I Sparkle

Well, one more week down and one more pound gone.

Seriously.

A pound a week.

Just like the manual.

And IT STILL SUCKS.

I happily awaited the magic weight loss fairies last night and they didn't come.

Sigh.

This past week though, I made it through my husband's birthday (cake and ice cream, dinner out at a Mexican restaurant), his birthday night out (beer and wings), and the kids' fall festival (cake walk, bake sale...).

And I was good.

I had 2 pieces of cake throughout the week.  Not bad.  We even threw out the leftover (yeah us!).

I had a small scoop of ice cream when I did have cake (I like to have a little cake with my ice cream, so a small scoop is a big deal...it was a big switch).

When we went out to dinner on his birthday, I looked up some options and didn't freak when Fish Tacos weren't on the menu.  I watched the numbers of chips I ate.  I passed on the margarita.

We didn't eat at the festival.  I donated a bunch of cakes, so I felt like we had contributed more than enough.

When we did our grown up night out with some friends, I had "naked" tenders- not wings and drank a Michelob Ultra.

All in all, not too bad.

I adjusted.

I went out.

I still had fun.

And there's still a part of me that wanted a GIANT margarita and chimichanga.  Just not quite yet.

I guess a one pound loss, was not too bad a deal.

Today, when we walked out of our meeting, my friend Ellen and I were approached by one of the VP's of the local Weight Watcher's.  She asked us if we would like to talk on camera about Matt, our meetings, Weight Watchers, etc.  They were doing an internal video for WW for their local innovations awards or something.  So we said sure.

Ellen did her bit- talked about how simple the program is to follow (she just hit her 5% goal today- WOO HOO!!).  Then they asked me to talk about the meetings.

I said "Well, I actually blog about it...."

So I explained that having Matt as a team leader meant that I had a skinny Greek guy on my shoulder all week asking "Do you LOVE it?" when I would eat.  I had her cracking up.

She stopped filming for a second and said "Do you know you sparkle on camera?"

I laughed.  I actually had been told from a local news team that I give "good video." I  even have done a few training videos for our corporate office.  So yes, I had been told that before.  But not in awhile.  And I really hadn't felt "sparkly" for a long time.

She talked to me afterward about my positive attitude.

Again, hadn't heard that in awhile.

But it's true. I am positive.  My back doesn't hurt.  I feel in control.  The  meetings are making all the difference.  And most important- the fact that my friend Ellen is going with me is a huge deal.  While I'm making friends at the meetings (because I could make friends at a prison-- funny story about that...), it's nice to have my friend there, going through the same thing.

So I sparkle.

And I lost a pound.

Yeah me!