Day 8: A Great Start to Week 2 (weigh-in)

Well, I wasn't as good as I intended to be last night. We stayed up playing games until 1am (and boy did I feel it this morning) and I ate about 7 cinnamon rolls and homemade doughnuts (total, not each!) So, I actually hit about 2100 calories yesterday. Mostly from junk. I guess it's pretty obvious what my food kryptonite is... sweets.

But at least I wasn't disappointed when I weighed myself this morning. My official week 2 weight is 182.4! That means I'm down 3.6 lbs, even with all those diet fumbles. I know part of that (if not most of that) is water weight, but it's still a great start in the right direction. Here's to hoping I can be better this week and continue to lose weight!

Well, even though I stayed up way too late last night, I was determined to get up and moving this morning. So I had some Greek yogurt, then made it to the workout, which was about 20 minutes of kickboxing and 30 minutes of aerobics. I really like kickboxing. It makes me feel so tired, but it's also so energizing. I've been looking into joining a gym when the weather gets a bit colder, and I'm hoping to find one with kickboxing and zumba classes. Anyway, I had 8oz of water with breakfast, and 8oz of water while working out (I probably should have had more). For lunch I had a CLT sandwich (a BLT with chicken instead of bacon) and 16oz of water. Throughout the afternoon I snacked on some more knock off goldfish crackers (one carefully measured out serving) and a bag of popcorn. I had another 16oz of water too. I hit a rough patch when my three-year-old was driving me absolutely nuts (I'm trying to potty train her and some days are better than others), and I just needed something sweet to cope with it all. I ended up having half a bibingka (at least I cut it in half and didn't eat the other part!) and 16oz of water. I ended up making a vegetarian dinner (since hubby had to stay late on campus anyway), which I had with 16oz of water. That brought my daily total to about 1450 calories.

Exercise: check! Calorie limit: check! Water intake: check!

Hurray for starting off the week with a happy weigh-in and a successful day!