Dietbet?

So I've been slacking a lot lately.  I've been eating healthy meals but haven't really been following the plan.  I've been working out and cheating often.  It's been tough.  Now that its cold I want warm cookies and more coffee and chocolate.  I haven't  lost any weight.

My boyfriends mom invited me and him to join a dietbet, where you pay $25 and bet that you can lose 4% of your body weight in 28 days. It's like a Facebook app thing. I joined, paid, and weighed in.  I'm doing it.  I weighed in at 207.8, which is exactly 9 pounds lost from when I first began, like 10 weeks ago.  So I need to lose, like, 8.3 pounds.  That isn't going to be easy for me.

The bet starts on Wednesday, October 30th, and then that weekend is freakin Halloween weekend.  Of course I want to eat snacks, go to parties, and drink drinks.  So yeah, its gonna suck.  I really have to dedicate myself if I want to win some money.

The pot is up to, like, $530.  And everyone who meets their goal gets a piece of that money.  I want a piece of that money! I don't wanna lose 25 bucks. That would suck. So I have to dedicate myself 100% or its not gonna happen. 

Also, here in 2 weeks, I'm going somewhere for my mom's 50th birthday.  She wants to take a family trip to like Portland or Leavenworth or something, so eating out for a weekend won't be easy.  It's difficult for me to order salads for dinner.  Its just not as good as fries and a burger! I'd rather spend my money on good fatty food.  Poops.

So yeah here we go.  Fingers crossed. 

Progress!

Today, I finally hit the 10 pound lost mark.  I hope that that isn't just a one day thing and that its the same tomorrow! I'm on my 7th week and feelin pretty darn good.

Last week, during Week 6, I made BBQ chicken lettuce wraps.  They were soooo good.  I ended up having them for like 4 meals.  I love this meal.  So easy.

I am also seeing progress in the way I look! I went and visited a friend I hadn't seen in a few weeks.  She didnt even know I was dieting but she said I was looking skinnier.  My boyfriend also tells me I'm looking thinner too (:

 

207.4

Today, I weighed myself and weighted 206.6.  Thats 10.2 pounds! My official weigh in day is tomorrow so I'm hoping I weigh the same!
I've still been drinking coffee daily but I feel like I have cheated less this week haha.  been eating lots of spinach!

Beginning of Week 6

So the beginnings of my weeks are kind of messed up.  It was a Tuesday when I decided that I needed to do something, and I surely did not want to wait almost a week until Monday, so I just started the next day, which was a Wednesday.  But I've been weighing myself on Mondays, because its the beginning of the normal week.  So its been kinda weird.  What has been annoying to me is that yeah I know I shouldn't weigh myself every day but I do.  So Sunday i weigh like 208, but then Monday, my weigh in day, rolls around, and im at a 209.4. Which is what I was at on Monday.

I am definitely noticing a difference in my waist, but idk it could be the lighting, too.  Haha. Who knows. I'm not noticing a lot of difference in weight which is getting annoying.

But. Monday me and my man went on a date for our 10 month-a-versary.  We did splurge after he got off work, around 10, but we did order our dinners off Applebee's 550 calorie menu.  I got a big fruity drink, we shared some mozzarella sticks, and then I got a steak n shrimp with steamed veggies and red potatoes meal.  It was real yum. And then we shared a $1 brownie bite.  I was stuffed.  I noticed that normally in the past, that size meal probably wouldn't have filled me up.  But I was stuffed by the time we left.

Also, Monday, me and my roomie, Amber, started Insanity.   We both want to get in better shape and she has done it before so we are doing it.  Monday was the fit test and it was tough.  I was sooooo sore the next day.  Walking is still a struggle.  Last night when we both got home from our various lives around 10, we decided we should run instead.  We live on the 3rd floor of an apartment complex and there is a family that lives below us and they are really nice and we didn't want to disturb them if the daughter was going to sleep.  So we went down to the gym at our apartment complex.  As we were stretching, a cop comes in and kicks us out because he had to lock it up.  We thought it was a 24 hour gym so yeah that was weird.  I'm gonna ask my apartment people today.  So we ran back up to our apartment and did an ab work out, which was horrible with sore thighs.  I just finished insanity for today, and being sore made it so much harder.  It felt like less of a cardio work out though, and more of a struggle to just move at all. If that makes sense. 

So now I'm about to go grocery shopping for this weeks food.  I wanna see some progress on the scale!