Doing awesome

Im about 8 lbs down in a month and ever so pleased with myself. I'm a bit worried that I've hit a small plateu, but hopefully It's just sodium and water weight. (and leftover thanksgiving calories... good grief..Ya know? Well I'm hoping to be down to 150 by Christmas. I may not be able to hit that, but it sure wouldn't hurt my feelings.
I've been running 5 miles at least 3 days a week and it's really been helping. running must really be that calorie scorcher for me. who knows? Anyway, Lately this is what I've been lusting after:

I so desperately want a calorie tracking heart rate monitor. It would make my life so stinking much easier...

At least it would counting calories so much stinking easier, because as easy as it is to track food, the best tracker of calories burned is an estimation... and I just dont know how to feel about that. I've heard that even though the cheaper versions of these watches arent super accurate, if you are willing to put the money into a really nice one, they are worth every single cent.

I am also in this contest with some people in the weight loss community from now until Christmas called "trimming the tree, and trimming me" Basically its a biggest loser type competition where we all take pictures of us standing on the scale every week and whoever has the biggest weight loss percentage wins and everyone owes that person like 10 dollars or something like that. Weigh ins are every sunday until the day after Christmas, our final weigh in. YEAH. I honestly don't think I will win though, because I have the least weight to lose out of everyone in the group except one person who weighs like 5 lbs less than me.. ANYWAY even though it's done by percentage, I don't think I can win. I think I will lose some weight, heck hopefully another 8 lbs (I wouldn't mind that one bit) but probably not win. It'll be fun motivation through the holidays to keep me on track with healthy eating.