My Plateau is looking a Little Brighter!

Yesterday I celebrated Valentine’s Day along with millions of other Americans. I am thankful my sweetie sent me flowers instead of chocolates for me to overindulge in…although I was not that nice to him because I sent him his favorite combination peanut butter and chocolate…sorry sweetie! I will admit that I could not resist a slice of homemade fresh apple cake with caramel icing after dinner with my sweet family yesterday. My justification was that it was Valentine’s Day and it was just one slice. Who was I kidding…sometimes I need more willpower! 

Flowers from my sweetie...I love the orange ones best...he said "yuck & that explains why they were so cheap"...Gotta love lines from a true UK fan to his TN born and raised girlfriend. LOL!

Reality hit today when I was reminded that is was “weigh-in day” via the automatic reminder set up by the weight loss app I use on my tablet. So, I stepped onto the scales this morning to check in on my weight loss success…actually the success has been nonexistent for the last little bit. I have been at a “plateau” for the last three months. My scales told me that yet again, I stayed the same for another week, but I thought I needed more motivation…so I got out the measuring tape to check on the “inch” progress since I had not done this “check-in” since October. So today, I am celebrating 3.5 inches lost in my waist, 2 inches in my hips, ½ inch in my arms, 1 dress size, 2 pants sizes, and 1 inch in my thighs. My fitness routine is still paying off! YAY! My plateau is looking a little brighter now!

In order to continue the weight loss success maybe I need to avoid those overindulging moments of eating sweets that I have a weakness for sometimes! I am still hoping to reach my goal in order to get these remaining 26 pounds off. I want to note that I have been able to drop my BMI 7.1 points since I started this journey January 2011. I have 3.5 points until I am at a healthy normal BMI putting me out of the overweight & obese range that currently make me at a higher risk for the chronic conditions of high blood pressure, diabetes, and high cholesterol. It is not all about the weight loss for me as it is for the “health” aspect of being healthier. I want to live an active productive life. I have many health risks that run in my family like health disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, and cancer. In order to help prevent them for occurring at a young age within my life I decided last January to be healthier so that’s why I started on this journey. I hope that these last few pounds, inches, and BMI points will keep melting off.

Check out these publications from my employer the “University of Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service” if you want to understand weight loss, BMI, how to build a healthy plate, or how we should be eating to live instead of living to eat.  

http://www.ca.uky.edu/hes/fcs/factshts/HEEL-LR-908.pdf

http://www.ca.uky.edu/agc/pubs/FCS3/FCS3562/FCS3562.pdf

http://www.ca.uky.edu/hes/fcs/factshts/FN-SSB-154.pdf

Until my next reminiscing blog post comes to me please help me celebrate a little of my sweet plateau success. Thanks!



Most recent photo of me and my new self made this week :)