Day 7 - 10 lbs lost in the first week!

First weigh in today and, as the title says, I've lost all of

10lbs!!

It's extraordinary, I can hardly believe it. Only today I'd decided that my trousers feel looser but I didn't expect that much weight loss. It's very encouraging. It means that I will very likely have lost a stone by next week - only 2 weeks in!

This is only a quick bulletin as I'm wiped out after the journey and about to fall into bed. More tomorrow - or soon.
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Supplement, 4 February:
Our second Lighter Life session was exciting for everyone - to see how much weight we'd lost in the first week. This week we'll lose more than subsequent ones as our glycogen is used up and we go into ketosis. Talking of which, we all had to pee on a Ketostix to check our levels of ketosis (fatburning) AND if we're drinking enough water. As mine was next to darkest, it meant that I am in ketosis (yippee!) but I'm not drinking enough, even though I feel like I'm drinking all the time. Don't worry, I won't be quaffing great quantities like the poor misinformed woman who died recently - we are to think of our bodies as a water wheel and to keep it turning with a steady flow rather than intermittent gushes.

Several folk in our group lost 7 lbs, a few of the heavier ones lost 9 lbs. I wondered if I'd lose as much as 9 and tried to be content with only 7. I never expected I'd lose as much as 10!! I am pleased - and not a little shocked. 10 lbs in only one week - scarey!

When we get weighed, we also pick up our pre-ordered food packs for next week. Mary, the counsellor, was a whizz with the different drawers each containing a different pack - clearly very practised at it! 28 packs were in my new jute Lighter Life shoulder bag (with lime green handles!) in about 30 seconds - I kid you not! All of us commented on it!

Along with our new weight(!), we were also given our "before" photo/s from last week. Yikes! I will scan mine and add it here once I've worked out how to use the scanner(!).

And a pedometer (oops - just remembered I forgot to put mine on today). It's just to give you an idea of how much you exercise - ie how many steps you take per day! - but it can be programmed to work out how many calories you're burning. Not something I can really be bothered with!

We were all given a Foundation Book which, at 146 pages, looks full of information and a section to work through each week. This week's is Setting Goals. SMART goals at that:
S for Specific
M for Measurable
A for Achievable
R for Realistic
T for Timed
Hmmm. I can share two of mine but the third is top secret! To lose 11 stone by the end of the year (yes, the target has increased because so did my initial weight!), and to be able to climb to the viewpoint without stopping.

And that was it. It's always over pretty quickly, just one and a half hours with the first half hour-ish being taken up with weighing and getting our packs.

Thoughts? Wondering if I might follow my usual pattern of doing really well at something new and then falling off after a wee while. I do hope not. Think positive! I do think about food but I'm not craving. A lot of it is still automatic. I actually seem to like being around food and not eating it - an interesting one. I served up pizza for Jamie tonight and didn't even think about eating it. I just know I can't begin to entertain those thoughts!

One thing that struck me strongly at the meeting was how much their excess weight had inhibited so many of the woman there. As someone who made a decision years ago not to let her weight stop her doing what she wants (except perhaps baring my cellulite in the swimming pool - though I have done it), I listened to their lack of self-confidence and thought, not only that they were all lovely looking women, but also - "I wish you could have come to my bellydancing class!"