Plateau

I am 6.2 pounds from my total weight loss goal. That goal weight is about 10 pounds less than what I weighed when I got pregnant about this time last year. After the holidays and New Zealand I found I was carrying a bit more than I wanted to and now that things are distributed slightly differently the extra 10 beyond the baby weight is a good goal. I weigh in each week on Tuesday and I have lost at least a little every week since the start of the year. The amount I've lost though has been slowly decreasing each week which I suspect means I am incredibly close to a plateau. Usually after about a month of "dieting" I start to lose motivation and I slack off. This time I have really tried my best to maintain focus. So far, so good. I think it has to do with my attempts to make healthy overall changes to my diet that will be easy to keep as habits even after my attempts at weight loss are done. I think that making time for some exercise during the week (where is that time?) will help through the plateau and get off that stubborn last 5 pounds. And for those that may think I am being nit-picky about that last five I will mention that the goal weight I am trying to reach is actually about 5 pounds more then what I weighed at the time of our wedding, so not unrealistic at all. I am thinking maybe I will try to run the 6k in my hometown on the 4th of July again this year. That would give me something to train for and a reason to get out there.

Work is keeping my busy, which is good because it keeps my mind off of other things. We had a really nice weekend full of visits. On Friday we had dinner with our friends out in Reston after I spent my first AWS day off shopping and taking care of things at home. On Saturday we headed up to Maryland for the first of hopefully many more visits with old friends of mine from college that I was out of touch with for quite a while. It was really nice to see them and catch up on life. I feel like there's so much more to talk about. Hopefully we'll see them again soon. I was off yesterday with the little guy and one of the many of my friends who are expecting soon stopped by for a chat. We keep joking that her little girl is going to be Declan's prom date. We'll see.

And currently I find myself pondering about what I had listed as tonight's dinner on my weekly meal-planning sheet. Whatever it is I forgot to thaw out any kind of meat so a couple of my days might have to get shifted around. Aaahhh the joys of attempting to be organized.