Jen's weigh-in.

Good news. I'm down 4.4 pounds from last week's weigh-in. I've actually been shocked/pleased to watch my weight go down through out the week (we aren't supposed to be staying away from the scale throughout the week are we?). I worked out four times (running/walking 3x, core secrets video 1x, biggest loser video 1x).

I'm encouraged, but I also know that I have this habit of losing the first five pounds and then turning around eating it right back on. I am determined to get past the five lb. flux that I usually experience. Here's hoping.

I think the new scale has helped....it really does motivate me to see even itsy bitsy progress on there each morning. I've also been using thedailyplate like I mentioned, and that has been helping me. When I wrote everything down, I knew I'd have to write down "Zinger- 160 calories, blahblahblah". But with the daily plate, not only do I have to add it to what I've eaten that day, but it also totals all my fat, cals, sugars, etc., in addition to telling me how many calories I have left to consume for the day. The site helps you figure out how many calories you should eat to lose however many pounds you want to lose in a week.

What I don't like about the daily plate...I don't love the way you track exercise, but I think I'm going to stop using their numbers and use the numbers from my treadmill and my heart rate monitor to track how many calories I've burned. The other thing I don't like is trying to figure out how many calories I consumed in difficult-to-calculate meals (ex:we ate breakfast burritos on Saturday and I have no idea if I was really anywhere close to what I actually ate because I didn't measure what I ate.) So one of my goals for this week is to do some research and try to find a website/resource that will allow me to type in a recipe that I've prepared and figure out how many calories are in a serving.

Other goals for this week...drink two water bottles a day. Workout more. Cardio 5x, strength training 3x. Eat breakfast everyday (this is soooo hard for me).

Good work, everyone. I'm so glad we are doing this. I really need the extra motivation.