5% Gone, FINALLY!

I finally after almost 4 months, I finally hit my 5% weight loss goal!

Granted it took forever, or what seemed like forever.

While I am a huge fan of the weekly meetings, the one downside is hearing how everyone else is flying past me on their losses.  I know they are working very hard at it, and maybe if I did more, then I would be having huge losses.  I am intentionally doing this slowly- I don't want it to feel like a diet.  I know small changes got me to where I am and small changes will get me back.

I have to say, I am ecstatic about losing weight during the holiday season.  For all the people who wait to put off their health and fitness goals until January, I think they are making a big mistake.  I can only imagine how I would have had a "might as well eat everything, since I'm starting a diet after New Year's" and the damage it would have done. 

It's been a long road, but honestly if it stays at this pace, I'm good.  While I would like to lose 80 pounds by this time next spring, you know what?  Thirty-forty pounds would be more than okay.  My birthday is in January and regardless of what the number on the scale is, it will be smaller than it was last year.

A woman today hit her second 10% goal.  She's down 45 pounds.  She looked great.  She said she started out thinking that 80 pounds was a lot to loose- I honestly can't imagine her losing another 40 by the way-- but the small steps over the past year have kept her going. 

I swear, I think sometimes they plant these people or change the topic to make it fit whatever is going through my head at that moment.  And that's the bigger bonus of the meetings.  They help keep you on track and you don't feel like the lonely fat chick.

One more week down.  1.6 pounds gone.

Yippee!