Week 4

So I've been slacking....Not as much as in my working out as in keeping up my blog. Whoops sorry everyone hopefully it won't be too bad though from now on.

My Christmas ended up being pretty good. I didn't eat so much that it felt like my stomach would explode so I was pretty happy about that. Actually I was pretty proud of myself for not overindulging like I SO wanted to do.

I went to Skopje, Macedonia this weekend and had a wonderful time. I will have to post pictures on here later tonight when I get back to my room. I had traditional Macedonian food which was delicious and healthy too! There were lots of vegetables and cheese. Yum! I brought back a lot of cheese so my fridge is now overflowing with cheese but that's ok because it makes me very happy to have it.

As far as my other eating/drinking habits go, I may or may not have had McDonald's twice in Skopje. But oh my gosh it was so good to have American food! After living in a strange country for the last 2 months it was nice to have some normal food. I had a lot of wine for supper on Saturday too. My workouts consisted of walking around the city.

I have been much better since I got back home and had a really good cycling/lifting weights workout last night. So after all this crazy debauchery I still managed to lose 1 lb this week! Yay so for 3 weeks I've lost 1.8 lbs. That's actually really sad but I am more focused on my goal because I'm going to look good in a swimming suit in Greece whether it kills me or not! Ok maybe not that far but I'm going to look good.

Me and the roommate decided we are going to TRY and not drink after New Year's Eve. I mean it's hard, especially here, because there is alcohol everywhere but I think that's one of my main problems. Everyone has been laughing at us, saying "yeah, that's never going to happen," but like I told her we don't really have to tell people we're not drinking "forever" we're just not drinking that night and I think people will lay off. I think those would be the people known as "sabotagers." They try and make you feel bad about something good you're doing for yourself. That really is the point of everything that I've been doing. I just want to feel good and comfortable with myself and if people try and cut me down for it then that's their problem. A lot of it is just because they don't think they could do it so they don't want anyone else to be successful either. I know I've been like that before too. I tried to make myself feel better by saying I didn't care about working out and it wasn't important but then I ballooned up in my weight and was completely unhappy so apparently I did care a little bit.

Wish me luck for a better week. I really just need to break my plateau of hovering around 145 and finally get down to 140 or lower. I know that won't happen this week but it's going to be my short term goal.