a small victory

last November we got married...shortly after we went on a quick trip to Corpus as a family....I knew I wanted to take some family pictures there on the beach (sure it's a texas beach but it's a beach & i just realized it's the pic on my header) I bought some pants without even trying them on, they were a little too big but they worked. Fast foward to this July, I go to put these pants on and I cant zip them!!! I then started a diet and have been doing great...I have my moments where I splurge, but that's to be expected...according to my wii fit trainer (haha) i've lost 12 pounds in a little under two months...i'm excited because I feel like i've worked hard but it's been comfortable and i havent starved myself, i've changed things about my diet while still allowing myself to have things I want...

Okay, i lied, it's not one small victory it's actually two. My problem has always been that i dont know when to stop...i wont eat just one piece of yummy garlic toast, i always over induldge...I cant eat just one piece of cake if the whole rest of the cake is sitting there staring me in the face and I surely cant pass up yummy fresh cookies on the counter...or can i? That was the old me, the knew me is so strong I scare the old me, lol. This past week I made a really good weight watchers meatloaf....of course what goes best with meatloaf? Mashed taters....I knew danny wouldnt dig it if I skipped the potatoes and put a huge bowl of salad in front of him, so I made him taters and totally skipped them for myself....there were even left overs!!! Care brought a big box of yummy looking (and smelling) cookies she made at school, I didnt even touch them. I thought about it about 10000 times and it would have been perfectly find for me to at least try them, but I didnt want to even go there because it wouldnt have stopped with just one. So yet another small victory for me....I'm finding strength in myself that i never knew was there (: