I haven't written in almost two weeks so I feel as though I need to update you all on a few things that were left open from the last post... 

 1. Was I able to get to 142.0 lbs by April 1st?

Nope.  I worked my tail off too.  Every day I was exercising 3+ hours a day only yo get down to 144.4 lbs.  Not exactly what I was expecting.  Only losing some of the weight with all the effort put into it made me a little upset.  The following week I feel off track (i.e I didn't track points and ate a lot of Easter goodies).

 2. Well, have you hit 142.0 lbs now?  If so, did you allow yourself to get your lip pierced or did you decide that since you didn't reach your goal weight by the designated time that you didn't deserve it?

I have hit 142.0 lbs!! Yay!! To say the least. And, I am only a pound and some change from being in the 130's.  Hitting 142.0 lbs means that I have now officially lost 35 lbs!! 35 lbs!! To answer the next question about the piercing, my husband convinced me that I should get it as a reward of how hard I worked rather than trying to focus on numbers as recognition of all the work I had been doing.

 3. What job did you choose?

I ended up choosing the bartending position with East Coast Wings.  I sort of chose it by default.  The other job (the youth counselor position with Ecard Youth Alternatives) decided to take back their offer.  I sense that there is some foul work, but that makes me feel better about the fact that I am not going to be working for the company.  I had my suspicious about management not doing their job and during my exit interview I brought it up (I think this is the reason that the offer was taken back.  Who wants someone that is willing to question authority? lol). 

 Other than all of that there isn't really any new information to blog about.  The first week in April was a bad one but I still lost weight (only 0.2 lbs but I would rather go down than up).  This week started and has remained better than last week.  I have been discouraged about not losing as much as I normally do so I looked up some information about beating the weight loss plateau and made three changes to my routine.

 1. Changed the amount of points I have per day so that they are not constant.  I did this by figuring out how many points I was allowed a week and then varied them each day so that I would still end up with the same amount of points at the end of the week.

 2. Limiting my salt intake.

 3. Adding one extra activity a day (not exercise) that would make me have to get up and move around a little more than usual (i.e - don't use the remote today)