My Weight Loss - Days 14-17

Last Thursday I was prepping for my third weigh-in. Fortunately we received a decent amount of snow that day, and I spent a couple hours outside with the kids building snowmen and forts and I shoveled twice. I burned over 400 calories!

Friday, weigh-in day, I was happy(ish) to have lost 1/2 pound. Well, I was disappointed that was all I lost since I had put in a lot of work. Others did gain a little this week. And I believe I am owed a $5 Starbucks gift card from one of the participants... he said anyone who beat him this week would get the gift card.

Friday was a co-worker's birthday, so after weigh-in I let loose a little on the munchies everyone brought in. I didn't eat lunch that day and let those munchies replace what I would have had for lunch. Fortunately, people brought things like strawberries and goldfish. There were good and bad, and I partook in both. But I kept track of the calories.

Friday night I went to my parents' house and they ordered pizza and fried chicken. Uffda! I did have some cheese pizza, a piece of chicken and some mashed potatoes. After Friday, I reined it in again. I did better on Saturday and then even better today, Sunday.

The great news is that I have quit drinking any sort of alcohol during the week and keep that for the weekend. That's a loss of around 300-500 calories each weekday!

Today I did 40 minutes of Zumba... which felt great since I didn't get a chance to workout Friday or Saturday!

This week, I look forward to getting out of the 200's by Friday's weigh-in! It's been quite a while since I've seen the 190s! Crossing my fingers!