I Can See The Finish Line

Well, it is finally here. The last week of my 6-week weight loss challenge. My final weigh-in will be on Friday and I have to say I am dreading it and looking forward to it all at once. I haven't been posting on here regularly mainly because I am disappointed in myself. But then I thought, wait a minute - my story is real and I should tell it no matter what because I know that there are other people out there who go through the same thing. If you've been following my story so far, you know that I was doing pretty good for the first 2 weeks of this challenge. I was losing weight (12 pounds) and feeling great. Well then it was like my willpower and drive just up and vanished. I started drinking Diet Dr. Pepper again and eating not healthy foods for my one meal a day, and then I started eating two meals a day and just having a shake for breakfast, and it all just went downhill after that. All of the energy I was feeling disappeared, my stomach started acting up again and I basically just felt like crap. Ever since my 2nd weigh-in I have gained weight back each week at my weigh-ins. I think in total I have gained back about 4 pounds, so I am still down about 8 pounds from the first week. Not horrible, I know, but I wanted to do SO much better :( Anyway, it has taken nearly all of that time to get back on track. I am hitting it hard and right for the rest of this week until my final weigh-in on Friday, and I am hoping to lose that 4 pounds that came back and finish up with a 12 pound weight loss overall. And then the next week I am starting another 6 week weight loss challenge and I am determined to kick butt on that one. Not only do I want to see some results before summer (shout out Nikki on looking good in a bathing suit), but dammit, I want to win an Ipad and that is the first place prize again in this contest! I will try to do a better job of keeping a constant update going on - if not for the people reading then definitely for myself. It helps to be held accountable in writing, plus I can go back and read over my journey - good and bad. Well, I'm off for now - I'll let you know how the final weigh-in goes on Friday!

Week 3 and already behind

Well, it's been forever since I have posted on here. Why is it that it seems like every time I try to get back on the blogger routine that we get extremely busy at work and then I never have time to get on here? Anyway, so this post is going to be short but I want to do it so that I can keep track of my progress and so that if anyone else wants to read it they can. Okay, week one on the diet went great - I lost 8 pounds. Weeks 2 and 3 weren't that great because I had a really hard time staying strict. The snow that left us housebound for 3 days caused more unhealthy eating than I needed to do, plus I didn't exercise as much because a lot of my exercise had been doing stuff outside. So anyway, I wasn't real strict, but come weigh-in time I lost 2.8 pounds. This kept me motivated because my thoughts were if I can screw up this bad and still lose weight then this stuff must really work! Then week 3 came and Super Bowl Sunday screwed me because Brandon cooked a ton of really great stuff that was just too tempting to not pig out on. However, I did pay for it and felt like shit for 3 days. Yesterday was really the first day that I felt good again - stomach wise and energy wise. What a difference good food, nutrition and exercise makes! Anyway, I weighed in this morning for my 3rd week and lost 1.2 pounds. So in total I have lost 12 pounds in 3 weeks. This is great, but I am disappointed in myself because I know that I could have done way better if I had more willpower. Plus, now I am pretty sure that I am not going to win the competition that I am in - so that sucks - but I've also learned that I can do this - and do it for the long term. So I'm hoping that this will be the time around that I actually lose all of the weight I want to lose and keep it off. Fingers crossed!