Oh Hey!

Nothing really new to report here, just wanted to stop by and check in since it's been a minute.

The intermittent fasting is going okay. I lost a couple pounds the first week and then had several days of CRAP eating that bloated me up and then Mother Nature came and further bloated me so I don't know what the actual factual numbers are but I still feel okay. Pants are still fitting, so even if there's no real loss right now, there's also no real gain so I'm calling it a win.

As for what I mean by crap eating, well, I had my niece and nephew for a couple of days and we ate pizza, chick-fil-a, frappes, macarons, Wendy's, more pizza and more pizza--we had a lot of leftover pizza. haha I drank a couple of cokes and had a latte. Then a couple days later I ate a couple of donuts and while I was at my eldest niece's high school graduation, I ate MORE PIZZA, more donuts, potato chips, then more donuts, breakfast from BK...y'all, it's a miracle my pants still fit. haha

In all honesty, though, I realize that there will be times throughout the rest of my life where I will be in situations where I'll eat "party" or "celebratory" or "fun with Aunt Jana" food and I have to be at peace with that and not beat myself up. It's more important that I eat "smart" the other 80% of the time. I refuse to the be downer who won't/can't eat or only eats the salad instead of the pizza at graduation parties. Cause guess what, come Monday (or whenever) it was back to eating my low carb, whole/healthy foods that I cook myself. Back to intermittent fasting. Back to drinking water. Consciously choosing to eat the pizza on the weekend with the kids knowing that it's back to turkey burger tacos and chicken breasts with green beans the rest of the week. Eat and enjoy the donut my family bought for me knowing that I won't snack when I get back to my real life.

Now, if family parties/fun times with kids was EVERY weekend, it might be a problem.  But a couple of weekends in the summer? I feel at peace with it.

My one year anniversary of the diagnosis of pre-diabetes is coming up over the next couple of weeks. Would I have liked to come in under 200lbs for that? YES. I totally would have. But I can't discount the progress I've made over the past year. I'm just 12ish pounds away from that goal. Yes, it slowed down significantly in recent months. And yes, it may be stopped entirely for a while, but that doesn't mean I can't still celebrate how far I've come.

I'm still working on it. I'm not quitting.

I'll let you know my A1C results once I get to my 1 year mark and then we'll celebrate or commiserate. Until then, let's move our butts and guzzle some water!

I'll take a pic or two later this week to let you see that I haven't beefed back up. ;-)