Happy Valentine's Day! Well, belated Valentine's Day I guess. We didn't do anything special since we went out for a nice dinner last weekend, but Jeff did bring me home roses...and a cadbury egg. Ugh!!! They are my favorite and a huge weakness for me. (I know, you either love them or hate them...most people I know think they are the grossest thing ever). I had him put it away until the weekend and I'm going to have it as my treat after weigh in:) I'm not being as loose as normal on my weigh-in day but I am going to let myself have that! To top it off, Ian had his preschool Valentine's party today and brought home a TON of yummy treats! I couldn't believe all the things in his cute little Valentine's box. I had sent along with his Valentines a little heart shaped egg with candies in it for all his classmates, but most parents did little goody bags with all kinds of candies and treats, and the teacher made adorable heart shaped iced cookies for the kids to take home. So cute! And so tempting! So far so good but man, that candy is calling my name! But I know this is just the beginning because Easter is around the corner so I've got to stay strong! LOL:)
So I'm almost a week into my challenge and feeling really good. I have done really well with my food choices and my exercise has been AWESOME. First time in a long time I've had a hardcore workout 6 days in a row and it felt really great. I definitely have felt it physically, I've been really tired and sore, but it's wonderful to be back in somewhat of a routine again. I got on the scale a couple times and it hadn't really budged from Monday but we'll see how the weigh-in goes this weekend. I think I am getting some kind of cold or bug so that may be part of it, who knows. Hopefully I'll see some kind of loss this weekend!
My one mistake of the week was to get on the gym's website and look at the leaderboard. I initially thought there were 35 people total (men and women) signed up, but evidently there were a lot of last minute registrations. There are 50 women in the challenge. Fifty!! When I saw that, to be honest, the first thing I thought was screw this, I'm going to go eat a pizza. It just seems so unattainable to win when you are up against so many people. It just got in my head I guess. So the next day at my session with Aaron I told him about it. He gave me a pep talk and reminded me that I don't have to (and shouldn't) think about or worry about any of those people....I only have to be accountable to myself. I don't have to answer to any of them, and I don't need to worry about any of their progress on this journey. I only have to worry about myself. And ultimately, while I really really want to win for SO many reasons, the important thing is the change that I am making in myself. THAT will be the real reward.
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Whether you come in first or dead last in this, you are still a winner because you have the courage to do it! You are eating right and exercising like a beast, everything else will fall into place! I have every bit of confidence that you will succeed!
Thanks so much girl. That means a lot!!
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