Here is the awesome skirt, and the best pic I could get w/ my shoddy camera! Check out that flat tummy and no lovehandles!!! I DID IT! Now the key is to keep doing it! It's borderline luxurious to have my entire wardrobe availble to me again. Now I get to finally do what all the magazines are telling me to do during this recession, "shop my closet". 

Thanks again everyone. It's been amazing and scary (I really didn't want her to get the money) and inspirational.  Also, great ideas for staying busy, staying full, and keeping me laughing.

I don't know if yall remember that my goal was to just look bomb in my favorite high waisted skirt instead of actual "weight" (sorry, don't dig on the scales) and i tried it on last night and DAYUMS, i looked pretty slammin! I will post a pic tomorrow! Thanks for the inspiration and support, it really was amazing!

So, I have been pretty good about the eating thing (not so hot on the working out thing) but it's made a difference and guess who can fit into her DVF skirt she wanted to fit into since the beginning again!?!? THIS GIRL.  Do I look banging? not yet, but soon I will! Getting it zipped is the first step.

Also, I was looking at pictures of myself when i was much thinner and realized I never had a chin, so not going to reach for the unatainable, going to skip the chin and work on my arms! WOOHOO!  No, I'm not that excited about it, but you know. It helps to fake it.

I need to get back on track.  Last week was my birthday and I probably splurged a little more than I would have like but not as badly as I could have, considering.  I want to go hiking to kick start the week but what I really need to do is finish cleaning my apartment. I started yesterday and am about ½ way done and if I wait until Friday to do it (booked week of working out Tuesday, weds, and on my feet so it kind of counts as working out openings and concerts Thursday and Friday) it will have been much worse.  SO. I will rationalize with myself, that if I blast some Mika and dance around whilst, yes whilst, cleaning I can make it into my own workout that also involves lugging trash and laundry up and down the stairs. Right?!?

My neighbor also noticed that I lost weight, so I’m in a good mood.  A dancy mood.  Not really a workey-out mood. 

I wasn't so great this weekend but I wasn't so bad either! Lots of walking, and hiking, and lounging, but not TOO much bad eating.  So now I am back on track, hiked on monday (I did not appreciate the buzzards following me, I was doing FINE!) and have been eating pretty well.  However I am now residing in one of the outer rings of hell (have been for the last two days) because I have 15, yes I counted, bug bites divided between both feet and ankles.  It itches if I walk, if I sit, if I climb, if I think. I itch so bad. I tried climbing stairs today, by the time I was done I was practically on the floor.  Picture if you can, a bad 7 year old w/ the chicken pox, because that is how I am acting.

Tonight's plan? Pick up a salad (maybe a little vino), definitely some sort of calamine lotion, any movie that involves chris evans, and do leg lifts* while watching it, as any sort of aerobic activity is seemingly out of the question. 

*Probably also sit-ups and push ups and all those stupid things while watching said movie, and taking mini-vino-sip breaks.

I'm off to my Berkeley-Foodie-Wino Aunt's summer house to spend the weekend with her and my Mom.  Which I am simultaneously bursting at the seams (not like that! I actually notice a little less muffin top!) and terrified about this. 

I am excited because they have bikes and beautiful scenery and a dog I can walk that sometimes won’t bark at me, and terrified b/c of said Berkeley-Foodie-Wino combination that is actually some sort of gluttonous demon spawn in the form of an aunt.  While she is always good about having organic and fresh fruits and veggies fully stocked, it also means that there are artisan cheeses, delectable Syrahs and some sort of bacon, or more delicious prosciutto, for breakfast.  I want to clarify that I love my aunt, she is the nicest person you will ever meet in your life. Not even exaggerating. Which makes this all the harder because when you walk by the kitchen, and she will hold up a little sliver and say "just try this brie, it's divine" and you can't say no to her b/c she is too sweet and just wants you to have delicious flavors in your mouth, and then you come back 2 minutes later and again and again and then the brie is gone, not a trace, like you got one of those fancy new dyson vaccuums, that the snotty looking british fellow peddles, and just cleaned up that plate. 

I will be exercising every ounce of self restraint while satiating hunger by stuffing myself with sugar snap peas and carrots, I hope.  Wish me luck, lord knows I need it.  I have already noticed my cheekbones coming out of hibernation (next up, my chin!) and I don’t want to spoil my good progress.

 I don't know how much I weigh. I don't own a scale, never have.  Being 5'11' is both awesome and, well, heavy.  Even at my skinniest, the number on the scale isn't the prettiest number you have ever seen, add on top of that my very athletic build, and well...I don't like to look at it.  So, when I started this, and got my best friend Molly involved (she's my truth telling friend who will call me out in the end) I told her all I wanted to do was get back to a weight and size where I can fit in my clothes again, one skirt in particular.  It's a tight, high waisted, DVF pencil skirt that I scored on sale and it is my favorite.  I just want to fit into it again. Anywho, that is my goal, I don't know if that is 10 lbs or 45 lbs (probably not the latter, I tend to exaggerate) but I know that 2.5 months of eating better and working out will get me back into that skirt, and all my other clothes that I like, just not as much.  

I didn't feel like I was lying, per se, but since "looking banging in my favorite skirt" wasn't an option to bet on I just put 10lbs, when in reality it could be more or less.  Ok, I got that off my chest and now I feel better.  Sorry if I'm cheating or something, but I need the motivation (it's working, I have hiked 4x in the last week and am learning that salads can be delicious) since nothing else works and I would rather streak on Hollywood Blvd then let my arch nemesis know that I failed at something.  

I have hiked (well, it's more like walking up a very big hill) after work the last two days and I realized, I love it.  What's not to love? I'm outside which I don't do enough, lots of cute dogs, people are happy and gossiping with there friends, ryan gosselin smiled at me.  Ok, it probably wasn't him, but it really did look like him which means all the eye candy and an actual chance of talking to him maybe next time i see him. 

I'm really stoked on this hiking thing right now, we'll see how I feel next week, but right now. Very stoked.

Do you think feelings of dread burn calories? Because I am sitting at my desk, eating my salad (woohoo), and looking at the tornado of papers around and thinking about the work i should be doing instead of typing this (whoops) and I swear my heart is speeding up.  That's like working out? but mini? like, maybe one of these crispies on my salad worth? 

It sounds plausible in my head.

When you buy something, that has a lot of individual sized packs, you are only supposed to eat ONE of the packs, not 7.  Ok.  That's it.  Just needed to put that out there.

Basically I just want to fit into my clothes again.  I wear leggings everyday, and while i think i look pretty rad, it would be radder if i had choices in my clothing.  I am going hiking tonight, had a tasty salad from traders for lunch and some little trail mix things w/ cashews...i'm working on it.   bleh.