My First Scale!!

So me and Pat, my hubby, went to the store today to buy me a scale. Yay! This is the first scale I've ever owned. It was so hard to find them in the store too. We must have gone to every department. We finally found them and then came the endless process of choosing which one to buy. We ended up buying a simple scale. Along the way to check out, Pat asks me, "Won't having a scale just make you depressed when it shows you that you haven't lost weight or have even gained it?" I just told him that I would have to be positive. That sounds so cheesy, but I'll just have to try.
When I started this and signed up about 2 weeks ago, I was at about 230lbs. After 2 weeks, one of which I was actually on my Nutrisystem diet, I now weigh 215lbs. I'm definitely positive. I won't reward myself until I've lost 20 pounds. I think I lost so much of the weight just by cutting out all soda and most juices. I just drink orange juice (and I generally just drink it as my fruit serving) and water. It was amazing the first time I did this diet and gained 10lbs the first 2 weeks just because my body wasn't used to all of the water I was drinking. The week after that, I lost the 10lbs plus 8lbs more.

I'm posting before pics with this posting and I think I'll keep at least monthly, if not bi-weekly, pics of me in my posts. I wonder what a full body pic of me looks like?? I've never really seen one.

There's nothing really exciting about dieting, but it's what the rewards will be when I reach my goal weight that keep me motivated. I'm thinking that when I lose 50lbs, I'll buy myself something cute from Victoria's Secret. Yeah. That'll be fun.