Final Four Weeks

I am looking forward to these last 4 weeks going by. Not that it will mean I can start being horrible again.. I still hope to lose another 10-15 lbs even if I reach my 150 mini goal by the end of the competition. I want to get to final goal for once in my life. I can't give up just because no one will be competing with me. I also need to keep it up to help the husband continue with his weight loss. At this point, we have both lost almost the same number of pounds, and both have about the same amount left that we definitely want to lose, so I want to stay strict until we both get to that point... and then, NOT go crazy and gain it back this time. Healthy for life is the goal (so hard)!

So, last night I met a group of people from the competition at our healthy potluck. There wasn't really much to eat, so I didn't even go over my plan foodwise. My spinach dip got demolished, but it was not very good with the carrot/celery/bell pepper dippers.. it rocked with the 2 lighter cracker options I served though. I will definitely make it again. The other items brought were bacon wrapped dates, meatballs, turkey meatloaf, salad, and fruit with fruit dip. Not too bad, I tried a tiny bit of everything, but mostly had my dip and fruit without much of the fruit dip. It was kind of nice being one of the thinnest people in the room.

Anyway, I learned quickly that my great week wasn't enough to make a difference in the rankings. Someone at the event last night lost 8 lbs last week! However, she is more than twice my size, so her percentage wasn't much more than mine. I managed to squeeze back up to 6th place, and am within a pound from 4 of the 5 above me (and the one below me). It is very close! Kinda exciting.

Yesterday I started out with the intention of doing a long walk for my exercise, but my leg was feeling ok, so I tried out jogging. I decided I would do a slow and careful jog as long as I didn't feel any twinges of weirdness in my leg. It worked out, and at that slow pace, I was able to jog about 2 miles with only a couple of 5-10 second walk breaks to turn around and grab some gulps of water. I did 55 minutes total, with over half of that jogging, so pretty good. My leg is feeling pretty good today, but I am still not sure if I want to risk 30 Day Shred just yet.

The scale is trying to suck up to me.. it showed another drop today, but I don't really believe it. It's that time of the month, so any weird fluctuations are more common. But, if I did believe the scale, I would be only 0.2 lbs from a 20 lb loss. Pretty nice, so I am striving to see that number again this week, even if it isn't consistent. I was actually going to skip weighing for a bit, but I couldn't resist checking last night to see if yesterday morning's weight was just a ridiculous fluke, and it was the same as it was that morning, so of course I had to see if I lost this morning. ;-) If I can by some miracle pull off another 3+ lb loss this week, I might have a chance of catching up to the leaders.