Week Ten results!!

It's the day of reckoning....SO CLOSE to my goal...
So I got on the scale this morning for my weekly weigh-in, and.....130!!!!!
I have officially reached my goal!!!! What a crazy feeling....after ten weeks of this, I have lost a total of twenty pounds and set into place a lot of good habits that I'm hoping will carry over into the future. I know I will stay active, but may scale down a little, and my eating may not be quite as strict (but let's be honest, I cheated in lots of small ways anyway and it didn't seem to matter all that much). But I think the two pound a week thing is a really easy, healthy goal and totally attainable for anyone.
So for the next 2 1/2 weeks until I leave for San Diego I'm going to keep at it, and see how much more I can lose and tone up. I would be really happy with an extra 2-4 pounds off. If I could be between 126-128 lbs, I think it would be a great place for me to begin my "maintenance" routine. It will be interesting to see how the loss sticks...I have complete confidence it will, unless I fall completely off the wagon eating wise, or completely stop going to the gym, which I don't see happening. Like I said before, I have definitely changed my habits, but haven't been a slave to the new plan, so I have been eating what I like here and there in smaller portions, enjoying a drink every so often, but for the most part being pretty good. I never have, in the whole ten weeks, felt like I was depriving myself food or craving something that was bad for me. Quite the opposite, a lot of the time I feel like I am forcing myself to eat MORE when I'm not all that hungry to keep my metabolism fueled.
I think that since it came off so gradually, and naturally, there is a high likelihood that I can maintain this current weight. I really really believe that anything that is worth achieving is going to take hard work...so I did this the old-school way, but I'm telling you, it works! Anyone looking for a quick fix with pills or starving themselves or whatever is not going to find it, it always comes back. So though 2 pounds a week sometimes seemed like a snail's pace (we all want gratification NOW, right? Especially when we are working so damn HARD at something!!) it was really good to take it slow and realize that the end progress would be so worth it :) Also, gradual, bit-by-bit changes in habits and routine over ten weeks is MUCH easier to incorporate into your life with hope that it will become your permanent habits...Rome wasn't built in a day, as they say, so waking up one day and saying that you are going to change your entire life around TODAY and hoping that it will stick forever is just futile.
So....here's to reaching my goal!! What am I going to do to celebrate? I feel like I must commemorate somehow. This is big :)
And, here's to keeping the momentum for another two 1/2 weeks! Or just hitting the gym enough that I keep busy and distracted because the time between me and Eben right now is just dragging by!