Week 3 Weigh In....

Week 3 -0-
Total Lost to date: 10.4lbs.

And I'll take every little last bit of that big, fat 0 this week! See, on Wednesday I had a doctor's appointment. Naturally they weigh you at the appointment. I could guess what my weight MIGHT be based on my weigh in weight, the fact that I was wearing work clothes, it was 4 in the afternoon, etc. The number on the scale was NOT what I expected at all....and not in a good way! The scale has always been one of my evilest forms of sabotage I've ever used. I believe I spoke of this in an earlier post, but basically the scale can say GOOD things (wow...I can't believe I'm already down 2lbs this week) and then I'll eat (well then I can eat because I only really NEED to be down 1lb). It can say BAD things - like it did this week - and I'll use that as an excuse to binge. "well, if the scale says I'm UP 2lbs, then I mind as well throw in the towel this week and just start over fresh after weigh in."

Although this time around I was am trying to only weigh myself at the weigh in; I decided that I HAD to weigh myself Thursday morning to see what MY scale said. Yea...so even my scale, in the morning, with nothing on, said I was UP 2lbs since Sunday. Clearly I was not happy. I had a nice little fight with myself about just eating whatever I wanted since it clearly didn't benefit me to resist temptation on Tuesday.

However, again, the angel on my shoulder won! I resisted every day. I started to drink more water and other calorie free beverages since the start of my week didn't include much water consumption. I did weigh myself each morning because I was actually using the scale for positive this time. Friday the scale went down a pound from Thursday....and Saturday it was down another pound. I was now trying to still have a loss for Sunday - SO proud of myself for keeping it in check. I didn't win that battle; but considering I was sitting at Applebee's last night eating dinner at 9PM, I am totally happy with a maintain on the scale this morning!

As much as the weight loss was non-existent this week; this was probably the biggest week thus far. My temptations to eat for no reason started as early as Tuesday - and I did NOT gain weight this week. I saw my weight go up in the middle of the week and instead of letting that derail me; I came back even stronger. I added a run day to get more activity points and controlled my eating over the weekend!

As a result of this, I feel re-energized. I feel like I want to knock it out of the park this week. On one hand I'm looking for a big number (when I say big I'm talking 2lbs...not like 5 or something) on the scale - but I'm also now going to appreciate whatever it is as long as it's a loss. .6 continues to be the BIG number this week since that will bring me to 11lbs, my 5% weight loss goal...hitting my first goal within the first 4 weeks will definitely be awesome!

On another note - I also had an AWESOME run today. But I'll leave that for another post. For now...just enjoy this "short" post! :)