So, I decided I’d still keep updating you guys about my weight loss journey. Why? Because it’s my blog and I can do whatever I want. And because publicly stating my progress helps keep me on track, and I’ve been getting messages from people saying I helped encourage them to eat better/exercise too. So yay! …

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Starting weight: 186.4 lbsLast week’s weight: 174.8 lbsCurrent weight: 173.8 lbsWeight loss this week: 1 lb Total weight lost: 12.6 lbs! Wooooo! I can’t believe what mild exercise, eating healthier, and eating less (no, you don’t need three pieces of cake, Jen) can do. I know BMI isn’t a perfect measurement, but as an estimate, …

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Starting weight: 186.4 lbsLast week’s weight: 177.2 lbsCurrent weight: 174.8 lbsWeight loss this week: 2.4 lbs I lost all 2.4 of those pounds in the two days following posting Sharon and Lyz’s guest post. Wooo stress! It’s amazing what it can do when decoupled with stress eating (more cake will make me feel better, I …

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Starting weight: 186.4 lbsLast week’s weight: 178.6 lbsCurrent weight: 177.2 lbsWeight loss this week: 1.4 lbs Getting there! Just two weeks left until the SSA SoCal conference. JT is currently beating me by a tiny bit, so I may be ramping up the exercise for the remaining time. Should have gone by percentage lost – …

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Starting weight: 186.4 lbsLast week’s weight: 179.8 lbsCurrent weight: 178.6 lbsWeight loss this week: 1.2 lbsMy weight was so perfectly stable at 179.8 for the whole week that I thought my scale was broken. But then I magically lost 1.2 lbs this morning. Weight loss is weird. But yeah, not a good week for being …

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Starting weight: 186.4 lbsLast week’s weight: 182.8 lbsCurrent weight: 179.8 lbsWeight loss this week: 3.0 lbs Under 180 pounds, wooo!!! Though when I look back, I weighed about 175 pounds before my senior year at Purdue. That’s what applying, interviewing at, and actually starting grad school will do to you – stress eating until you …

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Starting weight: 186.4 lbsLast week’s weight: 181.8 lbsCurrent weight: 182.8 lbsWeight loss this week: -1.0 lbs Whoopsie! But I’m not worried – so many things cause minor fluctuations in weight, and I was down to 180.2 earlier this week. Since then I started EA Sports Active (less evil now that I’m on Easy mode, but …

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DDR was getting a little tedious to play every single day. And while it’s good cardio, it doesn’t really work out any other parts of my body. That’s why I was all excited when my package came in today containing EA Sports Active 2. I could, you know, go to the gym or something, but …

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Alright, it’s time for the first report from my weight loss competition with JT Eberhard! Starting weight: 186.4 lbsCurrent weight: 181.8 lbsWeight loss this week: 4.6 lbs Yay! …Okay, before anyone pops in and says “JEN! That’s not less than 2 pounds! I thought you were going to be healthy!” let me explain. The first …

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