Weigh In - Broke Through the Plateau

I'm very happy to report that I broke through my plateau! I cut back on how many calories I was eating, I think my body was use to how many I was taking in and was in maintenance mode instead of loss mode. So without any further delays:

Starting Weight: 280

Weight This Week: 239

Pounds Lost This Week: 2

Total Pounds Lost: 41

A picture I took of me this

week in a new dress.

I'm so excited to be in the 230's and out of the 240's! Only 40 more pounds and I will be out of the 200's all together! Since I have lost 20 pounds since my last before pictures I'll take a new set this weekend and post them under by before and after tab, make sure you check it out.

Let me tell ya'll how proud of myself I am for resisting temptation yesterday. I went to one of my favorite restaurants in the world (Carey Hilliards, if you aren't from the Savannah area you probably don't know what that is nor do you understand how good it is). Normally I would drink sweet tea, because they have the BEST sweet tea but I ordered water instead. Then my favorite appetizer (onion rings) was ordered (not by me) and I didn't eat any, not even one little bite!! And after all of that I ordered a grilled chicken salad and split it with someone else at my table. This was a huge accomplishment for me. This is a restaurant that I would normally go to 3 or 4 times a week and have the biggest sweet tea they have with probably 2 or 3 refills, split a large order of onion rings with one other person, and then probably eat a six piece fried chicken fingers with fries! The hardest part of it was having the onion rings within inches of my plate. But I managed really well and now I have my good weigh-in to show for it.

I'm still going to the gym every morning at 5:30. I have been doing at least 30 min of cardio (most of the time on the elliptical) and then I alternate days of doing weight training on my arms and legs. I don't love getting out of my bed at 5am every morning but I do love the feeling I get from working out. Anything worth having is worth working for!