I’ve been working out with Shaun T’s Insanity workouts for a week now and tonight I took measurements because I’m curious.  The scale hasn’t moved the way I thought it would, but holy eff, the inches have, so I’m not as discouraged as I originally was.

Nothing like a few inches off to keep my motivation up.

1 lb down, 6 inches total.  Granted the six inches are from a combination of seven different body parts, but still.  The ones that matter:  2.25″ off my hips, 2″ off my waist.  1″ off my chest.

In the past I kept the weight loss and non weight loss parts of my journal separate, but I think this is such a big part of why I am the way I am, why I second guess myself, why I don’t think I’m attractive, why I doubt that a man will want me, that it really does belong here in the regular journal.  My weight fuels all of my negative self-talk.  If it’s gone how will I function?  I don’t know, but I really want to find out.