-7.8 lbs

Had my third weigh in last night and I was down another 3lbs! Whoo Hoo! That brings my total to 7.8lbs! So, what am I doing? Celebrating with a beer and chips? Ya, WW has more work to do on my thinking process, I know. If you volunteer to tell the group your weight loss so they will all clap for you(my personal favorite part of the meeting) then the leader asks you what you did and how you did it? My secret...I lost last week to Laura and it really pissed me off. See, I'm a competitive type and although I really wanted to be happy for her(and somewhere deep in my heart I was, I think) it pissed me off more than anything. I heard my wimpy .6 loss and compared it to her impressive 2lb loss and thought "Game On Sister!" So although I told the leader my secret was snacking all day and journaling I know that the real reason I was able to log a 3lb loss was because I couldn't stand the thought of losing...I think that makes me a loser!

Well, happy Friday to all of you...bottoms up!

4lbs gone baby!

This is what 4lbs looks like...it's gone baby! Weighed in yesterday and sported a loss...LOVE THAT! Four Pound Fish Four Pound Weights
Four Pound Chicken

Four Pound Dog

Out for breakfast...on a diet...

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January 11...If your not pregnant or skinny already you are probably dieting. I've talked about this cliche' before and how I hate being driven by the societal "norms" but I am.

Yesterday I went out for breakfast with three of my good friends, Hot Momma, Feeding My Addiction and blog-less Tina. This is what the poor young very skinny waitress had to put up with:


Laura: "I'd like a Large tomato juice and do you serve salad for breakfast?"

Carol and I: "Gross! Tomato juice....oh, sick are you gonna drink that?!"

Laura: "Shut up! It's good! OK, I'd just like a dinner salad....but can you put extra veggies on it?(Sidebar...of course they can, it's Laura, she gets EVERYTHING she wants!end side bar) I'd like extra peppers, cucumbers and tomatoes. Oh, and do you have oil and vinegar? Is it separated? OK, I would like that one the side please...and oh, please can I have another Large tomato juice. That's all."

Carol: "We'd like to split the vegetarian omelet." Christine interrupts: "Is that an egg white omelet? We have to have an egg white omelet!"

Carol: "Dry wheat toast and can we please have fruit instead of hash browns?"

Christine sobs in the corner of the booth for the loss of the hash browns.

Tina: "I'd like a fruit platter with no strawberries and fresh melon and a dry English muffin."

When the food came Tina, Carol and I all spent minutes convincing Laura how beautiful her breakfast salad looked and watched her pour copious gallons of red wine vinegar on it. (She's on the cabbage soup diet with very strict instructions on how to lose 80lbs in one week.)
Carol and I split a very large football shaped white omelet filled with vegetables and Tina picked at her not so fresh melon and dry English muffin.

In the end we had great conversation and walked throughout the day very proud of ourselves. But in the back of my mind I played the video of us going out for breakfast for my birthday when we ordered pancakes, french toast and Eggs Benedict, and I wondered, "have we really become our mothers?"

Sleep

I have discovered that when one is working out one sleeps better. Sorry, Becky, this probably won't work for you, however it is working wonderfully for me. I used to be one of those people who would wake off and on throughout the night. Sometimes, I get a long bout of real insomnia, but mostly it is just up long enough to see what time it is and evaluate how much longer I have to sleep. Well, for the last 4 nights as soon as my head hits the pillow I'm out, and the next minute that dang alarm clock is going off. It is a wonderful feeling to sleep all through the night...I love it!

What I don't love is going out for breakfast when I'm dieting. It's 7:45 now and I'm starving...but we aren't going out until 9:30...So what's a girl to do?

Drink coffee and take a shower...that's what I'm gonna do before I go crazy!

45 minutes baby!

We did it! Skipped Taco Bell and went to the gym instead. We did 45 minutes on the tread mill and then did about 30 sit-ups. Small steps lead to big rewards...right?! I feel great! Now on to tomorrow!