Drumroll please.......

..........It's "officially" been a week since I started this diet. Last Saturday, I stepped on the scale in our upstairs bathroom (conveniently located in the bathroom that we don't use as often, I might add), and realized that I weighed more than I did when I delivered my youngest son. Moms aren't supposed to GAIN weight after having the baby, right? We have so many "Get your body back!"-type workouts in all those super helpful Mommy magazines (dripping with sarcasm here...but that's a whole other post for another time) that promise we'll be able to get our pre-pregnancy bodies back in SIX WEEKS if we just do 5 little exercises every day.

Yeah, right. They didn't work. Partly because they didn't address my eating issues, and partly because I just didn't do them. The magazines sat on my bedside table......gathering dust.

But I have officially stuck to my plan for a whole week now! I've worked out on the treadmill every day except one (yesterday), and stuck to my eating plan.

Are you ready for the results? :)

I have lost...........wait for it...........TWELVE POUNDS!

I'm feeling pretty good right now! My pants are actually annoyingly loose, which is great! I'm not going to try on any of my older pants just yet, though - I don't want to feel depressed at all just yet, but just ride on the high of losing weight.

Of course, we are entering THAT WEEK (all of you women know what I mean by that), so we'll see how next week turns out, but for right now I'm really excited about this plan.

This next week, I need to focus on drinking water while I'm out and about. I'm worried about staying consistent this next week: Babies #1 and 2 go back to school this week, so my days will again be full of driving in the car time (at least 1.5 hours a day) as I cart them to and from school. I have meetings 2, possibly 3 days, next week, and I'm back to my job as a youth minister this weekend, which means more responsibilities and more meetings. I'm trying to prepare for the craziness of the week and my first "goal" is to bring water with me in the car, not coffee, which is what I currently bring.

I'm nervous - my crazy life and schedule is usually my stumbling block. I find it hard to motivate myself to plan ahead and work out once the kids go to bed. I have hope, though - this week's weight loss was huge and I *think* will help me hold to the plan.

Here goes nothing!

-Heidi