Revelation

The reason I decided to hold off my weigh in until today is because I always want SOF to be about positive experiences. However my news is not positive, when I woke up yesterday and got on the scale it read 152.8lbs as you know last Friday I was only 149.6. So needless to say I am not happy, but I have no one to blame but myself. I know some of it has to do with bloating but that is still a gain of 3.2lbs. I also know I have not been eating as well as I should so regardless of the bloat this was a wakeup call. I have been eating things that I know I shouldn’t eat and I think it is because I feel like I am where I want to be so it’s ok to splurge, which it is every now and then, but not every day.  Right now we are in the middle of a move and we have been eating out every day. That is killer on my waistline as well as our bottom-line. But I do know that there are healthy options for eating out and since we are going to have to wait a few more weeks until we can move into our new place I must find them NOW. I think that being at a place, weight wise that I am comfortable has made me say yes to some food choices I may have said no to before. I just want to be in the 140’s and I will be happy so then I will go into maintenance mode, where my goal is to just maintain the weight loss that I have worked so hard for over the past 6 months. I did not change my life to succeed in this journey just so that I can be right back in the same place I was a few months ago. I think that seeing that number on the scale really made it hit home to me how important it is for me not to go back to eating the way I use to. Not only so that I won’t gain the weight back but also so that I can be healthier and a good role model for Lil O. When I got up this morning I was 150.6 which is better but in a way I am grateful for the 152.8 because it knocked me back into reality.