Days 45 Thru 51 - Was a BUSY Week - Today is Weigh-In Day!

Good afternoon! I bet you all thought I dropped off the face of the earth! It was a very busy week and I took a short three day trip out of town to visit my mom. Didn't take my computer with me for ease of travel.

Alas! I'm back and have a whole week to report to you.

I must say that I dreaded stepping on the scale this morning as I was rather unfaithful to my diet this week. Of course, it's always hard when one isn't at home to be able to direct what the meal plans are. One effort that I made was to bring the steaks, asparagus and cauliflower for one meal at my sister's. It seemed that the whole time we were there it was a lot of eat, eat, eat and a LOT of really good food!

This was lunch on Saturday.

The three photos above were dinner on Saturday.

All the above plus breakfast of eggs, toast and only one little piece of bacon for me. AND, sister is always good with the snacks, cheese, crackers, smoked salmon, etc. Pat myself on the back, I only had two little pieces of Swiss cheese. BUT, aargh, she had Costco oatmeal cookies. That was FAIL on my part. At least they weren't the chocolate chip!

Regardless, the whole week was rather off of what I've been doing, so I was fearful of the numbers this morning. 

Well, I was PLEASED that the scales tipped at 223.2 - a LOSS of 1.0 pound! Whew! I didn't backslide! Here's the numbers:

Day 1 - 235.8
Week 1 - 233.2
Week 2 - 226.8
Week 3 - 226.0
Week 4 - 225.4
Week 5 - 224.0
Week 6 - 224.2
Week 7 - 223.2

Total loss of 12.6 pounds. 

There's a long way to go, but making progress still!

I gave to some thought as to how I could have lost a pound this past week while breaking so many rules. The thing I came up with was - first, Monday and Tuesday I was working on the things I recently talked about to changing my pH from acid to alkaline (I'll be getting back on that) and those two days were strictly adhereing to healthy eating. Second, All the naughty things I have cut out from my "past" - i.e. snacking on cheese every night, frequent Starbucks stops, etc. did not recur. So I am teaching myself a better way of eating and as long as I don't slip into old habits, while still primarily focusing on the weight loss, I should be ok. Let's continue our quest from here forward and see how it plays out! Still focusing on that 150 pound day!

Until the next post,