back from "break" (M)

We're back after taking a week off and we're ready to get started.

I weighed in this morning at 227.5, a 4 pound loss! I'm so excited to get into the 220's. I'm motivated and I'm ready to get out of the 220's and into the 210's, something I haven't seen on the scale in a LONG time.

My birthday was this past weekend, so I had a bit of a rough time sticking to my diet. I went out to eat a couple of times and ate plenty of cake and ice cream, but thankfully it didn't mess up my weigh-in that much. I've always celebrated with food. I've always gone out to eat with my family or friends to celebrate a birthday or big event, and I hope that as I get older and lose weight, I stop doing that. There's really no need to eat an entire Bacon Cheeseburger from Red Robin (delicious, but HUGE!) and then turn around and eat cake and ice cream 2.5 hours later when I'm still full from dinner. That doesn't mean that I'm going to start eating salads for my birthday, but I think that after this year, I won't be so excessive about it.

When we started this blog, one of our blogs was about what we'll treat ourselves to for every 10 pounds we lost. I couldn't think of anything at the time, but I know what I'm going to get for myself when I reach 10 pounds: I'm going to get something from Philosophy. Whenever I go into Sephora I always like to smell all of the Philosophy soaps, but I can never justify spending that much on soap. So I'm going to treat myself to one when I've lost 4 more pounds :)