Happy Belated Valentine’s!  & a big fat middle finger to the three boxes of chocolates in my pantry, compliments of my mother-in-law!  (seriously y’all…they are CALLING MY NAME.  They even gave me a nickname – “sweet little sugar dumplings.”  and they CALL ME.  So Nate is taking them to work tomorrow).

I lost 1 lb this week – happy about the loss & knowing that eventually, it would slow down.  I just need to make sure I’m getting in all the veggies & I definitely need to start a full-time exercise routine.  Side note: when I look at the first McFatty picture & then where I am today…let’s just say that I’ve never done weight loss with pictures before, but it is a STRONG motivator.

I think I’m starting to hit the spot where I miss “real” food.  I miss cooking.  Especially when I’m torturing myself by perusing Ree Drummond’s website.  But then I realize…I really, really love not thinking about what I’m going to eat.  & I still have a ton of weight to lose & with this working, I don’t want to mess up a good thing.  I have found that I’m starting to get the itch to “cheat” more, but I think in some ways, it’s a good thing.  I cheated with one chocolate chip cookie straight out of the oven that Nate made yesterday – but I only ate ONE.  So in some ways, I think this is re-teaching me that just eating one cookie really is okay.  Shockingly enough, the universe will survive if cookies are left on a plate longer than an hour!  & since I ate a cookie, I had motivation to get moving to burn it off – so I plopped Harrison in the stroller, grabbed Tuck, & we went out for a good long walk.  It felt so good to get moving but by Mile 2, my thighs were burning.  You’d think that labor & delivery itself would put me in the running for Olympic gold, but I am exponentially out of shape compared to where I was even a year ago.

But I was so overly proud of myself for actually exercising - did you do anything new this week??  Maybe get in all your water, or pick up weights for the first time, or try a new recipe?

In random news, a few weeks ago the nice folks at EatSmart took notice of McFatty Mondays & offered to upgrade my scale.  I had been stepping on a cheap piece of plastic that literally cracked every time I hopped on.  Yes, cracked.  I am slowly breaking my scale (if that wasn’t motivation to stay away from those sweetly calling chocolates, I don’t know what is). Thanks to the VP and his team, I am now weighing in on this sleek little number, that shows quite a big number.  Also a far more accurate number, since it measures every 0.2 lbs instead of every half-pound.  It’s also nice to not have such an eye-sore for a scale since we leave it out, nor will it break the bank like some scales.  (ummm…yeah.  I looked at pretty ones before & they were ranging into the $100+ territory at Bed, Bath, & Beyond.  I’m really not into investing that kind of money into a scale unless it’s got Jillian Michaels herself trapped inside).

& because it’s pretty, I’m less inclined to throw it out the window when it tells me something I don’t want to hear.