199.0 - 74 pounds to go!

Not sure if I had mentioned this previously, but our trainer is leaving the gym we go to (and not by choice.) So part of me is pretty excited since lately she moves our appointments at the last minute, and part of me worries we won't get someone else who will do half hour sessions. The big positive at the moment is that the guy who taught the balance class we sampled will most likely be our new trainer, and he will definitely kick our butts!

Classes have been keeping us from the gym lately, which is really frustrating. I had planned on going Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday, but lately we need Mondays and Wednesdays to study or work on projects. We end up going on Friday a) because we have our training session and b) it's habit at this point, and then we slack off and don't go on Saturday because we're too sore and tired. This last weekend we spent a lot of time cleaning though, which I hope helped burn a few calories. We'd been so busy the last 2 months that housework had been neglected. I got tons done and made sure to move all the furniture and really deep clean. There's still so much left to do though. I'm really hoping the motivation to do more will stick for a long while so I can organize things as well!

Now on to the weigh-in! I'm quite happy I lost .8 pounds, considering I was supposed to come off maintenance calories beginning Sunday and instead pushed it back. We went out on Sunday to give our sweet baby niece back and they chose to meet at a Japanese steakhouse (our downfall!) So I purposely left my calories alone, knowing it would end up around 2,000 anyway. But I ate close to that amount all the way up through Wednesday too. So, considering I only had 3 days at a decent deficit and one day at the gym (plus one day of power cleaning), I'm okay with only losing about a pound. I am anxiously awaiting lower numbers though since I can't recall when I would have seen them last! I started HS at a size 16, but anything lower than that was obviously before that, so it's a bit exciting. Exciting and scary! I catch myself looking in the mirror lately, trying to imagine what I will look like as I keep losing. It's foreign to me, that skinny version. What will my face look like? I've never known it to not be fat. Will it always look fat? I guess only time will tell.