Rewards and self-imposed rules

I have been struggling with losing weight for quite a while.  I was a chunky kid and then diabetes thinned me out at around 12-13 years old due to my high glucoses (much to my kidneys' and liver's disdain, I'm sure).  And then when I was a sophomore in college, I got my insulin pump which started to control my bloodsugars and make my body use glucose for energy instead of using the fats that it was using when my sugars were high.  That plus some weight-gain-causing meds I got put on made me gain a good bit of weight.  

I have tried a couple of times to lose weight and I lost about 8 lbs the first go round, but then I gained like 3 or 4 of it back.  So shortly after Hunter and I got married, I decided to make a rule for myself:  I wouldn't buy any more clothes until I'd lost 10 pounds.  And since then, I've followed my self-imposed rule very well.  I have only bought 1 shirt in several months.  Which is a big change for me.  I love me some Old Navy and Gap.  Then I set some more little rewards for myself.  I decided when I lost 5 lbs, I'd buy a pair of Toms.

And I've lost my first 5 lbs!  Hooray!  Well, my mind got changed about my 5-lb reward when I decided I wanted to buy a really nice camera.  So I did my research, and with help from my research assistant and asking around, I decided on the Canon Rebel t3i.  (And I've already ordered it, so if you have a problem with it, please don't tell me, because I'll have a mini heart attack.)  It was pretty expensive, taking up almost all of my fun money.  I was so nervous that it took me like a week to actually buy the camera after I had made up my mind to do so.  With my nervous heart pounding, I ordered it tonight.  I am very excited to get it in a few days and go around Beaufort and try to get used to it.  So get ready for some higher quality pictures on here!!

Side note:  My wisdom teeth extraction is now officially scheduled for June 8th.  And I'm pretty nervous.

Here's a flowers update as well:

I took this after dark, but all the plants except for the Lantana are looking great!

These are my red Fran Lantana, and the little flowers are starting to fall off.  The ones over there on the right are looking pretty ill.

On a brighter note, these are my original orange Lantana!  And they're making quite the comeback!  And I removed the majority of the dead plants so they look less pathetic.

Until next time, friends!