Week one (again)

1/17-1/23

So many weight loss 'journeys' and so many first weeks. Fewer second weeks, but that's for another time. I now weigh 196.4. That's the 20 pounds we talked about earlier (plus one, which isn't bad for 4 months of maintaining!). I want to weigh 162 pounds. That will be the smallest I've been since 9th or 10th grade, which does make it daunting, but I try not to think of it like that. I think: I want to hit 190. That's it. That's my first goal.

This week one went well. I put every single little bitty (but nothing's bitty, that's why I'm FAT) thing I ate into my calorie counter. You'd be surprised how just the act of putting something into the app can be such a pain in my ass I'll decide against whatever I'm going to eat. Some foods I won't put in at all, like the tiny red apple I ate on my break. Please, those 40 calories aren't going to be the reason I don't lose any weight this week. If anything it's the mini-handful of chocolate chips I have one (or two or three) times a day.

Speaking of chocolate, of course I picked my 'first week' as the week of the Chocolate Fest at the Convention Center. I've gone four years in a row now and it's amazing. Free wine tasting, so many samples of truffles, salted caramels, chocolate martinis, cupcakes and toffees that I literally (yeah, I mean it) do not eat sugar or chocolate for the next three days. Which, coincidentally, is weigh in! I've counted everything, been to the gym five (or six) times, alternating weights and cardio like a good girl so it's time for the moment of truth...

2.8 pounds down! I should go to Chocolate Fest every week.