Week 1 weigh in!

Let me preface this by saying...

If i tried really hard - I could lose 8 pounds in the first week. Easily.  (I've done it multiple times before)

but that's stupid.

because 1.  the slower, the better

and 2.  so much of that crazy weight loss isn't really weight loss - it's just dehydration! (and foolishness)

so I was determined to not go crazy this week - or any time over the next 11 months of this challenge. Slow and steady wins the race, says the tortoise! ;)

So i made sure to not change my diet in any crazy way.  I still ate lots of things I enjoy - just moderately - and I tried to work out every day this week.  and.... actually i think i DID work out at least for a half hour each day.

When I got on the scale for my weigh-in yesterday, i saw a 3.5 pound loss!

Here's the coolest thing about that.  In the past, when I have had a nutty and excessive weight loss in the first week, guaranteed - the next day after my weigh-in, at least 2 of those pounds are back!  Maybe I ate some salty food, or ate something off my crazy-restrictive diet - and my body just absorbed and held those two pounds like a sponge!

When you lose fast, you can gain back fast too!  But when you lose steadily - the scale seems to be much kinder over a longer period of time :)

When I got on the scale again tonight - i saw i had already dropped just a few more ounces (nothing major - but nice to see it continuing to go in the right direction)

It's really encouraging.  Especially for someone like me who has the tendency to get psycho when trying to lose weight.

and i mean .... psycho.

Whether it's weighing myself every hour (yep... it was like an addiction!)  or over-exercising (remember Forrest Gump running across country... i was like his Energizer bunny cheerleading friend) - or counting every single calorie and tryng to figure out how to burn it immediately (hmmm lets see one grape, could i burn that by doing 10 jumping jacks or 20 sit ups???)  - or going super-restrictive on foods (an all-grapefruit diet?  uhhh -sure why not!!!!)  - or other dumb things (yeahhhh i'm not even gonna talk about those things. lol)  ..  I've done a lot of things that made me drop weight initially.... but only set me back physically and mentally over time.

I'm super impatient - so taking my time is a real effort for me and a difficult challenge!!! I'm the kind of person who wants to drop 20 pounds a month - EVERY month!!!  LOL  and I want to calculate EXACTLY how to do it!!!

But I didn't do crazy this past week :)   and  I'm happy to see that it paid off and keeps paying off.

so - 3.5 out of 35 pounds for the Healthy Wage challenge are gone.  Wow - that's already 10% of my wager!!!!

I still get a little excited and emotional when I think this is REALLY gonna be the year I do it :)

I'm so glad I'm keeping a journal of this. It will be fun to look back and see where I've come from!

It's funny - i never told anyone about this blog.  I figured I would tell my friends and fam about it when I got maybe halfway to my goal - but everyday more and more people read this!!! lol

I don't know why people are reading it (lol)- but I hope it encourages someone!!!
If you're in the same place as I am.... you can do it :)  Just don't give up!  :)

Good night to all my anonymous friends out there!  hehehe