Day 8

Today I went in for my weigh in. Surprisingly, I got the same consultant that I had last Thursday. My attitude was completely different today. So surprisingly I found her to be just wonderful, interesting how our attitudes can cause us to see people differently. I was very excited, my body seems to be more tolerant of the changes that have gone on. So after going through the normal questions she took my blood pressure. Oddly it's usually always quite low but tonight it was 140/84. The consultant was concerned but when I said it's not usually that high, she relaxed. Then she asked if I was ready for what I came in for and I said, "Yes, I've been excited all day, even though I had a bad Thursday."

So we went and I got on the scale and at the same time I was sharing with her how I had determined in my mind Saturday after church that I was going to cheat. We decided to go to the Hy-Vee salad bar. I'd been craving taco meat and I knew they had taco items on the salad bar. Well we got there and I searched for that taco meat, and God made sure that it was pulled from the bar before I got there. So I didn't end up cheating because that's all that I wanted to cheat with. I ended up eating my romaine lettuce and chicken breast along with the melba toast that I put in my purse for my bread selection.

The consultant started laughing and said, Well how would you feel if I told you that you lost 6 lbs? Holy cow! 6 lbs, in 4 days for a total of 9.5 lbs in 11 days. Sweet! I'm so excited about not cheating on the changes that I'm making. I'm hoping that this will continue, because as unrealistic as this might sound I'd like to have 25 lbs. lost by Christmas.

I get home and talk to the kids over supper about my weight loss and Jessica asks if I'm going to get upset the next time I reach a plateau? I said, I don't think so. I think now that I've gone through this time and seen that after the plateau is weight loss, I'll be able to handle the next one better.

God is the one who is totally getting me through this. I've prayed for his strength to help me with the weight loss and He has given it to me. He has removed the temptations that I've known would be in the way. He reminds me of the phrase "Nothing tastes as good as being thin feels." So that I can say that over and over again when I think it's a struggle to watch what my family is eating around me while I either am eating something completely different or can't eat anything at all. It's hard to be disciplined to not snack or eat at any time that I want. I have to be disciplined to stay on schedule for eating so I can keep my metabolism going.

Thanks to all of you who have left me notes encouraging me on this path I've started down. It's been great to know how many friends and family I have that are rooting me on to success!! I'll post again on Thursday or Friday after I weigh in on Thursday night.