My Journey~~Week 2

I had another fantastic week! I am a bit nervous, though. I know the time will come when the scale will not be so generous. My mom told me that I shouldn't be nervous since I know it is going to happen. She's right. I'll just fully enjoy the success I had this week and last week!

One of my goals last week was to "drink more water". Well, I did drink more. But I still didn't drink the 6 required glasses per day. And I'm taking the requirements to literally mean WATER...not something else. I know that some people will count one of their teas or their fruit juice or whatever as water, but I don't want to do that. On the two days that I did get all 6 glasses in, I realized that it really wasn't that hard. I'm very good at drinking a Rudy's cup (which would count as 2 waters) while I'm vegging in front of the tv late at night. I guess it is a habit of needing to do something with my hand and mouth~~that habit used to be filled with snacking and a glass of wine. So I'm going to up my goal for this week (see below).

I had a challenge this week. Yesterday David and I went to a wedding and a reception. All this week I kept this in mind and didn't use any of my extra points so I could save them for Saturday. (more on not using points in a bit) And I don't think I went overboard yesterday. I ate sensibly for breakfast and lunch. And I had a whole bunch of points left for the wedding. With the meal (which I only ate 1/2 of) and my two light beers, I stayed within my point range. It was the darn wedding cake that put me over! But I didn't feel guilty about it. It took 7 points of my extra 35 for the week. And that's it.

PLUS, I'm given a ton of points since I have so much to lose. But I just can not eat all of my points. I'd be stuffing myself if I did. So I usually go to bed with 3 to 6 points left in the day. I just can't do it. So I'm feeling like those points are as if I were exercising. Which I haven't really started doing, yet.

Alrighty! Here are my stats:

Weight loss: -5.4 pounds
Total loss: -10 pounds (holy moly!! in only 2 weeks!!!!)
Goals for the week: Drink 6 glasses of water per day EVERYDAY; exercise two times this week

I really want to thank all of you who commented last week. I enjoy being accountable to all of my friends...I kept on thinking this week that I want to be able to post something good today, and I was able to. I fully understand that my weight loss will slow down, but even if I can just tell you all that I met my own personal weekly goals is a success to me. So thank you for reading this. And thank you for being so incredibly supportive.