Goal achieved!!!
I made it through the perfect week. It wasn’t easy AT ALL. In fact, last night around 7:30 I was ready to throw in the towel. I know, completely stupid. Here I had put in almost 6 perfect days and I was ready to give it up for a cupcake that my MIL had brought over. I don’t even like cupcakes all that much but they were there.
So when I woke up I was super excited to see what the scale said, hoping to break into the 230’s. Nope, 240.0!! That’s a 4.5 pound loss for the week and of course I’m excited, but I honestly was a bit bummed to not drop another 1/2 pound. I crawled back into bed or another hour or two and then checked the scale again…239.5!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hooray. I double checked, just to make sure, and saw 238.5. Who knows which was the most accurate, but I’m going w/239.5 That’s 50 pounds gone :) I had my hubby take some progress pics and I can definitely see a difference. To celebrate I bought the 30 day Shred by Jillian Michaels. So many of you have talked about it that I wanted to give it a try.
My goal for this week is merely to stay in the 230’s. We went to a Halloween party today so let’s just say it’s a good thing this party fell on a Sunday since I allow myself freedom on Sunday. We have conferences on Wednesay and Thursday which means 13-hour days. I’m going to get up before school on Wednesday and Thursday to workout but I know my diet will be not perfect. I have picked up 2 small bags of trail mix to snack on for those 2 days, mostly dried fruit and nuts w/a bit of chocolate thrown in. Each bag has about 400 calories, so if I snack on a bag a day that won’t be too bad. I’ll make the best choices I can for lunch/supper.
Halloween I’m going to have to forbid any candy. I can’t do the moderation thing. So I’ll pull all of the Reeses PB Cups out of my son’s take and save them until Sunday. I’ll have to have my hubby hide them, though.
And Saturday we now have my nieces b-day party at Chuck-E-Cheese. I can use the excuse of chasing after my son to avoid the food.
Congratulations, Brandie! You did it! Seven perfect days in a row is tough! I’m so glad you dropped into the 30s. I never doubted it for a minute.
Read my blog today. I did an interesting little experiment all day that you might find intrigueing.
Again,
Congrats!
Yay on YOU! A perfect week is, well - perfect!
50 POUNDS! BEAUTIFUL! Congrats!
Hey - I like the salad bar at Chuck-E-Cheese. It’s really not bad at all, I’ve never had the pizza and am not tempted with that fairly decent choice.
On my blog, where I was talking about hubby - your comments on that post made me feel 100% better about what I thought was his closet eating…
Your story of how you’ve asked your husband to hide the food makes me realize that this may be why my husband is doing it - not from shame, but wanting to help me out without being asked. Thank you I feel better about his closet eating.
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! Congratulations on BOTH!!!! FIFTY POUNDS *AND* HITTING THE 230’s!!!!! YEEEEEEEEEEAHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!
I loved that you went back to bed and when you got back up again you hit your goal!! All the more reason to STAY IN BED ON THE WEEKENDS!! lol
CONGRATULATIONS! You are such an inspiration to me!
hey brandie! made it into the 230’s congrats and keep it going. I understand, sometimes I really crave sweets so much. It seems like though if I allow myself that one piece of sugar, I will want more and more? Hmmmmm… throwing in the towel! No never. Smiles! you have come a long long way 50 lbs! that is great! Sounds like you are monitoring your calories really well. Stick with it. Thank you for your comments regarding exercise. they help keep me going.
cutejeans
That’s awesome!
Happy dance! I am so happy for you!
Keep it up the perfect week payed off big.
Take care and get some rest.
Joy