Whoa!

I don't know why but I was feeling a bit apprehensive as I headed to my meeting Sunday morning.  I knew that I had been good this week.  I tracked as much as possible, made good choices, and worked out.  I was not at all expecting to see any weight gain; however, I was still feeling a little nervous.  Well, I certainly don't know why.  I lost another 5.4 lbs bring my total weight loss to 43.6 lbs.  Can you believe it?  If it wasn't for the fact that I'm the one actually doing this, I certainly would have a hard time putting two and two together.

So now I'm trying to ask myself, "what did you do differently this week and do you want to repeat it, or try something new?"  Well 1st, I switched up my eating a bit.  Lean Cuisines are my new life savers. They have their Points Plus value right on the label, so I know exactly what I'm getting.  Since I know that vegetables are worth 0 points, I've been padding the lean cuisines with huge portions of vegetables.  Its a win/win for me. I'm not going crazy cooking and looking at portion sizes and food is done within a brief few minutes so I'm not suffering from that, I need to eat NOW anxiety I get.  I decided I would start eating these lean cuisines for lunch rather than for dinner.  Then, I could just have a dinner that is much more sensible and not as heavy.  A salad or a yogurt with fixings.  Stuff like that and so far so good.

Also and probably the most important thing, I made sure to workout.  Now, I've spoken before (just recently actually) about how much I hate to sweat.  And, now that I've been working out pretty regularly I have started sweating in all kinds of ways.  When I'm done working out I have wet patches on my back and thighs, there's sweat accumulated on my face, in my hair, around my boobs, and I usually have this glow-y look on my arms.  Well, last Friday I got a shock and a half.  My arm wasn't just glow-y it was leaking.  I felt something trickling down my arm and when I looked I actually had sweat running off of my arm.  First of all let me say...eeewww.  I was sooo disgusted I immediately had to wipe my arm off, it just felt wrong to be dripping.  On a smaller "nastiness" scale it was kind of cool to know that I was working so hard I actually could see the fruits of my labor.  Now if I can just get past how truly freakish I find that, this could be the start of something great!!

So here's to all kinds of pleasant surprises:)