Getting the Train Back on Track

I've been saying for a while now that I needed to get myself back on track - and I've been blaming a lot of things.  The truth is, yes, those things make weight loss more challenging, but in the end I have had nothing to blame but myself.

I am not trying to be unnecessarily hard on myself - I count the last two challening months as successes, actually.  For the challenges that I faced, and the choices that I made sometimes, I count my blessings that I was able to at least maintain my weight loss.

With that said, I knew that I needed to get my train back on its track.  The water weight scare of the last two weeks was kind of the ticket I needed to ride!  (See what I did there??  Train/ticket/ride...)  I am not shy about admitting that I suck at tracking my food - so that was my first trick.  I didn't track every day...or even half the days...but I did get a solid TWO days of major tracking!  And you know what??  Two days is better than none!  It made me a bit more aware of what foods I was putting in my mouth.

The weekend was a bit harder to track - a bit more eating out, tailgating, a visit from brother #3, his birthday...all made my tracking a little more difficult.  But, I'm still proud of my choices!  We went to a brewery with some of my friends for dinner on Friday - I probably should have gotten the salad, but I really wanted the pulled pork sandwich.  So, I got the pulled pork sandwich...and only ate half of it.  I left full and satisfied and able to feel good about myself.  Saturday at the tailgate was a little harder, but I stayed away from the burgers - I ate chili, some tortilla chips, and the baked chips that I took myself!  Now, I wasn't completely innocent at the tailgate, but it could have been soooooooo much worse.

Then Monday we had dinner club at a coworkers place and his whole menu was based around sugar...and I think I owned that menu!  It wasn't super easy, but I ate more of the veggie dishes and a small amount of the meat/pasta/dessert dishes.  And even though it was the day before weigh-in, I actually allowed myself to have dessert...a very small slice of pumpkin pie.  It was enough to give me a good taste and not enough to do a whole lot of damage.

Initial weight: 257.2
Week 37: -1.4
Total weight loss: -54.0
Current weight: 203.2

That elusive 200 is so close, yet so far away...