Weekly Weigh-In- Monday May 28

Last week - 157.8
This week - 157.6

Total loss- .2 lbs!

This is God's sweet sweet grace upon my life that I lost weight. I only worked out once and I went off my diet for 4 days! I ate all sorts of crap. Maybe my body needed the metabolism jump start! I am working extra hard this week. Let's see what happens in a week!!! Thanks again for all your support these days!!!

My Diet Meltdown

So this week, I had a diet Alicia melt down. I was discouraged to say the least about my Skinny Minnie Competition. I have done pretty good with my weight loss since January (about 16 lbs) but since April 1 I have only lost a little over 6 lbs. So really, I have only 5 weeks left to loose about 8 lbs. So pretty much, I have lost the competition. Suck. I think my body has kind of plateaued which is bad timing and typical of weight loss.

So anyways...I decided to take about a 3 days diet break! I can honestly say that I feel like a NEW woman. I felt like a little kid at Christmas as I ate a roll. It tasted like heaven in my mouth!! It was amazing. Then I took a spoonful of icing and sprinkled coconut and ate it and...yes...I feel restored. It has felt really good to eat all the things that have been off limits for the past 5 months. I think its enough to keep me going till the end of the competition. I already feel like I have a new focus and new excitement.

This is a picture that was taken yesterday at the American Idol party. I thought that I could see a lot off improvement and it encouraged me. I think I just need to stay focused and just work hard to the end. I also haven't posted a picture of myself in awhile.

Please pray for me. I can get really discouraged when I look at people around me who never struggle with weight issues. I know balancing my weight if a life time goal. Pray that God gives me great and endurance to keep loving dieting and learning self-control and discipline!!

I still plan to wiegh-in on Monday. Let's see what happens. My fingers are crossed.

Weekly Weigh-In

Last Week- 158.4
This Week - 157.8

Total loss- .6 lbs

I have this much to say...I am relieved I lost this week BUT not because I didn't try. I actually worked out 5 out of 7 days for 45 minutes on the treadmill and also did some conditioning. However, all week when I got on the scale it kept showing a gain not a loss. This morning was the ONLY morning i saw 157...or any LOSS so as you can imagine I was THRILLED. I wanted to see 157 this week and I did!! I feel some sense of accomplishment.

I am really close to losing the competition if I don't loose more soon! But I haven't really slacked off to much and will continue trying till the end. So even if I don't win, I feel like I will still have accomplished a lot. So we will see....my fingers are crossed.

Visual Motivation....

So I made these thanks to Kelley's inspiration and plan to disperse them in my room for visual motivation...any other ideas out there?

I need to be focused!!

Yesterday, I had the great opportunity to hang out with Kelley all day for Mother's Day. So as we were laying out by the pool we were discussing this whole Skinny Minnie Competition and wrapping our minds around exactly how much $300 is.

Here are some options-
- a New Wardrobe
- A ticket to Disneyland when I am in CA
- A ticket to Sacramento to see Jon and Cat
- spending money in Bali

Really $300 is a TON of money! I need to stay focused. And if I reach my weight loss goal, I will also be excited for myself because I will have the honor of being a "Skinny Minnie". So there are just too many good things going in this competition.

This week will be kind of pivotal in my weight loss. Because I have 8 lbs to STILL loose in just 6 short weeks. So if I want to do this, I am going to have to put my best foot forward.

This week things to improve on-
- NO CARBS whatsoever this week
- NO Sodas this week whatsoever
- I will work out everyday that I am home (45 minutes on the treadmill ladies) and of course good ol' conditioning.

This weekend, my team is going out of town for a retreat. We will leave Thursday morning. So I will have to be extra careful this weekend and try to avoid unnecessary junk.

Weekly Weigh-In

Last Week - 159.0 lbs
This Week- 158.4 lbs

Total Loss this week- .6 lbs

My weight Loss stats-
Since I got back from Thailand (mid-January)- 15.6 lbs
Since April 1st- 6 lbs
6 weeks leflt - 8 lbs to go.....

Weekly Weigh-In

Last Week- 159.8
This Week- 159.0

Total Weight loss- .8 lbs!


It has been a succesful week in the sense that I have continued to work! I am glad to see that I lost weight because I have been working in gaining muscle too! It has been fun because I can tell a difference.

Small victory- I fit into a pair of pants this week (comfortably) for the first time in a year! Wahoo!

Another small victory- My roomie said that I looked "small" this week. Way to go roomie for the sweet encouragement. Isn't it nice to have people to cheer you on?!

9 lbs to go for my SKINNY MINNIE COMPETITION!!