I don't write what date of my journey I am on all the time - Day 147

So if I don't want to look back and count, I use this website:  http://www.convertunits.com/dates/ to do it.  It lists the number of days in between 2 dates as well as mentioning what the number is if you count those days.

Today is Day 147 of my journey and I have officially lost 50 lbs in those 147 days.

I've slowed a bit since we started getting the cold and the snow but I am really excited that I am here at 50 lbs lost since July 23, 2010 and I am proud of myself.

That being said, I still have a LONG way to go!

At least another 53 lbs (if not more)!

According to my calculator, that works out to be a loss of 0.36 lbs per day or 2.52 lbs lost per wk on average.

Another 147 days would take me to May 12, 2011.  If I lose at the same rate, that could see me hit 178 lbs by then which would be 1 day before my former wedding anniversary to v1.0 husband.

By 365 days I could lose an additional 78 lbs from where I am now which would take me to 149 lbs.

I do realize that my weight loss may not continue with the same amount of consistency, but it's really awesome to look at.

When I started this blog, I was keeping it a secret from people I knew in real life because, in all honesty, I was afraid of failing.

I sort of have it in my head that once I've lost 100 lbs - that I will look at merging my other blogs with this one (since this one gets almost all of my attention these days).

Hubs asked me how much weight I want to lose.

I really don't know.

I currently have 175 lbs set as my long-term goal.  But I think I can do better than that.  I was pretty happy with myself when I was 160 lbs, but really - I'm older now.  My body has been changed and damaged from 2 c-sections so -- I don't want to pick a number and say that is the absolute number to hit.

It seems like it would be too much pressure.

Instead, as I hit each shorter term goal, I will assess how I look and feel and then make my decisions at that moment in time.

I've had email about my column on the left side ending at 139 lbs or a 50% total weight loss from my July 23, 2010 weight.

As you can see it does say, "50% = 139 lbs (unlikely but I thought it would be nice to end the list at 50%)"

So I am not going to tear out my hair and curl up in a ball weeping if I don't get there.  It's not currently an actual goal, but I would be OK if that became a realistic goal for me.

Right now the big one will be hitting 199.  And that is 29 lbs away from where I am now.

When I think back to July - I knew I wanted to lose weight and I was worried that having goals might stress me more than help me.

Now I can say that I think having reasonable goals really helped me.

What also helped was not beating myself up if I missed one (for example, I didn't hit my Sept 11th goal weight until Sept 18th) because the dates were (and are) a guideline but the weight is the true goal.