[022] Sunday Weigh-In//Weekly Recap

Current Weight, as of 11 AM 05/08/11: 148.7 lbs.
BMI (according to National Heart, Blood and Lung Institute): 24.4 (normal)
Pounds lost since last weigh-in: 1.4 lbs
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Goal Weight by June 3, 2011: 145 lbs.
Ultimate Goal Weight: 130 lbs.

I was nervous that I wouldn't see a change in the scale this week or that the scale would - gulp - increase by a pound or two. I was on vacation from Wednesday through Saturday and we all know what happens on vacation; you eat. A lot. Well, I do anyway. If I'm on vacation, I like to eat fatty, yummy food with little concern for calories because chances are I walk off the calories anyway.

I ate very carb heavy meals on this vacation, but was able to burn off the majority of it due to all the walking my mom and I did. On top of that, I did something I never do while on vacation: exercise voluntarily! Like most hotels, ours had a fitness room in it, so I decided to take advantage of it and use it. I exercised for two of the three nights we were there and managed to get in a ton of walking as well. I tried to order healthy a couple of times and stuck with water as my main drink for most of the trip.

On the way home, I started regretting my food choices. Stuffed pizza? Sandwiches? Eggs? Potatoes? What was I thinking? I should have stuck to salads, water, and not eaten the stuffed pizza. Flashes of the scale reflecting my food choices started swimming in my head and I went to bed on Saturday night dreading the Sunday weigh-in. I woke up Sunday, greeted my mom a "Happy Mother's Day!" and went to weigh myself.

I have never felt so scared of the scale in my life. I would've been happy with any weight loss, even if it was as little as half a pound.

So when the scale showed 148.7, I wanted to cheer. As usual, I weight myself twice more just to confirm the weight, and it stayed the same both times.

I am only 2.3 pounds away from my goal at this moment. I need to stick with my lower calorie meals and exercise just as hard, if not harder. I'm excited, to say the least, and very proud of myself for sticking with it thus far!