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So many goals, so little time!!!

I've had to start setting mini-goals in many aspects of my life because there just seems to be TOO much to get done before I jet off in September...ahh!
So here's a brief rundown:

WW goal: set this at 135lbs even though my own goal is 10lbs below that...I wanted to be done with maintenance and a lifer before leaving for Europe! So far so good as I'm into week 2 of maintenance :-)
Status: In progress

Thesis goal: needs to be finished and defended by the end of… Continue

Soooo I think I might finally be edging my way out of plateau-ville! People aren't kidding when they say the last 10-15lbs are tough! It's looking like it's going to be a while yet to goal!

Anyhow I haven't updated in a little while, but one of the last times I wrote in, I mentioned maintaining a 'week one' mentality in hopes of tricking myself into making smart choices. That worked out well, but you can only trick yourself so much :-) Anyhow I ended up dropping a little to 136.0 that week. I t… Continue

The human mind is incredible thing...capable of so much, and yet so easily fooled!

I was watching this show the other day where this mentalist wanders around Toronto and plays random mind games with people. In one, he set up a mirror on the sidewalk, so that when you sat in front of it, the road would be behind you. He then asked people to go and sit in front of the mirror and look at themselves (primp etc..) as they typically would. There was a truck parked on the side of the road, directly be… Continue

I'm going to have to apologize again for my MIA-ness lately...thesis-writing has consumed my life! The paper should be done in the next week or so though (aside from revisions)...woohoo!

I didn't update last week, but I had gone down 2.0 (after ranting about plateauing, haha...thanks for everyone's encouragement after that, btw!), and was down only 0.2 this week...so I'm sitting at 136.8lbs. Still not down to pre-vacation weight, but hey, down is down (if only the up had never happened!). Sooo… Continue

This is almost getting funny! Another week at 139...I'm frustrated to say the least. This means I officially haven't lost any weight in two months...unbelievable! I'm supremely annoyed with myself. Although I know my body fat has been going down and I've dropped another clothing size in that time, it's hard to see the scale telling me that I'm at the same place I was in April. I've lost and gained the same 2 and a bit pounds in that time, but I just couldn't break past that.

I don't think I had… Continue