Sticks of butter!!!

Hello Friends!

Drum-roll please….I reached my first major goal, I am down 10 pounds. For a better visualization, think of 1 little stick of butter, multiplied by 40, and that is how much I have lost. I like saying 40 sticks of butter better than 10 pounds. A bowling bowl is equivalent to 10 pounds as well, I do believe, but I will stick to the butter analogy. I actually started dieting about a week before I officially joined Weight Watchers on-line. So, just to clarify, I’m down 10 pounds in two weeks, not one. I had done the program before and was sort of following what I remembered. Turns out that the new program isn’t a lot like the old program but I still lost weight with both programs. I liked reaching my first milestone.

I know what is just around the corner, a slowdown in the weight loss department. I will average about 1 pound every week and 1/2 from here on out, regardless of what I eat or how I exercise. Sigh. Oh well, at least the scale moves in the right direction and I’m not increasing in weight anymore. 

Gilbert got home yesterday evening. His flight was delayed but he still got home safe and sound. Hunter was beyond ecstatic to see his dad. He stuck to Gilbert like glue all evening long. He is currently sleeping beside me on the couch, legs up in the air, snoring softly. We are having a lazy morning. I cooked us breakfast and now we are watching some of the first season of “Dead to Me” Hunter’s life is right as rain and he is loving it. Plus, I had to go into work for a few hours last night so he had to stay up and wait for me so he didn’t get as much beauty so he is resting up for the park.

I am a very type A personality and my mentality is pretty much all or nothing. I am trying very hard to remember that it is ok not to do everything all at once. I did finally make it downstairs to exercise two times last week. I tweaked my shoulder at work and have been resting it. I went to the kitchen to get some water and a little dust bunny followed me, no joke. I broke out the vacuum cleaner and was very thankful that my shoulder didn’t hurt. I was able to vacuum the entire upstairs and no pain, yeah! I ended up doing housework for 2 nights and counted that as exercise. I wondered if what I was doing was making a difference and I looked around the house on Friday evening and realized that I had done what I normally get accomplished over the weekend. It was in fact, making a difference, a little at a time.

So, week 1 is officially over, I survived. I tracked everything that I eat, even when I didn’t want to or overdid it on Thursday when I ate almost all of my anytime points in one single day. I drank my water, I cleaned, I exercised and I lost weight. The meals take planning but the on-line recipes help. Day by day, hour by hour, inch by inch, pound by pound the journey continues….Hunter is about to lose it because the idea of the park has come across mind and he remembers, it is Saturday, both is parents are home, it is his time to explore his favorite place in the whole wide world. Until next time…