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Hey Rhonda!!

Happy to see that your first week is going well. Congratulations on kissing over 5 pounds. That's awesome!

Stay motivated and hungry, metaphorically speaking of course. I find that for me, learning more about food and the positive effects that whole foods have in one's diet help me stay on track. Look up a video on joel Fuhrman or ray cronise. When they talk about food, I always get hyper motivated to stay away from junk like cake! Keep up the great work :)
 
Two more days until my two week update and weigh in. I have been pretty good with the rules...all but the exercising. I haven't done any for two days now. I have been really busy spring cleaning my house and reorganizing my winter stuff.
 
So tomorrow is weigh in. I'm a little nervous about finding out my weight. What if I step on the scale and find out I didn't lose a single pound? Or worse, if I gained weight!
I'll be so depressed that all this dieting and exercise was for nothing. I know I lost a lot of weight the first week and that's not going to happen the second week. I'm just hoping I lose a pound, anything more then that will be icing on the cake.
 
DAY 14
This morning when I stepped on the scale it read 171lbs(77.5 kg). It sure is a big relief to still see the numbers dropping. I knew it wouldn't be like last week but I'm surprised it was as much as 2.2 lbs. So that's a total of 8 pounds in 2 weeks. 8 down, 16 still to go. My BMI is 26.8 and anything above 24.9 is consider overweight. At my starting weight my BMI was 28.0.

My water intake is what is making a big impact on my weight loss. Cutting out all that sugar and nasty stuff in the sodas and juices was a great idea. I think that everyone dieting should try drinking only water for at least a week. I know that I have cheated and had tea twice and juice once since I started. But that's not so bad. Maybe I'll be in the high 160's next Mondays weight in.

Weight loss week by week:
Week 1- 5.8lbs
Week 2- 2.2lbs
 
DAY 15

Today has been really hard on me. I have been wanting to over eat all day long. There was a moment after dinner when I took my family over to the in-laws and almost caved. My father-in-law loves his little Debbie snacks, soda, and chips. So when I was over there I took out a Debbie cake and untapped it...before I took a bite out of it I shoved it in my husband's mouth.

Got to stay strong!
 
So I have a treadmill and I find running on it boring. So I thought I would spice up my work out so that it's less boring. So on my treadmill it has a screen that has an oval in it; one lap around the oval equals 1/4 a mile. So when I start my work out on the treadmill it lights up the oval from the bottom up and then back down the other side. So I'm on it and I start with at slow jog and the closer I get to the top the faster the I run. Once I'm at the peak I'm basically doing a full on sprint. It also slows back down the closer it gets back to the bottom. So after a lap on the treadmill I quickly stop it and hop off. I do 10 squats, 10 second plank, 10 crunches, 10 leg lifts, 10 lunges, and 10 jumping jacks. Then I do it all over again. I was able to do three rounds of this today( 20 minutes total) and I had so much fun doing it!
 
Well it's night time right now and I'm laying down in bed. I feel bad because I ate a cookie...after 6pm. I have been trying not to eat too close to bed time. I have also tried not to eat really sweet things (like cookies and cake), but this will be the second time I have caved since I started my diet. I have been really stressed out and baking is a way to calm me down. So I made my super soft monster sized chocolate chip cookies and ate one. Just had to post this to get it off my mind.
 
cate said:
One cookie does not equal a catastrophe Rhonda. I hope it was delicious :D
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They are better than Chick-fil-A cookies! Big, soft, thick, and full of chocolate chunks! My husband is happy because he gets to take them to work today and everybody fights over who gets to eat one...and I'm not stuck at home with them! It's a win win for everyone.
 
Today I aloud myself to have a free day. I have been doing so well and today would have been a real shame to watch what I eat. Today was the Apple Blossom fair. It happens once a year and the whole town has a big party and we even have the world's biggest Firemans parade. I let myself eat whatever I wanted and however much I wanted for dinner. I ate a burger, fries, a chocolate shake, funnel cake, and fried oreos! I know that sounds like a lot but it wasnt, I shared everything with my 4 yr old son. He ended up eating 1/3 of my burger, half my fries, drank almost all of my shake, half my funnel cake, and I only ate one fried oreo. I feel so good after that little splurg today. After eating all that grease and sugar I felt like my dieting really is a great thing for me. I don't really crave that stuff too much now, even after just having it again for one night.

I love my diet! Never thought I would be saying that. I can' t wait to wake up tomorrow morning and start it back up again. I feel amazing when I'm dieting and after eating all that tasty/disgusting food I'm ready to be back on it.
 
DAY 21

It's been three weeks since I have started my diet. I only step on the scale on Mondays and today it reads 169lbs! Thats another 2lbs that is gone and a total of 10 lbs altogether. This progress here is what makes me WANT to stay on track and enjoy my diet and exercise. This is one step closer to a healthy me that feels good about her body!

Weight loss week by week:
Week 1 - 5.8lbs
Week 2 - 2.2lbs
Week 3 - 2lbs
 
So I have my 4th week weigh-in in three days. I don't think I will lose anything. I have been really stressed out because my father-in-law just suffered a heart atrack. My husband and I are the only family he has left so I have been in and out of the hospital. He just had surgery today to fix his heart. I have been eating hospital food (and a lot of it). For the passed two days I have been stress eating again. But I still only had water and didn't touch any soda or juice. He is looking better and will be out of the hospital in a few days.

Time to get back on track!
 
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