Saturday Weigh In

<drumroll please>  I now weigh 278 lbs.  Yayyyyyyy!  That's a pound loss.  We like to see those numbers go down.  Plus I lost 2 inches, don't ask me how.  It must have been one of those hormonal bloating things last week or something.

I'm really excited about next week.  I've decided I'm going to dig out my trusty pedometer and I'm going to go back to walking 10,000 steps a day.  I was having my best sucess doing that.  And next week Steven gets back on a sane human schedule so that means we can do a mile in the morning and the two miles at night.  Hence, 10,000 steps.

I'm really looking forward to seeing how many steps I get in per day in Las Vegas.  Just walking through one hotel alone should get me 10,000 steps!  You always have to go through the maze of the casino to get to where you want to go (pretty sneaky of them isn't it??) so I can just imagine how many steps I'm going to get in.

I'm also going to buy a little journal type purse sized notebook so I can write down everything that goes into my mouth.  I'm going to allow myself to eat whatever I want ONLY if I write it down and get 10,000 steps a day.  In other words, I'm not counting calories.  This doesn't mean pigging out of course, and I already have my buffet strategy lined up.  I must have a salad first (to fill up on all the good veggies) THEN I can sample whatever entrees they have, in small portions.

Of course I'm not going to go hog wild.  I'll seek out the sugar free goodies and go brown sauce over cream sauce, broiled over fried, and all the other tricks I've since come to embrace. 

But these are going to be liveable rules.  I can have something alcoholic ONLY if I drink my 8 glasses (or bottles) of water first.  It shouldn't be difficult considering Vegas is in the triple digits right now.  I'll be sloshing as I walk no doubt!

Anyway it'll be an interesting exercise to come back home, put everything in on Fitday and see how I do flying "blind".  I feel like I'm about to take a final exam LOL.

I'm in a good mood.  I just love to see those numbers go down. 

What I love more than anything, though, is being back in control of my life.  I really cannot wait to get back out there on the walking trail.  I know that it may stagnate my weight loss (building muscle vs. losing fat) BUT I'm prepared for that.  I know I'm doing everything I need to do to lose weight.

The weight has no choice but to go.  I won't lie, the quicker it goes the happier I'll be, but being back in the driver's seat is really very cool.  I may be a control freak but I'm a happy control freak.  :)