A Test of Will Power and other nonsense

Wow, it has been a while. April 1st was the last day of the Biggest Loser Competition. Needless to say, I was not the big winner, however, my husband was! Our numbers looked alittle something like this:

• MDH for a total loss of 48.4 lbs since January 15th!!! With my cousin Tim coming in a close second with 36 lbs gone!!! My cousin Tracy lost 19.5 lbs, my Aunt Kathy lost 18 lbs, and I lost a total of 19 lbs! It was not without hard work, but we stuck with it, we kept each other going, and we did it!!!

We all decided on a two week break before starting another 12 weeks, and we decided to open it up for all family and friends to joins. So far, we have almost 20 of us taking the challenge! While I am excited about The Biggest Loser Competition 2.0, that is not what I am here to blog about today. I need to process the past two weeks from the end of the first round, up until now. So, I guess I got alittle crazy with not watching what I was eating and even though I kept to my walking at least 3 times a week, it was honestly like I have been acting like a bad kid for the past week and a half. I am still very into this competition, and still have a long way to go (40-50 lbs total). However, I am finding myself slipping back into the rut that is take out, booze and over processed foods.

On one hand, I feel that I have "earned" the bad behavior by sticking with the first 12 week's and losing the weight. I deserve to chow down on Easter ham, shelly beans, pierogi's, kielbasa, kraut, Stromboli, sushi and fried rice, and hamburgers. I have worked VERY hard over the past three months, and what better way to reward myself than to do what I love most - eat!!!

On the other hand, I need to stop this and start getting back into the groove of watching, recording, and moderating every thing that goes into this mug! I feel like I have had my "spring break", and now it is time to get back to work. I realize that I have put back on a few pounds during the last week and a half, and while I am not OK with it, somewhere in my brain - I kind of expected it. I wasn't putting in the work, so why would I see results?

Bottom line - this is my re-group week! I am going to get my shat together and get moving for Friday's first weigh-in 2.0!

In other news, I am still having trouble getting my lazy bones out of bed before 8:30AM. I have been doing an experiment, and it seem that if I go to bed around 11-12 at night, my natural wake up is around 7:30am. My problem is that I have NO PROBLEM going back to sleep once I wake up at 7:30am. I am just not sure what it will take to make my mind understand that I need to wake up, and start my day earlier than what I have been.

My wonderful DH surprised me with a new toy this weekend that will hopefully help this problem out:

http://www.ihomeaudio.com/apps/default.asp

I opened it up last night and began playing - so far, looks pretty cool. The integration with my phone/ipod music is priceless. And again, I hope this will help out with motivating me to get up and out of bed! I hope...

I leave you with this...

I heard this saying today, and for the life of me, I cannot remember where I saw it to give credit - so if you come across this anywhere and find out who credit should go to, please let me know! I think it sums up me and my thinking for the lifestyle changes I attempting to make:

"Knowledge is cool, but Action is better!"