What small accomplishment have you made recently?

I lost 10 pounds this week. I'm in the beginning of my journey (3rd week) and I was losing inches and no pounds. So I'm pretty excited! I know my numbers from now on will be much smaller but anything coming off is great.

Ever since my boyfriend and I have been together our meals have really been the downfall to my weightloss. When he is not around and I am making dinner for myself I make a great healthy meal because its just me to think about; I can have salad with tuna and feel full. When he is around for dinner I need to make a big "meat and potatoes" kind of meal - he is a chainsaw operator and spends 10 hours in the bush cutting down trees, hauling branches and carrying a chainsaw - so a girly salad just isnt going to cut it!! As a result I end up eatting the same meal as him - although in a much smaller portion, but its easy to load up on the steak and potatoes and forget about the salad.

BUT last night I changed that! I made an awesome dinner just for him and an even awesomer (ha, yeh, I said it!) salad for me!!! It was a great small victory because I knew I could do it (I didnt even want any of his meal) and I know this is the start to getting back on track. And he was super impressed that I made a meal just for him and my own meal!

So yep, pretty proud and happy with that!!

there's been a few, actually... that I try to remind myself of to stay motivated.

- Doing push-ups/planks don't scare me anymore. & every time I can confidently hold up my body, I'm still amazed.

- I'm finally working out consistently, at least 5x/week.. though it's only been the past 2 weeks, it feels too good to give up

- This year, I'm wearing a Halloween costume I really wanted to wear. I didn't care that it was short or that there weren't any sleeves (I used to be very self conscious of my arms) I almost had no party to wear it to, and it literally put me in tears because I was SO excited to finally wear what I wanted and not settle for something else. Needless to say, I'm throwing my own party with my friends! lol

Hopefully more small accomplishments to lead to bigger ones coming soon!

I have 3, all food related!

1. Bought the Halloween candy on Wednesday and I haven't opened the bags or had one piece yet.

2. Son had a major swim meet yesterday, spent all morning sitting in the hot sun (it's Florida-it's still hot!) and during the break between pre-lims and finals, I went and worked out. Then, when the meet was over at 8:30 last night and my husband and my kids were clamoring for Chick Fil A I went to the drive through, got them Chick Fil A and I came home and made a really big, filling salad. (Boy, I wanted that shake though)

3. Went out to lunch with friends today to one of my favorite restaurants. Ordered my favorite sandwich but changed the bread to whole wheat from focaccia, only ate half of the bread and boxed up half of the sandwich to go. Also drank 8 glasses of water while sitting there-my friends thought I had a problem!

I've had a HUGE bowl of halloween candy here for almost 2 weeks now and only managed to sneak 3 pieces within that time. :laugh: Can't really say that I have a sweet tooth anymore.

After doing my 30 min HIIT (2 min. walk at 3.8, jog at 6 for 1 min and then run at 7.2 for 30-45 seconds - repeat for 30min) I was finally able to walk at a 4.0 speed and 10 incline for 10 minutes... Hard not to use that darn bar!!! But I did it - damn you bar!!!

I had my first official weigh-in at the doctor's office today: 11 pounds gone in one month! My doctor was so surprised at how much progress I've made. Now I'm anxious to see how my A1C test comes back, hopefully it has dropped as well.

Nice job!

I ran 6 minutes on the treadmill today instead of just 5. Not much, but Im proud of it!

Adding a few minutes at a time is the right way to do it! I did that up to a marathon - each week I would make myself go for 5 or 10 minutes longer on my "long" run days!