Latest weight loss accomplishment

I have to admit: I bought 1.5-quarts of Turkey Hill ice cream, then I ate too much of it that same day. Bad girl... bad girl... whatcha gonna do... whatcha gonna do when the pounds come after you??? Woke in the middle of the night, knowing that I would, without a doubt, eat the rest of it the next day. So, I did something I've never done before. I got out of bed, took the ice cream container out of the freezer and set it in the sink. In the morning, I opened the container, and the melted mess didn't look the least bit appetizing. Threw that out!

IT WAS WORTH IT! Down three pounds at Weight Watchers weigh-in last night. WW Leader invited me to lower my goal, since I'm now ten pounds under goal. That gives me too many pounds to "play with", she reminded me. She's right. It's time to step up and make a new commitment to myself. My old goal of 164-pounds has been changed to 156-pounds. That leaves me only two pounds leeway. (As a Weight Watchers Lifetime Member, as long as I stay at least two pounds under goal, I attend meetings for free. Go more than two pounds over, and I have to pay for that week.)

Where do I want to go from here? Down, of course. I still have the slightly bulging belly, not for lack of ab exercises! As a point of interest, I really thought I would show a gain this week because my belly seemed bigger. What I'm assuming is the weight is coming off in other areas which makes the belly more noticeable. I hate that, not the weight coming off in other areas, but rather that the belly is always lagging behind.

I do want to relish my accomplishments in this saga of weight loss:
*I've gotten rid of 48.8 pounds (Some of them several times, LOL!)
*Even in the weeks I gained, I've never given up.
*I've not hit a plateau (Which tells me my body agrees that the weight needs to come off, it's happening at a reasonable rate, and I'm not depriving myself of too many calories or nutrients.)
*25% of my original (October 2008) body weight is gone. That's TWENTY-FIVE percent!

Just thinking about NOT carrying around 25% of my body weight leaves me almost speechless. That's some accomplishment for anyone. As long as my body doesn't protest and as long as there is still the belly (and fatty deposits in other areas of the body), I'll continue to think less. A long-term goal is 135.9 pounds which would be at the bottom of the weight range for my height and age. That would equal an overall loss of ONE-THIRD of my original body weight. Meanwhile, it's five pounds at a time. Or one pound at a time.