War! (Huh!) What is it good for?

Our body is constantly warring with itself, which makes life interesting sometimes.  Your head and your heart are often at odds with each other.  Sometimes your head says, "let's go exercise", but your body says, "Screw You!"  But, for me, one of the worst body wars is that between the mouth and the stomach.  That point while you're eating that your stomach says, "I'm full - no more food!" but your mouth says, "But it tastes sooooooo gooooooooood....".  Or even your brain and your mouth...your brain says, "you don't need seconds" or "you don't need to eat that piece of cake" or "you're really not hungry, you're just bored", but your mouth says, "But it tastes soooooo gooooooooooood..."  Let's face it...our mouths are kind of evil!  They are always getting us into trouble!  I mean, the bad food choices that we make are usually because of our mouths...not our stomachs!  The stomach doesn't care what we put in it as long as it isn't empty!  The mouth is the real traitor here!

I went to an Indian restaurant this week - I saved up all my extra points and made myself make good choices through the week so that I could have lunch there on Friday.  I haven't done the math to see how many points it was officially worth, but I don't think it was too bad.  And I only ate one piece of naan!  The problem was, though, that it was a buffet...and it tasted soooooo goooooooood.  I hadn't been there for months, if not longer, and I'd had a small breakfast, and it was a little later than my usual lunch time....and it tasted soooooooo gooooooooooood.  My mouth kept saying, "more! more! more! more!" but my stomach was saying, "ummm...I'm getting a little full down here, not sure how much more I can hold...".  Despite the war, I think I did reasonably well.  I'm sure that I ate more than I should have, but it wasn't as much as I used to eat, which is a big step in the right direction.

My body also had a war with the clock this week.  Between catching up after the break, several evening commitments, and just overall not adjusting to the time change, I simply haven't had the time or the energy to do much working out.  I got a little bit in on the yoga ball (despite my friends making fun of me for how perverted it looks refilling it - and despite falling off of it last night and hitting my head off the floor...ouch!), but not as much as I would have liked.  I guess we'll see how that reflects on the scale!

Initial weight: 257.2
Week 10: -1.8
Total weight loss: -20 lbs
Current weight: 237.2

So it was a good weight loss week, but I know that I didn't track or exercise like I should have - so goal this week is to get back on track with my tracking...and to not fall on my head anymore...seriously, it REALLY HURTS!