Week 5 Report

Week 5 was full of ups and downs.  I had moments where I loved my food and felt excited about eating this way forever, and moments of severe temptation when I felt like someone would have to knock me out to stop me from eating pizza.  LOL!  Well, no one knocked me out and I didn't eat the pizza, even though I came so close to doing it twice!  After resisting Dominos pizza at my son's Robotic competition, I came home and make my own pizza without cheese or meat.  I ate a lot of it, even though I really did miss that cheese.  I ate a lot that night period.

Inspite of feeling like I was eating too much all week, I still lost more than 3 pounds when I weighed in yesterday.  I was extremely shocked and thrilled.  I got on and off that scale about three times to make sure it wasn't a mistake.  Ha, ha. :)  I am down a total of 14 pounds since I began.  The moral of the story is, do your best.  Make good choices as often as you can, and when your choices are less than stellar, accept that you are human and that life, stress, hormones, emotions, etc. affect your ability to be superwoman all the time and you just have to get over it and make a good choice the next opportunity.  Always, always plan to make good choices, but love yourself when you don't and get right back up and keep going. :)

I didn't take any official "before" photos when I started, but the first photo is from Christmas day which was close to my start date.  The second photo was yesterday.  When you have as much to lose as I do, I think it takes 30 pounds down to actually be noticeable to the general public.  However, I'm noticing changes and those jeans I'm wearing in the second photo haven't fit me in a long time.  Yay!