GOOD WI Today!

I have been dieting since MArch of last year, and I had gotten to 65 pounds down, but then I hit a plateau over October, November and December and only lost 3 pounds in those whole 3 months. UGH! So I wasn't expecting any loss over the Holidays, my focus was just not to get discouraged and pig out and undo the progress too bad. In our family this past month included 2 family birthdays wedged between Thanksgiving and Christmas and multiple parties and get-togethers, so all I was really trying to do is enjoy myself, but keep it in moderation.

And I went back up, of course - my "comeuppance of the scale" on New Year's Eve morning sucked, but Thursday's my normal WI day so I still kept it, and I knew it wasn't going to be pretty - but it's not judgement, just data, and I was already to move past the Holidays and get back to healthy, NORMAL eating again... and I was happy about that. Happy that I wanted to cut out all this party fare and rich food and just have nice, simple meals again, and happy that healthy food has become my new normal, as opposed to anything that required a "resolution". Proves I really DID change my life in 2015 for the better.

Well, yesterday I also kept my WI, and I was happy to see that I had, indeed, come back down from that OMG comuppance number by almost 3 pounds. YAY! But one teensy thing was bugging me. I was... well, weighing heavy. We were at a funeral luncheon the day before and though I tried to be "good" I ate a couple of cubes of cheese with crackers so that I wouldn't drink wine on an empty stomach before we got served lunch... and I hadn't "gone" since then.

And then when I did, it was too late in the day to reweigh myself because I'd eaten 2 meals.

So I snuck down to my scale this morning, and, as it just so happens... I lost 5 pounds this week. Some of it was obviously water weight from all the booze and salty foods and rich stuff and possibly hormonal too that had contributed to the yucky WI New Years Eve... but I'll take it. Get behind me, 2015! Begone!

Still not down past the "floor" of this plateau, but after so many crummy months of losing (or gaining) weight in ounces, or not moving at all, it was VERY nice to have the numbers come off in pounds for a change. (Even if it was pounds I've now "kinda" lost half a dozen times already!)