Ok Friday is my weigh in day and I did lose .8 this week so I am jumping into the challenge at this weight. This past week I was NOT good at recording my food but did stick to my new hobby (I guess its a hobby? lol) of adding light recipes to this site and cooking from them. I basically find them on the internet, print them and try them, and then if I like them I put them in a notebook I am creating. I also import them in here so I can see the nutritional values and record them. Also this week I made a list of exercises I both need and like and did two of them daily - walking, exercise bike, yoga, light weights, pilates.

This coming week I am going to keep up the exercise and work on two other things I am not good about. The first is recording my food and the second is drinking water. I am REALLY bad about both of those things and especially bad about the water! I think I am going to start making little checkmarks on my calendar page so I can check off glasses as I drink them and don't have to come to the computer. The food problem is that I record breakfast and lunch every day, then in the evening tend to get distracted doing other things and don't come back and finish it off. I have tried recording ahead of time, but can't seem to make up my mind what I want early in the day! lol

Oh well, I lost this week by focusing on the exercise and the light recipes so I am going to hang onto those two and work especially this week with the water and see if it makes a difference. I really want that five pounds off this month! Hot weather is coming and I am getting ready to move to Florida!!!

Oh this is too weird! I came in and saw that my ticker tape was not there and I had not changed anything! So I went searching to see where to activate it. I could not find it so decided to come back in here and plead ignorance and ask for help. And there is was!!!! Belated April Fools by the computer? Hmmmmmm.

Anyway, Friday is my weigh in day and I made it through the first week with ups and downs. I was VERY leery to get the scales this morning because yesterday I caved to requests and made pot roast in the crock pot and ate it, complete with potatoes and gravy! But the long run of the week won out and I lost 1.4 this week. I am, therefore, a happy camper.

The most important thing that is helping me in MFP is that I can record my food and exercise and watch the balance. If I know I am going to eat a heavy dinner, I add an extra 30 minutes on the bike and knock off a couple of hundred calories! That helps! I am also sticking to the light recipes and I try to do a walk in the morning and my bike in the afternoon, plus alternating about 20 minutes of light weights or yoga. I don't always get it all done, but I do as much as I can! Also the fitbit helps. On days when I am going to be out running errands I make sure to wear it and it cues me to pick that parking place furthest from the store instead of looking for the close one.

As far as the holiday problem, this is what I do. I already tell my bf that we have one day a week to eat whatever we want (normally that is Saturday so that we can go out to dinner. ( That is why weigh in is Friday! lol) If there is a holiday in the week, then that "off program day" becomes the holiday. I eat what I want and as much as I want and I don't worry about it. BUT, anything that is left gets tossed the following morning so everyone can stand warned! I will compromise to all the rich foods, but one day is all that I will give it! Anyone who doesn't like it can moan and groan and hide the food, but if its where I can reach it, it goes in the trash. Sorry, but health is more important!!

Still not doing well with the water, so that will be another focus for this week. I also did not walk as frequently as I should this week so I am going to make sure its my first activity after breakfast! The longer I wait, the more likely I am to not do it.

All in all, I am pleased that I had the loss and hoping to do same this next week!