Choosing to L.O.V.E.

This past weekend Greg and I went on the Choosing to L.O.V.E. retreat.  What a refresher it was to get out just the two of us and remind us that we need God and each other.  With all the crazy things we have had going on the past few years, we forgot how to live our vows.  We have recommitted ourselves to living God’s word and living our lives the way God intended.  The only bad (but really good) thing that came with the weekend was the food.  Lots of DELICIOUS food!  I am talking pigs in the blankets, homemade chicken and dumplings, grilled chicken wraps, and steak dinner!  Man-O-Man was it some good eating.  We got back from the retreat and took the girls out to eat and of course I had a big, juicy hamburger!  I am ready to put that behind me and move on from my bad weekend.  I didn’t prep this week so I am trying to stay on track by making better choices but again, without prepping it is really hard.  All I want to do is eat the fries and bad stuff!  So today I am going to choose to not only love God, my husband, and family... but LOVE myself.  I am going to commit to myself just like I did to God and Greg.

I think one thing that will help me stay motivated is starting to blog about my good days and my bad.  Today was a bad day.  I ate chips for breakfast.  That’s right… CHIPS!  What was I thinking?  For lunch I had a delicious salad with balsamic vinaigrette.  This evening I am planning on making sausage and mac & cheese.  I know that isn’t good for me but maybe I will just have a salad.  I might need a prayer with that one!

I have decided that I am going to post my goals because maybe, just maybe, I will be encouraged to stick with them.  I want to get down to 140lbs so bad but I definitely don’t want to work for it.  So first I have to change my lifestyle and then work on losing weight.

Current weight: 193.6

Goal 1 à 183 à -10.6lbs à by 4/5/15 (Easter) à Reward = mani & pedi

Goal 2 à 173 à -10lbs à by 5/25/15 (Memorial Day) à Reward = New shorts

Goal 3 à 165 à -8lbs à by 7/4/15 (4^th of July) à Reward = New tattoo

Goal 4 à 157 à -8lbs à by 9/7/15 (Labor Day) à Reward = New shoes

Goal 5 à 152 à -5lbs à by 10/5/15 (E’s B-day) à Reward = Jewelry

Goal 6 à 150 à -2lbs à by 10/21/15 (A’s B-day) à Reward = Massage

Goal 7 à 145 à -5lbs à by 11/26/15 (Thanksgiving) à Reward = ?? TBD

Goal 8 à 140 à -5lbs à by 12/25/15 (Christmas) à Reward =Trip

After actually writing all the goals down I realized that they are very attainable AND I need to get busy! 

So here is to working hard to get that weight off!