Out of the Box

It's Tuesday again! I'm sitting at the doctor's office waiting for my turn to weigh in. 

One of the things I hate about being on a "diet" is diet terminology. Every program has different terms you need to learn and HMR is no different, and 6 weeks done I'm still barely catching on to most of the terms. One of them though I am aquainted with: "out of the box" it means you've eaten real food instead of sticking to just the liquid diet. Last Thursday I went "out of the box". It was totally planned and I don't regret it one bit! I was at a conference/girls weekend and pretty much from day one of being on this program I have planned to eat one meal "out of the box" during the conference. I had a Chipotle salad. It was so worth it. 

But, of course I can't do something like that without my crazy showing up. I have been avoiding the scale from the moment I placed my order at Chipotle. Because, obviously one salad is going to make me gain 23.8 pounds back. Obviously. Subconsciously I'm still waiting for this to stop working like calorie counting, low carbing and every othe crazy thing I've done this year. To one day wake up and be like 5 bazillion pounds heavier even though I'm doing everything "right". 

I guess being overweight for 20ish years will do that to a person. 

Yesterday was one of the first times I've actually been able to see a change in my body. When I talked to my grandma on the phone for my birthday she asked if I would send family pictures for her to hang on her wall. So that meant we needed to actually take family pictures. I asked Alexis if she would push the button if I did the settings and then forced my family out into a field. When I got home to edit the images and place an order I was able to see a change that I don't necessarily see when I look in the mirror everyday. 

I thought I would post them here. Yesterday on the left and from my headshots shoot on the right. Ignore that my hair and makeup is way better on the right. ;] 

More than once over the last several years I've done Weight Watchers. One of the milestones in the program is losing 10% of your body weight. You got a special pen... or a bookmark or something. Of the 3 or 4 times I started and restarted the program I was never able to reach that milestone. Never. I always stopped losing after those initial water weight pounds. Just now when I weighed in I officially passed the 10% mark. I never really believed that was possible.