Hi Jilly! Welcome!
Don't you just hate how alcohol is so much fun but has SO many calories? Heh. I experienced that the other night... I went out with a couple of friends, and one friend (who has a fake ID
) was determined to buy me a drink because I had been a little angry with her, and she wanted to make it up to me. I figured a couple "light" beers would be ok because I had actually eaten fewer calories than usual that day, but I do find it astounding that most alcoholic beverages are packed with calories. For example, I was once hanging out with some friends and someone offered me a Mike's Hard Cranberry Lemonade. I was considering it but as I was covertly trying to look around for the nutritional information I found that it wasn't listed on the bottle OR the case! So I thought,
hmm, that can't be good, and I said no. I later looked it up online out of curiosity and found that there are 222 calories in just one 11.2-oz. bottle of that stuff! Yikes!
And what is it about alcohol and ice cream?? When I was at school last year, whenever I went to a party or something I would
always be craving ice cream afterwards! And I'm not gonna lie, since that was waaay before I started my plan, I usually gave in.
I can't wait to see how it goes when I go back to college and have to resist "the sauce" at every party every weekend... Lol, but I'll stay strong (and so will you)!
In other news, I have some GREAT NEWS today! I resolved not to weigh myself during TOM because I heard so many stories about crazy weight fluctuations, but I finally weighed myself today. I was so nervous because although I ate really well during TOM it was really hard to motivate myself to exercise. Well anyways, long story short, I'm at 239!! YEA! Well actually, 238.8, but I try to count the nearest whole number on my ticker, usually rounding up so I don't get carried away, hehe. But since it's 238.8, I feel like I've broken the 230s pretty solidly... And omigawd it feels so great. I honestly can't remember the last time I weighed this little! Of course, we don't keep a scale around the house, so it's possible that I might have hit that number sometime over the past few years. But actually seeing it on the scale makes it seem so real... And I realized that I now weigh at least 10 lbs less than the number on my driver's license, which was a TOTAL lie (I put 250, whereas at the time I was probably more like 270-280...) How funny is it that the number still isn't true, but now in a different way!