Down 5 Pounds!

I finally feel safe to say that I'm down 5 lbs.!  My weight fluctuates so much that I've been hesitant to say much.  For the past week I've been fluctuating between 255.2 and 255.4.  This morning when I stepped on the scale, the number glowing back up at me was 254.2!  That made my day before I even really got started!  Monitoring my physical activity and calorie intake has changed how I make decisions.  I haven't actually denied myself anything in terms of food.  I know that I can eat anything I want, but what has been interesting is to find myself seeing some foods as less desirable because I'm not willing to take the calorie hit or make the physical sacrifice to do the amount of exercise it would take to be able to eat the thing that I thought I wanted so badly.  Little by little, I see my choices changing for the better.

Budgeting is going well too.  Of course, I only have one paycheck worth of experience to say that about so far.  The good news is that it isn't payday again yet, and I still have money left, not much, but I'm not in the red.  Also,  I haven't tapped into the reserves that I set aside to begin building a savings cushion.  Small victories, but it's a beginning!

- Culbs

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