What's new with my weight? Glad you asked!

I know it's been a while since I've blogged about my weight. This time last year it was practically all I was writing about. I lost 10 pounds last year in only 2 months, and I was hoping to just keep dropping weight like a mad woman and be super slim by Christmas. Yeah...that didn't happen! I fluctuated around for the remainder of the year, and by New Years, I was within 4 pounds of my original weight.

Thankfully, I started eating better and working out as soon as I got back home from the holidays and dropped the extra weight within only a couple weeks. But even so, I was about 152.

My best friend Hayley & I decided to keep an accountability chart, keeping track of our workouts, meals, and weight loss. I was doing this back in September in my own personal "food journal," but I quickly stopped keeping up with that. Now that I share the information with someone, I feel much more accountable for what I do and eat. We are on our 3rd month of doing this. We've both managed to lose some weight. I've lost about 6 or 7 pounds total, which is really not a lot in 2 months time. There has been some fluctuation from week to week. Mostly because of special events like birthdays and weddings (speaking of, I have a wedding this weekend!) which offer tempting, fattening food. But the good news is, neither of us have given up. Which is more than I can say about myself last year. By this time last year, I had decided to take a break before going for another 10 pound loss. And I never really picked it back up. But I feel like Hayley & I are both pretty devoted, and will be sticking this thing out!

My current weight is 146! I haven't weighed less than 150 in at least 3 years, maybe more. Growing up I was always thin, generally weighing around 115-120...though there was one year in high school I got up to 140! But I managed to lose 20 pounds in 1 summer. Don't know how I did that craziness! Apparently back then all it took was some light jogging and eating less Pringles! Now I feel like it's a constant battle.

But I feel amazing! My clothes all sag and hang off of me. And while it's not always the most attractive look, I still feel really good about myself. My clothes are not all very flattering, but I know it's because they're too big. And that feeling is 1,000 times better than the opposite--having unflattering clothes b/c they're too small. And I've been there SO many times. I'm actually relishing the fact that I can pull down every single pair of pants I own without even unbuttoning them! ha! One day I'll buy some new ones. Part of me is scared to do it in case I gain the weight back. Granted, I could just keep the old ones. Also I want to wait until I feel more like I'm plateauing so that I don't have to turn around and buy MORE in just a couple months. I just bought all my work pants in December...and now they're all too big. I don't really want to spend the money on new pants so soon after buying these. And I suppose I could get them altered, but I've never done that. Have y'all? Is the process fairly easy and inexpensive?? Or should I just suck it up and buy new pants?

Anyway, that's what up with me and my weight! Hopefully tomorrow I will see that I've lost even more! :)

Christmas 2010...probably weighing around 164ish

New Years 2012...probably around 155

This is crazy for a blogger to say...but I don't have any recent pictures of me!! 

But I look thinner than the picture above now! 

I will have to take a picture soon! :)

~Christy~