Spring is springing

It seems nuts, but here we are at the end of February and we have daffodils in bloom.  The Pacific Northwest is such a wonderful place.  I love living here as the climate is so temperate all year long.  It rarely gets above 100 degrees (hell, it rarely gets above 90 degrees) and our freezing days in the Winter are also few and far between.

My best friend moved back home to Wisconsin this Summer.  She says that it has been -9 degrees for the past few mornings.  Insanity!!

Things are going well.  I am in the 280's now and so happy not to have a "3" in the front of my weight.  I'm the closest to actually weighing what it says I do on my drivers license than I have in years.

I will be truly grateful when I make it to One-derland!!

Lots of non-scale victories happening as well. 

I can zip my coat up comfortably, even when sitting on the bus.  That hasn't happened for a long time.

I am 'shopping' in my clothes that I had packed away.  I've spent lots of money over the years on my career-appropriate clothes and am glad I packed them away in hopes of wearing them again.  I am!

I have had people actually stop me and say "cute outfit".  That is even better than when they notice the weight loss so far.

I have been pinning and following a lot of plus-size career boards on Pinterest.  So many great ideas!

I made only one New Year's Resolution:  To actually wear my accessories.  So far I have been keeping that up, and it does make me feel more put together in the morning.  Just that small moment of looking at the mirror and choosing something to finish an outfit.  I guess dressing with intention rather than by default.

Although my weight loss has been steady, it is usually in the 2 lbs or less area.  I have gotten in the habit of eating a multigrain cereal for breakfast and then also using it in the risotto latkes I love so much.  My group leader suggests that I cut the cereal down to only one serving a day to help increase the weight loss. 

So, I have decided to keep the "second breakfast" at the office and only make the latkes on the weekends.

I have also been losing without doing any additional physical activity, like swimming.  I had a bad cold for a couple of weeks and just have not gotten my act together to get my butt to the gym.  I know that this isn't going to last forever and I really do need to get it going again.

In order to reach my personal goal of 180 lbs, I need to lose on average 3.5 lbs. a week.

Now that my knee no longer hurts I am thinking about switching up the activity and adding yoga and maybe Zumba.  I definitely need to stretch and am going to find a good DVD for yoga that I can do in the mornings.

It makes me so happy to see sunny skies again, especially now that the days are getting longer and it is still light for a little bit on my way home from work.