I'm Done!

So, I made it!  I did have a few cheats like the ice cream a week ago and this week I ate 1 dinner mint and some homemade kettle corn which is just air popped popcorn with butter, salt and some kettle corn seasoning on it.  I also ate cranberry pork for dinner one night which has some sugar in it as well.  Overall, I feel like I didn't eat any treats though which felt good! 

I had some musings last night as these past two weeks came to a close.  First of all, I really missed my favorite daily cereal of honey bunches of oat but I compensated by eating toast, corn chex and cheerios which were great substitutes.  Second, I really like to eat granola bars as a quick snack during the day but instead I ate more fruits and vegetables instead which is great!  Last and best of all, I really enjoyed waking up feeling no guilt over the food I ate the day before.  No binge cookie eating followed by bloating and guilt the next morning and that was the best feeling of all!

I am planning to go back to eating some sugar but I am still going to focus on eating healthy as much as possible and only indulge when the time is right, not whenever I just want sugar. A friend recommended not eating after 6 PM, even through the holidays and then I will likely still lose weight.  She lost 50 pounds last year doing this.  Something to consider.......

I have also realized that to eat the recommended amount of fruits and vegetables each day is expensive.  I really tried to have 5-6 servings a day and it was a lot of food, just for me.  Imagine if my whole family did that, it would be a lot of food and quite expensive.  I can understand why people don't do it more and that only 1in 4 people eat the recommended amount each day. 

This morning I weighed in at 150.2, down 2.4 pounds from last week!  The lowest I saw on the scale was 149.4 and I am back up almost a pound but my body is still acting quite crazy.  Even this past weekend I have had days where I bled for a whole day, it's gone the next day and then back the day after that.  Not just spotting this time.  So frustrating.  Plus, I feel like I have constant PMS and I have a short temper with my kids and this bothers me a lot.  I had a friend who did this no treats bit with me and she drank a Mountain Dew (her stress reliever) almost every day and she lost 4 pounds.  I'm trying to not be bothered that I didn't indulge like that and I lost less than her but everyone is different. 

Anyway, we'll see where I am at next Monday after 2 Thanksgiving dinners (1 on Thursday and another on Sunday with my Dad and stepmom) and a birthday party/pizza night on Friday night.

Week 1 Down!

Well, I made it a week with almost no sugar.  The only time I ate sugar was on Saturday night when we celebrated my birthday with a date night to The Spaghetti Factory.  We went with 3 other couples and they give you ice cream at the end and for me to not have any when we were celebrating my birthday felt weird so I ate it even though I didn't really care about it (I'm not a huge ice cream person).  I did however avoid ordering the chocolate mousse cake which I really had my eye on :)

I didn't give in to sugar last night but I was tempted.  My sister-in-law brought pumpkin chocolate chip muffins and they looked/smelled so good.  Then I made brownies for dessert and didn't eat those either.  I win!  Oh, and I thought I would see a bigger weight loss from a week of no sugar, but only down 0.4 pounds at 152.6, lame.  This week I will work on eating better as well as no sugar :)  Also, my body is still acting very weird after having a baby.  I bled/spotted for 5.5 weeks and then it went away for 2 weeks and then at 7 weeks it was back and I keep spotting/bleeding occasionally.  I think it may have finally gone away but it's annoying for it to be there some of the time.  Sorry if I share too much.  That may be why I had a hard time losing weight....just maybe.

I really didn't have a hard time avoiding sugar this week.  I felt like it was not a big deal and I wasn't craving it all the time like I have in the past.  The only real time I felt deprived was Sunday night but I pushed through.

This week, perhaps some exercise and more healthy eating in addition to no sugar.  Going strong!

Another Mini Goal....????

Ok,  I have had some good friends/neighbors that want to go sugar free with me so once again I am committing to a mini goal of 2 weeks, starting today.  This time, no sugar at all. 

This past week was my birthday and we had pizza, cake and treats like no tomorrow!  It was finally gone by Saturday and I ate better but still had sugar and again on Sunday, sugar and a huge yummy dinner with friends.  So, this morning I am at 153, up almost 2 pounds. 

Since there isn't anything the next 2 weeks (except my birthday dinner but dessert of ice cream at the Spaghetti Factory I can definitely avoid), I am going to do it.  This will not include the week of Thanksgiving :) 

With friends supporting me, I feel more ready to tackle this challenge head on.  Perhaps a little exercise too.

Also, I am really over the anxiety I felt before when having a newborn.  Now I look forward to the evenings of feeding/snuggling my baby and watching TV with my hubby til he goes to sleep.  Then he almost always sleeps until 2 or 2:30 AM and then again at 6 or 6:30 and my husband gets up for that feeding and then I sleep until 7 or so.  Getting up only once is great and my baby and I are only up for 30-45 minutes now instead of an hour.  Life is getting easier every week!

What was I thinking?

So, trying to not eat treats during a very treat filled 2 weeks was probably a colossal mistake.  I mean, I did eat fewer treats than I would have, but not many.  Plus I wasn't considering my cereal (which is a little sweet) and granola bars as part of my no sugar bit.  However, then I started to not consider muffins as a treat either so it was all downhill from there.  I wasn't very clear even to myself if I was doing no sugar or no treats, ahhh.  I also didn't consider (when I made my goal) my baby's blessing yesterday where we had desserts and muffins galore, and I still have a ton leftover here at my home today.  All in all, it was a recipe for disaster.

Anyway, I am not going to continue this week since it's my birthday and I know I will end up eating treats on my birthday and a few days after with leftover cake/cereal etc.  Then we are going out on Saturday night to celebrate which will mean more dessert.

Perhaps next week I will be more ready to take on a mini goal.

This week I weighed in at 151.2, down almost a pound which is good considering all that I ate, especially on Thursday.  I did clean and cook all day and eat very little on Saturday so that's probably why.

We took a family photo after the baby blessing and I am looking chubby.  I don't love looking chubby (with a double chin) in photos.  I will post the photo for you to see :)