Down, Down, Down...

I attend meetings on Tuesdays, but my eTools say to weigh in on Saturday. I'm sure that can change but for now I've just been weighing myself on my own scale and tracking that. Using my scale, I've lost over 7 pounds now! I've been using the Points Plus program for less than two weeks and I'm already really seeing changes. Okay, maybe not seeing but definitely feeling. I have a little more spring in my step. I have noticed I've been moving more and sitting less. And even on my really bad day (Thursday, and it totally went downhill about 4:00) I stayed within my points limit and woke up Friday and saw it as a new day. In the past this would have been an event in which I would have felt justified giving up. But I didn't and I'm 7 pounds lighter.

My first meeting was about Thanksgiving and how we all had the ability to lose 4-16 pounds by then. Rachel had a bag of apples and a watermelon and a big plastic wad of fat that weighed 5 pounds to show us what that would feel like. The bag of apples alone felt like a lot. Guess what, I've lost a bag of apples! This is doable. I don't feel deprived and still eat chocolate. I just eat it differently. Except for on Thursday, I have found that I really do have it in me to have just a little bit and be satisfied. And I just remember in my head, "Nothing tastes as good as fit feels." Because so far it feels pretty good!