Day 15 - Weigh in #2. Confused yet?

Good morning. Weigh in day today and I tipped the scales at 161.4, a loss of 1.6 lbs. I'm on track to dip below 160 next week but just barely. Funny, this would typically be the point where I would give up. The larger question is whether I'll be tempted to give up if I don't dip below 160 next week. My goal is always to lose at least 2 lbs per week. This time, I'm trying to not focus on the numbers so much but to aim for permanent weight loss and even more importantly permanent weight control. A loss of any kind is a loss and still keeps me on my path,

I'm loosely following the book at this point and the diet by the book starts on Monday. Carb cycling is an easy diet for me to follow although last night I was pretty tempted by the bowl of Halloween candy and serving my husband the left over pasta. Yesterday was carb down for me.

So in terms of goals, I have 1.5 lbs to go to get into the 150's. Other short term goals are to lose 10 lbs., so I have 4.6 lbs. to go to reach that goal. The last short term goal that I have is get my pounds to go dip into the 20's. To reach that goal, I have to lose 4.5 lbs so it's very closely linked to short term goal #2. Confused yet?

Start weight: 168.8
Current weight: 161.4
Total lbs. lost: 7.4 lbs
Goal weight: 127
Lbs. to go: 34.4