hasay 4 - wednesday update

hasay, you ask??
remember?? i've been updating on my progress each and every wednesday with the hasay club challenge???????
really...you don't remember? where have you been?
well go here and here and here! then come back.
ok...are we all together now?
hasay, you ask??

hooray! for me!
i lost 4 pounds this week! did you hear me?????

4 pounds!

how did i do it??

i have no idea.

but i'll attempt to tell you because that would have been a really crappy blog-post.

so...anyhoo, here's my strategy.

1. trick or treat.

2. spend the first week after halloween eating ALL the good candy. deal with the minimal weight loss.

3. encourage your children to eat only the good stuff... "no...you don't want nerds! you want this delicious reeses peanut butter cup...don't you?? don't you????? mommy said eat the damn peanut butter cup!" (ok, maybe i didn't say damn.)

4. refuse to buy any chocolate for your house.

5. have family come over on monday right! after! work! and spend the entire sunday with a higher than average temperature on your thermostat ... crazily cleaning your entire house. worry.

see...i was destined to lose weight this week!

in other (related) news.

all of you will just have to get used to the fact that this is now what my wednesdays are all about. deal!

food: i ate a lot of salads for lunches this week. husband brought home a massive costco sized salad. my goal is to eat more than 75% of it before it goes bad. we've eaten a little more than 1/2 of it so far. but economically speaking...significantly smaller size, same price at the local grocery store. leads me to believe that we are making a good choice. and at least we compost what we don't use!

he also brought home a bag of 6 bell peppers. yummo. and sugar snap peas. mmmmm. because of that yumminess...i resisted treats for the most part this week.

biggest change...we're down to the crappy halloween candy.

i made brownies. but i really haven't overloaded on them. we had 8 left after the party...and 2 days later, there are still 4. good, huh? and if i eat a brownie with my coffee in the morning...i'm less likely to want one later? what's that all about?

exercise: yippee! husband is picking up the elliptical machine today! i can work out on it tomorrow! (did i just say yippee! i get to work out?? what the hell is wrong with me?)

i've continued to do sit ups and bits of exercise here and there throughout my day.

shhh...don't tell anyone...but between groups of kids...i have actually gotten down on the floor in my room and done sit-ups, lunges and wall sits. and jumping jacks. i'm sure i look like a fool.

all in all...i think i'm seeing results and i'm feeling better about doing it. it's not such a chore when i have people jumping in and asking me how i'm doing...and FILLING my email inbox with loads of hasay updates. seriously people! when do you have the time???
maybe i should do 10 sit-ups for every email update i get.

or maybe not.