Bridesmaid dress

Umm, so I picked up mine and my sister's bridesmaids dresses Saturday night; she stopped by yesterday in order to pick her's up and she tried it on...

***NOTE: If you recall, she and I both got dresses a couple of sizes smaller than what actually fit as motivation...

Her's 'fit' at least... as did mine to an extent. The worst fitting area on the dress was the bust area- OH MY! I mean, it was like there was no place for my humungous boobs to go... so that is definitely going to be a challenge. BUT, it is not just losing the weight from my chest, so to speak, it's also those pockets under my arms, like where the band of bra goes, it is my back, which is fat and has those awful back rolls, and it also that fat right under my shoulders but not my under arms... ahh, not sure if that last one made sense or not but anyone who has carried weight around probably knows what I am talking about, that roll of flab that if you're wearing anything with straps seems to pop out on the side when your arms are at your sides. I am hoping that the weight training I have been doing will help to combat some of this...

I am also enjoying SparkPeople a lot more... really getting into it and there is so much fun information on there plus I am proud of myself for sticking with my workouts and calorie tracking- although I do have to get more precise with that- and then reading the articles and such. I will admit, I love working out just so I can go onto SP to log my workout and get my points, the same with drinking water... I have drank at least eight glasses of water a day!!!

I Love Spark People!

So, I have finally just gotten into SparkPeople and I honestly love it. I knew I needed to start tracking my foods and calorie intake as that is what kept me on track before... well, that's all good but there is so much more to it. I have my goals and so on in there and today, I am to strength train and it even told me so but the best part was it already had some exercises all lined up for me to do... No thinking necessary!!! Woohoo.

Here is what I wrote in my SP journal:

SO today I didn't eat as well as I intended but I did go to my fitness page and saw I was to strength train today... it was no big deal because I just did the workouts SP had listed there... I felt like my old self with the dumb bells and felt stronger even as I was doing them. I am going to keep them in my dining room so that I can just pick them up when I want them instead of keeping them in my basement...
I also asked my girlfriend if she had any pictures from the summer after I graduated college- the time I was at my smallest since I can't even remember- because I have no pics... I haven't decided if it will be motivational or depressing but all the same, I want to see them. She already told me she would for me... I was about 180 then... good grief!