One day until the road trip...

Fruity Goodness, originally uploaded by shobster.

To my surprise, i managed to fend off Matt's suggestion to not go swimming today!!!! Wow, never thought i have the power to say no to Matt!! :-)

But i'm glad i decided to stay and go swimming. I weighed myself again today... I wasn't going to, considering i only swam once last week and what with all the festivities of this past weekend, and seeing as how it's that time of the month (i'm feeling SO bloated and unpretty). I was so sure that i had probably put on more lbs. than i've managed to shed after the 3-ish weeks of exercising again. I was already sort of back at 163 lbs. the last time i went swimming and weighed myself. So yeah, finding out that i've effectively pigged myself out back to square one would be a complete let down. I wasn't sure if i could handle it. But of course me and my weak will couldn't resist the calling of the scale when i walked past it in the changing room. So weigh i did.

But hey, guess what! I'm actually 4 lbs. lighter than when i first weighed myself, February 28th - almost four weeks ago. I'm still in line with the 1 lbs. a week goal, despite the weekend! I'm pretty psyched about it (well, here you are reading all the unnecessary detail about it... that's just about how excited i am).

Next challenge would be to maintain portion control over the course of the road trip... Ben has made it clear that part of the trip is about experiencing the culinary culture of Southern California (if there's such thing, i added), so we'll be doing lots of fine dining. Oh boy. I can tell that i'm in trouble already... And i don't think we'd want to carry leftover food around, so i really have to be strong-willed in stopping myself from eating more than i should.

Fingers crossed. Go shobi.

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