Did I ever tell you you're my hero?

I'm dedicating this blog post to my mom because whenever I don't know if I can go on with my mission, I just look at her and see how far she's come and I see that I CAN do this.

My mom is .6 away from her goal weight, she's lost 90+ since she started weight watchers and I couldn't be more proud of her. She's my biggest inspiration, motivation, hero, best friend and cheerleader without even knowing it. Her strength seriously boggles my mind. She pretty much single handedly takes care of our family, has a full time job, cooks delicious dinners for everyone and still finds time to exercise and put her weight loss journey first. I would love nothing more than to grow up to be just like her.

This weeks results:
12/31/09
weight: 260
BMI: 39.5

3/11/10
weight: 235.4
BMI: 35.8

I was dreading weighing in today because I swore I was going to gain. I stepped on the scale and braced myself to see my leader give me a pity look, only to have her say "CHA-CHING" and whisper you're down 2 pounds! I need to have more confidence in myself, because I've stayed on point with weight watchers for 10 weeks now, and still I'm second guessing my success. When she said that I had lost 2 pounds, my first thought was: "I must not have been standing on the scale all the way or something." I couldn't just congratulate myself and see that all my hard work is paying off. Believing in myself is my biggest fault and I'm really trying to work on that, guess this weight loss journey is about losing more than the weight. I need to lose the self doubt, negative energy, and shyness.

For next week I'm aiming for losing 1.6 so I can get over 25 pounds lost AND hit my 10% at the same time! And my mom is determined to reach her goal weight this week!

So fingers crossed that next week is a week of celebration for us both.