Fitness Challenge Update: Week 8!

I can't believe this is the last week of the challenge! I feel like I have kind of lost the last two weeks. Hence the lack of updating. My official Monday weigh in was 201. I am so close to breaking that 200 lb mark I can taste it. In fact, the scale said 199.8 after my workout this morning. But I'm not really counting that yet. What I am counting is that I am wearing my favorite jeans today. They will always be different than they were before, but they fit. They even look pretty darn good.

Moving is awful with kids. It totally threw me off. Lots of letting my emotions run my actions and reactions. But I still lost weight. Which tells me I am doing something right. Through it all, I only missed one day of working out, and that was because my 1 year old was having an early morning meltdown, and my husband really needed to finish his homework. And even though I ate 4 sweet rolls last weekend from the bakery down the street (not all at once) I didn't completely lose my focus. Or give up. And even though I was really angry and bitter about it (my poor husband) I resisted the urge to eat any of the ice cream left over in my freezer from my sisters birthday party. I should have handled that better. My husband threw it all away because I was so upset with myself for even wanting it. And I'm really glad he did. It wasn't even good ice cream. So not worth it. What was worth it was the oatmeal cake. Which is healthier than regular cake because it has oatmeal in it, right? I seriously doubt it. It's loaded with sugar, and I should have sent it home with my sister and her friends to finish. But to be honest, I didn't eat nearly as much of it as I wanted to, and I feel like that is progress.

So yeah, last week sounds pretty bad, huh? I have to take a moment to ask myself how much better I could have done in this challenge if I hadn't eaten all that sugar. But then I have to move on and not get stuck there. I could still get as far as 20 lbs in 8 weeks, and that kind of consistency is an amazing accomplishment.