80 pounds = the Worlds Largest Ball of Tape

80 pounds also = Jill's weight loss to date.

I worked hard this month.  I set my goal to be 80 pound loss for the end of March.  I completed that goal tonight.  (thank goodness, because this is the last weigh in, in March!) 
I set this goal because April is a tough month for me every year.  My birthday, my friend's birthday, I'm going to Vancouver to visit my dad, TOPS PRD party is April 29-30.  It's a month of fun!  BUT I never lose in April.  I thought that buckling down in March, and having a maintenance goal for April would be appropriate.  The "pressure" is off, but I am still challenging myself to maintain.  I am continuing with my exercises routine.  I am still recording calories.  Nothing changes, except my expectations.
I am very happy, and satisfied. 
With my successes, the ladies at TOPS want me to do my life story.  (this is something we try to do once a month for inspiration.)  I have to think of things to talk about that might be interesting.  I will of course have to talk about the Shrinkvivor challenge, and my Green Tribe ladies!  That's when my last push of inspiration came from, and continues from.  The difference between now and before Shrinkvivor, is now I KNOW I can do this.  Before, I wasn't sure.

I bought Just Dance 2 for the Wii from Future Shop.  BEST 30 bucks I ever spent!  I love it.  Gets my heart rate up, I can do it for an hour and the time just flies by!  LOVE IT!!!  (although I bet the neighbors get a kick out of seeing my shadows through the window drapes. Bwah ha ha ha ha  ha!!!)

WOW I didn't think I had a lot to say today, but I guess I was wrong!  :)
Now on to the next week!

The Case of the Missing Jilly....

I must apologise to my fellow Green Tribers....I fell off the face of the earth after Disneyworld.
It was a great trip, had tons of fun, enjoyed not having to wear 5 layers of clothes to go outside.
And then we came home.
It was -35, and windy.  It takes 10 minutes to get my winter gear on to walk the dog every morning.  I was totally exhausted all the time.  I don't know if it was the winter blahs, mixed with post-disney downer...or maybe I was fighting off a bug.  Being a very strong introvert, I hid in my thoughts.  Which gave was good considering the challenge at Shrinking Jeans was a solo one.  It worked for me.  I did gain 4 pounds at Disney, but the food was worth every calorie. I have worked them off now. And I am starting to come out of the funk.
I am doing Zumba twice a week.  I am starting to be able to actually do the jumping moves and steps now that I don't have so much weight bouncing on my knees.  I love it. 
My girls at TOPS are getting re-motivated again, and it is super motivating hanging out with them.  I wish we could meet more than once a week.  I wish my Green Tribers could come to my TOPS group, that would be a motivation explosion. The universe would collapse onto itself....tee hee...

Now.  Enough. Stalling.

This is the before picture of me the day I joined TOPS.  The after pic is yesterday, after I weighed in at my 70 pounds lost.  I also received my half way to goal pin.  I can't believe I got that!  I thought it would never come!
I see that I still have my fat goggles on, because I don't see that big of a difference, considering the difference is 70 pounds.  But that's me.  I am okay with how I look now anyways so I am not going to worry about it. 
My 70 pounds loss was my second short term goal for the Power of One challenge.  Now I know the challenge is over, but it's not for me.  :)

My next goalish thingy is to try on my wedding dress.  I wonder if it will fit.....????

ONEDERLAND!!!

Hello onederland, it's nice to meet you.  I like you a lot.  Let's never part.

I am so happy to have reached my short term goal #1.
I was getting worried that my body was fighting against me from getting this far.  I worked quite hard for the latter part of the week, after being not too good at eating or exercise over NYE/NYD.  I did the tworkout for the first time ever this week!  I also have done A LOT of core exercises.  My sides are still sore.
New Zumba class starts tomorrow, I am sooooo excited.  I freaking love Zumba.  It's a no fail exercise class.

NOW, I am going on vacation one week from today.  I am going to be on track for the week coming up till that point.  My plan on vacation (disneyworld) is to make healthier choices and stop eating when I am full. I want to enjoy myself, I haven't been on an away vacation in 8 years.  I don't want to ruin my vacation by being pre-occupied with food.  I just have to not lose my brain.  (this happens a lot) :)

Next short term goal - get to 70 lbs lost.  4.4 pounds to go.

I will do it.

Struggling

I had intentions of going into 2011 with a loss.  It was going well, excercising and eating well.  For the last two days we have had company over.  I don't mean over for a couple of hours, they come over for 6-10 hours.  This means more than one meal I am providing for, or going out for.  On New Year's day friends came over to visit at 1pm.  I put out snacks, (crackers and dip, dainties) but they were more hungry than that, so I reheated chili, taquitos, egg rolls, garlic sausage, cheese, pickles.  We watched movies until 5:30ish, then everyone wanted to watch "Despicable Me".  So then I made cheese pizza's and a shrimp appetizer pack.  Now while I was busy working in the kitchen, I wasn't sedentary, and I didn't eat my face off.  But there were no healthy choices really.  Had I known they were coming over, I would have made sure to have a veggie tray or something like it.  Now there is really no food left in my house, which is good and bad.....because.......
Yesterday, we went shopping.  I got some cute shoes! 


Shoes for the Wedding!  :)



And a Yoga outfit (in size L!!!)  and an outfit for the wedding in Cocoa Beach.  I was going to use gift cards that I got for Christmas, but the network was down that they use to cash in the gift cards.  I had to come back in 1 hour.  Just enough time for.....Lunch!  We went to Chicken Chef.  I ordered the grilled chicken sandwich with a side salad.  The plate comes out........with fries.  DAMN.  So I ate all the fries.  Booooooo.  (I even tried and the universe foiled me....)  Then the next set of friends phones and wants to come over.  I am not cooking again after the day before....so now I know we are going out for dinner too.  DAMN.  We went to Red Lobster, I ordered the mussels appetizer and the grilled shrimp dinner.  I ate the mussles (that came with garlic toast and it was delicious) and 2 cheesy garlic buns.  I ate my salad with dressing on the side.  I had 2 shrimp from my dinner plate and packed the rest up.  Now, I know I have made better choices then I ususally would have.  But I can't help but feel like I didn't do good enough.

I have a hard time controlling myself when out for a treat, we have been really good lately with not going out for dinner, so 2 meals out in one day is a huge treat.  I am afraid to get on the scale, and weigh in is in 2 days....I cannot undo what I have eaten in 2 days without starving myself and excercising for hours....


Just frustrated with food right now.  I wish it was easier to eat healthy at holiday time....if I didn't have to eat to live, this would be alot easier......AND Disneyworld is in 9 days....I wanted to be in onederland by then, but it doesn't look like that's going to happen either...grrrrrrr. 2011 is going to be a fight I see....