Choco Week 6 Recap and Chip Week 7 Preview

Week 6 Results: This week was fun. It was a bit scary knowing someone was all up on whatever I was doing. :) It worked though. I lost 2 pounds! I am 165.2! I can't believe it. I was standing on the scale muttering "no suh! no way!". It feels like someone's just coming in and messing with my scale. Of course this is how I feel after all the week's hard work is done and I just take 15 minutes to recognise that it really was my own hard work that got me here.

Saturday was great. Chip sent me a picture of the recipe for the cookies she was making... not that I was jealous or anything. I would SO love my mom's chocolate chip cookies but I know if I make them I will eat them all. :( On Saturday evening I lamented portion control. It's just not that easy to judge how much of your plate is one cup, for example.

On Sunday, Chip asked for a pic of each of my meals. She missed my glorious bowl of Fruity Pebbles. I seriously haven't been eating them and thought I'd throw caution to the wind and eat something I love. I did thoroughly enjoy all of it. :) I took my son bowling for his birthday and sent her a pic of my 'delicious' bowling alley food. And then I totally forgot to send the hot dog (extra lean 50 calories version) and macaroni and cheese dinner pic.

Monday I was up and at 'em. I had my coffee, my lunch, my clothes and everything ready. Chip told me I was to recognise the exact bite of food I love and that this was a week long challenge. The only food I REALLY love is dessert. I would forgo all other food for three bites of dessert for every meal. I especially love the first bite of soft serve ice cream. It's perfect. Then I love bites 3-10 and usually after that I'm like ... alright, I'll finish it. I also was given the task to expand on my post about reasons to lose weight. Which I did in a comment on that post. I think my favorite was "You can wear fall boots because your calves will be small enough to fit."
I was also required to eat 5 servings of fruits and veggies. I think I made it. I had just bought quite a few things at the grocery store and was prepared.

Tuesday I was tasked with picking a theme song for my first 20 pounds and getting 20 very active minutes on my fitbit. I was a bit worried about the Fitbit challenge but I did make it! Again, pretty proud of myself. As for the song, I'll go with a playlist. It's a celebration anyway, right? It's worth more than 3.5 minutes!
The list so far is:
Look at Me Now - Chris Brown

Imma Be - B.E.P.

We R Who We R - Kesha

Firework - Katy Perry

Dog Days Are Over - Florence and the Machine

You Need Me, I Don't Need You - Ed Sheeran

50 Ways to Say Goodbye - Train

It's Gonna Be Me - N Sync

Defying Gravity from Wicked - Glee

 

Wednesday -  There were planks. Two planks and I hated them both. I didn't have to try to hard on the mental challenge since I spend much of my free time reading success stories. They all say the same thing. I got tired of being fat. I sucked it up and lost the weight. It was really hard. I love life now. The end.

Thursday my challenge was to walk to beat my highest step count ever. It was determined that my highest step total was 24,311 steps on a Saturday in June. Since my highest weekday total was 18,625 this goal was modified to beat my current average of 11,001.  I did it, too. Chip wanted 15k and I came in at 14,105. This was the day the phrase "It's not over till the bra comes off!" was coined.

Friday was hard. I love sugar and there are days that I don't actually eat much of it. I did refuse a donut that my husband offered me. I felt bad though because he brought them home from work where they were celebrating his promotion. I know he didn't care either way whether I had a donut. I shouldn't feel bad about it. And for my something girly, I went to bed at 8:30 and looked at Pinterest for an hour before hitting myself in the face with my iPad and supposed it was time to actually sleep.

Oh, also on Friday, I got a prize for Choco Week! A badge book that I can use to write down all of my greatest accomplishments. I fully intend to keep adding new badges because I need to keep looking at the small picture, too.

Overall, I think I did a pretty good job. I know it was just as hard for Chip to come up with things to help me with and I fully appreciate her dedication to the cause. I hope I was a good student and that my teacher was proud of my 2 pound loss! 

Week 7 Challenge: Chip WEEEEEEEK! It's all about you, my dearest cousin! It's going to be hard to top what you did for me but I fully expect that you will be up for the challenge.  We are going to get your weight to creep in the opposite direction, even if it's just creeping. :)