Here's to catching up!

SO.
I've been totally MIA on here for quite a while it feels and I'm still not totally sure as to why. However, quite a few things have happened to me in the time that I've been away.

I snuck in a weigh in last Saturday morning (the day after I weighed in and saw no change on the scale) and I saw that I had, in fact, lost one more pound, putting me at an official 10 lbs lost. :)

I experienced my first NSV (Non Scale Victory) Saturday night when I was out with friends and one of them asked me if I had lost any weight. It was a great feeling to say "YES, YES I HAVE AND THANK YOU FOR NOTICING!!" Needless to say, I was excited.

Then, this past week, I wanted to really work my butt off at the gym and keep up the progress I was making, and do some damage control for the prior weekend, since I ended up guessing on a lot of my food and wasn't really able to exercise at all. HOWEVER, the knee issue that I've had for the past 2 years crept back up on me and I was struck with an almost unimaginable amount of pain my right knee. So I've been barely going to the gym this week since my knee has been killing me, but I've at least been trying to eat properly so that I don't go over my calories since I'm not really able to do anything.

Tomorrow I'm making an effort to make an appointment with a doctor because I can almost not drive or walk because it hurts so bad at some points. It's worse now than it ever has been and the knee brace that used to help and offer some pain relief does next to nothing now.
It's time to see a doctor, even though I'm afraid of what will come from it.
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Also, I haven't weighed myself since that last sneaky weigh-in. I'm going to wait until next Friday; I'm trying to be healthier and if the scale reflects that awesome, but I want to be able to look in the mirror and see a difference and not let the scale consume how I feel about myself. I'm hoping that by distancing myself from the scale, I'll have a bit better of a relationship with it.
Hopefully that makes sense. haha