Happy 4th of July, everyone! It’s about that time where I am closing in on my goal and I’m having to put in harder work for less weight loss, which is completely normal, yet also rather annoying. This week’s loss was 3 lbs, which at this point in my weight loss is pretty darn good. My mini-goal was 173 today, but I am 174. And if you’ve followed me on this journey, you’ll know that I consider that a victory. Right now, I’m the smallest I’ve been since before I had my first child, which was over 3 years ago. I got to this weight before I got pregnant with my second, but I am in WAY better shape right now. In fact, with all of my running, I believe that I am in the best shape right now that I’ve been in my entire life. It’s an amazing feeling! I had a realization this week that also made me feel pretty good: My extra skin inner-tube is getting smaller! Haha! Well, of course it is as I lose weight, but all of a sudden, it’s noticably smaller and I am pretty excited about that. No matter how much I lose, I’ll always have quite a bit of extra skin and I am totally ok with that – I consider them my battle scars.

Also, I’ve been looking at my goal graph and I’m pretty happy with the way it’s looking: