Becoming My Husband's Girlfriend: Photos (YEAH!) and a new challenge...

Monday, January 9, 2012

Photos (YEAH!) and a new challenge...

Ahhhh... I love when a plan comes together! Getting back to the basics, drinking A TON of water and writing down my WW points is helping! Even having a chest cold and missing two workouts this week, I still lost 2 pounds! I must say, as AWESOME as the holidays were... eating and enjoying... I actually hit 207 pounds the week after Christmas but before New Years. I lost 4 pounds before taking last week's photo and have lost 2 more this week. My goal of hitting 190 by the Desert International Triathlon in 8 weeks is a reality... 11 pounds to go in 8 weeks... lots of training... several brick workouts... I CAN DO IT!

201.0 pounds

203.0 pounds

To help keep me even more accountable, I have joined "The Biggest Loser" Weight Challenge at work. Today was weigh-in and I'm not sure how many people from our school are participating, but I'm in. I figure the 7:30AM, Monday morning weigh-ins will help keep me on track with getting my photos and Monday posts, too. The challenge last until March 30th and the top two people with highest percentage of weight loss, WIN! I know I've already lost 50 pounds, but I still have a way to go, so this extra challenge will help keep me focused!

To reach your goals, you need to find "the button" that will make you work to earn them. I NEED a challenge! I NEED to be accountable to someone/something other than myself. This blog, the new work challenge, and training for races are the buttons I've found to keep me on track. What is YOUR button...?

Make it a FANTASTIC day and I will see you tomorrow for MUSIC DAY!

3 comments:

Jami said...: Hello Tracey!!!

I´m still looking your blog all week, and I really enjoy to read it, you´re so special!! I have my own blog now, it´s not in English yet, but I´ll do it soon....and since last year I´m doing scrap for me, of course but I´m selling my works too...I´m so happy!!
So, thanks so much for all the things that you share, it gave me strenght to reach my dreams!!
Have a nice week dear!!

Kisses, Jamila!!; January 10, 2012 at 4:46 PM
Unknown said...: Thank you so much, Jamila! And keep reaching for your dreams! After all, they are right there for the taking... you just have to go get them! :-); January 10, 2012 at 4:56 PM
Jami said...: Hello Tracey!!

Thanks so much for your words, I´ll keep with my dreams, of course!!
When you have time take a look at www.scrapbyjami.blogspot.com It´s still just in portuguese, but I´m working on it, just take a look at my works, I´d love to get your opinion!!
Kisses, Jamila!!; January 12, 2012 at 4:43 PM

An explanation of my social experiment... I'm going "Full Monty"...

"Becoming my Husband's Girlfriend is my definition of the ultimate weight loss peer pressure... my weight loss "Full Monty" if you will. I will be posting my current weight photos and stats... stories about my weight loss and challenges... training that I am doing for 4 athletic events this years... I will be laughing... I will be frustrated... I will be sharing inspiration that I find around me and people whose stories inspire me... and so much more in my ultimate goal to lose weight, get healthy and bring the SEXY BACK to my life and my husband.

I hope you will join me in this journey, because I think there are A TON OF YOU that are probably in a similar point in your life. You might not have a ton of weight to lose, but there is something you want to change... NEED to change in your life. Maybe you are looking for some confidence... maybe you need to get that happy spring back in your daily step... maybe you can't wait to see if this experiment of mine will be a "train wreck" (we all know how much we LOVE a good "train wreck") or if I can actually do it...

... so become A FOLLOWER of this blog (below)... share the story of this "fatty" with your friends... because I can promise you this... we are about to embark on an amazing journey! Fasten your seat belts...

GOALS for the week of June 20 - 27th

1. Find your "Inner Summer..." Your favorite memory of a place... a song... a smell... an annual trip... take that memory and put it into your new Soundtrack for your Head! It doesn't matter if you go there this year or not, tap into those memories and get into the "summer feel!"

2. Summer is about short skirts, bathing suits and hot nights... find your "summer flirt..." I might be a size 14 at the moment, but I sure have found that summer flirt... it is all about the state of mind, ladies! GO get it!

GOALS for the week - June 6 - 13...

This one is simple. Find your next victory... and TAKE IT! We all have different things to celebrate... mine this week was buttoning my blouse. Is yours to lose some weight? To find a half an hour to play, uninterupted, with your toddler or have a quiet chat with your teen? Is it to go to the gym for the first time in years (AWESOME victory!)... or simply to cuddle up with your husband like you used to.

Ohhhhhhh, and be careful, because your victory may very well make someone else's day, too! :-)

GOALS for the Week - April 4 - 11...

GOALS for the Week - March 28 - April 4...

1. Find your own "Heaven" with your husband this week. Dressing up for Jeff... feeling sexy... and going to a concert where my husband couldn't take his eyes off me and wouldn't let go of my hand was my own bit of Heaven.

2. I am 2.6 pounds away from getting rid of the title of "OBESE!" Define your next goal... it doesn't matter the number or the reason, it is YOUR goal!

3. SMILE! Times are tough right now and I know that life is handing so many of us reasons not to smile. SMILE ANYWAY! It will make your heart glow... and make your husband smile, too!