Weigh in day 8/20/09 - Small loss, but I reached a goal!

While I only lost 0.6 lbs this week, that was exactly the amount I needed to lose to reach my next goal, which was the halfway point to my final goal! I've lost 36 lbs, and now I need to lose 36 more to reach my goal!

This week was a mix of good and bad. I ate way over my weekly points - my "pig out" friend came over for the weekend and we went to restaurants. I tried very hard to restrain myself and I think I did pretty well - when she left I had eaten all my weekly points and just 8 of my activity points. If I had left it at that, I probably would have seen a bigger loss. But then I got tempted at the grocery store... I was in the frozen food/dairy section, innocently following my roommate as she looked at cheese, when I saw one of those individual slices of cake that they make at the bakery. The bakery is on the exact opposite side of the store, but someone had picked up this piece of cake and then abandoned it on a shelf in the frozen food aisle under some pizza crusts. It looked sooo good... I read the label and discovered that it was "old fashioned fudge cake," with yellow cake and fudge icing. I couldn't resist... so that gave me -5 weekly points, which I vowed to make up with more activity. If I had just left it at that, it would have been fine... BUT the next day my roommates wanted to celebrate my belated birthday - they had been out of town during my actual birthday, and that night we were all free. So we rented a movie and got tortilla chips, nacho dip, and, yes, we all got a piece of cake from the bakery section of the same grocery store. I went with the same old fashioned fudge cake... so after that fiasco my weekly points were waaaay into the negative :(

BUT to make up for it I rode my bike 5 days this week, for an hour each time. My new heart rate monitor tells me that I burn anywhere from 600 - 700 calories each time I do this, so I figured I might actually see a loss this week in spite of everything. I also drank a pitcher of crystal light a day - that's 4 quarts - so I thought maybe the increased water consumption would help too. And I did see a loss this week, just a small one. I know that if I hadn't gone over my weekly points I would have seen a huge loss, but I'm happy I made it to the halfway point.