Where is my party?

I reached my goal this weekend. Yippeee!! I lost 31 lbs, my goal was 30lbs.

Anyway I started my journey the day after Valentines Day of this year. I have not been a yoyo dieter; I have just slowly gained over the years and finally had enough. I also had little to no knowledge about proper nutrition and decided I need to make some changes. My husband was a big motivating factor. He races motorcycles and was making diet changes too. Since I started I have only weighed myself when I went to visit my in-laws which ended up to be about 10 times in the 7 months. I was afraid to buy a scale in fear I would want to step on it daily. I knew I wouldn’t handle that well. I am proud we have done it right. We have eaten at home more, eaten a lot more veggies and took advantage of the nutrition stats that California restaurants provide. I am really excited about the lifestyle changes we have made. We have a good chance of sticking to it long term… excuse me -for life.

Anyways I woke up this AM weighed myself and ran in to tell my Hubby. I was telling him that I was excited to enter my new weight into myfitnesspal. I told him that I wonder how many calories I get now to maintain my goal weight and if the site says, “Congrats you did it,” or something. Well I logged on and excitedly entered my new weight and nothing really happened. Where was my little party?!?! I felt like the kid in the movie A Christmas Story that finally got the Little Orphan Annie’s secret decoder ring and was going to find out the secret message. All he found out was drink more Ovaltine. --That’s it! Nothing happens. Oh well! The compliments and loose clothes are congratulation enough! Keep it up everyone!!! It is worth it.