welcome to the journey of me losing those last damn ten pounds.

here's a lil history about me and my arch enemy "ms.extra weight":

my body has always been an issue for me and i really wish it wasn't. i have always been chubby and in my younger years, i had to deal with being as flat as a board also (not a fun combination). thank god i woke up one day in the 9th grade and looked down and saw this rack that i love so much :)

i don't really recall dieting or anything like that in highschool (however, as all highschoolers know, my body image was not a good one), but once out of school, it was more of an issue. probably b/c i was really beginning to start to gain a few lbs. (and had a doctor tell me i was obese. i am 5'4 and weighed 150 lbs.) of course once i had mikey, i had thrown in the towel. now my body was completely different and i was completely unhappy with it.

i then got pregnant again (completely planned, completely took us forever to get preggers) that i ended up losing. at that point i think i needed something to focus on to take my mind off it. so doing weight watchers was what i was going to do. i didn't go to any meetings or anything. i was just going to figure out how many points each food item was (i had had a previous relationship with weightwatchers about two years back but had just gotten off track). i used their messageboards for support. i jotted down everything thing that passed my lips, walked with my mom, drank enough water to fill an ocean, and really started to lose some weight.

then i got pregnant with bella (another pregnancy that took forever and actually happened in a month that we didn't try ;). now for those of you with lil girls, you may be able to relate. you carry a girl completely different then a boy. with mikey i was all belly and it stuck out. with bella, i was all ass, hips, and belly and i was spread from side to side like the front of a house.

so needless to say, i had even more places to work on.

i hit my all time high the end of 2004 when i weighed about 190. i couldn't believe the scale when i stepped on it.

190?!?!?

how did this happen to me?

could it just be the holidays? probably not.

am i just a lil bloated? nah

is the scale broke? not bloody likey

was i outta control with my candy/junk food addiction? now you're talkin' sista.

so i had decided that since mike was leaving for the forensic academy in knoxville in january 2005 and i wouldn't be able to see him for 10 weeks that was the perfect opportunity to get back on track. i wanted to see how much weight i would lose while he was gone (and as some of you know, i'm a competetive lil bitch. even if its with myself) i knew how weightwatchers worked and knew what to look for on a food label. so with all that information, i just watched what i ate (and how much of it i ate) and drank plenty of water. there was no time for exercise since i was the only one home with the kiddos.

before i knew it the weight was just melting off. by the time mike was coming home, i was down about 20 lbs.

i was so friggin' excited. especially since i knew that weight was prolly never coming back. then after being sick for a week, a week sweating and walking my ass of at disney, physical therapy for my knee, and walking almost every day,a few more pounds came off,

30+ pounds and 2 pant sizes gone!!

i then started to fall in love with what i saw in the mirror. yeah, there are still some things that i needed to work on, but there was all this wonderful stuff that i saw:

*a collar bone showing on my chest (hmmmm...never noticed that before)

*muscles bulging out of my legs (which caused me to constantly ask people if they see them)

*muscles in my arms (again, "do you see that?")

*i could see my feet much better.

this was amazing! i haven't felt this way about myself since....well, never!

so the past six months have definately been a whirlwind and all (i don't know if you guys heard about this lil rainfall we had called hurricane katrina) but it is time to get back on the wagon and lose 10 more pounds.

would i like to lose more? hell yeah, but my main goal thru all of this was to weigh under 150 pounds. that would be less then i weighed when i started at the police department (9 1/2 years ago).

so for now i am only going to focus on 10 pounds. can't be too hard eh?

now that that is all said and done, lemme give ya'll a lil hint of what you can look foward to here at "just another 10lbs":

*every tuesday will be my weigh in day. i will take a picture of what my scale shows and post it for the world to see. figured this was pretty brave and might help keep me in line when i am wanting to devour a box of dots.

*tried and true recipes that are as yummy in the tummy as they are good for the tummy.

*posts that include what i eat on any given day, how much i exercised, and how much water i drank.

*any tips i may have up my sleeve or i stole off of a website.

*and of course all my frustrations and shouts of glee throughout this whole journey.

of course i am also interested in hearing about other bloggers trials and tribulations, so if you gotta link to share or even a tip on how to keep the jujy fruits from entering my mind at any given moment, i would love to hear it.

thanks for sharing this journey with me.

i just know that the support from all of ya'll is going to help make it a success!