One more week down...

Since I am just now writing this, I feel like I should be thinking, "Holy crap, it's already Thursday." However, the truth is that this week has seemed SO long that I can't believe it's only Thursday. And when I say I can't believe, I mean I was getting dressed for work this morning thinking, "Finally, it's Friday."

Getting on the scale on Monday did not make me happy. Weight loss to date on Monday was only one pound from the week before - meaning only 2 of 50 pounds lost so far.

48 pound to go...

29 weeks to go...

Approximately 1.655 lbs per week needed from this point forward. Not much worse than before, but I'm not hitting that or my self-imposed goal of 2 per week.

Unfortunately, I blew the diet last night when I went out to dinner with the husband and split mozzarella sticks with him. (But I was only about 300 calories over my suggested intake-and I thought that it was going to be a lot worse!)

So, that's the negative of it...

Here is the positive:

- I tried Zumba this week and loved it! When I weighed myself the next morning, I had lost 2.5 lbs. (Not getting excited about this since it blew up in my face last week). I have about 28 more days on my 30 day membership, and I am planning to go back for a class on Friday

- My husband submitted the paperwork for our gym membership which should be activated by/on this Friday.

- I am slowly becoming better at planning my meals (and calories) ahead - and entering them in my Livestrong app early. For example, tonight is trivia night at our local bar. I know that I am going to order boneless wings and drink a beer. Not great food choices, but I accounted for them at the start of my day, and I should therefore be on track to be at or below calories today. I am working up to planning meals at the beginning of the week - it has become a bigger struggle to decide what to eat for dinner when we haven't planned ahead and defrosted meat.

I think I can - I think I can - I think I will!