We had our fantasy football draft last night. Ate. So. Many. Pretzels. Ugh. We always get a pretzel party tray with all the different flavors and dips like cheese and cinnamon sugar. I certainly didn't eat as much as I would have in the past, but for me it was a gluttonous evening! Not to mention the wine spritzers! Last night may very well ruin me this week!

I lost 8.4 this week. I knew I was having a 'good' week but definitely wasn't thinking that it would be that good.

My brother has been visiting while my hubby is out of town so I've been taking him to the gym as my guest. I introduced him to the wonders of yoga and spin yesterday. :) Today we're going hiking. My hubby does this trip once a year and in past years, I splurge on a season of usually some soapier/girly tv show and order a huge pepperoni pizza and kind of graze on it all weekend while I veg out and watch episode after episode. Sometimes I might go out to eat with someone too. So this new active 'leaner' hubby-free weekend is definitely a positive change!

Holy smokes, Somni, that's fantastic! :carrot:

Woop woop I'm down 1.5 lbs this week!! Brings me officially 10 lbs down since starting at the end of July! Only 3 lbs until I get my 5%! :D

Somni thats impressive!!

Had a rotten day, but not a rotten food day. My daughter had a car accident 3 weeks ago (which could have sent me food reeling, and didn't) and she is ok. Got a burn on her hand from the airbags employing. Everyone else, thank goodness, no injuries. The airbags broke the windshield, and this was a fender bender where the other car drove away with a broken tail light. Her Escape was towed and the ins. co. said it was more beneficial to them to total it. Not beneficial to us, however. So for the past 3 weeks, she drove dad's car, he drove my car, I have no car and get a ride with friend(s) to work. Looking for a replacement, they gave us $8,500. We found a car, bought it today, will pay for it next week when the check clears. Mind you, it cost me $9,000 for the replacement plus $1,200 in fees/taxes, and I'm so broke I can't pay attention. Daughter is paying for $1,000. She does not have much saved; just started working in March for $10.50 per hour--after graduating college, but such is the market. She can't find a public school teaching job. Anyhow, we bought the car today. Spent 4 hours at the dealer. The "cashier" tried her best to wrangle $189 out of me for theft coverage, then a $2,500 warranty, then $1,000 warranty, and rolled her eyes when I said "no", said some inappropriate stuff, and I really didn't appreciate her tactics. When I left, I was almost in tears of frustration. Clearly, I didn't have any extra $ and didn't need to be strong armed into purchasing extras that I can't afford and be bullied into an extended warranty that included free towing and car rental, which insurance already provides for. I gave her a little piece of my mind. Because the check doesn't clear until Wed., they worked up a finance agreement at 12%!! Seriously??? AND, I had to sign it with a side agreement that if I don't pay for the car by Thursday, they are going to finance it for me. I felt like "bend over, here it comes" and I had forgotten how slimy car purchasing is. Wow. I came home and napped for 3 hours, I was so sick over it. Done. Moving on, and thanks for letting me "vent" a little.

I need to pretend this weekend didn't even exist. I ate SO poorly and so much more than usual. I'm horrified at myself. Being stuck inside for the hurricane really did me in. I am starting fresh tomorrow and doing a major detox. Crossing my fingers that I don't gain this week, but if I do, I totally deserve it!

Oh and brilliant me hurt myself last week at the gym. I've been jogging/walking intervals for the past few months and it has been really helpful in my weight loss and I've slowly grown to enjoy it (sometimes, lol). I tweaked something in my knee and had to get an x-ray. So the x-ray showed a spot on my bone and I'm waiting for approval now to get an MRI. But for now I'm off any kind of impact exercise. :( I'm on the spin bike as much as possible but too much of that really makes your butt sore!!