Back on track!

I have to say that last week when I gained 2.6 lbs. it was a wake up call for me. Thank goodness it helped me get back on track because I had not been making very good food choices, and exercise was basically non existent except for lunch time walks. I love my walks at lunch (usually about 45-60 mins). That just isn’t enough exercise for me I found. I really need to get myself to the gym at least 3 times a week for a more intense workout. Plus, on the walks we're always stopping to look in store windows or to see puppies (they're so cute I can't help it). I have been getting good about always making it to the gym from Friday through Monday. Since Tue. is my weigh in day I don't really have time then, I try to get there Wednesday if I can, and Thursday is class day so I don't get home until after 9pm. I'd really like to start doing the gym in the morning but I just don't know if I can bring myself to get up early enough to make it there by 6am so I can make it to work on time.

I think I was very good with the food this past week, there were no eating out days which helped me a lot. I realized that I need to definitely control myself better with eating out. I always have enough points to get something I want and I can also use some weekly points, but I don't necessarily make the best choices when eating out, so I know I could be using those points in a much better way. I only had one potential snag this week which I thought I handled well. I had to be at a dinner meeting for work until 6pm on Tuesday, which meant that by the time I got home on the bus and got into my car I wouldn't make my weigh in and meeting that night. I was pretty bummed about this but there was nothing I could really do. Well the meeting ended up finishing at 5:45pm and dinner was served after...chicken parm, pasta, and cookies the size of your head. It looked good, but I decided to skip dinner and head home so I could get to the meeting, which I think was a really good decision for me because I know I would have ended up eating too much anyway.

I was so nervous for weigh in on Tuesday because of the gain last week, so when I saw I was down 4.2 lbs I was so excited! That means I'm only 10.6 lbs away from reaching 10%!! Less than half way to go to my first big goal. This definitely gave me the encouragement to keep going and have another great on plan week.

Weight to date: 250
Weight loss this week: - 4.2
Total weight loss: 16