Food really is the key!

Wow, what a difference 3 days makes!

As I said in my last blog on Tuesday, I recommitted to the food aspect of the challenge this week, after struggling considerably over the past month. My head must be in the right place this time, because I haven't been starving once all week, and have even found that I've had to remind myself to eat a few times. I also haven't touched those damned crackers since the day before I went to Darwin (last Thursday), as I have started eating hummus that I've made myself with carrot sticks as my morning snack, and then having 2 hard boiled eggs cut in half as my afternoon snack to get my protein hit before I go to the gym, both snacks that my body now craves, which is so exciting!

On Weigh in Wednesday, I found that I had gained 200g, which was too be expected after the crap I had been consuming over the past few weeks, I'm actually surprised it wasn't more! I didn't let it get me down as I knew I was on the path lose it again and this time keep it off!

Now, I know that we are only meant to weigh ourselves once a week, but I wanted to see if being good was making a difference, as I hadn't goneto the gym on Wednesday night and really didn't push myself much at all last night (I think I need to change it up a bit as I'm getting bored). Yesterday I weighed myself and I had lost that 200g already (woo!). Then today I weighed myself, expecting not to see a change... boy was I wrong! I had gone from something 4.5 on Wednesday to something 3.8 on Friday! I pretty much danced around the bathroom after weighing myself a second time to make sure I wasn't hallucinating! If I keep this loss up, I'll be done to the next something in a few weeks!

I am so glad I wouldn't allow myself to give up and reminded myself I still had 2 months left on this challenge round, as right now I feel like I could take on the world. Once I get the food under control properly, I will begin to tackle the exercise portion properly, I'm still going to the gym and my group fitness sessions, and come next week I'll be doing a boot camp with my friend Jess twice a week as well, so that may help with my toning days where I struggled with the exercises I was given on the challenge as I didn't know how to modify a few of them with the way my back is at the moment, but right now, my main focus is the food. 3 Days in I'm loving it, and today will be my first test as I have a lunch meeting that is catered and am out to dinner with a friend tonight... actually, the whole weekend will be my first test as I am out for at least 3 meals... But I will do this, as those scales told me that it is all worth it!