-1.8lbs for week 3!

Total of 12 lbs!

Check out 12 lb Baxter here:

I did great this week despite the fact that I was BAD for my birthday! But honestly, I was happy to go back to good food, the bad food made me feel sick. I feel great!

Trying to get motivated to exercise this week, the wedding is sneaking up and so is that dress fitting. It's a little too late now for drastic results, but a least I can feel great :)

Woo woo!

-2.4 lbs for week 2!

The Jenny Craig is going great.

I can't help but think of how much we made fun of Jenny Craig when we were kids, but here I am, 24 years old (25 tomorrow) and doing Jenny Craig, and doing it well.

I have lost a total of 10.2 lbs in 2 weeks! This week is a little tougher because of my birthday (everyone celebrates with food) but I hope to drop some lbs this coming Tuesday too.

My two roommates (who are also friends and bridesmaids) threw me the most adorable surprise lingerie shower/birthday party tonight! I had no idea all my friends were such good liars! I was totally fooled, I was confused even when I saw them standing there as I walked in the door. It is good to be loved!

Also, I loved all the gifts :) I'll keep working on my figure so I will look my absolute best for their debut (don't think too hard on this)

Watching the Clemson/GT game, it's depressing me, so I'm going to cheer you up with this 10.2 lb cutie, Cathy. She looks about as sad as I do right now about my Clemson Tigers. Otherwise really happy about my surprise shower and my amazing friends!

A BRAND NEW BLOG

Wow. No post since July 15th. That is crazy. Well, not really. Let me tell you what happened. I'll keep it short and sweet.

I tried to do it on my own. I had high ambitions, but not as many results. Even my newest measurements at the gym were disappointing. It seemed like I was making no progress at all. So I did what you should never do, and that is that I gave up. I hit rock bottom. Discouraged. Disappointed. Lethargic. I had mentally worn myself out with all the working out and all the constant counting calories that I was stressed to the max. I was even having crazy stress dreams. (Like my fish jumped out of his bowl and I couldn't catch him to put him back in. The next night I almost drowned) so I said ENOUGH! Enough is enough.

All this being "healthy" wasn't healthy at all.

I stopped working out. Just for a couple of weeks, just until I didn't feel like a bad person for not working out. I had been working out more so that I wouldn't be mad at myself, instead of for all the good reasons you should work out. So I quit working out. And I stopped counting calories.

During this time of rest, I took a step back and evaluated my situation. 1. I was frustrated that no matter what I ate it seemed, good or bad, nothing significant happened. 2. I used to love exercise, and now I hated it, and was only doing it so I wouldn't hate myself.

All that being said, I have turned a new page. I joined Jenny Craig (despite all the kids making fun of Jenny Craig when I was a kid). I'm loving it. That was the right choice. And I am reintroducing myself to exercise, making sure I'm doing it for the right reasons.

I will update more often now that I am back in control.

p.s. I lost 7.8lbs my first week at Jenny! (*I understand it is unhealthy to lose that much weight EVERY week. That was just the first week, lots of water weight) The diet is very healthy, I feel great, and best of all: it's working.

And even though this is a brand new blog, figuratively speaking, I'm still keeping the dog thing.
Here is 7.8lb "Marty"