Weigh-In Wednesday Week 7

Waddup wonderful weaders, it's Weigh-In Wednesday, week seven!

I'm still on the downward slope, but it was just a 0.4lb loss this week.  No gain so, no worries.  Total loss is 14.2lbs.  Woot.

Looking over the past week, I was mostly on track except for one day when we had the company picnic.  A few beers and boxed wine (ooh la la!) added to a mango water ice added up quick, but was totally fun.  I think I ended up using the great majority of my extra weekly WW points that day.  Unfortunately, it made the end of my UNFATTENING week kinda rough.   I had to keep a very close eye on my intake lest I go into the red.  However, it motivated me to get back to exercising and I did a good amount to try to offset indulgences. Best part is that now I'm on track to making exercise a regular occurrence.  There's a silver lining to EVERYTHING.  I'm like freakin' Pollyanna.  I was even kinda sort of unable to use my leg for a while! OMG I AM Pollyanna.  Or Forest Gump.

Sorry, I think the exercise is doing weird hyperactive things to my brain.  Oxygenating it, or something...

Anyway! this week, my goal will be to try harder to reign it in with the overeating.   It will be a challenge with a birthday dinner to go to on Friday and Kings Dominion on Saturday.  But I'd really like to lose more than half a pound next week.

While I love blogging about THE UNFATTENING along with my other random food experiences,  I am finding that it's making what I find to be meager amounts of weight loss into events larger than they really are.  I know 14lbs is a good amount of weight.  That's 14 boxes of butter.  Fifty-six sticks of butter.  (Hilarious at how I'm using butter as a unit of measurement.)

No, not Butters.  Though this is 12lbs of Butters on green beans.

This is a 1lb box of butter.  Look, it's cultured.  You can only use it on fancy things.  Like haricot vert.  Which is French for green beans. Ooh la la.

This is 14lbs of butter.  Enough for 32 batches of Cook's Illustrated's perfect chocolate chip cookies. Cookies are also a valid unit of measurement.

I know my clothes fit looser. I know I can do a few yoga twists a little easier because there's a little less belly to get around.  My rational brain knows it's a good thing.  But I look in the mirror and I look the same.  And I have sooooooooooooooooo far to go.

But sharing THE UNFATTENING!!!! with you all has also been really neat because I've apparently inspired some of you to embark on your own journeys toward unfattening and more healthy lifestyles.  I'll try my best not to judge how you go about your journey (unless you're starving yourself), but I'll be here if you need support/advice/someone to smack that second Twinkie out ya face.  Of course, I'm no expert on anything.  The only diet I believe in is one where eating fewer Calories than burned will result in weight loss.  When that stops working, then I'll gladly take your advice on how not eating a particular thing and eating a lot of another will be the miracle I've always been looking for.  But until then, everything else out there is a waste of my time.

So, dear friends, good luck and happy eating (in moderation)!