Weigh In Day

May 13, 2012

Sept. 1, 2012- had to add the belt so you could see the change

Happy September!  I love September, back to school, cooler evenings, both my sister’s birthdays.  Two birthday cakes in the house must have sealed my love of September.

Since I have been off sugar for the last few months I really can say that I am honestly not interested in birthday cake.  As long as I don’t have a bite and send my body back into sugar love.

I was worried that August was going to be a poor weight loss month.  Not because of the heat, but because of the vacation.  Russ took me to the Pacific Northwest and San Francisco for two weeks and we had a fabulous holiday.

But two weeks of living in hotels and eating every meal out had me worried.  I was hoping that if I could just maintain my weight I would be happy.  Especially when I was in Portland.  Russ had planned the whole trip and when we woke up our first morning there I asked him what the Portland plan was.  I kid you not; he looked right at me and said, “We came to Portland for the food.”

I know I made some kind of “What the…” face, then remembered he had started planning this trip long before I planned my weight loss challenge.  We had some of the best food in Portland, so I suggest visiting it for your self.

Thanks to Russ for splitting dishes with me, eating a lot of seafood and hiking, making vacation was a huge success.  My first morning home I got on the scale and I had lost 4 pounds!!

I was lucky that I had been on vacation on the half of the month that I usually lose weight.  I have been a serial dieter enough of my life that I know there are weeks I lose and weeks I don’t even though all the inputs of calories and outputs of exercise are exactly the same.  It is a hormonal fact of life.  Even though I know this sometimes it can be discouraging to work and work and have no tangible scale success.  But I keep persevering because the good week is coming.

So now for the number most people care about…how much weight have I lost in total?  The answer is 40 pounds!  August was a great month, losing 8 pounds.  So the quest continues.  I have until November 1 to lose as much as possible for this challenge.

My goal to raise $1,000 for every pound I lose still stands.  I have pledges for $615.25 as of today.  I want to thank all the people who increased their pledge.  My plea now is that you spread the word for me.  If you enjoy my blog please forward it on to anyone you think might also like it.

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