Well it's been 2 weeks since I've posted and it's my understanding there are some of you out there waiting to hear what I've got to say. I've done ok, but have had some moments of weakness including tonight as we are watching the Super Bowl.
Last weekend we went to Sioux Falls to do some wedding shopping with Danielle. I had taken what I thought I would need in order to get through the day and not cheat. We thought we were going to be home for supper so I only took enough supplements and food that's not offered in a restaurant to get through snack time. Well we ended up in Sioux Falls through supper and I was upset about not having my supplement or melba toast. But Jerry & Katie helped me to find items on the menu to stick with the plan and just be short on the grain. I could tell on our drive home though that I hadn't gotten my supplement because I was hungry between 8:30 and 9:00 and that's not normal.
At lunch I had gone to a restaurant called Johnny Carino's. It's Danielle's favorite restaurant and since she doesn't get there very often I told her it was fine to eat there. It's an italian restaurant and extremely hard to order something that would be within the diet. I ended up deciding to order part of a couples meal where Jerry and I both got to have a salad/soup, main entree and a mini dessert. So I figured no biggie, I'd just give the dessert to someone else at the table. I got a caeser salad and made sure the dressing and croutons weren't on it. Then I ended up ordering chicken fettucine alfredo. I figured I'd just take the chicken off if it and leave the sauce and pasta for someone else to take home. Well when the entree came I only had one piece of chicken on it. I thought that's really cheap, but the other girl who ordered the same thing didn't look like she had very much chicken either. Then Danielle's came and there was tons of chicken on hers. So I told the waiter about mine and she brought me a bunch more chicken, after Jerry had given me his. She brought it covered in alfredo sauce. I didn't think to say that I didn't want the sauce. So I scraped it off and ate it. Then when it was time for dessert, I was trying to offer it to Sara (Ross's sister) but she wanted something different and could only get it in the big dessert. So I said just bring me the mini cheesecake, and I figured someone would eat it. Well it sat in front of me for 10 minutes and then I decided to try it. Danielle was laughing because I ate it all. It was only 4 bites and I figured I'd get rid of it in all the walking that we were going to do that afternoon.
So as we started into last week, there were lots of things emotionally going on for Jerry and I which was causing lots of stress. So on Tuesday night instead of going and weighing in and taking the class. I met with my new mentor from church who is helping me working on being the woman that God has designed me to be. She is helping me to learn to focus on me and the changes God wants me to do instead of focusing on Jerry and the changes God (or maybe I should say that I) want to see in him. That was so helpful, but at the same time the rest of the week has been stressful to know how much I open my mouth on things that I shouldn't. That night I went to Wal-Mart picked up Fireproof and the Love Dare book. I started doing the Love Dare and reading the Power of a Praying Wife in order to help me keep the focus where it needs to be.
Wednesday night I went and weighed in. I was so excited to see that I had dropped 2 lbs. which put me at 2 1/2 lbs until I'm at 30 lbs lost. I was excited to tell Jeanne (the consultant) that Saturday I'd be back in to get measured since it's 2 months that I've been doing the diet. So I got through the rest of the week and yesterday was excited to get in and be measured and weighed after I worked out. I got in there and haven't weighed in on a Saturday before. Holy cow, it was so busy. But I finally got in and Tiffany (the consultant) measured me and I've lost 13.25 inches across my entire body. But when I got on the scale, there wasn't any change in my weight. Tiff said it's ok, it's only been a few days since your last weigh in and at least there wasn't a gain. I'm hoping that I'll have the 2 1/2 lbs. lost at the next weigh in on Tuesday.
Now on to tonight, I've been craving Mexican food really bad all day long. So in order to get rid of the craving I ended up opening a box of spicy queso and cheddar blanco cheez it's and ate a serving. They were really good, but Christine and I were making stuff for dinner and I said, it didn't take away the craving totally, I wanted to keep eating more. I didn't though. I fixed my dinner, ate it and now I'm full. I'm just hoping that it doesn't set me back any since it could set me back 3 days.
I'm quite thankful that I've done really good at excercising every day since Thursday. I was trying to work out at night and that was hard a few nights this week, but Friday morning I got up and just did a 15 minute workout before work, and that felt great. I was also thankful to have gotten it in because we ended up going to dinner with friends while the kids were at youth group, so I didn't get a chance to finish my workout after work. That was a great feeling too. Most of my closest friends and their husbands went to Grisanti's with us Friday night. I was able to follow my meal and not cheat. It felt great to not pick up the butter soaked bread. I thought I was going to struggle with not getting the salad, but I did just fine. Jerry ate the pasta from my meal and I put the chicken and broccoli on a bread plate and felt great not being stuffed and feeling nauseated leaving there. That I'm pretty sure is a first for me.
So now on to my 10th week of the diet and we'll see where the scale will land. Christine and I were talking about our Valentine's Day plans and decided that we don't want to eat out and it sounds like another friend of ours doesn't have a babysitter for that night so we are going to just go dancing that night (what great excercise). Danielle, Ross, Mackennzie and Danielle's friend Katie (whom we've pretty much adopted) and her boyfriend Anthony will be here to celebrate the evening with us after we do some more wedding shopping in Omaha. So I'm looking forward to that weekend. It will be a lot of fun, and maybe some pounds will be shed with all the excercising that will be done.
I've attached a picture so everyone will have to tell me if you can see a difference or not. I'm not totally sure, but I think it may be because I'm looking at myself every day. Have a great week everyone!!
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