Surprising Success

I was all ready to have to write a "woe is me" post today after weigh-in. As you may remember, I set a mini-goal a few weeks ago to get to my 10% weight loss of 18 lbs by Aug 1st. Well, since then I had only lost about 2 pounds, and felt that today's weigh-in wouldn't get me much closer. Guess again baby, b/c I was down 4 lbs! No one is more surprised than me about this, but now it means I'm back in the game. I have 1.6 lbs left to lose to get to 18!

It's funny though. Before I weighed in, I was assuming that I would be so far away from my mini-goal, that I wouldn't really even bother too much this weekend about being good. But now that I am so close, I am realllly hoping that the thought " only a pound and a half" will help me stay strong at the wedding and my grandmother's birthday that we are attending. It will be utterly impossible for me to resist cake at the two functions- but maybe I'll just eat the icing and definitely forgo the ice cream. I might even eat a light meal before the wedding to help curb my appetite at the reception. That could blow up in my face of course if there is some really yummy food there that I can't resist (I'm definitely a food-aholic, if you haven't guessed) thereby getting 2 meals worth of calories

At least we will be at my parents' house rather than ILs or somewhere else on the road, b/c my mom does WW too, so I should have more hope of finding decent options for snacks and small meals while there. And speaking of WW... their yogurt is GROSS! It is sweetened with sucralose, so has the taste that I associate with diet soda. I very rarely drink anything other than water, but when I do decide to have a soda, it's never diet, I'd have to drink something else just to get the taste out of my mouth!

Hope everyone has a healthy weekend!