Sometimes I cannot believe, how good everything is working out for me at the moment.
If the Weigh-in was today, I would have reached the second goal. I would even have lost 200g (=0,4lbs) more than I should have, to be exact.
I was at a birthday on Friday, where I ate various kinds of chips and chocolade without holding back in any way. At least I only drank low calory beverages and no alkohol, so yay me!
On sunday evening I visited my brother, I ate Pasta before, since I knew him and my sister wanted to order something to eat and I did had no Points (yes, I'm a Weight watcher) left for a big takeaway meal. Too bad, my sister could not finish her doner kebab rollo (I am not sure if you have something like that in America - it is thin sliced meat, mostly beef, with a yogurt-garlic-sauce, Greek coleslaw and cheese, all that is completely surrounded by pizzadough and then gets "baked" in the oven, mostly with additional cheese on top of the dough). I ate half the thing, which was about the length of half my forearm. Bad.
The day before yesterday I had a christmas party with some colleagues and we went to the christmas market (again no sweet beverages for me, yay!) and after that to a greek restaurant (one Ouzo after the meal, still yay, I looove this stuff!).
The rest of the days I ate normal, used all my Points, did not hold back, to balance some very-high-calory-days with some very-low-calory-days. I cannot do low-calory-days, they make me sad and I don't like being sad. I like to eat a normal amount of food (and sometimes a little more *g).
Saturday I had a plus of 1,1kg (=2,2lbs) and decided, I would not weigh until friday, which is my official WW Weigh-in -day, since I thought, this week would be busted. Of course, I did it anyway. I thought, I could use the "shock" to stay on track again. It worked, but not as I imagined. Yesterday I was already only 300g away from my 2nd month goal. Today I hit it. And if nothing goes terribly wrong today, tomorrow, on my official weigh-in day, I will not only will have a good number to work with over the holidays, but:
I will be "normal" again! For the first time in the 2000's I wil not be overweight BMI-wise. I will have a normal, healthy weight and I could not be more excited about it!! After exactly 349 days and 30,3kg I hit the second biggest goal in my journey. The only goal left will be the end of this DietBet which also will be the weight, I want to carry for at least the next 15-20 years.
NEVER eat too little, fellow DietBetters! It will work for the moment, your weight loss will be higher than mine ever was in a week - but every "overeating-day" will be bad, every time you eat a little more, your body directly tries to keep it and you will see it on the scale, which of course is very frustrating. I had 3 "bad" evenings this week and lost 900g during the last 6 days. Because my body is used to get relatively much food, every day. I admit, the last 2 weeks I nearly worked out every day, which is more than usual. I do that to compensate the additional christmas candy which goes in at the moment. But I am not the most athletic person in the world, so when I say "worked out" I mean 20 minutes of "Shred" or 35-45 minutes on the elliptical, twice I went jogging for about 40 minutes - I guess this is not the biggest workout one could do :)
I hope, I will be able to keep the weight off, but since I eat very satisfyingly nearly every day - why shouldn't I eat that way for the rest of my life?
I am very happy today!