Week One Results

Week One Results: down 5.6 pounds! If I keep going at this rate, I could lose like 15 before I go home! But I'm not worried about a certain number, I'm just trying to do as much as I can. It's nice to use my trip as a short-term goal, but I still have more do when I get back. If I could be done by Christmas, I'd be ecstatic. However, I'm not too worried about how long it takes, I just want it to happen and happen when it's supposed to. I'm sore, I have blisters, I have calluses, I'm exhausted, but it is all completely worth it. I actually slept well last night and am feeling a little more energetic today. I love this.

So, last night's dinner was salad with steak on it and it was pretty delicious. The steak was some sort of serloin, but the best part was that it was a packaged product that actually had the nutrional information on it, so I was more easily prepared to plan my day around it. It was 190 calories per 3 oz, but since I was doing a salad, I had 4.5 oz over a generous helping of lettuce and then drizzled with 2 tbsp of Hidden Valley Fat Free Ranch, which is only 25 calories! Absolutely scrumptious. Adele had cooked the steak ealier in the day, so I went ahead and cut off my portion, weighed it on the scale, and put it in the refrigerator. It was delicious cold on the salad. You should try it! Tonight, I'm going to try a really simple, really low-calorie pancake recipe: 1 ripe banana, 2 whole eggs. I added some sweetener and a little bit of cinnamon and it's only 255 calories for the whole recipe and then another 30 calories for the sugar-free syrup: 285 for the whole thing. I've never tried this recipe before, so I'll let ya know how it turns out! I'm just craving something sweet and I think this might satiate my sweet tooth for a while.

Today, I'm going with Adele and Isa to look at our new house! Oh yeah, we're moving. I forgot to mention that, didn't I. Well, hey, we're moving into a new house in September! It's still in Benicia, but it's a little bigger, more bedrooms, I'll have my own bathroom, and it has an amazing view from the backyard. The house we're in now is actually a rental and has served as kind of a transitional place until she found a house she loved enough to buy. I'm pretty excited about there being more room and especially having my own bathroom!!!! This house we currently live in is nice, but I'm ready to move. But not looking forward to the packing and actual moving part of it....

I only have 18 days until I fly home for my visit and I feel like I'm now counting down not only the days, but the hours as well. I'm so anxious to get there! Working hard and concentrating on the weight-loss is a good way to keep my mind off of it, though. If I didn't have something to work on, I think I would possibly go insane. I want to pack already! But I can't. I still have to wear my clothes before then. Oh well. Until then, I'll continue running and working my butt off. Literally. I mean, seriously, the first place I gain and lose weight is my butt. Blessing or curse? I'm not really sure. But hey, losing weight there first will help all of my pants fit better, yeah? Yeah. I can already see a visible difference in my body and that's motivating. From the side, my tum tum isn't poking out as much as it was and my legs are already slimming down a bit. I don't feel quite as jiggly anymore and that keeps me going. It doesn't matter what keeps you going, as long as you just keep going.