Sarah - Week 30

Welp, I've been completely MIA lately. Partly because of how busy I have been (and will continue to be for at least one more week) and partly because I was ashamed at how horribly I've been doing in this diet. It's so frustrating to me that I'm so close to the end and I just can. not. make it. Two weeks ago, I gained 0.8 lbs and then last week, I only lost 0.4. Essentially, I've stayed at the same weight for the past month.

Part of me (the largest part) knows that I've been the craziest, busiest, most stressed person of all time in this past month. The other, smaller, part of me knows that this isn't an actual excuse. For one thing, I've been getting to the gym a lot more, and after next week, I'll be able to go back to my 5 day a week gym schedule. I really feel like as soon as I can get back to a normal gym schedule, these last few pounds will come off. However, I'm sad that I'm not in comfortable bikini shape by Beth's AC birthday next friday (though, I could definitely wear a bikini at this point). I just can't let this new relationship with a fellow foodie get in the way of taking and keeping off the weight.

So here we go...this week's loss was a cool two pounds, making my total loss since the last time I updated 1.6 pounds. Not what I'd like, but not as horrible as it could have been. My total loss is up to 63.8 pounds!! I'm eeeeking my way to my 70 pound goal, and at this point, I'm pretty sure I want to take it all the way to 80. 15 pounds to go! I CAN DO IT.

Sarah - Week 27

WOO!! Finally, I'm back on track. Who knows where I'm going to go from here - my life is so unbelievably ridiculously busy right now. I'm trying to balance teaching everyday, grad school three nights a week, TJs on Sundays, this diet, a new relationship and the rest of my life and it's HARD. Right now, I'm just trying to get through as much grading as I can and finish my 80 page reading assignment that's due tomorrow.

Enough of my complaining. Let's get to the numbers. I FINALLY, after weeks of bad weeks, had a normal weight loss!! I went down 2.6 pounds for a total loss of 62.2 pounds!!! I can't believe that I'm less than 10 pounds from my goal weight and only 17.8 pounds from my stopping point. However, I know that the harder struggle is in front of me - maintaining my weight. I NEVER want to be that person EVER AGAIN.

Hopefully I'm alive at this time next week...I'll probably be freaking out about my 1st ever grad level presentation. Thankfully, teaching is like doing a presentation every day.

Sarah - Week 26

I can not believe that it's been a full six months, a full half year since we started this diet. To think of how much this year has changed (and is still changing) since then! I got into grad school, I got a full time sub job, I lost almost 60 pounds...I feel so good about myself and where this is all going. I ALSO can finally start the countdown to Colleen's wedding - 12 weeks. I really hope to be to my goal weight by then. I really think that I can set my mind to it and do it!!

I'm starting classes next week, so I'm basically never going to be able to go to the gym...I'm definitely still going to go on Mondays and hopefully weekends. I'm going to try my HARDEST to go after class on Tuesdays and Thursdays as well. I can do it, it just means going around 7:30 or 8 PM when the gym is packed. Oh well. My life is going to be a month of craziness and then hopefully I'll be able to get back to my old gym schedule after that. I set my TJs schedule so that I will have plenty of time to go to the gym between work and class every day so that's pretty exciting.

Back to this week's total. Unfortunately, I'm SO CLOSE to 60 that I can taste it, but I'm not quite there. I ended up losing 1.6 pounds, getting me to a total loss of 59.6 pounds!! Though it's not as big of a loss as I was seeing before, I definitely feel like I'm much more back on track and I'm excited to have a really good week so that I can hit 60 next week. I neeeeed to get past this plateau, but even if I just keep losing one pound each week until teaching is over, I'll feel pretty good about myself. Then once summer comes, I can kick it into gear and get down to -80.

Sarah - Week 25

Well, I thought I had a pretty good week, but the scale didn't really show it. Not to give all my readers (none of you?) TMI but I think a lot of it has to do with me getting my period today AND not having pooped in a while. Gross, I know, but those things really do affect how much you weigh!! I'm hoping to have a more balanced weigh in next week. I'm also thinking about eating some more fiber one/activia products to help mmyself "get going"...gross.

Okay, so for this week, I had another loss of one pound making my total loss 58 pounds. I'm still eeeeeking my way, but I know that next week is going to be even better.

Sorry for the short post, I'm busy as heck and I am about to go celebrate Cinco de Mayo!!

Sarah - Week 24

This weekend was amazing. Everyone was shocked. It felt soooo good, like everything that I've been doing is paying off. I have sooo much more to write about but I am up to my eyeballs in work and if I have to look at basically anything else all day, I may scream.

Loss for this week...another slow and steady. I had a great wed-thurs and a great mon-tues but the weekend is still KILLING me. I really need to work on my resolve when drinking. This weekend should be a little better, I'm only drinking on Friday and going out to dinner on Sat, but I'm trying to get to the gym beforehand. Oh, and a little eight mile walk on Sunday should help. I'm really optimistic about a great week because I also don't have TJs on Monday or Tuesday so I can finish out the week strong. Anyways, I lost .8 bringing me to a total loss of 57 pounds. Oh, to be at 60. SO CLOSE. Yet apparently so far away...

Sarah - Week 23

As much as I was upset with myself last week, I still had a good weightloss so I don't think I really understood what I needed to do to change. This week, not so much. I stayed the same (thank god) keeping me at a total loss of a still respectable 56.2 pounds. Is it a great accomplishment? Absolutely. Could I have been to my goal basically by now if I hadn't gotten off track? Absofreakinglutely. This weekend at Penn State is going to be rough, but I'm staying extremely on track today and tomorrow to try to make up for it. Hopefully it'll be my last super wild and crazy weekend for a while.

I'm frustrated with myself for the lack of effort I've been putting into this diet in the past month. Before, when I could go to the gym every day, I could eat a lot more of what I wanted and not totally care about it. Now, I can only go to the gym a few select days per week and I need to reformat my plan of action. I know that once I have another great week, it'll be the motivation that I need to get me past this self-inflicted plateau and I'll be back on track.

It's funny because a few weeks ago, it seemed like I was so close to my 70 pound goal that 80 felt like nothing and now, it seems like 80 is miles and miles away. I know that I have to stay super extra motivated in the next coming weeks. A lot of what is holding me back is not being able to go to the gym, and a lot of why I can't go to the gym is Trader Joes.

I'm feeling totally overwhelmed with work right now - this long term job is nothing like what I have had before. At Kennedy, I was out of school by 230 every day with barely any lesson planning and not even a ton of grading. This is a full day's worth of planning (only to get worse in the coming weeks because I'm out of curriculum) where I don't get out until 330 at the absolute earliest and my pile of grades is a mile high.

Adding TJs on top of that is basically killing my gym time and my motivation. If I'm at TJs, I can't go to the gym unless I was miraculously scheduled for a 6-11 shift. If I'm not at TJs, I'm so exhausted that after the gym all I want to do is nap and lay around for the rest of the night and go to bed early and not get any of my grading done. I know that I have to do something about it, but I may just keep trucking through until I move to just Sundays in three weeks.

All in all, I'm frustrated, tired and need to get back on track. I've upped what I'm doing at the gym, giving me 100 extra calories burnt every time I go, but I also need to be wayyy more careful during the non-monday and tuesday days of the week and ESPECIALLY during the weekend. That's it for now, though I have a ton more to write about...maybe I'll do another update tomorrow.

Sarah - Week 22

Well, after that ridiculous week of a million things to do and no time at the gym, I'm surprised that I lost anything. My goal this week is to definitely make it to the gym more - as I've said a million times these past 22 weeks, I really believe that the gym is the deciding factor as to how good of a week I have. Looking at things optimistically, I was able to buy a water bottle and I've been drinking at least 24 ounces of water a day, if not more.

It's 10 days until blue/white weekend. I can not believe how fast these past months have flown by and how the weight has melted off. I am so excited to see everyone (and their reactions) and I'm glad that I have one more week to do really well before I trek out to State College. I've written so much about how excited I am about blue/white, I don't know what I'm going to write about after it's over!!

On to this week's loss. I had a repeat, respectable loss of 1.8 pounds, bringing my total loss to 56.2 pounds! These past 5 or 6 weeks have definitely been slow and steady, but not bad for starting a full time job and going on vacation. Even if I can keep on going slow and steady for the next 10 weeks (until school is out and I'm not the busiest person of all time) and keep my losses between 1-2 pounds a week, I'll be in perfect shape for reaching my goal by the end of the summer. I only have 13.8 pounds left to my original goal and 23.8 pounds to my end weight. That's roughly (hopefully) 8-12 weeks left!! I can't believe I'm so close!!!

Hitting a Rough Patch

I'm having two issues with this diet. One is lack of motivation and will power - specifically when I'm out to eat. If I have a day where I don't go out to eat, I'm fine and it's usually a great day. I barely even look at the demo counter and samples at TJs anymore. But when I'm out at a restaurant (even when I'm making healthIER choices) I can't seem to use any restraint anymore! When it tastes good, I just can't stop eating it! Yesterday I had to pry myself away from the eggplant fries and Adega, even after I was stuffed. Same goes on Wednesday when we went out with Sigal. This wouldn't be the biggest deal in the world if it weren't for my second problem...

I'm too busy to ever get to the gym. Hopefully this week was an anomaly, but I haven't been to the gym since Tuesday. I can't go this week except for tomorrow and Tuesday again. That's ridiculous! The problem is that I have to stay at school until around 4 every day so if I have anything that starts before 6 I don't have time to go in between. I'm thinking about going in the morning, but that would entail waking up at like 5:30 and I don't really know if I can handle that and still be a functional human being for the rest of the day.

I've made it sooo close to my goal, I don't want to crap out or plateau now... especially not so close to blue/white weekend. I just don't know what to do! It's only going to get worse in a few weeks when I start grad school on top of everything else. Ugh. At least if I can make it slowly but steadily going down until the end of the year by the time school lets out, I can be back on my awesome gym regimen.

That's all for now, hopefully I can pull it together in this second half of the week.

Sarah - Week 21

Well, we're back from vacay! I can't really write much today - and I'm even writing this a day late because my life has been so ridiculously busy lately. Miami was awesome, my life is ridiculous, teaching is challenging but fun, etc, etc, etc. I'm just stopping in to document my results and then getting ready to teach. However, we had mexican food last night sorta latesh in the evening and I'm still not feeling very well/feeling super ridiculously full almost 12 hours later. Oh well, I have a ton of water to drink in my new water bottle and lunch isn't for three more hours so we'll see how I feel then.

So here I am, after skipping a week because we were on vacation (not a total vacation from the diet, but definitely not being as dilegent as I could have been. The platanosssss!!!!! The margaritas!!!!!) I surpised myself with a net loss over the two weeks of 1.4 pounds bringing me down to a total loss of 54.4 pounds!! Crazy, right? I have two more weigh ins until blue white and I would LOVE to get to 60 pounds. SIXTY!! Can you believe it?? I'm only 15.5 pounds from my goal, however, the more I think about it, the more I may go 10 more so I can give myself some leeway to gain and lose and stay looking how I want.

I can not wait for Blue/White!! Not only do I get to go to my favorite place in the world and see some of my favorite people, I also get to see a ton of my NOT favorite people and be like "BAM! Minus 50 plus pounds, fools" I literally can't wait.

Okay, the kiddies are here! Back to a freaking long and crazy day.

Sarah - Week 19

So here I was, talking about how I was going to update more, blah blah blah, and then what do I do? Not update for a whole week. I've literally been the busiest person of all time this past week and it's going to keep going now that I've started to teach full time. I don't really even have the time to be writing this right now but I figured I better do it so that I don't lapse on the blogging and more than I already have.

Here it is, finally, the big week!! After last week of eeking my way to 50, I finally made it! However, I have no idea how I had such a big weight loss this week - I ate normally and didn't go to the gym saturday-monday. I even drank BOTH weekend nights!! I feel like Rocky running up the steps of the art museum. My loss for this week was an impressive 3.6 pounds making my offical total weight loss 53 pounds!!!

I can't believe I've passed the 50 mark! Only 17 pounds left to go - that's like nothing. It's the perfect thing to happen the weigh-in before Miami though I can't use it as an excuse to eat and drink everything I want while I'm away, especially because we're skipping next week's weigh in.

I'm feeling really good about teaching every day - it's definitely putting me back on a good eating schedule. I can plan out my day really well because I'm bringing exactly what i'm eating for breakfast and lunch. My biggest issue right now is that I think I'm still not eating enough veggies. Hopefully packing a lunch will help me change that as well.

That's all for now, time to eat my lunch!!

Sarah - Week 18

Well, I think I jinxed myself. I don't know if it was me getting cocky or lazy or what. But I had a not good Wednesday and Thursday and then a horrible Friday, Saturday and Sunday. So here I am eeking and inching my way towards fifty. At least I ended up not gaining, which is the most important part. I'm down 0.4 pounds for a grand total of 49.4 pounds. I am going to be really good this week/weekend (but not go overboard) so that hopefully I can hit the big 5-0 before Miami! Other than that, I'm going to keep on keepin on! Sorry about the short post, the nice weather is distracting me!!

One girl, one blog?

Well, I guess I can bite the bullet and admit it - this has turned in to my own personal blog...which is hilarious because it has the words "two girls" in the title. I don't know how I feel about having a blog again. When I looked back at my livejournal (before deleting it off of the internet forever) I basically wanted to die a slow and painful death by embarrasment. But when I start thinking about it, I guess I have some interesting views on life.

Who knows what I'll write about - definitely my continued weight loss and diet and excersize. As tough as getting the weight off has been, I think that keeping it off is going to be even harder. I read so freaking many blogs. Food blogs, book blogs, gossip blogs, blogs of people I know, blogs of people I don't know. I guess I'm hoping to just write about whatever and hopefully not sound annoying or idiotic. Oh, and definitely working on my snarkiness in print and my writing style in general. Oh, and definitely definitely on my post-titling ability.

So that's about that! Because who doesn't want to read about a dieting/newly skinny single and jdating inexperienced 4th grade teaching Trader Joes crew member who is also a grad student?

Sarah - Week 17

It's hard not to have mixed feelings about this week. I had a huge weight loss, thanks to a bout of food poisoning that left me unable to eat for all of Sunday and most of Monday. I'm feeling much better now and finally going to make it back to the gym today, tomorrow, and Friday to get back on track. It's just hard to be THIS CLOSE to 50 and not be there.

How close you ask? This week I lost 4.2 ridiculous pounds rounding out to a total of 49 pounds!! Next week is the week and I can't wait! Obviously I need to slow things down in the losing weight category, but I was on track for a normal week until getting sick. In other news, my BMI dropped over 8 points! I'm getting pretty close to being "normal weight" and only 21 pounds from my goal.

Two more weigh-ins until Miami and 6 more until Blue/White weekend! I'm just going to continue to have a really good week so that I don't have to worry too much on Saturday for the Erin Express in Philly. I'm making some preeeety sweet t-shirts for the occasion. Hopefully (and I KNOW this won't happen), I won't eat three dinners this year.

Top 5 Foods Getting Me Through This

Okay, so, in an effort to write more in the weeks leading up to being a student again, I'm going to try to bring you more, non weigh-in related posts*. (By you, I mean the 0 other people who read this blog) I'm starting out with a post I've been thinking about for a while - the Top 5 Foods I've encountered while on this diet that taste good, aren't horrible for you, and most of all, have constantly helped me get through these weeks of dieting.

Coming at you in no particular order:

SmartOnes Breakfast Sandwiches


OMG what can I even say about these breakfast sandwiches? They're 4 points, taste almost exactly like what you would get at Wawa and microwave up in 90 seconds. They're perfect for a day when I can have a bigger breakfast, or even for lunch with a yogurt and some carrots. I can't stress enough how much these taste like the real thing.

Skinny Cow Ice Cream Sandwiches


So I've tried three of the bunch of flavors of these sandwiches and YUM. They're all really tasty, though I feel like the vanilla ice cream tastes the most "diety" and lacks flavor. The chocolate/chocolate is perfect for a 2-3 point chocolate fix and the strawberry shortcake flavor is the bomb. I really want to try the chocolate/chocolate peanut butter but I haven't made it there yet. I think my dream flavor would be chocolate cookie with strawberry ice cream, but alas, Skinny Cow hasn't made one yet.

Giant Light Rye Bread


Well, if you've gotten this far down the list, you've realized that I love sandwiches...and every NJG (nice jewish girl) knows that the only way to eat a sandwhich is on seeded rye bread. Thankfully, Cati and I discovered this gem at our local Giant, but I feel like it's a regional product because I can't for the life of me find any mention of it online. Anywhere. For 100 calories for two slices, it's one of the lowest calorie breads around. Here's the kicker - the slices are pretty much normal size of a regular slice (maybe a little thinner than normal) and taste almost exactly the same as a regular slice of rye.

Lesser Evil Kettle Corn


This yummy snack comes in two varieties - Kettle and Black and White (pictured - a mix of the Kettle flavor and Chocolate). As you can hopefully see from the picture, the popcorn is more like traditional carmel corn consistancy than traditional kettle. The corn has an almost candy-like coating that really makes this feel like a dessert. A full serving is 110 calories for a cup of popcorn, but I actually think that a half a cup is plenty to cure my craving for sweets. Lesser Evil has some other varieties that I haven't tried yet - I would buy tons more of their stuff if I didn't have to pay a million dollars for it at shudder Whole Foods.

Weight Watchers Chilled Ready Meals
3 Cheese Mac and Cheese


Sorry for the horrible picture quality...again, there isn't much mention of these on the internet, leading me to believe that these are also a regional-ish item. I think that they're mostly available at Giant and Stop and Shop, though in my searches I found tons of mentions of the UK version of this where there looks to be a million yummier options - WW, if you're out there listening, PLEASE BRING CHICKEN TIKKA MASALA TO THE US!!! Seriously, we Americans have expanded our palates and are ready for some better ethnic options. Anywho, back to the matter at hand - this mac and cheese is by far the best in terms of cheesiness and overall taste. Unfortunately, it comes at a price and unless you have a coupon, these babies are a little expensive. For a good mac and cheese craving, they're totally worth it. The ziti version of these meals is also good, but some of the offerings can run a little on the bland side so be prepared to spice things up.

As you can see, for me, the most important factor in "diet foods" is that they taste like the real thing. Hopefully, I'll have more posts like this in the next few weeks leading up to the busiest month of my life as of yet. Happy eating and see you tomorrow for my weekly weigh-in!


*Also, I'm attempting to scale down on my rampant use of commas

Sarah - Week 16

Phew, okay. After my weigh in, I was all ready to write my blog entry but I was so hungry, I had to eat breakfast first. Now I've eaten the most important meal of the day (plus coffee - MY most important part of the day) and am ready to update you loyal reader(s) on my life.

First thing is first. I've found that going to the gym is the key to weight loss. Hands down. I've had much more success if I've gone to the gym on "bad weekends" than if I haven't. This should be a no-brainer because going to the gym will immediately take 500 calories off of however badly you ate. So I combatted my "feast" and yummy lunch and ice cream with Devoti (hiii! I know you're reading this!!) by going to the gym both Friday and Saturday and I was still able to see a huge weight loss this week!

Drum roll, please...

This week, I lost an impressive 3.6 pounds, for a total for 44.8 pounds lost! I can't believe it!! I really did nothing differently this week other than going to the gym every day except Thursday and Sunday. I even went out to eat twice! I think that a lot of my great week had to do with how good it felt after I went to Old Navy and bought two pairs of SIZE 10 PANTS. I am literally on top of the world. To think that a few short months ago I was kidding myself pretending to be a 16 and squeezing into clothes that were too small for me. It feels great already to be a size 10 and not have to struggle to close the zipper and button and I have 25 pounds left to go. I can't even imagine where I'll end up size-wise, but anything less than a 10 is an amazing feat.

Other than that, I'm getting really annoyed with everything I wear (besides the 4 pairs of essential pants that I had to buy) being too big, but it's stupid for me to buy anything new. All I really want to do is go on a crazy shopping spree for Miami (3 weigh-ins away!!) but I'm going to make the adult decision and just get the basics I need and try to make some of what I bought last summer work. I have some going out shirts, skirts, and day dresses that fit, I'm hoping that all I have to buy is a bathing suit and one or two pairs of shorts.

I have more to write about, but this entry is getting long, so maybe I'll post another one tomorrow (crazy, no?) Sorry for the millions of run-on sentences, parenthesis, and commas in this entry...I guess I just have a lot on my mind. I can't wait for this yummy gourmet food filled weekend (when I'll definitely be going to the gym and NOT out to the bars), the Erin Express next weekend, and sunny gorgeous Miami in THREE WEEKS!!

Sarah - Week 15

Well, I'm not really sure how I did it after my spectacular eating performance on Sunday when I was dead tired and high as shit, but apparently the rest of the week and the non-stop dancing at THON made up for my one bad day/night. Without further adieu (is that even right?) let's get to this week's total. I lost a solid 2.8 pounds!! This brings my total loss to 41.2 pounds!!! I'm LESS THAN TEN POUNDS from 50!! I can't believe it. I'm also about 7 pounds from the lowest I ever was with WW, making me hopefully the skinniest I've ever been before spring break.

Speaking of SB, we have 4 weigh-ins left until then and I'm preeeetty much on track to get to the 50 pounds right before then. And then I will need to get a new bathing suit...and at least a little bit of new warm weather clothing. However, I'm only going to get a few things in hopes that when June rolls around and it's actually summer, I'll have gotten down to my goal weight and the stuff that I buy in 4 weeks won't fit anymore.

In other news, THON was this weekend. And besides raising over 7.8 million dollars for Four Diamonds, I was able to see a ton of penn staters that I hadn't seen in ages. Think mostly the people that I don't really go out of my way to see when I go up to state for football. Every single person I saw was like "OMG! You look great!!!" and it FELT great! If anything, it's just motivating me more to look even more amazing in 8 weigh ins for blue/white weekend.

Sarah - Week 14

Weeeeee're Baaaaaaaack (on track)!

Welp, we survived the Blizzard(s) of 2010 and we definitely did a million times better during the second one than the first. My loss this week was a solid -3.4, bringing me back to a total loss of 38.4 pounds!! I can NOT believe that I'm only 11.6 pounds away from the big 5-0 and the technical goal of this blog!! Having that horrible week definitely was what I needed to get me back into the swing of things, diet and gym-wise, however, this larger weight loss after a mediumly bad weekend really solidifies to me the amount that being on the first day or so of your period affects your weigh in.

I'm so excited for THON this weekend, even if no one notices my ridiculous weight loss. It's been ages since I've been to State College and, as of now, they're not predicting any snow for the weekend. I can't wait to spend a lot of time with the people that I usually don't when I'm going up to school for games, etc.

In other news, Cati and I are officially GOING TO MIAMI for spring break to visit Erika. Our trip is in five weigh-ins so I'm hoping to be riiiight around that 50 pound goal when we're going. It's going to be awesome to feel so great about ourselves while we're tanning on the beach for five days! In LESS* than 10 pounds, I'm going to be officially "healthy weight" in BMI standards which is RIDICULOUS. I can't imagine the last time (11th grade) that I was at a healthy weight, and even then, I got just below that mark and then stopped losing.

Basically, I'm so happy to be back on track and motivated!

*Actually, I think I did the math wrong, or was consulting the wrong people because apparently my "healthy weight" and 50 pound goal and one and the same!! I would have to lose freaking NINTEY pounds to get into the "underweight" category, which I have NO intention of doing, so my 70 pound goal still sounds perfect!!

Sarah - Week 13

Well, I knew that at one point this would happen. Am I surprised that this happened this week? Abso-freaking-lutely not. We're in the middle of the freaking snowpocalypse and have been since last friday. I spent the entire weekend eating my feelings about not going to new york, not exercising, and drinking copious amounts of alcohol. It's also the first day of my period. Needless to say I gained 1.6 lbs, making my total weight loss and even 35 lbs. I was just so frustrated about so much so I just ate. And even though I didn't eat what I usually would have, I still made up for it when I was out for the super bowl and when I made brownies...and junk food. However, I do think that some of this does have to do with my period...so we'll just have to see.

Unfortunately, we're right back in the middle of this stupid blizzard, part two. The worst thing that I can do is eat and drink everything in sight. I'm just going to have a really good week and as good of a weekend as I can have when it's Jess's bday and (crossing my fingers) Amanda, Kyle, and Alex are coming down. I need to just get back on track, and have a great week so that I don't get discouraged. We have gotten SO FAR. I can't let this blizzard fuck up everything that I've worked so hard for. I just have to do my best and cross my fingers that next week will be better.

Fuck. This. Snow.

Sarah - Week 12

Woahhhh we're halfway there, woahhhhh livin on a prayer

This week was definitely a rough one, in life and in diet. Mostly, we've been doing this so long that I'm starting to get less motivated to go to the gym, etc, though we're still doing a great job eating right. We had a yummy dinner on monday night (that I made) of island soyaki marinated fish and garlicky backed brussel sprouts. Today, I'm feeling especially unmotivated due to the snow and obsessively waiting to hear back from grad school. Thankfully, I can dig out my car and go to work around 3 and attempt to not look at my phone for the entire 6 hours that I'm going to be there.

Enough about me, Let's get to the good stuff. Though I wasn't sure about this week, I ended up losing a solid 2.2 pounds, bringing me to a total of -36.6 pounds! I'm officially over halfway to my goal! Do I think that I'll be there in three months? No, because I know that it'll be tougher to lose weight as I get down and I know that I was losing it faster than I wanted for a while. Do I think I can be there in between 4 and 5? Absolutely. People are starting to count down to Blue/White weekend which is getting really exciting! It's a little over 11 weekends away and 11 weigh ins. Pretty exciting!

Cati and I are also going to Miami for spring break on March 29th. I'm excited for my new beach bod, even though it's not ready for a bikini just yet. Our trip is just over 7 weeks away, hopefully around 15 pounds away, and will be our celebration for reaching 50 pounds each!! Keep your fingers crossed for us and I'll keep you updated.

It's c-c-c-c-cold outside

So, first thing's first. Chipotle = success! So yummy!! We decided that we're going to go every 30 pounds so that we don't feel like that was the last time we'll ever be allowed to eat there. I was shocked at how my burrito literally filled me up for the entire day, well into the night. However, yesterday, when I had a regular - if maybe a little on the heavier side but in no means overeating - day, I had a stomach ache and felt ridiculously full after eating my Lean Cuisine for dinner at 7 all the way until a few minutes ago, 12 hours later. (That was a run on sentance if I ever wrote one)

I'm trying not to eat or drink too much today because I don't want this to be my first "bad" week. I need to go into next weekend feeling great about myself and I can't do that if I gained or even stayed the same. I'd love to at the very least lose the .6 pounds that I need to get to halfway to my goal. I'm going to resist the temptation of Cava Java and eat something before I go out so that I don't dreat too badly. I'm crossing my fingers that it all works out!