Week 6 - I'm Addicted!!

To begin, I am not entirely sure that it has been six weeks. I guess it depends on where I count from. I decided over Christmas that enough was enough and I needed to regain control of my weight and health. By January 3, I was committed and signed up for a class at my local Y that began January 10. The class is called Move It To Lose It and is more than "just a class". We began by being weighed and measured and throughout the class (it meets twice a week) we do different cardio and strength exercises. We are weighed each Monday, and each person commits to themselves what level of effort they bring to the class. We are asked to do cardio 5 days and strength 2 days a week. In addition, we are required to log everything we eat to discuss how we can improve. It was in that week on the 13th, that I discovered MFP. I asked our instructor if it would be okay if I used this "online thing" that I found.

Since then I feel like I have become obsessed with tracking my exercise and logging my food! I have decided that I will workout 6 days a week and 3 days of strength. I have held my ground, done my work AND I have lost the most in the class to date. I kept sharing my enthusiasum for MFP and a few gals have joined! Now they too are having fun tracking everything they eat!
Last week, I lost 5 pounds!!! I was so happy, but I am also so nervous. I want to keep the weight loss going, and I get anxious when I don't exercise. Yesterday was my first "off" day in seven. I felt sluggish, tired and like a sloth for not going to the gym. I spent most of the morning at work today thinking about how excited I was to get to the gym today (right after work). Once there, I decided to kick it up a notch (in the back of my mind I was thinking I needed to make up for missing yesterday).

This weekend is very busy with lots of kid stuff going on. On my agenda is MAKING 36 CUPCAKES decorated for Valentines day. We have a big event on Sunday to which I am bringing them. We are busy Saturday picking up GIRL SCOUT COOKIES and filling my house with them! My son, has a big Quiz Bowl event on Saturday - so btwn picking up and sorting COOKIES, attending the tournement on Saturday, what am I worried about, you ask? WHEN will I get to the gym..I have been planning and strategizing what time to get up to go so I can still pick up COOKIES, and get to Saturday's event. Sunday's event is pretty much an all day affair, as I have to be there at 11:00 to help set up.

I must boast at this point. I have multi-talented children who will be singing and playing instuments at this fundraising event for their music department, a mandatory event, that I would not want to miss. Now I have decided I must go to Mass on Saturday evening because why? I need to get to the GYM on Sunday before the all day event (that includes TONS OF REFRESHMENTS, COOKIES, AND CUPCAKES!)

It seems that all I can think about is how much in, how much out? Is it enough? Do you think after burning almost 2000 calories today that I dare eat a cupcake? half of one? When I make them, or at the event?
I truly don't want to hear from people: "You shouldn't have that in your house". I do. Moreover, I don't want to live on an island where cupcakes are forbidden, who doesn't love a fabulously decorated valentine cupcake? Can I have my cake and eat it too?