) about my efforts, calorie-wise, and actually avoiding the scale since last thursday (which is good ) But today i looked over the last 7 days in my calorie-counter and i realized i've had a decent daily deficit. I guess i got into the mind-set that i need to be perfect with my calories and only have one cheat meal for the week. I ended up havin an extra cheat meal, cheat beers actually, for the week. But i don't need to be perfect, in fact i don't want to be perfect. This is something that i've always ran into in my past efforts to lose weight and it always ended in the demise of my weightloss plans. Not this time. Life is not perfect and there will always be ups and downs. All that matters is that i move forward and never give up on my self or my health. Tonight I am going to my newly discovered kickboxing class...it kicked my ass last week and I am ready for more! 
I may have hit a couple of unhealthy snags last week but no biggie. . And I actually had a friend who i haven't seen in a while mention a difference. I'm sleeping better too. And I can now walk for a long period of time without thinking my knee is gonna give out on me. Also, i'm no longer taking pain relievers for my knee or hip, which i was taking daily at one point before i started working out.
I was up to 214...but now I'm back to my 211.5. I'm doing better diet-wise this week and pushing myself even harder during my workouts. I'll be changing up some of my resistance training and adding some of the exercises posted on the site. I've joined the September 2 lbs per week challenge for more motivation too. My friends are starting to notice a difference too which is very motivating...and an ego boost! My fiance also tells me he's gonna start eating healthy too to help me along. (He's a big fast food and ordering in junkie) He told me that he realizes how serious I am this time about losing weight and wants to cut back on his love of fried foods and pizza so I'm not tempted to eat more than my allotted 1 cheat meal per week. Go team! 
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