgotten it's the background to my weightloss "ticker."   : )

Yesterday I hung out with a friend who has lost 50 pounds and it was awesome to feel supported and feel like she knows exactly what I'm going through.

Anyway - see you guys on the flipside.  I'll weigh in again tomorrow to hopefully see the same number as yesterday or a little less. 

I think I'm back...

This past week I've lost two pounds and been under my calorie goal all but one day! W00t! Philip has been super supportive and so far we've made some smart choices for this weekend. The last few months that's been my biggest issue- eating whatever on the weekends. I think the week before I managed to eat two blizzards. No good! I think something has switched again and I'm hopeful. I'm 10 pounds away from my lowest last year. Fingers crossed!

Today I made a Key Lime Cheesecake. 227 cals a slice. The filling tasted great.

Ingredients:

8 oz softened 1/3 less fat cream cheese
8 oz thawed fat free cool whip
1 package sugar free lime jello
1/2 c Splenda
Graham cracker crust

Directions: mix, pour, chill. : )

It's good to be back.