insert exclamation here.

i'm officially the lightest i've been in 3 years (at least to my knowledge) - the scale said 296 last night at weigh-in!

holy catfish!

after a week of maintaining, i lost 4.2 lbs this week. what a difference a week makes. chalk it up to finally destressing, getting rid of terrible snacks, and having real life vegetables to eat. the roughly 12 hours of moving over 2 days didn't hurt either - thank you 3rd floor walk-up!

so i've hit my valentine's day weight goal to get below 300. but i still have another part i really need to work on. granted, next thursday is valentine's day, but i'm committing to exercise at least 30 minutes twice over the next 7 days. tomorrow, i will take a walk with my mom, and tuesday, we're doing a walking tour of downtown, but i'll park far from the starting point and walk some extra steps. those are my commitments - hopefully writing them down will help me actually stick to them. hold me accountable, friends.