Progress well made...

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Tomorrow is weigh in #5.  Since I last posted I have had two AMAZING weight ins.  While I expect that I lost this week, I know that I won't have a third amazing loss in a row, I didn't do the work this week that I did last week or the week before.  How have I done?  I've lost 9.6 lbs in two weeks.  Yes, that is much higher than what is recommended, but it is not uncommon for someone at my weight to loose large amounts at one time in the beginning.

Jessy bought us a new scale.  This is both a blessing and a curse.  The one we had before was not rated for over 300 lbs, so it was very unreliable for me.  I would step on and off several times in a row and each reading would be different from the other, often by several pounds.  The new scale? Well, it works.  Really works.  I can step on and off and on again as man times as I want, and it will always tell me the same amount.  Why is this a bad thing? I want to step on it all the time.  This is a bad thing because I don't want the scale to have such a hold over me.  The old one I was able to avoid because it was unreliable.  That's just not an option anymore.

I'm currently struggling with eating all of my points daily.  I'm at 50 points per day.  It's currently 10:01 pm and I still have 24 points left for the day.  I didn't eat nearly enough.  That's happened several times this week - and I didn't walk on my breaks as much as I did the two previous weeks.  Part of that is because I don't have books on my kindle that I'm dying to read (I was reading the 50 Shades trilogy, finished on Friday last week).  I had been going to the empty side of the building at work and walking in a large circle for 30-45 minutes a day.  It felt great.  I think that also affected my mood.  I just realized that.  The last two weeks I felt great, and this week I feel lethargic and just not in it to win it.  I need to make an active effort t return to walking next week.

This weekend will be a huge challenge for me - I'm going out of town with friends for a night and won't be in charge of m own meals for almost 24 hours.  This is going to be tremendous.  I'm going to do my very best to track everything.  I know I won't be able to calculate points, but at the VERY least I'm going to write down every single thing that I eat/drink... I may need to add a few post-its to Saturday's page... lol.

It's late - I'll stop the rambling for now... I'm super tired and I think the caffeine from the new tea is wearing off... more on that next time.

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