Wow, its been over a month since I've blogged here. Not sure why I haven't been keeping up - I used to do it every day. I should be more consistent for myself - its nice to go back and read how things were going and how I was feeling.

This morning my weight was 126.2. I've kind of stalled at around 128. But I've also relaxed over the weekends like I used to do. We've had some stuff where it was just difficult to really be strict about points, but I'm going to try to get back to that after this weekend.

I've had strep throat this week so i haven't counted points at all. I have stuck to very low point foods when I have eaten. For two days all I could eat was oatmeal, soup & ice cream. Today I ventured into solid foods, but limited - special K for lunch & a WW meal for dinner. I'm not worried about an overage in points for this week.

Tomorrow night we are going to Second City with Doug, Jenny & the boys. This was our birthday gift for Nathan and David last year. We paid for the tickets, so they'll be paying for dinner. Not sure where we're going, but I'm looking forward to having something good. I will still try to make good choices, but it is going to be so much better than soup!

I have been really good about sticking with my points on a daily basis. I stopped counting over the weekends, though. I am going to get back to counting on the weekends so I can have a shot at 115 by July 31. Seems like it is going to be tough to lose 11-15 pounds in two months, but I'm going to try.

I've switched my workouts to 40 minutes of walking 3-4 days a week and have a goal of weight lifting 2 days, but I haven't really done much of that. I'm enjoying the walks with Brady. We have a set route and its really nice to be out early in the morning before most people are up and on their way to work. Its cool enough that I still need a jacket and its been sunny for the most part so it has been very enjoyable. I would guess that I'm walking a little faster than a 3 mph pace. I walk 2 miles in 36 minutes so that would be over 3 mph. My heart rate is getting up to around 110/120 bpm, which I think is a good fat burning zone. I've thought about adding a day of running on the treadmill instead of walking 4 days. Once Dave gets more consistent with his workouts I will start figuring out my best course of action. I also drew up a full body workout for weight training instead of split days. Right now I'm thinking of the following:
M - weights
T - walk
W - run or walk (Dave should be at the stairs
Th - walk
F - weights
S - walk

I'm loving the fact that I've dropped this weight. My pants are big. I've moved down a size in capris, but haven't moved down in jeans yet (haven't made an issue of it). My stomach is definitely smaller and I can see in my face that I've lost weight. I like this weight, however, it really is an in-between weight for me - I'm not a specific size right now. I'm pretty in between size 8 & 10epending on which brand of jeans or which kind of pants I'm in. I want to be a weight where I'm a definite size... right now 8's would be too tight and 10's would probably be too big and they don't make 9's.

Summer regional is June 26 - 29. That gives me 4 weeks, I think. I would like to be 120 by then... We're have a little more of a formal awards dinner this year and have been asked to wear black and white. There is a store around here called White Shirt Black Market or something like that. Everything in the store is black and white. Its all very classy and kind of expensive. Dave and I walked past it a couple of weeks ago and I was telling him about the awards dinner and how I would love to buy a dress from there. He really, really wanted to go in right then and pick something out, but it wasn't open and I told him I didn't know what size I would be at that time so I wanted to wait until we were a little closer. I think he will spare no expense for this one:)