HOW SWEET IT IS!

Today we are leaving on a weekend trip to visit the Hubs parents.   My girls are beyond excited to visit Grandma and Grandpa, and I am definitely looking forward to the time away.

HOWEVER, I have been freaking out about weighing in tomorrow after traveling in a car for 5 hours.  You see, I am a retainer...a water retainer that is.  My body LOVES to hold on to extra water and it does so in a myriad of situations:  stress, hormones, TRAVEL.  Yes, travel makes me retain water AND I was very unhappy that my weigh in was going to have to happen after a travel day.

I had resigned myself to it, however.  I told the Hubs that I was going to pack the scale and take it with us.  

I got the eye roll.

I got the REALLY exaggerated, eyes so far up in his head that I wondered if they were ever coming back out eye roll.

Apparently the Hubs thinks that bringing my scale along on a trip is a little over the top.  MEN!

He suggested that I weigh in today...which I just thought was outrageous because.  I mean, COME ON, my body needs that extra day to maximize its weight loss!  I want to give it EVERY opportunity to shed every last fraction of a pound that it can.  AND, in light of the 2 pound gain from last week, and the stumble on Sunday, I felt like I needed every extra minute possible before getting on that scale.

Here is the thing...I FEEL like I have lost weight this week.  When I look in the mirror, my face LOOKS thinner to me (I always lose weight out of my face first, and this week I have really started to notice it).  My body doesn't FEEL as heavy (that may sound strange, and it is hard to explain).  

I decided to trust the cues my body was giving me and go ahead and weigh in today.  

As I went to step on the scale I was seriously praying....please, please, please....I just want to see 406.xx come up.  That's all I am looking for.  That will take the 2 pounds I gained off AND put me just a little bit down from my weigh in 2 weeks ago.  PLEASE!!!

406....406.....406....

I kept saying it over and over again, like somehow my mind could actually manipulate the scale if I really focused hard enough.

When I stepped on, as usual, I braced myself....

403.2!!!

OH HELL YEAH!!

6.2 lbs. lost this week!

4.2 lbs. lost from my low of 407.4 2 weeks ago!

26.8 TOTAL LBS. LOST!

I am so happy right...SO HAPPY...Words cannot express how great I feel!

You guys, I am so close to breaking the 400 lbs. barrier (YES, barrier - believe me, weighing over 400 lbs is a HUGE mental and emotional barrier...far more so than the physical barriers it presents).  

I am almost there!  

I am within reach of the first MAJOR milestone in my weight loss journey!!

TARGET ACQUIRED - AIM, FIRE!!!

I am coming for you 399.xx!! I am coming for you with a vengeance!!!!

HOW SWEET IT IS!!!

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I am in tears after watching this video....What an inspiration!