Birthday Goal Accomplished!

Weigh In - 169.5.  -1.5 last week.  Wahoo!  First, I'm in the 160's which is just so flippin' awesome!  Second, I have hit -18.5 lbs down since I set my birthday goal.  Can I get a heck yeah?!?!  Feeling pretty good about myself this week.  LOL.  I hit my birthday goal which is HUGE.  Those of you following for awhile know I don't usually set weight goals for myself as they can sometimes be deflating for me so I set a modest yet challenging goal for myself and I'm happy to say I hit it.  I'm also only 1/2 lb away from 60 lbs lost which is fantabulous in my book.  Great start to the week.

I got my fill on Friday.  I also have some stats about my band that I never had before.  Turns out I have a Standard AP band that holds 10 cc's.  Doc added .5 cc's to my band on Friday which gave me a total of 4.5 cc's.  Seems low to me but the amount of restriction I've had seems to be working for me so I'm not going to stress over it.  This is also only my 4th fill and I've had my band about 10 months so it just shows that everyone's different in what works for them and that we shouldn't get hung up on statistics.

So the plan for this week.  Maybe Bullets?

• NO FAST FOOD.  I've gotten really lazy about this rule I set for myself at the beginning of this journey.  While I don't eat it nearly as often as I used to, I have certainly fallen back into some bad habits.  So I'm recommitting to this one this week.  (Of course, Chick-fil-a is still exempt because the cows on those commercials are just too darn cute).  Next Monday, I'll report how many times I ate fast food this week...answer should be ZERO.
• Limit Starbucks to once a week.  I remember we once had a debate about whether or not Starbucks was fast food.  I'm not looking to reinvent that debate but sufficed to say that I love their fancy, shmancy coffee drinks (I say "coffee drinks" because their regular coffee is too strong and bitter for me and I hate it but I love those sugary blends they come up with) and if you're not getting food with it then the whole "food" part of "fast food" is irrelevant.  It's my rationalization...let's move on.  The fact is I've been having convenience coffee far too often (be this a cappuccino from Circle K or a $4 beverage from Starbucks).  Not only is this not helping my weight loss but it ain't too good for my wallet either.  So...I'm bringing my own coffee every day to treat myself to Starbucks on Saturday morning.  
• Exercise.  Yep...GOTTA do that.  Only 102 days until my Mud Run and so far I haven't trained at all for it.  I'm finding my new schedule to be a challenge.  After working 10 hours, the last thing I want to do is work out.  So my goal for the summer (then my schedule changes back to 8 hours) is 3 times a week.  One day during my work schedule (I'm aiming for Tuesday), Friday mornings (I'm off) and then Zumba on Saturday.  

So those are my challenges this week.  Next week is going to be somewhat different in that I have my daughter's (and my own) birthday to contend with.  Hope everyone had a wonderful weekend!  And so here's the Monday DEMotivation for this week: