12W12S11: Resolved

I don't really make New Year's resolutions any more because I tend not to keep them, which is why you haven't seen much about them this year. But just because I am not making resolutions, that does not mean that I can't keep setting goals for myself. (Yes, I know that sentence structure is nothing short of tortured, but since I didn't make any resolutions, you can't ding me for my failure to stop mangling the English language.)

I weighed myself this morning and I am officially back down to my pre-Christmas weight, plus I lost an additional ½ pound, so I'm going to go ahead and say that cutting myself some slack over the holiday weight gain was probably a good idea. I've had bigger things to deal with, anyway. But I need to get focused again, because I really, really want this trendline to get a lot steeper.

It's a good line so far; definitely movement in a downward direction. But when I originally started tracking my weight loss on Lose It, it said it was going to hit my goal weight of 135 lbs. around Labor Day, and now it's been adjusted to mid-October, and I don't want to drag it out any longer. Because we've scheduled our family vacation at the beach for the week of Labor Day, and I really want to be within 5 lbs. of that goal weight by then.

That's kind of a long-term goal, though, so I've given myself another one: I want to buy new jeans at the beginning of March, and when I do, I want to buy them at a regular store. And not just any store, either, but The Gap. This is my benchmark, my target, my personal Nirvana. I want to be able to walk into The Gap at the King of Prussia Mall and actually walk out with a pair of jeans.

I'm so serious about this that I actually bought an exercise video today. It might be a sign of the End Times, but I'm choosing to look at it as a sign of the New World Order. The one where I can shop at The Gap again. It's been a long time. I'm getting tired of waiting. I'm ready.