Challenge WON!

Today was the first challenge I made for myself since beginning my weight loss journey.

The Challenge: Attend my great-niece Marleigh's birthday party, eat the wonderful food being provided (one of my all time favorites - homemade chicken and dumplings) and NOT go off my diet.

I've been planning today's meals all week because there's a LOT of calories in just a little bit of chicken and dumplings. I knew I couldn't skip any meals or snacks because if I walked into my mom's house hungry there would be no chance of staying on track.  Originally I knew I could walk an extra mile or so if I went over my calorie limit, but yesterday's walk up the giant hill in my subdivision ended up being a giant pain in the butt...literally...the muscles in my butt have been hurting all day!

With my meals meticulously planned out at work I had 888 calories I could eat at dinner. Long story short I kept to my plan, ate (and savored) 1 cup of chicken and dumplings (juice included in the measurement) and completely skipped the cake and soda.  That's right...I skipped SODA!  I did allow myself one teaspoon full of their amazing homemade vanilla ice cream though.

After all the calories were logged I still had 406 calories left over.  YAY ME!!

I even broke my tradition of sitting and chatting with adults and actually went outside and played with the kids, not sedentary games either...I'm talking Red Light Green Light, racing to a tree and back (several times), and a no holds bar Duck, Duck, Goose! 

And even though I didn't meet my two mile goal tonight (giving the old backside a day off), I did walk/run 1.55 miles!

Oh yeah...I almost forgot... I lost 4.8 lbs this week bringing my total weight loss for the last two weeks up to (drum roll please.....) 10.4 POUNDS!  That's right...I MET MY GOAL FOR THE WEEK!!!

Feeling pretty proud tonight.