Goals and rewards!

As I said yesterday I am throwing out the scale for the week. If you don't know me well then you don't know that this idea of not weighing in every morning causes a near anxiety attack just thinking about it!! I always tell people when trying to lose weight don't stand on the scale daily, scale stalking will only discourage you. But I do the exact opposite! Maybe when you get to maintenace mode that is ok but not when trying to lose. So in the middle of the night when I got up to pee I took the scale and tucked it in the closet behind the water heater. Out of sight out of mind. I hope! The reason for doing this right now is I know I try harder when I don't know where I stand. I put forth more effort. It is so easy to stand on the scale in the morning and see a couple pound loss and use that to justify eating crappy things. "Well I lost 2 pounds so I can eat a cheeseburger and cheesey fries with a shake tonight" Yes I have said that to myself more than once! We are our own worst enemies! It is ok to eat those kind of things once in a while but NOT every day or even every couple of days. Whatever you do the majority of the time is what will show on the outside! So it made me a little nervous but I did bypass the scale this morning. The whole protien shake for supper kind of worked last night. I got home after work and tried to start getting things out to cook supper for my family. I am so lost in my half a kitchen I have right now! Breaded tenderloins and french fries is what they had. (My hubby has no desire to eat anything green or healthy, rabbit food is what he calls it)As I was smashing the ritz crackers to bread the pork chops in I started getting the stuff out for my protein shake. It was SOOOOOO Yummy!! 1 cup Silk unsweeted vanilla almond milk 1 scoop vanilla whey protein 2 cups frozen strawberries 1 orange early rise sugar free drink mix packet I will absolutley make it again!! But then I thought I would try one corner of the tenderloin and ended up eating a whole one. It wasn't a terrible choice but it wasn't in my plan for the day! Something I thought about yesterday was goals. I used to set small goals and rewards for myself and I stopped doing that quite some time ago. It is time to set them again. Often we have to remind ourselves to stop looking at how far we have to go and look at how far you have come! Pat yourself on the back, no matter how big or small give yourself the credit you deserve for the work you have done!So set yourself small goals, 5-10 pound goals with a non food reward.
Here are mine
200-Ipod arm band
193-Yoga pants
186-$10 itunes
179-Scrubs
172-new socks
168-swimsuit
164-Jeans
160-shirt
156-bra shopping
152 Boots- the knee high kind!!
148- Photo shoot!!
146- SOMETHING BIG THIS IS POUNDS LOST!!
I have a busy day at work and then circuit training tonight. This is always a good night for me, I DON'T HAVE TO COOK SUPPER!! So suck it up and get busy!