Weight Loss Challenge for August! (OPEN)

This is a copy & paste from an email I sent to a buddy, but I wanted to update everyone!

Yesterday, my car broke down at the doctor's office! Yesterday was just a bad day all around, so it's a good thing I did my walk early yesterday. See, I had my OB/GYN appointment for 1:15. Well, I got there super early (12:30) and wasn't able to get back there early at all. It was 1:30 when the nurse called me back to do some paperwork, then I had to wait for the other nurse to call me back to do the normal stuff (you know, weight, blood pressure, blood work, etc). She didn't come get me until about 2:00. Once she was done with her drill, they took me to the exam room & I waited till about 2:45 when yet another nurse came in to ask about my history (I'm seeing a new OB/GYN & the old one hasn't sent my records yet!). That took about half an hour. So at 3:15, she leaves and tells me the doctor will be right in. Fast-forward to 3:45 and finally the doctor comes in! The exam & everything takes all of 15 minutes. Then I have to wait while they get my birth control for me... 4:30 and they finally do just that and I can leave. I go out... and my car won't freaking start. To make matters even worse, this whole time of waiting I've had my 2-year-old and have had to try to entertain him for the past 4 hours. How did I do that? I let him play with my cell phone. Which means my battery was dead when my car wouldn't start. So I had no cell phone! I had to use the phone at the doctor's office... which would've been fine but they only allow local calls. Guess what? The only two numbers I know off the top of my head are long-distance cell phone numbers. So I finally asked around for a cell phone and a nurse let me use hers. I only know my mom's number (she's in KY) and Eric's number (my boyfriend, lives here). So I called Eric. His phone had no signal because he was at work! I had to call my mom, have her look up my friend Ronda's number by looking at our cell phone bill for it, then call Rhonda. Well, Rhonda doesn't answer her phone if she doesn't know the number. I had to leave a voicemail & wait for her to call me back... luckily, she checked it right away and came to get Jacob & me. THEN, when we get home, we have to call a tow-truck & meet him there to get my car towed back to the house. All said & done, we didn't get home until after 9pm! We had Captain D's for dinner since Jacob & I hadn't eaten since breakfast. I had the 2 fish & 1 crab cake meal with hush puppies & a salad. How many calories was that? Oh, about 1300! Luckily, with my walk, it only put me over by less than 100 calories. The sodium was HIGH though, so now I've gotta bust my butt between now and Friday morning to get the 0.6lb I "gained" from that meal off. Ugh.

I was supposed to do an EA Sports Active workout yesterday, but I wasn't home to do it so it's under "Missed Workouts" on the menu now. My right knee is killing me today so I'm deeming today a much-needed rest day. I'll either do the missed workout tomorrow along with the scheduled one or I'll do the missed workout Friday. I'm just going to give myself a relaxing day today, but stay within my calories. I haven't had a full day with no workouts since I started MFP on the 29th of July, so it's not going to hurt to have one off day. :-)

Thanks everyone for understanding how horrible my day was the other day! At least since then I've gotten some good news...

1) My laptop, which has been on the fritz for 2 weeks now was purchased as a Christmas gift for me in 2009. My mom bought it. She also bought a 2-year replacement plan. Which means, to my surprise, she found the paperwork on it and the plan is still good until December 27th of this year. Meaning I get to take my laptop to Best Buy and they will either fix it or replace it. My hard drive is fried, so I'm hoping for a replacement. LOL

2) I may have a new job! I work part-time (as in 8 hours a week) and I've been wanting to quit that and start babysitting, since I have a 2 year old it would be great to find another kid near his age to watch in my home so my son had someone to play with and I had a bit more of an income. So I posted some ads and I'm meeting a mom and her son tomorrow. If I get it, I'll be making about 3x as much as I have been at my 8 hour a week job. Yay.

Also, I bought a heart rate monitor and 2 5lb dumbells yesterday (the dumbells are to replace the resistance bands that I use for my EA Sports Active 2 workouts).

Today is weigh in day for me. I was dreading it because I had Captain D's one day and ate 1000 calories at that one meal (but only had 1300 the whole day) and I knew it was full of sodium.

I started MFP on 7/29 at 227.8

8/1 was 224.4
8/5 was 222.4 (and 41.3% body fat)
8/12 (today) was 219.8 (40.9% body fat)

So I lost 2.6 lbs since last Friday and I've lost 8 lbs so far! I'm only 0.8 from my August goal! YAY!

Good luck to all those weighing in today.