Week 14: Excuses & Results

I have to apologize once again for being late with my posts.  It was a crazy week for work and for my soccermomming endeavors.  I've also been fancying myself a little bit of a social butterfly, which could totally explain for this week's results...

EEK!  I am UP 3 LBS!!  That leaves me down 11 lbs this week, at 158 lbs,19 lbs away from my goal of 139 lbs.

Let me keep it real...

I had two work-related happy hours this week, and a fabulously large steak dinner Tuesday night (the night before weigh-in).  I am a Florida girl, but I have been in Texas long enough not to pass up a free, fabulous, succulent ribeye dinner when it is offered to me.

...as well as a margarita or two...

I feel that I have already achieved one of the goals that I set out to conquer at the beginning of this whole journey.  I've never been one to have a super large circle of friends, but I think that the quality of the few close friends that I have is such that I don't need a large circle.  Anyways, I have some new acquaintances as well as a few people who I have known for a while that I have gotten closer to, who live good, clean lifestyles, are supportive of what it is that I am trying to do here and with other parts of my life, and are people that I want to learn from and support.  I feel really blessed.  I have laughed and cried and shared intimate details of my life with these special few people, and have done so without the fear of being judged.  Although I am up 3 lbs (my first increase during this entire 14 weeks), I feel so much happier and enriched, and I have all of my supportive friends, new and not-so-new, to thank for that.

This whole thing has given me back some confidence that somehow evaporated along the way.  Now that my head is getting straight, I realize that the only person keeping me from these goals or any other goals that I have is me.  Regretfully, I am learning this at 39 years of age, but better to learn it now than at 59 or 79, right?

Here's to looking forward to Week 15, and no steak dinners the night before weigh-in.