Week 4 DOWN and feeling good... and full... and good....

Well today was my weigh in for week number 4 and I was super pleased! I went down about a pound and a half and I brought my grand total of weight lost up to TWELVE POUNDS!  I'm super proud!

I feel like I so should have blogged more this week, I do think that talking it out is going to be an important part of my journey but then a get busy and I get tired and I just start doing other stuff.  So here is the recap:

• Sugar is calling my name!  I ate a bowl of Reese's Puffs this week, and a cinnamon roll too (akk!) aside from today though I did keep with in my calories every day, and generally I think it is okay to have splurges because you can't maintain a diet of NEVER eating sweets (well, *I* cant anyway!) HOWEVER - I see this huge correlation between eating sugar and wanting more sugar - instead of it being like, oh, ok, I had a cinnamon roll yesterday so I don't need another one tomorrow it is more like... omg that was so good yesterday, I need another one.... it is a dilemma.
• This week our challenge was "treat yourself" and it was a good one, it was interesting to try treat myself with things that were not food, because I think that really is my go-to strategy when I need a little pick me up... I think I strengthened my skills some in that department, and I def. realized some things about myself and eating.  What else am I turning to food for that I really don't have to.
• My stupid shins hurt. I ran Monday and Tuesday, and again on Thursday and I was feeling rather proud of myself but my stupid shins were hurting progressively worse :( - g told me to take some time off and buy new shoes, so Friday I skipped it and I ordered some shoes this weekend.  I think tomorrow though I'm going to go give it another go since I've had so many days to recover - I don't want to let myself give up on it and weenie out, but I also don't want to hurt myself and get totally derailed... we will see...
• Lastly, today is the first day since the start of it all that I have eaten over my calories - I didn't like completely binge but with sushi and the afore mentioned cinnamon roll #2 I was at almost 1400... I knew it, I did it, and I think it is okay. As long as tomorrow is uber awesome once again.

This weekend I have a huge trip to vegas with Sweet Shoppe, SO excited, but a little worried about the food aspect.... Gonna have to really REALLY work at not gaining this week.

Also, It is the end of the month and time for some progress pictures, I'll be posting those tomorrow hopefully!! :)

Bed is calling!