Yes! My jeans are fitting loser! I had a bit of a muffin top going towards the end of the year as I ate my way through the holidays, but even that is (mostly) gone now.

I’ve definitely followed through on all of my goals this week–I did 1450 extra burned calories through exercise, and I followed my calorie guidelines to the letter. I may have come short a few days, but I never went over. And I did my 2 weight-lifting days PLUS I not only did a 1.75 mile run, but today I did a 2 mile run! So I got that monthly goal finished.

I’m feeling good. The ONE thing I have to kind of constantly remind myself is that this is not a quick fast sprint. This weight loss for me is more of a marathon. Even if I lost a pound a week I wouldn’t lose all the weight I want to lose until May. And honestly a pound a week is probably not going to happen. Not because I’m not doing the work, or eating more than I should, but just…sometimes these things happen. Too much sodium, not enough sleep, not enough water. And yeah maybe some weeks I won’t make the calories in calories out. But I have to be on this at least 90% of the time. If I do I’ll probably be where I want to be at SOME point this year. And that would be better than last year when it NEVER happened.

I can and WILL do this!