Heading Into Week 2...

Welcome to Week 2!

I am fighting a pretty awesome upper respiratory infection right now.  I have to take antibiotics.  I have read that the antibiotics may halt my weight loss until I finish taking them.  My coach said it shouldn't but I don't know if he's speaking from experience...

But I kinda need to not get pneumonia...so...antibiotics it is!  

I was down another unofficial pound today.  I have decided that I'm not going to keep track of that exactly because it's too confusing with my weekly OFFICIAL weigh in.  I can say that I'm now officially down 15lbs since May, according to my scale and 11lbs on the doctor scale.  So I'll just mention when I've lost unofficial pounds but the Thursday weigh ins will be official.

Being sick has been difficult.  I was very weak tonight and didn't feel like making dinner.  We ordered out.

No!  Wait!  I didn't cheat! 

I got a grilled chicken salad.  I picked out the tomatoes and croutons and hubby ate them.  I felt normal. 

And he bought a cannoli for each of us...I didn't eat mine.  I don't even have a craving for mine!  I'm enjoying watching my shrink on a daily basis...

Which brings me to something that has been on my mind...

The motto "Nothing tastes as good as thin feels" is on all of the Ideal Protein shirts at my coach's office.  He has one his office and when he takes my measurements, I turn and face it...hanging on the wall right in front of me...mocking me.  

See, a week ago I came up with my own motto "This tastes worse than fat feels" when I was trying a few of the different Walden Farms dressings. And I couldn't wrap my brain around the thought of staring down something I wanted to eat and believing that I'd rather be thin than eat it.

Somehow it magically happened.  I don't want to eat that cannoli.  Now, I do kinda want a hoagie but I'm not sure what that's about.  I think it's a bread thing.  And a cheese thing...and a mayo, oil, vinegar, lettuce, tomatoes, Italian meats kinda thing...maybe just a taste?  Nah...I waited 40 weeks to eat a hoagie.  I can wait until I meet my goal weight and if I still want one, maybe I'll have a taste.  

Oh well.  I guess that's all I have to say for now. 

It's hard to believe a week has gone by and at the same time, I kinda feel like it's going so slowly!  I can't wait until February 18th!  (Don't worry, I'll blog before then!)