My friend, the scale....

At my Thursday weigh-in, I was very happy to find out that my total weight loss for two weeks is 8.6 pounds. I am only 1.4 pounds away from 10 pounds! I am not mad at the scale this week. Usually I hate the scale. Now I have only 23.4 pounds to go. Woo-hoo!!!

I also found out that I may be getting a $250 bonus for getting my CISR designation. I was reading the employee manual and it said that, so I asked about it and it looks like I will get it! Free money! Right in time for my trip to Florida. Only 4 weeks to go! I can't wait.

Tomorrow morning I am getting up at 7:00 so we can drive to North Dakota. It's about a 7 hour drive. We'll drive down there, go to a graduation party for about 3 hours, spend the night in a hotel and then get up at 7:00 Monday to drive 7 hours home. I like being in the car for 14 hours in 2 days. I packed a bunch of 2 point bars and snacks so that I have super Weight Watcher friendly things to eat. I am getting good at planning ahead.

There is an awesome ebay seller who sells really cute shoes. So far I have bought 4 pairs from her. I just got a super cute pair of brown sandals. I have been looking for sandals like this forever. And they were brand new. I also got a couple pairs of nearly new Naturalizer sandals for super cheap.

I am making a pizza for dinner. 1/5th of the pizza is 9 points. I have 13.5 points left for the day. But how do I figure out 1/5 of the pizza??? I can cut it in 6ths. But how do I cut it in 5ths?

Ok, the timer is going off.....

The weigh....

Last night was my first Weight Watcher's weigh in. I was very happy with the results. I lost 5.8 pounds the first week. Almost 6 pounds is a significant amount, in my opinion. I am pretty good at losing weight. I just wish I wasn't even better at gaining it back. I keep telling myself that this time it will be different because I'm more devoted, more dedicated, more inspired. But I start every time with those same thoughts. But maybe this time will be different. Plus, I'm really too broke to buy food, so that will certainly help. Weight Watchers is so easy, so I can't understand why I have had such problems in the past staying on track. It really is simple - you have a set amount of points for the day. When the points are gone, you are done eating. And I even had enough points to have a piece of cake on Mother's day. Oh, well. 5.8 down, 26.2 to go.

I'm starting to get really tan. And Florida is getting closer and closer. 5 weeks. I can't wait! I could really, really use a vacation. I like vacations.

So, are New Kids on the Block going to bring their tour to Minnesota? Because I'd really like to see them in concert again. It's been, um, a few years since I was 14 and attended my very first concert. I was convinced that Joey McIntyre was going to marry me. Things didn't exactly turn out as I had dreamed they would, but I guess my current reality is better than my junior high fantasy. Plus, he's not really as cute as I thought he was back then. And he's not nearly as successful in real life as he was in my dreams. Oh, well.

I got a new garbage can for the kitchen. It is much better than the old one. Only problem is that now I have 2 garbage cans in a kitchen that was hardly big enough for 1. I really need to clean my house, starting with the kitchen. The old one needs to go. Why am I so lazy and unmotivated? At least I'm wearing semi-clean clothes and I almost even brushed my hair today. I have some issues to work on. I'll start tomorrow.

Next Sunday I am going to North Dakota for my nieces graduation party. I can't believe that she's graduating high school already. I used to babysit her when she was 3 years old. Time flies. It is going to be challenging to stay on Weight Watcher's while going on a trip like this. Even though it's only 1 night, there is still so much to deal with. We are leaving at 7:00 in the morning and stopping for breakfast. So I need to plan for that. Then we'll be stopping for lunch. And then dinner. Then breakfast the next day. And maybe lunch. And I want to stay as on-track as possible. This is going to take some planning and motivation.

Ok, back to work......

Third times the charm?!?!?!

So I joined Weight Watchers again. This is the third time. Hopefully this time it will "stick". I know what to do, I just don't know why I have such a problem doing it. I am very good with walking on the treadmill and drinking water and eating vegetables. But why do I have to undo all the good by eating cake and candy and garlic bread and other junk?

We had a Mother's day lunch at my sister's house. We grilled WW-friendly turkey burgers on low fat buns w/ low fat garlic-dill mayo. Very, very good. And I made a most excellent broccoli-cauliflower salad w/ fat free mayo. Yum! Alyssa made a cake w/ a fat free tapioca and fresh strawberry center. It was excellent, but it cost me all of my WW points. Oh,well. It was worth it.

I know that I should be walking on the treadmill, but what if I just don't want to? I guess I get to do it anyway, huh? Maybe I'll get an elliptical machine? But where would we put it? We are kind of way out of extra room.

MissZalyssa and I went to Great Clips to get our haircut on Saturday. It cost me $52 for 2 haircuts. The girl who cut my hair managed to convince me that I need this $15 bottle of heat protection stuff. She told me that I have excellent hair and that if I protect the ends, it will be even more healthy and beautiful. How could I say no to that?

Ok, I have some dishes to do, laundry to fold, and an appointment with my friend, the treadmill.