With the eating, and the weigh-in

This week has been fine if you just look at my calories (with the exception of yesterday), but when you look at the actual FOOD I've been putting in my body, you'd be incredibly disappointed... there's been Taco Bell and tootsie rolls and donuts and a bunch of other sugar-packed junk. Yesterday for lunch was a 600 calorie frozen margarita with some good old deep fried tex-mex (chicken flautas) and cheese dip. Let's not forget the chips! Lordy, lordy. It did keep me super full the whole rest of the day, so I didn't have much in the way of dinner... but even so my calorie county for yesterday was close to 2,800 calories. Saturday I woke up with the determination to get back on track with my eating! Started the day off with a whey protein fruit smoothie, and I headed to the grocery store soon to restock my kitchen with fruit and veggies and whole grain goodness.

Okay, so Friday was my normal weigh-in day but I totally forgot, so on the scale I got Saturday morning...

Official weight @ 5/26/2012: 200.8 lbs


!!! That's a 2 lbs loss for this week! Even with my crappy eating! If I keep this up, I'll hit my 20 lbs milestone in just a couple weeks! That would be so amazing. I can't wait to break that 200lbs mark again. I'm only 3 lbs away from my pre-baby weight!!

That's a lot of exclamation points. I apologize. But I am so proud of myself.

This week will be about getting back in the gym or at least taking a walk a few times a week. I'm so pumped about the weightloss, but I almost feel like I don't want to hit the gym for fear that I won't see the same results on the scale while focusing on strength training - but if I stick to walking/cardio (which kind of goes against everything I read about fat loss!!) then I think I will continue to see that number drop at a decent pace. I'm not sure how I feel about it. Part of me really wants to focus on strength training and get that tone and boost my fat-burning potential, but the other part of me is so excited to be losing 1-2 lbs a week on the scale. It's almost like I feel like I'd like to get down to my halfway goal by calorie counting and cardio, and THEN start focusing on building lean muscle mass. At least that way if the scale-loss slows I can feel good about where I'm starting from. It's kind of what my gut is telling me to do. We'll see. If I actually get in the gym, I think it will be really hard for me to not touch the weights! lol