My Quest Weigh-In Week #1

I LOST 3.8 lbs.!!!!!

That's almost twice what I wanted to lose and I am very proud of myself, but not really because of the loss so much as how well I stuck to my guns and made the right choices.  Seriously, it's a huge deal to me that I had:

NO Coke
NO alcohol
NO fast food (aside from the CRISPY chicken strips on my salad last night!)

And I started counting calories, trying to stay at 1200 or fewer calories a day.  My main theme with my eating is "along the lines" of Weight Watchers & South Beach Diet:  portion control, more vegetables, more fiber, lean meats and fewer carbs.  I'm not following either one of these to any degree of the letter, just using them as guidelines from what I remember.

The real challenge starts today because with weight loss or weight gain my mind is a funny thing.  When I'm first starting a diet (which I've done so many times over the last 25+ years I can't even tell you), if I lose weight, I want to celebrate because I feel like I've got some leeway, some room, so I indulge myself, I gain the weight back, then get discouraged and forget the diet.  If I gain weight, I'm depressed and I just say "screw it!," I indulge myself and I gain even more weight and I'm off the diet.  It's been a Catch-22, but no more.  I'm seriously not going down that road anymore.

I just need my other 5 My Quest friends to post their losses, maintains or gains so we can see, collectively, how we've done.  I think this support thing really helps.  It's kept me accountable all week and I love it!!  Has it worked for everyone else?