02/12/2013 @ 10:14am (PDT)

Well…I did it!  I hopped on the scale.

I was talking to Jeff on the way home from work and let him know my thoughts on stepping on the scale.  He had gained about 15 pounds over the last two months, but I tend to eat a lot more crap than he does.  I figured at MINIMUM, I gained 25.  Worst case scenario, I gained all the weight back plus some.

I didn’t REALLY think I had gained THAT much because my pants were be bursting off of me, but I could tell that I gained weight when we went clothes shopping the other day – Thankfully most of the weight I gained seemed to be in the chest region and not in the stomach region – I was at a size 26 and when I started this, I was about a 30.

Either way, super nervous, and I didn’t want to step on it but needed to so I could see what I was working with.

I thought my last weigh-in was 333 – Turns out that I was incorrect.  My last weigh in was 326 or so.

341.6 was the first weight that came up.  Surely that must have been a mistake – While it was still about 8 pounds from where I thought I was (16.6 pounds from where I actually was), I thought I gained more than that.

I stepped back on the scale FIVE more times and it turns out that the 341.6 WAS a mistake…

I was actually down to 336.4!!!

I only gained 10 pounds bringing my current weight loss to 26.2 pounds.

Needless to say, I am QUITE happy that I don’t have to do ALL the work that first 26.2 pounds took me.  It’s a good starting ground and it keeps me only 36.4 pounds from me getting an iPad!  :)

So now we’re back with dieting…We started Power 90 yesterday…We can do this!

We are changing a couple of things this time around – The first of which is doing Power 90 only five days a week and no level-up for the first 90 days.  If I stick with that, I’ll do it “right” the second time around.  Lord knows I won’t be ready for P90X by then.  :)

The other thing we’re changing is cheat days.  At LEAST one every two weeks but only if I stay under my points. 

If my cheat day consists of just an iced coffee and being “bad” on ONE meal, I’ll allow myself one cheat day per week.  If my cheat day consists of three fried meals, doughnuts, and every other junk food known to man, I get NO MORE than one cheat day every two weeks.  If I go too crazy and notice I’m not losing weight, it might be one cheat day per month.

Overall, I think this will help me stick with things longer but will also allow me to be able to go out and enjoy food that I love and still be able to go out to eat with friends and MAYBE eat a piroshky from Piroshky Piroshky at Pike Place Market.  :)