7.6 pounds have melted away so far!

After only losing .2 last week, it was great to see that I'd lost 2.8 this week, for a total of 7.6 pounds overall! I am already at 30% of my wedding weight goal. See that red star on the graph? That's my "5 pound award." Yep, I earned an award this week. Yay me! My alterations costs are rising every moment and I'm thrilled.

In other news, my dress is in. I have to drive about 40 minuites away to go get it and I'm leaving today for a whirlwind trip until Sunday the 6th so I won't be able to try it on until after that.

If you like ice cream (and really, who doesn't?) try the Weight Watchers single serving ice creams. They are sold in the dessert/ice cream section in the creezer. OMG! My fave is the mint chocolate chip but they also have cookie dough. Yum!

I don't feel like I am depriving myself on this diet (way of living). I started off wanting to lose 1 pound a week, realistically, and while I know my weight loss can't continue to be this big each week, I am very proud of the 4 week progress I have made.

In other news, after going to LA for a conference rehersal Friday and Saturday, I am headed to Bakersfield for Saturday night thru early early Tuesday morning. I am sure Basque food will be on the schedule so I am writing it here so it's out in the open: I will NOT eat the french fries. Everything else is fair game though. :)

The next two weeks is actually going to be difficult because I am traveling all over - LA, Bakersfield, Modesto, Spokane Washington, and then San Jose. Wish me luck on making good choices and sticking with the program!

2.4 More Pounds Down!

Can't believe my weight loss this week! Pounds just seem like they are melting off. Thinking about adding Ally to my regimen. I know that my weight loss will slow and that I shouldn't expect to loose this much each week. Again, still trying for the goal of 25 in 25. So far it's 4.6 total in 2, so there's a ways to go.

I need to get back in the gym more regularly. I know my dress should be coming in soon and I'd like to have my arms a bit more toned before stepping into that thing.

Have to wear a bridesmaid dress in January. I was able to use one from the last wedding I was in, and that had been altered to fit when after I'd lost a bunch of weight when I was waiting to have my gall bladder surgery so I definitely have a goal of getting back into that dress.

I know I can do it!

I heart this diet!

So far, I've lost officially 2.2 pounds, but I weigh in tomorrow and it's looking like another 1 -1 .5 will be gone. WOO-HOO!

Why do I love this diet so much? It fits within my lifestyle. I can have Subway sandwiches AND I can have Taco Bell, which most of you know is one of my weaknesses. Surprisingly, Taco Bell is pretty healthy if you order the right stuff: chicken and steak tacos fresco style, bean burritos (i like mine with extra red sauce and no onions) and even double decker tacos fresco style.

Another friend to me - Puffins, the high fiber cereal. I've been a fan for a long time but it's great to dump 3/4 cup in a plastic baggie and bring with me as a snack during the day.

And, best of all, I can still drink my beloved Diet Pepsi in the morning.

I'm doing Weight Watchers online, which really works for me.

I'm glad that I am posting this publicly. That way, when times get hard in a few weeks, or I hit a plateau, I can come back to this entry and remember how excited I was at one point.

The 25 x 25 Campaign has begun!

Wouldn't it be great to look like the picture above on my wedding day? My quest is to lose 25 lbs in 25 weeks. I think it's pretty doable. It's a healthy goal and I have Weight Watchers and my gym to help me out. So, why in the world am I posting a diet on my blog? Well, because if I do, I am more apt to commit to it. I put this picture on our refridgerator too! :)

Fine print: I know that I could never look/get this thin. Seriously, I would have to starve myself for a year to get a flat stomach like that. But it is fun seeing what I might look like with arms I am not ashamed of.

Our 15 minutes of fame!

My mom put our engagement announcement in the Bakersfield Californian.

Click here to see:
http://www.bakersfield.com/1329/story/518564.html

...and the registering begins

I wasn't completely braindead when I finished up my weekend event this morning so Brent and I headed to Macy's this afternoon to do some homework on registering. All of the wedding timelines we've read say that we should register between 6 and 9 months before the wedding, and we are at about 7 1/2. We figured we would need to research a bunch of stuff before we could officially sign up for the "scanner gun" and start pointing.

What we found out is we can basically register for all of our gifts - Macy's and all of the others - in our pjs at home in front of the computer. You don't even have to go to the store to pick out the gifts anymore (although in my opinion, that is part of the whole experience). The only experience that I've ever had with registering is when my dad and Janice got married and they probably spent upwards of 20 hours in Gottchalk's in as many trips.

After we deadlocked on our dishes and bedding at Macy's, we decided to "table" those selections and that we needed another piece of scenery. So - we headed over to the new Lowe's in West Sacramento.

I heart Lowe's. I could easily walk out of there thousands of dollars in debt if I actually had the time to do the home improvement projects that I imagine myself doing while I'm shopping there. I think Lowe's is so much better than Home Depot and the prices always seem lower too. At Lowe's we found out the *only* way we could register was online so we started a list (and as you'll see on the web site, it took about 20 minutes to input what we registered for there).

So, we'll "un-table" the decisions about dishes and bedding in a few weeks and head back to Macy's. I gotta say, the whole registry thing is pretty overwhelming to think that you are picking out a lot of items that are intended for you to use for your lifetime. Lots of choices and decisions to come...

Bakersfield - Watch the newspaper!

Bakersfield peeps -

My mom put Brent and I's engagement announcement in the "Celebrations" section and it will be coming out on Saturday, August 9th. Watch for it and let me know how it turns out.