Cheater Cheater Peanut Eater

3 weeks and 11 pounds down today! What better way to celebrate than go off the rails and have something forbidden! Sigh. I had a slight run in with some mixed nuts. They are definitely not allowed. I was cleaning up after a work function we were hosting and there was this huge cup of mixed nuts staring back at me. I was tired, stressed, and could *smell* them, so I went for it. I didn't just have a few. I had a big handful of them. I'm telling myself that it could have been much worse. I had other things like candy and chips around but chose something that has nutritional value. It wasn't a tray of brownies so I'll let it slide and do an extra bit on the treadmill this evening.

We had a busy weekend. On Saturday, we went to an indoor water park. I found myself running up steps trying to keep up with Skylar lugging huge double-inner tubes. I got to thinking that it would be a really good and funny challenge on the Biggest Loser. Maybe I'll email Jillian Michaels and propose this idea. One of those team challenges. It's definitely a twisted and fun way of forced exercise. I think I'm still recovering though, and we didn't even go down any of the super-fast slides where you "lose" your bathing suit at the end.

Overall, its been a pretty good week. My clothes are fitting much better, some even loose. If I stay on this pattern of losing 2 pounds per week, I'll be happy. I'd like to see a bit more come off but its not realistic. I hear that once you get to 3 weeks it starts falling off... so I'm crossing fingers. I could also cut back on the 2% cheese. I haven't had a lot but here & there might be throwing a wrench in things. I miss my real cheese! :(

I'm getting creative in the kitchen. I'm so tired of eating boring plain meat so today I decided to just throw something together.  I wanted something Italian so I cut up some tomatoes, stewed them with some fresh basil, garlic & onion then sauteed some chicken and combined them. It was delicious! I would've liked to have had some pasta to put the concoction on but it was actually good on its own - like an Italian chicken stew.

I'm looking forward to zumba tomorrow but I may try a lunchtime class instead that involves circuits and weights. I think I need to mix things up so my body doesn't get used to it.

Thanks again for anyone reading this. It feels strange just typing into cyberspace but maybe having an audience, whether large or small will make me feel accountable. I also hope to motivate anyone who also wants to get started. It took a long time to get serious and motivated. I still have a long journey to go so I need all the support I can get.