Numbers

Tuesday was a fast day and I was CRAZY busy! I had to work until 4:00, run to the other side of town to pick up flyers for the Pink Party next week, pick up M from volleyball practice, drop her at the house, throw together dinner for D & M, jump in the car and head to a meeting at a coffee shop for the Pink Party. Trust me when I tell you there is NOTHING good that can happen on fast day at a coffee shop, well not for me anyway! Well, on my way I remembered something my dear sweet little sister A (who will be 30 in less than a month), told me earlier in the day...the 6-pc grilled kids meal with applesauce & diet coke at Chick-Fil-A is only 170 calories! So I swung by the drive-thru on my way to the coffee shop, and that meal saved the day! I wasn't even tempted, okay, maybe a little but that's because one of the ladies ordered a brownie and another one order a frappe, and well, you get the picture. But I didn't cave. In fact, I came in at 415 calories for the day. Thursday was equally as successful at 378 calories, and that day included a painting party with a real junk food spread (PB&Js, Turkey sandwiches, Cookies, Chips, Halloween Candy, etc..)

Seriously, I have to say, I am not as tempted to cheat on my fast days as my regular days, and even on those days I'm not as tempted to cheat as I have in the past because I look back and go, "I survived on 415 calories yesterday...do I really want to throw away all that effort?!?"

Okay, okay....I figured I would go ahead and post those numbers I wasn't willing to share last week, but you still aren't getting pictures. I mean really, who wants to see that stuff anyway? Unless you are dieting and about to eat a piece of cake, because then I'm pretty sure you would lose your appetite and change your mind.

So here goes....I started this weight loss journey just before October 1st at a whopping 154 lbs.

No seriously, that is 22 lbs. more than I weighed the day my daughter was born. 22 lbs. What was I thinking?! My goal weight is 125. That means I have a total of 29 lbs. to lose (which sounds so much better than 30, right?) I lost 2 lbs. just cutting calories, but that was over a 2 week period, at that rate it would take 6 months to lose the remaining 27 lbs., which is why I started doing the 5:2 Diet. Week one, I lost 2.5 lbs. This morning I weighed in at 147, losing another 2 lbs!!

Now, don't get me wrong, I want this to be a long-term permanent weight loss. However, we all know that sometimes a little motivation doesn't hurt. So, I am going on a cruise in 6 weeks. I have 5 more Friday weigh-ins between now & then. My goal is to continue to lose 2-2.5 lbs./week and be at 135 lbs by then. Of course, I would like to lose a little more, giving myself some freedom to eat on the cruise. I don't think I will fast while on the cruise, but I also don't plan to eat my weight in food each day.

This will leave me with only 10 more lbs to loose before I adjust to "maintaining" instead of losing. I am doing so well on the 5:2 plan. I really am not "suffering" on my fast days. So I think once I get down to my goal weight I will still fast 1 day a week, switching to a 6:1 plan.

Okay, that's enough of the boring stuff. If the last post was a cliffhanger episode, this was the infomercial you sit through only to make sure you don't miss a second of your show!