Weigh-In Wednesday and Day 3 of Shred

Yowzers! I am beat right now. I just completed my third day of Shredding...at 9:10pm. Definitely too late in the day for this! I am so tired, but at the same time so energized that I'm not sure I'll get to sleep when I want. But I am still proud of myself for doing it. I had grand plans of completing it earlier in the day, but first thing in the morning does not work for me. I enjoy my sleep too much to wake up earlier than 5:30. And today I was cleaning the house and out running errands all day. We had a small Easter Egg decorating party this afternoon also which concluded with 2 egg hunts because one is never enough!

As for my weight-loss this week, well there wasn't any. In fact, I gained 1.4# so I am back where I started this challenge. I'm not that upset about it because honestly I know that I had lost this week but then I went and ate fried shrimp and french fries (and queso if you must know) which just led me right back in the wrong direction on the scale. But I also started working out this week so I'm going with the whole muscle weighs more than fat excuse too. :-) The good news is that even though I gained I have noticed that my favorite jeans are beginning to hang a little looser. My friend Carrie even told me this afternoon that my pants were too big. Thanks Carrie! And I feel so much stronger from the workouts the past three days. I love feeling the burn in my legs when I walk up the stairs, espite the fact that during that last circuit tonight I actually cursed out loud at Jillian. Good thing the kids were asleep!

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Fled the Scene (for a bit)

I just headed over to the shrinking jeans site to see what there is to see and well...I noticed that they are "cleaning house" so to speak. Basically they are seeing who has fled the scene and who is there to stay. Sadly, I have taken 2 weeks off so I guess I am possibly one of those that fled the scene for a while. And the scale shows it! I am up 2.4# from when I weighed in two weeks ago which means I'm also up 1# from where I started this challenge. *gasp* I haven't really been in this whole-heartedly from the start. But the good news is that I think this is the last week of this challenge so maybe there will be a new one to join next week???

Sorry ladies for abandoning you. But I'm back now.

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Wednesday Weigh-in

Greetings from the scales...again. The good news is I am still losing. I am down 1.2# since last week. The bad news is that my head is still not in the game. And I am only down 1.4# since starting this challenge. Nowhere near my goal of 5#. I am not taking this seriously AT ALL. I still am not exercising consistently. I am sort of watching what I eat, but mainly just at the beginning of the week. I have not had coke or pepsi in a while which is a good thing because when I ordered it twice this week it was disgusting to me and I ended up pouring it out. So I guess now I am officially giving up soft drinks, so that's a step in the right direction.

This weekend I am attending an Early Childhood Conference in San Marcos, TX. The good thing is there shouldn't be too many tempting places to eat - it's a pretty smallish town. But, I will be eating out for meals two and a half days, so that's never a good thing. I'm just going to have to be extra careful about what I order. It shouldn't be too hard, I'm rooming with two skinny minis, so that will keep me in check.

Now that I think about it, I did have the odds against me this week. I had free passes for girls night out TWO nights in a ROW last weekend. First I had book club on Friday night which included wine and dessert. And then GNO on Saturday night with the neighborhood girls which included wine, appetizers, more wine and dessert. I'm getting all my socializing in for the year this month apparently! This weekend is the conference with friends from work and next weekend is hubby's class reunion at Texas A&M. I guess we'll just have to be homebodies in February so I can lose some weight!

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