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WEEK 6 RESULTS!

I am happy to report a 4 lb loss this week!! That takes me to a grand total of 41.6 lbs lost! Woo Hoo!! I am super happy to be at 40 and I can't wait to get to 50. I think it will start showing then and I can take my 1st progress picture!! :)

This weekend really showed me that this can be accomplished under any and all circumstances. No more excuses for me, only solutions! On Friday, we took Jake to DQ to celebrate an awesome report card and his performance in the school play. Steve was very excited about it as well. Steve asked what I had figured in and I told him that I was just skipping it. It wasn't anything that I was craving, and I didn't want to waste any of my daily calories on it. So I had none and surprisingly I didn't focus on theirs when they had it. On Saturday, it was Grandma's birthday party at the local pizza place. Again, I decided that none was the best answer for me. For 2 reasons this time. 1 - I know I could figure in a slice or 2 of pizza, but I was afraid of what having such crappy (fat, salt & sugar laden) food would do to my cravings. Currently I don't crave crap and there is a reason for that. I don't crave crap because I don't have crap. I didn't want to get anything started. 2 - I wasn't sure that once I got the taste of that pizza, I would have the self control to stop when I needed to stop. I am after all , a food addict. So I skipped the breadsticks, pizza and cupcakes and just had some salad and ate afterward. And you know what? I lived!!! Just a couple hours of control was all it took! On Sunday, my mom and I went to a craft fair out of town. I didn't want to chance my lunch on them having healthy options, so I just brought my lunch and it worked perfectly. It was a challenge staying away from all the sweets they had for sale in the booths, but think about how much money I saved!!! My whole point is that previously even if I had been on plan, this weekend would have been too much for me. I would have splurged on ice cream (what else am I supposed to do? Let them celebrate without me?) Splurged on pizza and breadsticks (what am I supposed to do? Sit and watch them eat pizza?) and I would have bough all kinds of sweets at the craft fair because by then I would have been completely off plan anyway and would be starting again on Monday. And the crazy thing is that I would have really believed all my excuses and felt that I didn't have a choice in the situation. As one of my dear friends recently told me when I told her that I was afraid of failing, I am the one in total control if I fail or succeed.

This is what the week looked like...
4/4: 1,503 - 45 mins water aerobics
4/5: 1,556
4/6: 1,668 - 45 mins water aerobics
4/7: 1,591
4/8: 1,697
4/9: 1,794 - 40 min walk
4/10: 1,700 - 2 hours walking around a craft fair