Weight Loss Center

Believe it or not, I have been actually working on losing weight again during the month of July and have had some success. My lowest weight was down 10 pounds for the month. As of the beginning of August, I have somehow gained a pound back. I'm not too worried about it and hope to have another successful month. I have gone from eating candy bars everyday to doughnuts everyday to neither now. That is also a huge success. I've also been cooking my own food again. I tried two new recipes last week. I'm still trying to get back into the swing of blogging, so I forgot pictures of one of the meals - the clean eating stuffed peppers. For breakfast I have been having whole wheat, high fiber, low sugar pancakes, turkey bacon, and a banana. It feels very decadent for a weight loss breakfast. 

I also made some crispy southwest chicken wraps. I tried them once with making a bowl out of a whole wheat tortilla shell which was also yummy. 

I have set up a small "weight loss center" on the back of my office door. Since I am in grad school, I spent a lot of time in my office doing school work. I thought it would be nice to have a reminder a few feet away from me when I am stressed out with grad school work. I got two skinny dry erase boards (only $1.99 a piece), a full length mirror (only $3.99), a chalkboard ($1), and two pencil pouches ($0.97 a piece) to use for my weight loss gems. Here's what my new weight loss center looks like for now (might add a little something else later):

I've also update a few pages on my blog and will be working on updating the rest before I have to go back to work on the 18th. My goal this school year is to stick to it no matter how stressed out and crazy I am between work and grad school. Even if it is small, quick things, I will stick to it. Even if it means frozen dinners and easier meals, I will stick to it. I am really quite tired of being over 200 pounds and hope to be done with the 200's in the next two months.