If at first you don’t succeed, try again

After my battle with the scale last week, and not losing even a fraction of a pound, I was dreading this morning’s weigh-in. As I stepped onto my scale I cringed and was afraid to look at the number that was displayed. When I finally got up the guts to look, I was beyond pleasantly surprised; I even did a double, make that triple take. As of this morning I had officially lost 3.4 pounds this past week! All my hard work and discipline this week paid off; what a relief. I was afraid of what another unsuccessful week would do for my motivation. This is a huge deal as this means I am only 3.8 pounds away from my vacation goal and only 38.8 pounds from my overall goal! Okay, that overall goal still seems far away, but 3.8 pounds before June 26, that I confidently think I can do. After all of the support I've been receiving from friends and family, I have to! I've had friends offer motivation whom I haven't spoken to in years. It's amazing how making a life change like this can affect friendships.

This morning was a tough one for me. I had to wake up extra early to be at an event for work at 7:30am. I'm NOT a morning person. I proudly popped my Jenny Craig breakfast in the microwave (I had the stuffed breakfast sandwich), grabbed it, and ran out the door. The event was at a technical school and they had the culinary students cook both breakfast AND lunch for their visitors. Though I felt bad not accepting their food, I stuck to my plan; even though that meant eating fruit and my Jenny Craig lunch instead of a homemade meal that smelled AMAZING. I just kept telling myself that my weight loss was bigger and way more important than that one piece of chicken, mashed potatoes, and carrot cake. I'm proud of my accomplishment today. I knew my willpower was hanging out inside me somewhere, I'm just glad I finally found it.

Now I just have to look forward to sharing my success with my consultant tonight. I'm sure she will be proud; though I'm also sure she will warn me about losing too much each week as we are only supposed to be losing 1-2 pounds per week to maintain healthy weight loss. In my opinion, my body was just making up for my disappointment last week!