goodbye holiday weight!

So, I cheated and weighed myself a day early (I'll WI officially tomorrow), but good new! My 8 lbs of Christmas/New Years fat is gone!!! I'm actually a little shocked. I've been eating healthy the past few days, but I have had a few indulgences. The manfriend and I made the HG peanut butter fudge and we've been eating a bit too much! Well, at least it hasn't hampered my weight loss. I'm even more shocked because it's TOM. Well, I'll take it. I probably jinxed myself and now tomorrow I'll weigh more. Oh well! The pants are fitting better, so all is well. I can actually breath now! haha! I got a size smaller pants while I was back in Michigan and they were getting a bit tight toward the end of the trip.

So, I was fitted for contacts last night! I'm not wearing them to work today (they told me not to wear them that long right away), but I might try tomorrow! How exciting! It's so strange to look at myself without glasses or dark hair. I look so different, almost like a different person. I mean, I haven't been blonde since I was about 5 and I haven't been without glasses since 5th grade, so this is quite a change. I'm kind of looking at it as a metamorphosis. It's not so much that things around me are changing, but that I am changing. I'm really nervous about some of the changes, but I'm also excited to notice some results. Weight, mental health, relationships, self-awareness, etc. I really hope this is going to be a good year! I need a good year.

Alright, 6 lbs until my first 10%! I hope this happens soon! I'm still hoping to lose half of my goal weight by my birthday at the end of April, but I'm not going to stress out too much if I start to lose a bit more slowly. I need to figure out a way to make all of this stick instead of trying to lose weight as fast as possible by extreme methods - my specialty. That's how I got this big, now I'm going to try to do it in a healthy maintainable way. I really have felt much more motivated just since I returned to this website. I didn't realize how much everyone's support really does help me, so thank you!

I hope everyone is having a lovely Thursday :)