Week 31 Day 1 or Finding passion for losing it!

I suppose I have been feeling defeated.  My head just hasn't been in the game.  I missed my meeting last Saturday due to ice.  So it had been 2 weeks since my last weigh in.  I was dreading the truth, I knew I had gained.  I know I have to really get serious.  I was praying on my way to the meeting.  I told God I needed his strength and help with this long term project.  I stepped on the scale and had lost 2.6 pounds for a total of 36.6 pounds.  I feel like a pretender though, I don't see that I did anything to deserve the loss.  Okay, I don't eat the way I used to and I seem to be enjoying foods I hadn't before like grapes and Greek yogurt and veggie wraps.  That IS progress.

After the meeting I went to Hobby Lobby to look at the Simplicity patterns which were on sale for 99¢.  I think I am finding a passion for weight loss through sewing.  I looked at the spring catalog and not in the plus size section.  I saw such cute things that I wouldn't have bought in the past because they don't make them in the "Big" sizes.  Here are the 10 I bought, I would have purchased more but they limited me to 10.

I did buy the next sizes down and I am so excited about losing more so I can make these damn cute styles for myself! 

Now on the above picture you will see the top 2 patterns are retro styles, vintage styles from the 40's.  I love 40's fashion.

 

Then I went to the thrift shop and found these:

These have not been worn at all!  they are my size and so delicious.  Now I can't wear them yet.  They are Nine West!  The heels are way too high for all this 262.4 pounds to rest on the ball of my foot.  But sometime in the not too distant future I will wear these!  Oh, they were $2.00!

So I am thinking if I start to fill my closets with great buys that I can wear in a year or so, that will help keep me moving down the scale!

I have a lot of new grocery finds that I will share tomorrow.  I took some chicken out of the freezer and I will bake that with some sweet potato fries for our dinner this evening. 

Breakfast was good, 3 scrambled eggs (6 points), one toasted English muffin (3 points) with 2 Tablespoons of Weight Watchers cream cheese (2 points) and Smucker's sugar free seedless strawberry jam (ZERO points).

So with renewed hope and spirit I will bid you all the blessings one can handle.  Until we eat again!