Goals!

I really never have much to say here (always too lazy to type anything up) but I thought I'd share something I've been thinking a lot about lately.

I've been doing surprisingly well with Weight Watchers since Mom got me started on it at the end of August. This has been the first time I've made an active effort at losing weight and I guess I never expected it to go this well. Then again, I don't think I ever expected myself to have this kind of commitment and self-control (though homemade sugar cookies and frosting sitting out on the counter REALLY like to test that last bit) to make it all work, but it has!

This last Tuesday, when I weighed in, I finally made my 10% goal with the group here in Rexburg. I've actually been hovering around that thing for a while (Christmas threw it off for me. Mmmm, monkey bread! Among other things) but now that I'm back at school, I made the goal and it's gonna stay gone. Got a nice, shiny keychain too. Then, I realized that if I were to lose another five pounds in just this week (the most I've lost in a week has been 4 lbs, so I really think I can do it. I'm focusing a lot more on the health guidelines, making sure I'm getting more veggies, and I've been out to play ultimate Frisbee and go ice skating, as well as my normal walking to class routine. With the added veggies and exercise, I'm really looking forward to Tuesday when I weigh in again) then I'll have made the 25 lbs mark, in which I get a little charm for my brand-new 10% keychain!

Then it occurred to me; right now, (not even counting the 5 I'm working for this week) I'm only 20 lbs away from the weight goal that I set for myself with the WW leaders here. I'll probably want to push past that once I get to it, but the point is to have a goal that you can shoot for. As it is, I lost 15 lbs last semester (with Thanksgiving even thrown in there!) so I really think I can do this, with the right determination. See, the thing is, the leaders and the WW members here in Rexburg have really been a great support. We're getting to know one another, we're helping out, and I've been glad to be meeting goals there. This past week, one of the leaders sent me a congratulations postcard. Made me feel special. ^_^ So another big reason for this 20 lbs thing is that I would love to hit that big mark while I'm here with the people that have been helping me all along. I actually think I would feel guilty if I hit it right after leaving Rexburg for the summer, or something.

So yeah, that's my vain rambling. Maybe now that I've got it out of my system, I'll stop telling other, poor unsuspecting souls. Like I said before, losing weight is kind of a novelty for me, so I'm constantly surprised that it's actually working, that my pants and blouses aren't fitting like they used to, yadda yadda. So I guess we'll see how Tuesday goes with this week's goal, and then, on to TAKE OVER THE WORLD!

...um, I mean, lose 20 pounds. I don't know where that came from, it just popped into my head. XD