NOT ME MONDAY

Three pounds ...THREE AND A QUARTER POUNDS TO BE EXACT ! And you know how fat peeps are...we want every ounce. Twelve & 3/4 pounds in the last month. Could be better ( see how we like to beat ourselves up ? ). But I'll take it. Overall, I am excited. After no loss last week, I knew it should be positive this week, but it's nice to see.

This may be the last weight update for a while. My reading of several other blogs leads me to believe that weighing less often would be better. One great blogger, Sean, ( he's to the right under fav blogs,) weighs every two weeks. I may even stretch it to a month. For those people like me who have been known to jump on and off a scale 5 times in a day ( yep, five ) just to see if it's changed, learning that it's not about the scale may be as big a lesson as learning how to eat.

Had a good day, food wise. Went to MNFTM and chose to eat a healthy protein and carb snack before I went so I'd be less tempted to eat too much. Wasn't even sure if I'd eat anything. But once there, I chose to have a 1" square of chocolate cake and a 1/4 cup of chocolate ice cream. Just two bites of both. Just talked to Christie today about what to do when I started to crave chocolate so bad that I'd eat anything in sight trying to satisfy that need. She suggested dark choco...which I knew. I'm going to pick some up to have on hand. But not until I start craving it again. I don't really want to have too much of that stuff on hand yet. I just thought the opportunity to eat a tiny amount of something really decadent would do the job right now...and it did. Just enough for me to feel like I'd had something wonderful, but not enough to feel bad about.

Ok...just a couple of the " Not Me Monday" admissions. In case you're not familiar with the phrase, it was started by a blogger who goes by the name of MckMama. Wonderful place to laugh and cry. She has some hilarious stories. She's making blog changes and won't have NMM this one Monday, but many of her bloggers will. She links her posts to other bloggers and encourages them to do NMM posts as well. So here's just a few of mine...

You didn't see me making circles in town last week because I was talking so much on the phone that I backtracked from the east side to the west THREE times. Nope, wasn't me.

I didn't shampoo my hair with hand lotion last Friday morning and then wonder why it smelled so good. I would never have done that.

I did not shave my legs with the little plastic guard on. I did not think the blade was just really dull when I could not detect any hair removal . And I certainly did not take several hours to finally come to my senses and realize what happened. Absolutely not. Uh, uh.

And finally, ( those who know me well will so believe this ) I am sure it was not me who hit Sonic three times in one day...TWICE just within happy hour and once earlier in the day. Ok, it was hot and I love their lime water with sugar free cranberry. But I am sure that was someone else. Uhhh, right.

PS...oh yeah, I still have a snack coming...the calories are low enough for my day that I can get my last one in, even with the choco...basically two snacks instead of one meal tonight...yay for me.

To a better tomorrow...