TODAY IS A GOOD DAY BUT OOOOOOOOOH THEM DAMNED CHRISTMAS COOKIES!

Today has been a good day.  I got up at a decent hour and managed to stay awake even though I could have definately have had a nap after lunch.  Stuck to the diet pretty well today making decent choices.  Getting my water in.  Did keep busy for most of the day doing housework.  Actually I had developed at least 10 goals for myself to accomplish and I actually did (Yay me!)  Even managed to cook and eat dinner before I left for my evening job.  And at the moment there's no real work related stress that's bugging my aura.  However I do have the most wonderful co-worker.  She's sweet and baked me some Christmas goodies and left them behind in the fridge for me.  My mind is going nuts knowing that they're there.  And they smell divine.  One of the things Ali Vincent says in her book is that you should tell as many people as you can that you're on a diet/changing your life and this is one of those times when this thought is indeed a good one.  I have not been sharing too much of this with anyone.  So far I'm being good and resisting the temptation.  I'm drinking more water,  Eating my evening snacks and journalling in my food journal.  Soon I'll have to come up with 10 more goals for tomorrow.  One of them for sure will get the pedometer to work.  It kept falling off my rim of my pants and at one point reset itself for some reason so I don't have an accurate calculation of how many steps I took today.

Weight today:  242lbs (home scale)

Got a haircut and lost 50lbs!!

Ha ha ha if it was only that easy!  My hair wasn't long enough.  Not touching the floor.  Heck not even touching my butt!!  But long enough to start bugging me.  Feeling heavy.  Needing to be put into a pony tail to look somewhat decent which it wouldn't have been considering that there were a few layers that would have made things look messy.  There's a lot of work ahead for me to do so I thought I'd start by getting a great haircut and a reminder to feel good about myself.  I'd guess at least 4" strands of coloured hair hit the floor and surrounded the chair by the time things were done.  But I can see my neck now and when I put earrings in people will actually be able to see them!!  

It has been a challenge at some hair salons to get my hair cut short.  I've been to a couple of places a couple of times and put in my request.  At the last place they flat out refused and just proceeded to cut in in a one layer type of look.  The haircut did look fine by the time they were done but it truly wasn't what I had wanted.  They said that the long hair would look better on me.  But I believe that some hair dressers think that fat people should have long hair.  But with my new shorter doo I can at least give the appearance of looking more energetic and alive.  So what a great way to start!  Hopefully the energy flow will last till at least the next time I get a hair cut.  Not sure what style it will be next time as I often like to do something just different!