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Well, the last three days I have literally eaten whatever I wanted. Way too much. : / It's starting to freak me out. Like, weight loss was a crazy dream a hundred years ago. Which is causing me to panic! Must get back on track!!!!

Tho.. Honestly (and embarrassingly...) I think I've still done better than I used to do on a normal, every day basis....

Weigh in...

I lost 4.4....

BUT! Here's the tricky part: I weigh in on Mondays usually. And, of course, over the weekend I gain every time... So if I were to weigh in on Monday again, I'm sure it wouldn't look that good. But since I will be traveling Monday, I'm gonna go with this. :) Maybe it'll help inspire me not to gorge while on vacation.

Speaking of vacation... I probably won't officially weigh in again until Monday, September 12th.. That'll give me a chance to work on the vacation weight before having to post that depressing number... :P

Actually, tho, I'm going to be with a bunch of weight watchers the whole time, so hopefully we won't gain too much..... Tho, with just the eating I plan on doing the next 3 days I could easily gain back that 4.4... Oh, well! For now I'm going to revel in the fact that I have semi-officially lost 35+ lbs!!! :)

Junk Food

Today I went and bought a bunch of junk to kick off my vacation with. As soon as I got in the car I instantly regretted it. I could feel the pounds leaping on at just the thought of eating Ben and Jerry's Half Baked *Even if it does taste like heaven!*.

Between that and forgetting to eat lunch today, I think I really have kicked my food addiction! But last time I said this I started getting HUNGRY all the time....

I really don't crave junk food very often anymore, tho.. That could be because I eat a lot of crappy food and really just want home cooked meals most of the time.......

Maybe I should hire a cook... hahaha!! But seriously. I need to put more effort into my food...

Question....

So. I have this thing where I watch other ppl's feet that are walking the track with me (Esp ppl who've passed me) to see how much faster they're going. Sometimes I try to keep up. Well, there's been several times that ppl who pass me are walking slower than me, in their steps. Less steps. This one dude walks the same amount of steps as me, but he's faster, much faster than me. So I have decided their legs are longer. I try taking bigger steps, and it helps..

But my question: if the dude who is walking faster than me is actually taking the same amount of steps per minute, are we burning the same calories per mile? Or am I burning more, because it's actually going to take me more steps to get the mile. OR! Is he burning more, because he's bigger (and he's male..)?

Weigh in...

1.4 lbs! :) Works for me!!

Here's hoping!

My sneak peek weigh-in wasn't promising, but according to my tracking, I didn't use all of my weekly allowance.... Plus I didn't use any of my activity points and I walked 5 miles yesterday, not to mention the rest of my exercise earlier in the week... I'm hoping that tomorrow's weigh-in will be more favorable.. Fingers crossed!!

5 Miles Down! :)

So I decided at some point that I was going to walk 5 miles today before I went to work at 12:00. This meant I had to get up at 8:00 and anyone who knows me knows I don't like to get up early on Saturday.. (Yes, 8:00 is early for a Saturday.) I was a little worried I'd end up choosing sleep over exercise.

Well, wadya know, but I was up before 8:00! I was up before my alarm ever went off. Got out there a little before 8:30 and kicked that 5 miles in the butt! :) About halfway through it just didn't feel challenging enough so I jogged a little. A very little, but the point is... That was the only time my heart rate got up the whole time. Granted, I wasn't walking very fast... Less than 4 mph.. But still. I'm pretty excited about the progress I've made. :)