Boy, is it cold here.

 We've been having a very cold winter and this past week was quite low.  It was in the low fourties and I was working at a theater which tend to be cold, mostly based on cost saving measures and the fact that they are big empty spaces often made of concrete. So, I wore a lot of layers and including my big wool coat.  I was warm!  I went to WW today and because I am stubborn and want to have as accurate a weigh in as possible, I wore shorts and my wool coat.  I wear the same thing every week and remove any extra weight including my socks.  This is a picture of what I wore: shorts, tank top, sweater and wool coat.

I am happy (or not so happy?) to report that I am currently experience a plateau. Or as I like to call it I am practicing maintenance. I don't think I have ever been this consistent in terms of my maintenance.  I've been within +/- 0.2 or stayed the same for the past 4 weeks. Part of me wishes that I did have a gain so that it would shock me into doing what I need to do. I have been tracking and eating great but I have been having some exercise motivation problems.  I think a lot of that has to do with the cold and that I have been working and the sun goes down after dinner and I have no desire to go out in the dark to walk.

This is a good lesson.  How do I get motivation when I am maintaining? Maintenance is a huge positive for me, as I can loose weight, I just always find it again. Staying the same weight is awesome!  However, right now I want to loose more weight.  I am super proud of how far I have come and I am beginning to see where I can go.  I am stoked to be very close to being able to wear clothes that are in regular stores.  WHOO HOO! I am hoping that I can magically get some money soon to buy some new clothes and donate my old bigger ones. I am excited to be close (10 lbs or so) to how much I weighed when I joined WW in high school, (I lost 35 lbs). I am curious to see what that weight feels like as I didn't loose that much weight when I lost weight in 2008-2009 ( I lost 38.5 lbs).  The last time I weighed that much was when I was a junior in college and I lost 31 lbs.  Can you see a pattern here?  I am really good at loosing 30 lbs! This time I am going to be really good at loosing all the weight that I want to loose and then I am going to maintain it. 

WW did a request on Facebook about good slogans and I found this gem of an idea.  "I am looking forward to being an 80 year old lifetime member who has been at goal for 40 years."  I LOVE how the woman who posted this phrased this.  I can't wait to be a an old lady at the WW of the future.  Won't that be a trip!  I could even be alive for WW's 100 year anniversary.  2013 is the 50th anniversary of WW.

I was looking through the photos on my computer and I found a bunch of good ones that I have never shared so I figured I might as well feature a few.

Puffy Clouds at the BART Station

Sunset at the BART station.

 This week I committed to scheduling my exercise. I am going to walk and it is going to be cold but I will wear a cute scarf. I made some yummy soup with pesto in it and I am excited to eat it.  Then I go to Vegas for a Pirate wedding and I am going to walk like crazy and try very hard not to drink too much. Wish me luck!