Milestone!

So its been a week since that first step on the scary scale. And do you know what? It wasn’t nearly as scary today!

I figured that I would weigh myself once a week—this way I wont become obsessive about tiny increments, better able to focus on the more important exercise, and see a (hopefully) bigger result when I do weigh myself. So last Wednesday was the big first weigh and as noted, it was worse than I thought. But it was a starting point and that number stayed in my head all week, forcing me to say no to delicious pastries and yes to almost daily exercise.

I didn’t sleep that well in nervous anticipation. When I did catch some sleep I actually dreamt about my weighing and my dream told me that I had lost 2lbs—about what I was expecting to lose. So realistic was the dream that when I woke up, I actually thought that I had weighed myself already. But I hadn’t. I almost chickened out too!

But I didn’t! When I weighed myself, the results were so much better than I had anticipated! I lost 7lbs this week! That’s like Biggest Loser worthy! I can’t even believe that it came off so fast! I mean, I know that I have made some significant changes (like eating breakfast!), but I had no idea they would be so effective!

I’m going to bask in the glow of my success today. But then I will go back to worrying about my success next week. I’m afraid that this coming week, life gets in the way a little bit. I usually go to the gym after work. Tonight we have friends coming over for dinner and tomorrow night I am going to my parents for dinner. I don’t have to worry so much about what my mom is going to make for dinner (she is on Weight Watchers) but I worry that I won’t make it to the gym. Add to that our intentions of going away this weekend…and I’m not sure how many sessions of exercise I’m going to get in!

But like I said—I will worry about that tomorrow. For today I will celebrate my milestone!