on weight loss and summer travel plans

last night, i ate an entire small four cheese pizza from the pepper mill by myself in the course of a few hours. i also polished off a vanilla milkshake. today, my stomach is mildly annoyed with me. but you know what? it worth it because that pizza and shake were DAMN GOOD. i have MISSED pizza and milk shakes.

i changed my weight tracking day to friday because weighing in on monday morning right after the weekend? not such a smart idea. i am 0.4 pounds away from "officially" losing 30 pounds. my body feels so different to me in a really great way. i'm averaging 3-4 days of tae bo a week and doing an hour long yoga class every wednesday after work (the girls comes to us at school - we have class up in the library!) and i just feel so damn good. i feel stronger and healthier and more flexible and also? more feminine. it's a really fucking beautiful thing - i find myself running my fingers down my side, over more defined curves and i feel all RAWR.

earlier this week, plane tickets were purchased for a summer trip to san francisco that mom, laurel and i are taking. we've sort of been casually talking about it for months. ("oh, wouldn't it be nice to go to california?" "we should do it!" "yeah, someday...") well, this past weekend, we got a little more serious and decided to just go for it. i'm currently researching hostels all over the city, checking for updates on the events calendars and studying the bart and muni transit websites. i plan to know my way around the city by the time we step off the plane. i need to buy a new notebook to fill with ideas for while we're out there, but the fact that we'll be staying in a place with free wifi as opposed to some hiking hostel on the appalachian trail will certainly make things a bit easier. laurel says i should be a vacation planner because i love researching new places and making plans. i blame grandmom for giving me a pile of outer banks vacation rentals books back in college and letting ME pick out the houses our family stayed in for three summers in a row.

i need to start thinking about doing my tae bo for the day and i might even shave my legs, which i haven't done since the weather really turned cold. tonight is heather's birthday celebration at landmark and i'm very much looking forward to having a few beers with all my work friends.