Weight Loss Update :)

I am finally feeling a lot better and for the first time in almost two weeks, sitting at my computer in the office. Yay!  I had a little bit of a health scare last week....and I decided it was time to kick things into gear for real with the healthy lifestyle that I keep saying I want.

Last Tuesday, Jan 3, was the last time I drank a full calorie coke. I've had maybe 24oz of diet coke since then (I broke down last night and got a caffeine free diet coke that I thought I was craving...it was good...but wasn't really worth it, ya know?).  I've not had anything "sugary"...no cookies, cakes, ice cream, candy, etc. I have had peanut butter...but it's reduced fat...and I make myself measure out the serving size (novel concept, no?). I've also tracked (for WW) EVERY SINGLE THING I'VE ATE. I'm proud to say that when I went my ww meeting this past Tuesday, I was down 4.4 lbs for a total of:

10.2 !!! I know that doesn't seem like much (especially when you still have as much to lose as me)...BUT...I've done WW about a million times in my life and only two other times have I crossed the 10 pound mark.

I'm not quite brave enough to post before pictures or my weight...I need to find a little bit more confidence to do that. BUT...I will say that before I joined WW this time, I had lost about 5 lbs on my own, which brought my middle number down, and as of this past Tuesday, I'm down another "decade" (that is what I've heard people call it when you go from say the 140's to the 130's (don't I wish that was what I was doing this past week? Ha!).

Anyway...the weird thing is...other than coke, I'm not really craving anything (and the coke craving is nothing really...). I think being scared of having a serious weight related disease (because I was definitely having the symptoms of such) scared me into making quick, cold-turkey type changes in my diet. I think that is just what I needed...and praise GOD I am comfortable with these changes.

I always use to tell myself that I couldn't just cut out this or that cold turkey...that I needed to ease into it. I think for some, this might work. For me, it obviously didn't. It was like permission to cheat...and I never could seem to not cheat.

Obviously, I realize that I have a long way to go, and that a week and a half of eating healthy hasn't cured me of all my bad habits. BUT, I feel like for the first time EVER (no seriously...EVER)....I'm in control. In fact,  yesterday I had almost all of my points left at the end of the day ... I was able to have 2T of reduced fat peanut butter (treat!) with my banana and protein shake (and still had over 10 points left for the day)...because I just don't eat as much...and I eat a lot of fruits and vegetables...which are free :) This coming from the girl that ate fast food almost every day (seriously...) is really something.

Anyway...I am excited to see how much I lose next week. I realize it probably won't be as much as this past week (though...I'm not gonna lie...hitting the 15lb mark would be amazing!).