A great, busy day!

I am writing early so I don't forget when I get home later since we are going out.

Well, I know I weighed in yesterday, but I decided to weigh in again today, because I noticed that my scale wasn't balanced last night. When I balanced it, I had actually lost 2 pounds this week. I am now up to 22 pounds!!! My goal was to lose 25 pounds by the time I went to Disney and 30 by the time Christmas came. I am going to be close to the first goal and I am happy if I am close. I would like to lose another pound before I go away, but if I don't, I am still happy with the way my clothes are fitting.

I had a karate tournament with Adam at 9 in Philly today and then I came home to drop him off and pick up the girls. I went to Kohl's and bought another shirt. I am trying to find an outfit for the second round of interviews on Tuesday but I am having a tough time. I want to be formal and I don't have a second suit that fits. So I am going to go out tomorrow and buy a suit or at least coordinating suit pieces. I have been buying clothes in the women's section for a couple of years now. I think those clothes are getting too big because I have less to fill it out---even in my chest, if you can believe that. I went into the misses section and tried on an XL. It fit everywhere except the chest--which I can't control too much. I think soon enough I will be back in the misses section.

Today I also tried a new exercise, Pilates, which were suggested to me by Sassy(who also let me borrow some tapes--thanks!!). The Pilates have little stress on my foot. I like it because I know it will tone the areas I need. It will take time, but I am going to dedicate 2 times a week to some version of Pilates. Then I can do 3 times a week of cardio. The idea is to maybe do both together on the weekend one day and then do Pilates one time during the week when I don't feel like cardio. We will see how that works out. So all together I will exercise 5 times--hopefully. I feel good already from doing them once---Pilates is a great stretching exercise as well as toning.

As for the food intake today, I have a 2700 calorie day allotted so I counted 170 for Cinnamon Roll oatmeal this morning(I don't usually eat that one since it is high in calories) and a grilled chicken and fries sandwich for lunch totalled 820. That leaves me with 1710 calories for dinner. We are going to a steakhouse so I have already figured that I will probably have a steak with about 500 calories, a salad for about 200 calories(with dressing) and a potato(I will treat myself to regular sour cream and maybe a bit of butter) for 300. I don't know what other things I may have as an appetizer, but I have left about 700 calories to play with so I can have a drink if I like or share an appetizer with Steve. I don't do dessert too often when we are out so I don't have to worry about that.

So I will have used most of my calories--which I wanted to today so that I can fool my body tomorrow. Another interesting part of my day is that I have gotten my period today and I didn't get bloated at all. That is a good feeling and I think it is from the exercising. I might change my mind about the bloated feeling tomorrow, but so far so good.

Hope everyone has a good night!