Some days are better than others...

Have you ever had one of those days where you feel like you just can't eat enough??  I'm having one of those days...it's currently Sunday and all day long I have felt like I was starving!  I woke up and was famished (which almost never happens) - I made a nice breakfast of two eggs, breakfast potatoes (both made with 0 point Pam spray instead of butter), and 5 slices of turkey bacon.  It was so tasty, but less than an hour later I felt like I was hungry again.  Not bored hungry - legit hungry.  I had a late breakfast...ate somewhere around 11 or so.  Between then and dinner, I ate two bowls of grapes, a serving of pretzel sticks with Laughing Cow Light French Onion cheese, and a banana.  Still hungry.  I had dinner around 6:30 where I had a cup of brown rice and my own stir fry (eye of round steak bits, broccoli, green beans, carrots, and tomatoes cooked in some butter with garlic salt, salt, and pepper).  I felt so full and satisfied after I ate it, but here it is only about an hour after eating it and I feel like I haven't had dinner yet.  I have a whole 4 points left to eat today, and I am just baffled at how some days I can eat barely anything and feel full all day, but others I can eat every hour and still feel hungry!  Bodies are weird.

Overall, the week as a whole was pretty good.  Valentine's Day was a little difficult from an emotional eating standpoint, but I handled it pretty well.  I tried to embrace the holiday, though I am a singleton, choosing to celebrate those that I love.  However, in doing what I thought was one of the coolest things I'll ever do, I managed to slightly depress myself.  I went to see Casablanca in an old theatre.  It was seriously cool, but at the same time seriously awkward as I was literally the only person there by myself.  I tried not to let it get to me, but afterwards I had a serious case of emotional hunger.  But, I let myself have a Weight Watcher fudge bar, and that was it.  I decided that I would make some sweets, but to share with others and not eat them myself.  I may have gone a little overboard...

I love to bake...and I love to decorate what I bake...so I got a little fancy.  I was unsure what kind of cake to make, and I had a lot of friends to feed, so I made two cakes.  I experimented with making layered cakes, which makes icing them pretty difficult.  I tried my hardest not to lick the fingers while decorating and pretty much just tried to do the neatest job possible so I wasn't even tempted!  It worked out pretty well, actually.  (If you'd like to see my cakes, you'll have to check out my Confectionery Capers blog to see the update on there soon.)

I had a friend come to visit this weekend and thankfully she let me know early on in the week that she wanted to go to Mad Mex (a Mexican restaurant, if you couldn't figure that out) while she was in town.  I ate well through the week, but it was good to know that I needed to behave if I was going to eat there this weekend.  I was able to save all of my extra weekly points, as well as get in some extra exercise, so that I could eat my burrito on Friday.  The most important thing I noticed, though, was that while I was eating my burrito I was getting full faster than I used to.  Definitely a good thing!!

So can I have my burrito and eat it too?  Monday's meeting will surely tell...

Initial weight: 257.2
Week 6: -2.8
Total weight loss: -15.6 lbs
Current weight: 241.6

Apparently I can!!  And, I have officially lost over 5% of my initial body weight!!  So, I guess it's time for a photo update...

       Original picture from a few weeks ago...                                                  Me tonight...

Not a huge difference, but a noticeable one! :-)