I Tried it - I'm human - and imperfect - and flawed

My son's party has come and gone and I tried the cake.  I did.  I tried it. I didn't have a piece of cake but I did have a few bites.  Today is Monday.  I didn't have any dessert yesterday and I'm not going to today (NOT EVEN HALLOWEEN CANDY!).  I'm feeling good!!

Dessert? NO THANK YOU!

I have not bought or eaten dessert in ELEVEN days!!  I'm making my son's birthday cake this weekend and I'm NOT going to have any (I actually just started to sweat and shake from sadness and fear  while typing that).  I am NOT going to go through this holiday season a slave to dessert.  I am just. not. going. to!  Right now I'M in control, if I start eating dessert then IT will control me until February.  In the next 4 months I have to make it through the following: 5 birthdays (plus extra birthday parties), Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas parties, Christmas, and New Years.  If I ate dessert (and we're talking just ONE dessert) on each of of those days, that's at the VERY least, 10 desserts.  But that is SO far from reality for me it's not even funny.  I usually average AT LEAST 3 desserts PER EVENT, and once I start eating dessert I usually can't stop for DAYS.  This means that if I don't continue to put the breaks on now, I'm looking at consuming 50-80 desserts EASILY over the next 4 months.  Wow, I'm actually really glad I'm typing this out because it's really driving the point home for me even more.
NO DESSERTS THIS HOLIDAY SEASON!!  I realize what a bold and scary statement this is...eek!  But it's happening, and I AM going to continue to LOSE weight over these next 4 months!!!!
Fight!  Fight!  Fight!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A Milestone

I was able to button a pair of jeans yesterday, that I have not been able to button for the past year and a half.  I was also down 3.2 pounds at my weigh-in this past weekend.  I'm staying strong this week.  I want another good loss.  I'm doing this!!!

Starting Back up Again (Again)

Went to Weight Watchers today to get weighed in.  I'm up 4 pounds (that's what a week of completely overeating will do).  I'm not giving up.  I'm tracking again and I'm taking the pounds off this week!!
My gosh, how many rounds do I have to go in this fight anyway??!

Sometimes Life Gets in the Way

Since my last post, my beautiful grandmother passed away.  I was doing excellent until last Friday, the day of the funeral, the reception, and the open house at my parent's house.  I've been grieving, stressed to a degree, and have been wanting to fill up on "comfort" food.  For me "comfort" food is always carb loaded food (especially desserts).  I wasn't really able to exercise on Friday or Saturday, could of but didn't on Sunday and Monday, and then got back into walking today.  Now I just need to start tracking again.  I really really wanted to be down 5 more pounds by next Monday (refer to my last post), but at this point I will be very pleased with staying even.  Exercise today, tracking tomorrow.  Time to start fighting again!!

On a Mission!

I've lost another 2.4 pounds!  I did a zumbathon (2 hours of Zumba) on Saturday and I power walked/jogged 6 out of the 7 days last week!  I am determined to be down another 5 pounds by October 17, which is exactly the one year mark of starting this blog.  LET'S GO!!