Fat and pissed

So this morning I woke up and took that much dreaded step onto the scale.  After a week or two of letting myself go and eating or drinking what I desired I knew this wouldn't be pretty.  As the numbers went up, up, up my mood went down, down, down.  The final number read (no drum roll necessary), 164!!  Holy cow, how did I let this happen?  I have only weighed this much two other times in my life.  First was freshman and sophomore year of high school, the time in my life when boys ignored me and I dwarfed my two best friends who were petite and super skinny.  Next was college; the summer of my sophomore year I worked as a camp counselor and spent the summer eating large portions of home cooked foods and drinking WAY too much sweet tea.  It's been six years since I lost those 25 pounds during my senior year of college and back then my biggest worries included finding a boyfriend and making it through my student teaching. 

I am now 27 years old, happily married, a busy middle school teacher that has recently started going back to school to get a Masters in School Counseling.  In my spare time, (ha ha ha ha) I am helping to plan my 10 year high school reunion, am the wellness coordinator for my school, active in church, love to cook, knit, and cuddle on the couch with the hubby.  Needless to say, I'm your average busy working woman fighting that battle of the bulge as are many of you out there.  So, in an attempt to keep myself accountable for this journey and also to hopefully help some of you out there fighting this same battle, I am starting a blog.  Each day I will try to let you in on my battles along the way, post healthy recipes, workouts that rocked, and of course those days that I might hit rock bottom and eat a piece of cake out the trash (still in the box of course, but never the less a low moment in my life).

So here we go, there is approximately 2 and a half months until my husband and I take our romantic Mediterranean cruise.  So I have 2 and a half months to lose at least half of this weight. 
Goal #1: Lose 12 pounds by June 7 to get ready for the cruise!!
Goal #2: Lose 12 additional pounds by July 29 to put me back at high school graduation weight in time for my 10 year reunion.