Success!

I have no clue what the scale will say tomorrow, but I did have a successful weekend! I drove up Saturday morning to Indianapolis to see my beloved John Mayer. It was well worth the 4+ hour drive for the show and to hang with one of my good friends. I went to the grocery store the night before and bought snacks. Not the healiest items, but at least I was prepared. I took light pringles, mini teddy grahams, apples, and a little trail mix. This is the huge accomplishment for the weekend: I stayed within my points range yesterday AND today AND I excercised each day! Yesterday I got up early and went on a 40 minute walk in the neighborhood. Today I word my gym clothes so I didn't even need to come home when I got back to town. I drove straight to the gym and worked out for a good hour and a half. I ate out yesterday too! I got a greek salad, dressing on the side and french onion soup. I should have said no cheese, but it was so yummy and worth the points!

I weigh in tomorrow so look for another update.

WW E-Tools

I did it. I paid for 3 months of e-tools. I will now be tracking points on line. Today was the first day and I stayed withing my point range!

Eating this weekend wasn't great, but wasn't awful. I ate my favorite salad on Friday night, but I also ate the rolls and accompaning butter. Saturday snacking was bad. I did fine at the wedding except for the 2 pieces of Baklava. Standard buffett. I could have done better, I could have done worse.

Did I mention I stayed within my points range today?????

The Thinking Blogger Award

I know you all have been waiting patiently for some sort of update, so here it is.

The Thinking Blogger Award. I was given this award by KL over at From Yawn to Come Hither. Thank you so much for this recognition. It really means a lot to me! I am never really sure how many readers I have or if what I write really has an impact on anyone else or if it is just a place for me to share my diet frustrations/successes/etc. So thank you! I read her blog daily and she would be one of my recipients. However, since she was already awarded this award I will select 5 other blogs that cause me to think.

1. If, and only if, you get tagged, write a post with links to 5 blogs that make you think.
2. Link to this post so that people can easily find the exact origin of the meme.


1. Alethea @ Losing It Once Again
2. Christie @ Let’s See What Happens!
3. Krissie @ Questions For Dessert
4. Sal @ The Veggie Papparazzi
5. Chronicles of a Late Bloomer

Ladies you are great. Keep up the great blogging!

No one said this was going to be easy

So yesterday afternoon I was tired and almost ready to bag going to the gym. Then From Yawn to Come Hither nominated me for a Thinking Blogger Award! This provided me with enough motivation to get myself to the gym. Her blog is super awesome and is one of my daily reads. I will be nominating 5 others when I get back from Denver, so be on the lookout for that when I get back from my trip.

So I went to the gym for 35 minutes and walked on the treadmill. Nothing fancy, but I made it there.

I have been thinking a lot about how my motivation to lose weight and become healthy has changed in the almost 3.5 years I have been at this weight loss thing. When I started I was pretty strict, yet counting points was so easy. Now I am not counting points and not really losing weight either. I think I need to get back to the mentality I had when I first started. What was this mentality? I counted everything! Now I am not saying where I am out now is a bad place, I just feel I could be doing a little better. In fact I know I can do better.

I feel really lucky to have found some great bloggers over the past few months and I am super excited to get to let them know how much they mean to me, so watch out for a post on Monday!

Have a great weekend!