Yesterday was judgement day. It has been a few weeks since I was at the gym last and able to weigh myself. I also have been trying to listen to my body and have not been logging/planning my meals. The scale registered a 4.42 loss in about 3 1/2 weeks. I am also down 4.25" in that time period, as well. That was a period of no regular exercise, but high activity; and one week of recovery with next to no activity.

So what this tells me is that I have the ability to listen to my body and my body can lose weight all by itself (so to speak). I ate out a large majority of that time, as well. I am incredibly happy right now. The changes are real and lasting. You can succeed at changing your eating habits and your body can lose weight without it being this huge, emotional ordeal!!!!

I am now 8 little pounds away from my second (of 6) mini-goals. Now that my life is a little more settled, I can push myself to shed those 8 pounds by the end of June. However, I think I am going to go back and adjust all of my weigh-in's to accomodate for the scale change in May. That was about a 4-5 lb. difference.

I am sooooooo happy today. Well, except that I lost some of my "ability" at the gym over that three week period. I had to knock the treadmill down to 3.3 mph and the random incline down 1 level--and I was still struggling!

I went back and adjusted all my check-in's prior to the new gym (and my goal sheet). I am now only 4.3 lbs away from my second mini-goal. I'm such a cheater. Ha! And.....48 lbs gone since 2/8/06.